Had enough issues with it to not find it helpful. But I’m not a native English speaker and support for my local language is so-so, so might as well be me that’s the problem.

taken the maximally paranoid literal meaning

Them people won’t get hung on a technicality. You have to be nuts not to be paranoid these days.

Yep, same. I’m not a fan of people thinking I’m not old and grumpy, but they usually find out.

3000 is the OpenWebUI port, never got it to work by using either 127.0.0.1 or localhost, only 0.0.0.0. Ollama’s port 11434 on 127.x worked fine though.

you don’t want to be punching a tunnel from whatever can talk to your portable device to the LLM machine.

Fair point.

Just do like me - Install Ollama and OpenWebUI, install Termux on Android, connect through Termux with port forwarding.

ssh -L 0.0.0.0:3000:ServerIP_OnLAN:3000

And access OpenWebUI at http://127.0.0.1:3000/ on your phone browser. Or SSH forward the Ollama port to use the Ollama Android app. This requires you to be on the same LAN as the server. If you port forward SSH through your router, you can access it remotely through your public IP (If so, I’d recommend only allowing login through certs or have a rate limiter for SSH login attempts.

The shell command will then be ssh -L 0.0.0.0:3000:YourPublicIP:3000

But what are the chances that you run the LLM on a Linux machine and use an android to connect, like me, and not a windows machine and use an iPhone? You tell me. No specs posted…

Your apologies? You made a mistake? You tried to convince me grass is blue for 45 minutes, that’s not a mistake that’s straight up psychological manipulation!

I’m more of a “close window”-man myself.

Would the proprietary blobs in the baseband hardware stop the end user from installing software, which is the topic of concern?

If no, is this a irrelevant “achtually”-reply?

Search for your device name and “custom ROM” to see what’s out there. Some are completely Google free, others retain different levels of Google play support, including downloading existing purchases.

Then do what I do when buying your next phone, find a custom ROM you like, check their “comparability” page, find devices that are fully compatible, preferably officially supported (community build usually work fine as well) and use that as a shopping list when browsing for phones.

I’ve paid for my device, I get to do whatever the hell I want with it!

You bought a phone but is leasing the software. It’s not yours to do with as you please.

Have you considered using fully open source android versions?

It’s not about the notification, it’s about being reminded.

I use a task manager because I can’t remember every task I need to do. I use reminders because I can’t remember to do the tasks I need to do.

Me too, in this way it’s more than just a todo list, it’s also a time management tool.

I use tasks.org, every morning all my tasks pop up and I defer them into timeslots. Before noon, afternoon, evening. Then I get another reminder at a point where I should be done with the tasks in a previous time slot.

Nice, I like Syncthing too.

Are there any benefits, in terms of performance or security in ‘wiping’ or overwriting an SSD before reinstalling Linux?

Yes, you remove the possibility of theoretically restoring the old data previously stored on the storage device.

And if so, what is the best way of doing it? I’m planning on doing a clean install of Debian 13

Select encrypted storage when partitioning, make sure you select the “Overwrite with random data” option.

I’m currently on Fedora and using encryption and will be using encryption on Debian too.

If it’s a full disk encryption on both current and future setup, there’s no benefit from overwriting.

Now you’re thinking with portals!

Good point, they have a reasonable purchase and backup policy.

Dang, looks like I actually have to do some reading.

Steam accepts major credit and debit card brands, including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover.

Digital wallets, such as PayPal and Skrill, offer a convenient and secure way to make payments on Steam.

Steam gift cards can be purchased from various retailers, both online and offline, and can be redeemed on the Steam platform.

In addition to these payment methods, Steam also supports other region-specific payment methods, such as iDeal in the Netherlands, Sofort in Germany, and WebMoney in Russia.

Looks like there is a way. Is there a will?

YunoHost is also a good management system, though more focused on web services compared to DietPi which seems more… Everything.

Syncthing is great for syncing files and that’s about it. No groupware, sharing, off-site storage and so on. I ran Syncthing+DecSync for years for great groupware sync but it’s completely deprecated. I’m back on Nextcloud, though still use ST for syncing program files.