To be honest they also kinda suck for not promoting coreboot at all.

They gave some coreboot devs a few laptops, didnt like the result and gave up. Meanwhile people are still working on that in their free time, apparently it isnt even that complicated and kinda just works?

I would generally not recommend running official google apps at all. MicroG works quite well for the things you actually need. I would research on how to flash microG with adb and add the correct elevated privileges.

Or if you need to flash gapps, use this file to only flash the needed apps like playstore and play services and nothing else.

Then afaik you can still disable them on the main profile and only use them in work profile (shelter, island), which would be a big privacy advantage

Yes wav is uncompressed and flac is lossless compressed. For example an empty wav should be the same size than one with content, while an empty flac would be very small.

Some people in the forums etc convert audio to wav which is really stupid...

Interesting! Yeah I use ffmpegs default matrix to downmix to stereo to save a lot of data as I dont have a surround system and never will. I prefer to watch movies with good open back headphones and doubt that a surround system will come close.

uBlue also has other variants like Aurora or Bluefin

This was an about:config before, didnt actually need a patch

Yes but what the hell is going on in that linux install window

Somehow remove edge

I am in the EU and the removal doesnt do anything. WinUtil and BulkCrapUninstaller both fail too

Yes I am also a fan of atomic desktops for mass deployments of tailored systems

I just dont like the main ublue images or Fedoras main ones. I used kinoite-main from ublue for 2 years or so, and added a bunch of changes as overlays. It was kinda bad but also kinda good. Things like no longterm kernel being available at all for example.

NixOS is waay harder to use, also less secure for example from the perspective of a non-wheel user, like they have no polkit rules. You have snapshots, automatic updates etc though. And I just replaced my kernel with a longterm cachyos build which also works!

Fedora atomic desktops are fantastic, I really like ostree (which they get rid of, well...) but as soon as you need to change something, you have problems.

I have 3 machines and all have different configs so not even there could I use the same image really.

Well, I tried installing MicroG before and that doesnt just work. You need to flash it as privileged module and put an xml file somewhere to give it elevated permissions.

I found this issue, there seems to be a hole in the docs. The same user also opened another ignored issue that does seem to match my impression of very lacking docs and a low focus on security for microG too...

Very nice! Will see what I can adapt

I would recommend to always use vbr for opus

-c:a libopus -vbr:a 1 -ac 2

There are 2 modes 1 and 2, not sure why, but 1 resulted in smaller files while taking a bit longer so I use that.

How big are these lossless encodes? I expect HUGE? flac is smaller than some weird dolby formats though.

I really like your shell magic for the concatenation, way more efficient than building a filelist.txt

Also really nice way you handle the extension

Yeah that would be the "cloud native" way XD

I have used Gitea actions and container registry before, it is okay.