You might want to consider working either hourly or on a project basis as a contractor. You would have deliverables with deadlines you could meet them on your own time, or simply bill for the time you spend.

You can perhaps look into “midlance” where you have a middle man getting a cut who is responsible for lining up work for you (after which you manage the relationship with the client).

Maybe more common where I live but vacancies will sometimes mention “flexible hours” explicitly, especially remote jobs. Then you can ask them clarify in the interview what their prospective on flexibility looks like.

Did you ever find the missing packets?

That’s nice, I think I’ll switch from Firefox ESR on Debian!

You could package it and install with pipx

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Crunchbang (#!) linux breathed live into some very wimpy hardware I’ve had in the past.

Loved the minimalism.

In my student years, I always ran with Xubuntu on a used thinkpad.

Although I’m a gnome guy these days, I still need Thunar as my default file manager. It’s nearly perfect…

I run Debian with gnome, headless and raspi and love it.

Used Ubuntu for years, also had a good time and still respect the project even though it deviated from my needs.

Sometimes I’ll boot up something new just to poke around but I’m happy sticking with Debian for the time being.

Desktop: Macintosh (<X) -> Windows (XP-10) w/occasional Ubuntu dual-boot (various DEs) -> Debian + Gnome

Server: Ubuntu LTS -> Debian

I’ve also had a number of used thinkpads over the years where I mostly ran Xubuntu and crunchbang.

I still boot into Windows every month or so if I need to model something in Rhino (CAD). Couldn’t get it working in Wine and my 12 YO computer isn’t performant enough to run it in a VM. The last thread remaining and waiting to be cut…

I plan to pay for Immich

I’m really hoping for the 3D options. If OpenSCAD isn’t a good fit then I still boot to Windows for CAD :(

I’ve had a particularly difficult time with CUDA/Pytorch in WSL. Also with Windows not reclaiming memory…

But don’t get me wrong, WSL has helped a lot when I’ve needed to use Windows at work.

In my experience:

• No lockfile, and using the third party conda-lock is clunky
• Painfully slow solver, although the libmamba solver came to the rescue
• Conda-forge can lag behind pypi by weeks, depending on the package

Interesting, but if I have to use Windows then I would consider Conda depending on my dependency situation.

I don’t particularly like Conda, or Windows, but what I like even less is manually finding wheels for my project. For something like GDAL, I wouldn’t even try on Windows without Conda. I think it’s also easy for a beginner to get up and running with this setup.

My preferred setup is pyenv on Linux with poetry :)

I remember getting a Ubuntu CD box set many years ago when I ordered free disks in the mail as a teenager. The box was well constructed, prints of high quality and the CD labels were especially sharp.

Crazy how physical media was king back then.

After getting used to the vanilla Gnome flow, at home and at work, even MacOS starts to feel a bit clunky.

Love the minimalism of Gnome with the stability of Debian.

If the open source release is adequate then you can just continue using it… Or fork for your needs.

Sadly, still dual boot for rhino, in a VM I’m just not getting enough performance out of my aging pc.

A Linux version would be a dream come true.

I like to require access to 22 via IP whitelist and all services on SSL behind a reverse proxy. Doesn’t leave much surface to attack.

FYI, you can enable a local index for message content searches:

https://proton.me/support/search-message-content#how-to-enable-search-message-content