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I think Ubuntu is a for-profit company. I think System76 is a for-profit company. As a rule, companies tend to respect other companies in ways they don't respect people.

I think it's more likely that System76 will rebase to Debian than Ubuntu kick them off, but if Ubuntu really starts pulling out the brass tacks, I don't think System76 will show any loyalty.

In other words, I think Ubuntu benefits from counting all the Pop!_OS users as part of the Ubuntu family (at least statistics wise), that they'd be killing a golden goose by trying to evict them, even though they'd obviously prefer them to use Snaps.

Many phone/cell providers provide a method to send voicemails to a third party, if you setup call forwarding (busy or unanswered, don't set unconditional) for reference, this page covers how to do that for T-Mobile

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/self-service-short-codes

The new voicemail provider may allow you to save messages better, or might offer transcoding themselves.

https://freeappsforme.com/free-voicemail-apps/

(I would have included this all earlier, if I thought of it earlier 😅)

Ahh, so this isn't a processing issue it's a data access issue.

Frankly, if you can't access the raw data of your voicemail inbox, probably no third party developer can too. This means that the only way to implement such a tool would to be to work with the voicemail provider. If they're a for-profit company, they probably have no incentive to make the data available unless there's a big moneybag involved somewhere in the exchange. That's probably why no such tool exists.

There isn't a turnkey solution I know of, but if you can have a tool save voicemails into a folder, you could probably have a script generate text files based on a Speech To Text (STT) solution:

https://fosspost.org/open-source-speech-recognition/

Upset, but not surprised. Bowser has been trying to take over the kingdom for decades.

I recommend using Transwiz to zip up your user profile, you can move the .trans.zip file to a neutral location (external drive, network storage, etc). Of course if you have valuable information stored outside the C:\Users folder, back it up as well. Now you should have a system you can safely mangle, destroy and rebuild without worrying about user data. Once you've built your new setup, extract the zip folder into /home/[your_name] or ~ and you're all set.

With the exception of a handful of titles, this is a quickly evaporating problem, due to Valve pouring millions of dollars into the development of the Steam Deck (motivated by wanting to separate themselves from being dependent on their computer Xbox/Microsoft).

Valve recently passed 11,000 playable or verified titles for the Deck, and since the Deck is Linux, that means 11,000 playable games in Linux (with priority on the most played games)

I think your setup is fine. I use a raspberry pi on each TV in my home as a media player (Jellyfin, retroarch, sometimes steam link) then also make them act as a docker cluster on the backend to play around with making some services 'high availability' so that the service moves around to whichever TV is not under load. I'm also playing with HDMI-CEC on those Pi's to let my home assistant (also running on a single board computer, zima board) send commands to the TVs and all HDMI connected devices. I have a Pi running Open Media Vault with two drives that provide redundancy. The only high power device I use is my Linux gaming machine also doubles as my Jellyfin transcoder.

I too enjoy the silence and lack of moving components of this setup.

Got it. Toph is only an acceptable name if you're prepared to rock it hard.

It just needs one more nitro boost.

Yeah, since most of the public instances only make available creative commons stuff it's better if you have a mood than particular artists. I suspect if most people switched they could find new artists to meet their tastes within a year.

My gut suspects that an artist with a good patron following probably has as much take home pay as a similar artist that signed a record deal. If true (and that's definitely an if), why prop up up an industry that exists to siphon as much value away from artists as possible?