Got a work related variant, a 3 letter domain we really liked was registered by a person asking a couple of hundred bucks or so. Which really was a good deal and we were more then happy to pay.

Our IT department advised guiding the transfer themselves. Instead our marketing department went ahead anyway and just agreed to "you end your subscription and after that we register it" ... instead of using transfer codes.

In the minutes between, a bulk claimer snatched it away.

The new owner of Simple Mobile Tools? Buying it and then adware stuffing? ZipoApps?

Thanks! And I will remove it from my search index to restrain from "decluttering". 👌👍

Old saying still applies if something isnt working:

Linux: be root

Windows: reboot

MacOS according to other metrics tho. ... https://xkcd.com/1056/

For my family my setup slightly different for reasons in other comments:

• do change browsers away from Chrome or Edge
• do change search engines
• allow cookies
• drop tracking surveillance traffic at the network level with something like pihole or nextdns

I prefer FOSS as much as possible and didn't read all comments on YouTube but ... desktop applications are not SAAS. eg LibreOffice and Adobe apps. But I guess it only requires a different title as the list itself is useful

This baffled me to no end, but the -P flag did the trick.

eg Win11: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P as a shortcut.

Got used to always start with profile picker.

Now do support for Notepad++ plugins and language linting 😁😎😂

Sorry but I fail to understand the relation between your question and the additional text.

Are the bulletpoints requirements for a less over-engineered attempt ?

Or are they examples of the current situation?

And just software without protocol seems. .... oversimplification.

Notes: Joplin

Maps: OSMand, Organic Maps, StreetComplete, Vespucci, EveryDoor

Music: VLC

I became nr 10 or so in my country just by adding nearly everything SC can ask in ... a 10 block radius around my house.😁

I donate regurlay to:

• OSMand
• Signal
• Bitwarden

I came across something like that in a proprietary "epub" format. Not because of formatting/styling but because of crossreferencing and footnotes it stored every word in a database with its position.

Calendar

Etar https://github.com/Etar-Group/Etar-Calendar

Openstreetmap 👀 👀 👀 👀

To understand correctly: You have friends that care about moving files of their mobile by sync? Or is their only concern switching to Signal, but the lack of backup besides on the device?

Asking because:

• I have the same solution as you but the android folders - foldersync - Nextcloud variant.
• My motivation comes from privacy / sovereignty.
• My friends lack this motivation so they are happy using the cloud (iCloud or Googles) to "backup" everything.
• Any hassle by not using that needs strong motivation to endure and overcome.

So when their photos are in the cloud and their documents stay happy in mail attachments often there isn't much more to backup besides configuration. Which all those bigphone (Samsung Lenovo Apple etc) suppliers provide.

For the chat backup:

• I got my whole family to switch to Signal (at least with me and for group chats, we have them for events and topics). The leverage I used was to only use Signal for baby photos of our newborn kids which my sisters and mom just couldn't live without. 😎
• They complain about running out of local storage and not being able to bulk delete media in Signal.
• As a workaround they sort by filesize and delete a dozen big files (eg video).
• Or they leave a group, delete it along with media and join again.
• I was surprised they don't care about the files after consuming it (foto video) and happy delete them.
• After that ... the backup becomes small again.

And the others it spawned : https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

I learned a lot in these comments but in this specific context:

• a flatpak app uses a base directory (mp3 player).
• I set it to my NextCloud folder.
• Now run/usr/1000 is "filled" with all my thousands of pdf from personal archive, several times per file (because multiple flatpaks).

These don't need decluttering I learned, but aren't managed by package managers either.

If you wouldnt mind getting rid of Google search entirely ... settings, search, select Google, remove. I assume there is nothing to pin after that?

A comment here at a post from couple of days back would suffice https://feddit.de/post/8087327

Sometimes I wish we could re-allocate half the dev hours poured in to the 10th txt/code editor, music player or terminal app in to this kind of thing.

I'm really annoyed by this, thanks for verifying. Still bound to a employer laptop which uses Win11 in a Microsoft collaboration setting but eager to learn how to turn it off.

Restic Backup!

As a #2 person, when my level-of-current-knowledge hits a ceiling and I ask for technical advice in forums or lemmy or even social media, it often comes from a #1 person.

Assuming its specialized knowledge few other #2 have.

Half the time I get an answer (about what and how) AND background explanation (giving context and WHY).

But half the other time a #1 doesnt realize easy things for them are hard for me. When they are miles ahead their answer assumes I have a host of other skills already in place. But I dont know what I don't know so I dont ask for them.

But ... every answer from a helpfull stranger is appreciated. Just bridging knowledge is hard.

Linux 24H1

some people even change default system fonts used in the deskop environment (menu's, filemanager etc) 😎😁

One of the few times I miss Files-on-demand for Win11. Connect an Office365 library with 500 GB to my laptop with an 128 GB harddrive. Integrates with file explorer, only caches local what you open, after a while you can "free space", meaning deleting local cache version. NextCloud has the same on Win11 because its an OS feature.

Agree, also I never encountered other software so flexible in user interface. Every feature can be placed with panels everywhere to your own liking. The whole app interface is like a canvas. Took me a while to get the hang of it but after that ...

Wished other apps were this flexible.

Was just thinking the same.

I prefer something:

• static site: a linktree page doesnt change that often so having a database seems overkill for cheap/fast hosting.
• without setting cookies, hosted fonts elsewhere and tracking.
• responsive yes

Searched for "bio link site", "linktree alternative DIY", "profile page" but most of them are Wordpress or other cms variants. Needing a complete docker setup to serve one page also seems to much.

So just a clean (in tracker free meaning) template with html css and some assets?

I believe Firefox had their fair share of problematic clones but they dont protect from that by licensing their code in a special way. They protect their brand and use of logo etc

So you can use the code and create something "new", you just cant call it Firefox anymore.

Yep, that would be the ip adres of my €5 a month VPS somewhere in an german datacenter.

Thanks everybody, I learned a ton these 2 days. Like a ' jump' in understanding. Not only the specific answer to my concrete question but also on a conceptual level as well.

The thing that makes Linux next level for me now is the extra 'abstraction layer'.

Thing is, for me, digital files always were as tangible as the analog object they represent. A digital document is as 'real' as a paper document. An email as real as a letter. But untill now files where 'real' digital artefacts. And thats ... a bit different with 'virtual' files, sort of.

Anyway, new concepts to explore which is great!

AFAIK its "by design" meaning an inherent property of the fediverse.

If I dont follow someone or my instance isnt federated with those of other followers we cant see each others comments or likes etc

How would that be leaking, home hosters aside?

True, but managing expectations is needed tho, mainly about exit strategy:

If a community needs to leave, the content on Discord must be considered "not important", "not transferable" and "not archive worthy".

If Discord changes freemium, limits users or otherwise applies enshittification just leave your stuff and start over.

Yes I know of and use the bridged Matrix Room. But bridges can't mimic or replicate every function which has effect on dialogue between users on both sides.

Is this spam account reportable or blockable at the Lemmy instance level?

Do you plan and share on web (laptop or pc) or on mobile? I use OSMand web for planning and syncs with OSMand Android (paid version).

I prefer another tactic if I may share:

• Database in production: let Bitwarden clients sync the native way Bitwarden offers.
• Database in backup: let a dedicated backup service keep your database save.

I dont know if this could be done automatic (just backup the production database) or if this has to be done by export (by hand once in a while).

Doesnt matter from which device the backup originates because the native sync will keep them all the same usually in seconds.