Now another 7 years and 24 "please rebase this old code" requests before it's merged

Try LSD. It's like being a kid again.

XMPP. It just works, requires very little resources, is stable and has decent clients.

I would go with Snikket instead of Prosody if I had been starting now.

Conversations on phones, Dino or Gajim on PCs, plus a conversejs install on the xmpp server, to allow web access when needed.

Conversations is easy for the family to figure out.

I install ncdu on any machine I set up, because installing it when it's needed may be tricky

IDA Pro (a disassembler) is closed source but came with a license that allowed disassembly and binary modification. Unfortunately, that's no longer the case.

Not sure why Americans use the word "professor" for any university teacher, but the people with an actual professor degree (two levels above ph.d.) actually were scary. Super self absorbed, too busy to properly teach, hard exams, on one instance you had to buy the latest edition of prof's book to pass.

Regular doctors and doctorants were mostly great though.

Gitea.

I used raw SSH for years but occasionally I had to share accesss to a repo with sonebody else, and the whole dance with creating an unix user and giving proper permissions was only fun for the first time.

How much time do you think it takes to design a new phone?

A week, because a car takes 5 years and a phone is 1/250 the size of a car?

Just to make things extremely clear, the above comment has been sarcastic. He's an awful person.

Poor burnt out guy

Kolanki, that dude is everywhere!

I patched someone else's program which was known for being slower when it's used for a longer time. It was iterating over items in its window just to reach the last element, the more items the slower, it became snappy when i taught it to keep a pointer to the last element.

Not mind blowing, I know, but it was a popular program and this made life better for many people.

Wash it, pour boiling water over it, put hot jam or other preserves inside, it will hold all winter. Just make sure the lid is concaved when the jam cools down - that means it seals well.

Do you recommend that book? Title?

Genius Scan. A shameful exception in my otherwise fully FOSS phone.

It scans multi-page documents with the camera, OCRs them, then uploads them automatically to Nextcloud (or manually to any other app, like Paperless).

Unless you have millions of hits per month or your "static site" is Wordpress with a page builder, you might want to look into other web hosting offers. A VPS is overkill for a static site, and you can get a decent VPS for $10-$12 range. With enough bandwidth and io to host many static websites.

KDE is full of little things like this, it is great when it works :)

OsmAnd

What's CP Chat? Im a bit afraid to type that into a search engine but it seems to be what I'm missing in my Copilot-assisted flow. It's a great autocomplete but sometimes refactoring would be useful too.

Noooo. You find -Syyu less intuitive than "upgrade"? How dare you.

I agree with all yoyr points. Arch has its place but is not for me.

I second the complaint about subpaths. I have all my services on a single domain, except for HA. It's for security by obscurity, when you issue a certificate for a subdomain you start getting malicious traffic probing for vulnerabilities almost immediately. I don't have this problems for services with non-obvious subpaths.

I can't understand the stubbornness of developers to accept patches for fixing this problem.

This whole thread is depressing to read, full of corporate bootlickers putting blame on you.

Any particular problems you're having or have you briefly used Pidgin in 2008 and think nothing has improved since then?

Woah. What a great explanation. I legitimately never understood the deal with iMessage too and you made a logical explanation that clicks. Thank you.

Not a single comment yet stating how Gates is a great human being because of his foundation, and how all you haters should fuck the fuck off? sigh, let me the first one.

Thos, exactly this. Whenever I ask the question OP asked, it's always some people who used some ancient client in 2008 and never bothered to try again. And then Matrix came to existence with their marketing and they happily started using it, even though it didn't have any better features

Pine phone is a nice gadget but I don't think they contribute to software development as much as Purism does. Not that I recommend buying anything from Purism because of their business practices.

Imagine launching a flatpak when your computer is already overloaded 💀

I never did mushrooms and only did LSD like 5 times. But one time I contemplated the multitude of grass types when laying down on a meadow. Another time was on a short mountain trip, landed at a tourist shelter, there was a melody in all the kitchen noises. Also observing the tiny ecosystem at the riverside is something I will never forget. I don't have this kind of patience or ability to being fascinated with the mundane normally.

Maybe OP is not doing this just as a hobby and has actual serious workloads?

I've had this kind of problem with Vultr, i was very pissed off when I found it but their support raised my limits when I explained what I'm migrating. I also had the comfort of being able to migrate in stages, 10 machines in the first month, then the rest. Maybe this appropach would work for you.

Credit card companies and Paypal are a big problem to hosting companies. They will happily apply chargeback after you provided a month of service to your client, because it took them a month to detect the transaction was fraudulent. How is it the hosting company's problem?

Alright, I haven't contributed to Gitlab so should not generalize. Just general experience of contributing to larger projects.

Same! Last time I had a programming all-nighter was around 10 years ago

As little apps/addons as you can, Nextcloud API changes often and apps are slow to update. Causing problems every time you update Nextcloud

Yeah, the desktops are A++ for the last 10 years, it's the phones that I'm excited to get to a similar level. I have one and it's an expensive dust collector, I dust it off every few months and not much is changing

How many photos do you store there that you recommend it? Like 500? With any serious number of photos Nextcloud starts loading for minutes and the android app autoupload goes tits up.

That bug is open for years and if with so many users affected and a commercial entity behind this project nobody has fixed it yet, I doubt it's fixable without a very major rewrite.

Which model is that? I tried several ones that were complete trash, then Mixtrail appeared and starting giving answers that are very basic but mostly factually correct. But none of these are even close to ChatGPT that I can rely on with writing scripts.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather not give them my data and money if there was an alternative. But for tech stuff we're not there yet.

I've had good luck with Upwork, moved two of my clients off Upwork. Worked with them for a few years after. One went out of business, one was paying a lot and demanding a lot, eventually I wasn't able to keep up for personal reasons.

I also had a professional website and ran Google Ads (at a time it was still relevant), got many small gigs and one long-time client this way. I should mention I also wrote and sold a small software addon there, mostly as a way to acquire new clients - tried to make the support top-tier and lure clients into giving me other work.

After that, I haven't been actively looking for more work and eventually shut the website down as the software became irrelevant and I had work by word of mouth.

Yeah, Windows and hosting are a tough match. But you have native Photoshop and Autocad.

Fucking always-on connectivity and security problems caused by it are the main reason why things can't just work. You need to be updated or else.

I visited a friend not that long ago and he kept using Windows XP and The Bat and Opera around version 9. He knew every keyboard shortcut because he didn't have to relearn every few years. Never got hacked, I just wonder when his bank stops working because of TLS incompatibilities.

Same here. I cant stand the comments of people who won the genetic lottery or are just younger who teach me how I'm drinking wrong. When I was younger I could chug vodka with barely any hangover, after turning 30 two beers destroy the next day for me.