This weekend I finally freed my pc from Windows10 and installed cachyOS. It all worked better and easier than expected.

I would like to host my photos in Immich as mentioned here in the thread. I currently have my photos in the Apple Cloud. Does anyone have any tips on how I can download the photos in original quality without a Mac?

Immich has an iPhone app that should be able to pull photos from your photo library (and thus iCloud Photos) and upload them to Immich, but it might take a while compared to uploading from a Mac.

I use an old thinkpad with Linux. There you can set a charging stop at e.g. 85%. Then you don’t have a need to unplug the battery

As a counterpoint my Lenovo X1 that was fresh from the factory had a battery swell so bad it cracked the case. So I think the risk being addressed was that, unless you're looking at the device every single day, the battery poses a fire/explosion risk that isn't worth it to some people

My go to Linux Laptops are refurbished thinkpads.

Which models specifcially?

I use Joplin (https://joplinapp.org) on mobile and pc(windows and Linux). Joplin has a free encrypted sync via OneDrive.

I‘m looking for Liberux. This is an european (Spain) development. They got actually their first dev board.

https://liberux.net

What UI are they planning on putting on top of their fork of Debian?

I prefer https://endeavouros.com as an arch distribution

+1 for Codeberg. I switched also to them. Theo habe also an alternative for GitHub Pages

I also use GoatCounter for my Hugo page

In our C++ project, we use the nlohmann library for handling JSON data. When sending JSON over MQTT, we leverage a built-in function of nlohmann to serialize our JSON objects into the MessagePack format. You can simply call jsonObj.to_msgpack(). Similarly, the data can be decoded back easily.