OMV is an OS, and it’s a version of Ubuntu Debian.

No

“we once denied animals suffering in pain”.

Speak for yourself, and a portion of the population. Reducing the suffering of animals was written about in the bible, so clearly “we” isn’t very inclusive.

Bold move, Cotton!

(Not really, Lineage updates are the most seamless I’ve ever seen).

Uggh, feel bad for them.

I’ve tried for years to get friends and family to have their data sit in a single point in the house and use backup services. That would be a massive improvement.

Family won’t listen, so I’m building minicomputers for them all that will handle it. Just have to configure their devices to store data there.

I don’t do upgrades (well, not in the sense most people think of them).

My approach is that upgrades are too risky, things always break. It’s also why I don’t permit auto updates on anything. I’d rather do manual updates than dedicated time. Keeping things working is more important, and I have backups.

I run everything virtualized (as much as I can), so I can test upgrades by cloning a system and upgrading the clone. If that fails, I simply build a new system based on some templates I keep. Run in parallel, copy config and data as best I can, then migrate. Just migrated my Jellyfin setup this way.

This is a common methodology in enterprise, which virtualization makes a lot easier for us self hosters.

I haven’t had a disruption from updates/upgrades in 5 years.

They do?

Seems an odd take considering the videogame market is so massive.

Wonder who’s buying all those games?

I’d you’re in a hurry measuring BP, it’s not going to be a good measure. Just a thought

I still use Publisher - for simple page layout (think label print jobs) it’s way better than word, even with templates.

I thought they’d dropped it years ago, haha - I’m still using a 2016 version. Those of us who use it have been a tiny minority since before it was a Microsoft product (I was using Publisher about 2 years before MS acquired it).

Definitely not a “popular piece of software” - never was.

Shame it’s going away though, I’ve always tried to get people to use it it instead of word when they’re trying to do page layout.

MS never really promoted/exposed it to consumers. It was never really a part of office, for example.

I used ES File Explorer for 10 years before finally giving up on an old, pre-enshittified version, and switching to Mix.

I don’t love it, but its the best out there today.

Edit: Some of the way it works is really powerful, like the bookmark system, tab management, copy process, etc. I just can’t get it to look the way I want, with slightly larger everything, and higher contrast text/icons (I admit I’m too lazy to make it happen, pretty sure I could just create a skin).

Funk relies on heavy syncopation - which is essentially providing the beat in unexpected ways.

It has a lot of anticipation/novelty. Makes sense it would help a ADHD brain.

Isn’t that partly because the US has like 52 sets of law (50 states, DC, Fed) and maybe more (County/Parish, etc)?

Sync it to a cloud

I wouldn’t trust the disconnected drives. They fail more often when offline than on, in my experience.

Granted it’s your 3rd backup, so it’s a smaller risk.

They do?

Think we need some examples

How mobile apps manipulate users via notifications.

Off is my default for notifications from all apps.

Fuck, Dominoes (the solo game) wants to send me notifications. WTF for?

Guess what dominoes, I run rooted so your dumb ass can’t even run in the background (or get network), and you get automatically get killed a few minutes after I stop playing.

Syncthing or Resilio Sync for photo/file backup from phone. Both work amazingly well.

I don’t see anything like this in search, even DuckDuck.

What do you have on that you see this? (Or what have I turned off?)

I do use Ublock and Noscript, but they don’t list anything to block on search engines, really.

Almost any messaging app is better, the question is what do your friends use, and can you get them to switch.

I’m a fan of XMPP because it’s an established protocol you can host yourself (if you wanted) - this removes untrustworthy providers.

It really comes down to what’s your goal?

Ok, bye.

The problem is they are almost never good, as everyone can read the same info 4x faster than someone can present it (best case), and 10x faster isn’t unusual.

Source: Former technical trainer - I’ve read a lot about instructional methodologies. Video is the lowest common denominator that’s all. It can be useful for things that have a visual component, and self hosting has very little of that.