OnionOS changed my entire mindset about what a retro handheld should be. I have an Anbernic 351m, Retroid 3+, and now a mini.

The mini, despite being technically inferior is by far my favorite because of OnionOS. Being able to turn it on, have it start right where I left off, and then ignore it and it completely turns itself off- not sleep makes it so easy that I play it all the time.

Retroid means Android which means it sleeps instead of powering off. And fill power on is slow. And configuring a Game Front End is always extremely time consuming.

Onion just works. If they added a single Thumbstick to the Miyoo, it could handle N64 and I wouldn’t need anything else.

Yet another “population decline is the end of the world” bull shit article. Population decline is not a problem. Historical population declines worse than the current ones like the Black Plague and WW2 have always resulted in a better world for everyone.

When the population goes back to sustainable levels it will go back up again. It’s no different than any other ecology where animals outgrow their environment’s carrying capacity and decline. After declining, they grow again until the limit is reached again.

When population goes back to 1950’s levels, labor will be valued like it was in the 1950’s, and the average person will once again have the wealth and leisure time to have a family.

Population decline is only a problem for the ruling class who live by skimming a little profit from all workers. If there are less workers, they will have to be paid more which means less excess capital for mega yachts.

I never claimed it was. But Java comes with its own baggage of Oracle shenanigans (they could start licensing drama with open source forks just like they did a few years ago) and java security patches means maintenance. All of which would be completely unnecessary if Ubiquity let you setup the AP with ssl.

The controller interface is amazing. But it, or a phone app should not be required to set up an AP.

Which is why I specifically said if everyone did it it would be a problem.

No, Pihole doesn’t help.

I think the reason you say you haven’t seen an ad on Windows is because the ads aren’t the traditional ads like you see on a webpage.

When someone talks about an ad on Windows, they are referring to the Spotify app presinstalled in the Start Menu, the OneDrive prompt for backing up during setup, and the weather bug on the taskbar that brings up news if you click it.

You might think that a weather widget isn’t an ad, but the idea is you click it, see a relevant news article, click the news article and you are taken to a traditional webpage with ads.

He talked about community trade so I’ll give him that. I don’t want to give the impression that his lifestyle of living with less is wrong or bad.

I only question his sustainability claims when he is clearing the forest to heat his house.

I carefully reread the transcript. They don’t say that anywhere.

He talks about sustainability. But if everyone lived sustainably like him the forest would be gone in a few years for firewood.

There are too many people.

I put it in quotes because I didn’t have a better word. If it’s a public park and I walk in with turf cutter, and take all the grass for my own yard, that’s clearly stealing from everyone.

How much can I take from a public forest without it being stealing? Can I cut down 1 tree for firewood? 10? How much foraging can I do before local wildlife is affected?

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Last sentence:

“Forage for food and materials from their local forest.”

Talk about burying the lede. They can only function on a quarter acre by “stealing” from the public forests.

If everyone did that there would be no public forests. There’s not enough wood and food for everyone.

If you were actually able to set it up via ssh, then you should be able to point me to the documentation for the Ubiquity AP cli.

I’m not sure if you are a fanboi or a shill but it is dishonest to claim that you say you could configure your Ubiquity AP when Ubiquity itself refuses to provide documentation of the cli interface.

Another poster said the same thing and linked to the same thread I found years ago which says in effect, “There is no official cli documentation for the APs. You might be able to sneak a few commands by digging through the forums.”

Docker

Yes, the Java app dockerized.

Requiring a phone app, java app or Cloud Key to configure an AP isn’t home lab ethos. That it looses config on reboot if you configure it by ssh is weird given you don’t need a controller running once they are setup. They can be rebooted without a controller and still work fine.

Where did you find the command line documentation? I was never able to find anything.

I’m not sure about configuring them independent of a controller as I haven’t tried.

That’s my point. With regular ap’s you can do everything via ssh. Ubiquity doesn’t seem to document the command line. The website doesn’t list any commands. It only says “only do it with a Ubquity engineer helping you”.

I bought several before knowing what I was getting into. They work well but are designed by people worshiping Apple. Everything is locked into their ecosystem. You can’t even ssl into the access point to configure it. You need to run their Java controller app to configure them or worse buy another product (cloud key) just to configure the access points you purchased. Then they try really hard to get you to setup your network admin password on their cloud servers ( they have already had security breaches where the passwords leaked).

For a small businesses that pay someone off-site to manage their network they seem fantastic. But they are the opposite of homelab ethos.

But again, they work really well. The access points do channel strength negotiation automatically every night by talking to each other.

Its simple. Now that China is in the lead, do what China did to the west. If you want access to the markets you have to build a plant in the US and share IP. That’s what the EU just proposed to China’s EV manufacturers.

It’s good for everyone. Consumers get cheap batteries, China gets Western Markets, and Western companies get Chinese technology to drive the next wave of competition.

I think the fundamental issue with Android that can’t be fixed is complete power down and full boot time.

With a custom Linux, instead of sleep where there is minor battery drain, the handheld can turn itself off completely for no battery drain. Cold boot time is like 10 seconds. It means the hand held has a battery charge whenever you want to play it and you don’t have to wait.

How can you ask if it offers value without specifying a price?

After using OnionOS, the only thing that matters to me is the OS. I have a Retroid and Android gaming is clumsy. I might as well use an attachable game controller to my phone and have a better screen and CPU than any retro handheld.

The other important bit is the Ultra Orthodox are, in general, the most Anti Palestinian block. They are 40% of the “settlers” in the West Bank.

And as I said, it could still be enabled with a boot switch.

It’s not like all distros in 1999 had PAE enabled by default. You had to find a pae enabled kernel.

And Linux PAE has been buggy off and on for 20 years:

"It worked for a while, but the problem came back in 2022. "

https://flaterco.com/kb/PAE_slowdown.html