I self-host https://floccus.org/
If you've got a browser that supports plugins, then you can use the floccus add-in. But for Android, I use the floccus app since it's just easier.
Floccus is primarily a bookmarking service, but if you want to save articles for viewing later Linkwarden might be a better fit.
"Prefer"... when you're young, you've got time to burn online without distractions.
Then you get married, have kids, work a demanding job, and you don't get time for uninterrupted online play.
Eventually, correspondence chess is the only gaming you have time for! /s
Those are mostly operating costs, offset by revenue, but are they actually losing 1.5 billion dollars a year? I mean, I hope so, but are they really?
Source? Where is that money going?
I'm totally fine with the red indicators. In fact, I prefer them as they seem logical. Red = stop/blocked/off.
I guess the other way to do it would to have green indicators when they are switched to on, but that would not be as aesthetically pleasing (vs black).
I've used plenty of Linux VMs through Windows, so I'm aware of the limitations. I'm not trying to game through a VM, more like accessing some programs that I need for a few minutes at a time (and not even on a daily basis).
Can you share the software you went to use? Maybe there’s a good Linux alternative or someone knows how to get it working in wine.
These are all paid programs that don't have viable alternatives and/or I actually need to use them.
A few off the top of my head:
I do my best to find alternatives to other software, and prefer to use self-hosted solutions, but the ones above aren't really easy to replace, so I'd rather just run them in a VM.
I've use VMs in windows to run Linux, so I'm aware of the performance hit and possible startup times (but I use snapshots for quick access). I'm not too concerned about that for any of these programs, since I'm only using them from time-to-time.
Bottles didn't run anything I tried, unfortunately. They seemed to install just fine, but that was about it.
I went through the same dilemma. The old Synology photo software had a duplicate finder, but they removed that feature with the "new" version. But even with the duplicate finder, it wasn't very powerful and offered no adjustability.
In the end, I ended up paying for a program called "Excire Foto", which can pull images from my NAS, and can not only find duplicates in a customized and accurate way. It also has a localAI search that bests even Google Photos.
It runs from windows, saves its own database, and can be used as read-only, if you only want to make use of the search feature.
To me, it was worth the investment.
Side note: if I only had <50,000 photos, then I'd probably find a free/cheaper way to do it. At the time, I had over 150,000 images, going back to when the first digital cameras were available + hundreds of scanned negatives and traditional (film) photos, so I really didn't want to spend weeks sorting it all out!
Oh, the software can even tag your photos for subjects so that it's baked into the EXIF data (so other programs can make use of it).
Ok, I think I'll grab another drive and try again over the weekend.
Their forum is pretty good, and there's a dedicated linux section there, too. They also have extensive support documentation.
I'm sure I can get it working to be more stable, but man, it's an effort for sure.
Everyone should enter these stores dressed up like it's Payday (the video game) until they stop with this facial recognition nonsense.