No, never had an issue with Signal backups.

Linux user since 2008 here.

Boring Debian for servers and Pop Os for my desktop because everything works out of the box

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I had to replace the USB C port on my Fairphone 3, took about €30 and 10 minutes.

In any other phone it would’ve meant getting a complete new device

yes, and according to the article, OpenOffice was already abandoned for 4 years ago by then

My sister’s job just switched to LibreOffice in 2018, OO is still alive and kicking in a lot of small companies

I’m stealing claer

I use glow all the time, I love it!

I’ve been playing with wish too, I see a lot of potential for it

My previous job referred to ex employees as traitors or betrayers

I’m saving this phrase.

I had a PM postpone a critical part of a project since June, the hard deadline is on September 15th… I’ve insisted to start with it months ago and now he’s scrambling everyone to get this done yesterday.

We’re not gonna make it and I don’t care anymore.

I have the following apps backing up to a syncthing share

• Aegis
• OpenScale
• Gadgetbridge
• OpenTracks
• Signal

all of them were set and forget, except for Gadget bridge who would randomly loose access to the shared

The following apps allow to manually backup to a file, but not automatically.

• AntennaPod
• Catima
• Birday
• Tickmate

IHateMoney.org is a nice self hosted FOSS option, joining groups and organising users is dead easy, but the iOS app sucks.

I personally prefer SettleUp despite it being closed source, I find its functionality a lot better than Splitwise

I recently used IRC to download some obscure early 2000s anime from a major fansub group from back in the day. Turns out they are still hosting an IRC server with a bot serving their entire fansub archive.

Writing XDCC commands brought back some memories

Amazing writeup, thanks for the nostalgia trip. Albeit I’m a Linux user since 2008, I did grew up with the internet since the mid90s. Things come and go, but perseverance must stay forever.

I use Codium on both PopOS and MacOSi, it’s a bit slow to start, but performance is good, but I don’t know how it compares to stock VSCode since I never tested it. But overall I’m very happy with it.

There are plenty of alternatives to the NUC. MinisForum, StarLabs and System76 out of the top of my head

I have two MinisForum miniPCs and I absolutely love them, I’ve had them on for months at the time without any issues. Before I got them I was looking into the Intel NUCs and they were way too expensive for the specs. Sure, their top of the line NUCs are absolute beasts in a tiny form factor, but their basic entry level stuff is for burning money

I canceled my subscription due to the price increase. I recall it being about $10 or $12 / yr back in 2019. Right now is just too expensive