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Matrix has bridges to solve this: https://matrix.org/bridges/

Just start a simple project with Ansible and have a look at the repositories using Ansible to install Docker and deploy containers on your host afterwards.

You may want to put some effort (not that much) into managing your credentials with Ansible Vault[0] and you can try your playbooks e.g. on a Vagrant Machine[1] before applying them to a real host.

Any tutorial will do for the beginning but you should always notice what version of Ansible you are using (vs. the one used in the tutorial) as features change and also there have been some changes to the syntax to improve readability of your playbooks.

[0]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/vault.htm... [1]: https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/ansible.html

As someone who grew up with real computers it really hurts and saddens me to read this.

Kids also love sugar but it damages their brains and bodies.

Ok this feeling especially comes from the following disadvantages:

- iOS/iPadOS AppStore vs. macOS AppStore + ability to install apps from the web (I can't even compile FOSS apps on my own without owning a mac + 100$/year dev licence - this is a real shit show for me!)

- mostly paid & stripped down terminal apps vs. a real native terminal (and of course just installing iTerm2 because you can do so on a mac)

- no "real" apps like on a desktop machine. As I mentioned in my CON's I would love to use a real browser like Firefox including Add-On's because the web is unusable in many cases without blocking and filtering all the evil scripts people use to make some extra money. Also I would like to use the Adobe products (photoshop, illustrator etc.) and not the stripped down (and from what I heard also bad) pseudo-apps. Finally I have a device that could replace things like a Wacom Tablet connected to your computer but that opportunity was missed. Very sad.

- no up- or downgrades as you please because Apple likes to force you to go to / stay on certain versions of their OS on the mobile devices to "motivate" you to buy new ones once in a while when they need more revenue.

- no free choice of OS. My MBP runs macOS and linux and if I would need it I could just install windows as well (uagh!).

There is much more to this but I think the issues mentioned should be enough to draw a clear picture of the paternalism Apple treats it's users of the mobile devices with. I don't like this at all and it was THE deal breaker that prevented me from ever buying a new iPad.

If they get worse as the MBP's do, I would also take care and probably never buy a new model and instead stick to an old one that is a combination of some "freedom" (the max. level Apple allows you to do anything with it), enough quality (good product, not too many beta-experiments) and stability (software is new enough not to be dangerous to use).

I just recently bought a used iPad that still got the iPadOS update and what I noticed is very ambivalent.

PRO: - The device is light, has a nice screen and good sound. I can use it to read documents that need color, watch videos and browse the web all in one device with acceptable performance - The battery has enough capacity for the pad to work for days without recharging - You can use pencil 1 as an input device (I would not have bought one without support for pencil)

CON: - While apps like browsers (Safari, Firefox) look like the desktop versions they are just poor copies without the full potential. Without Add-On's my browsing experience is very limited in comparison to the experience on my computer - No Adobe Suite like many people wanted it while you can run Apps like the real PS on a surface - No native terminal, seriously? I live in a terminal and e.g. consume news via newsbeuter - Support for USB thumbdrives and mouse have just been added recently while competitors allowed much easier access much earlier. This "walled garden" feeling diminishes the experience a lot for me. I hoped for the iPad to be more like "a real PC/Mac" and this is one of the major reasons I never bought an early model or a new one.

My dream iPad would be more like macOS because as someone coming from Linux it feels already "walled" enough for my taste.

I have another major concern but that is based on the evidence about consumption, climate change etc. and of course Apple itself can probably not do much about it (can they?): What happens to the device when it is obsolete (e.g. no major OS updates and security patches)? It would be really awesome if they would open up to after market solutions to reduce waste and keep their products running so one can install linux on it.

I know this is a wild dream in a world that is driven by maximizing profit. Let dreamers be dreamers ;)

I would love to see some gifted people using this info to further improve tools like nteract[0].

It already eases a lot of pain you may have in comparison when setting up jupyter notebook without the knowledge of a software developer.

[0]: https://nteract.io/

Wow instead of reacting and discussing like civilized people one is voted down in silence. Very courageous and honest.

Did you read the article?

It tells that these companies increase plastic production though people want this to stop.

People do not insist because this is what they always wanted but because of the advertisement manipulating them in a very subtle way and their missing consciousness about a lot of things that you do not learn at school.

They are presented with influencers, pictures etc. which make them feel useless and worthless just to present them with the new XYZ and the promise it will improve their sad life, help them to get along with their neighbors and stuff like that.

Another player in this game is the government which does not hold companies responsible for their actions and the harm they do.

You could still use the 1st iPad with a decent OS (e.g. some Linux) if you would be allowed to. Because companies need to make money they will brick it instead so you will have to buy a new one. Is this the fault of the customer? Certainly not.

This is not normal and it is not the expected behavior of a device like that from the point of view of someone who knows that on the inside it is just a computer. We (people in IT) know that and many ignore it or lie to themselves to feel better but the average consumer in the meantime believes this is the way things have to be.

In this case I would not support the hypothesis that the average consumer (or the majority) is at all able to act that rationally.

To blame the consumer completely is a carefully seeded thought but it is just not the (whole) truth. While many decisions will aggregate and contribute to change not all of them are the kind of free choice the industry wants governments and the global community to believe in to spare them with the necessary consequences (laws, control, taxes etc.).

This is really sad and it shows just how much power the consumer has.

As long as people are happy buying or owning stocks from ExxonMobil, Shell, and Saudi Aramco and the likes it will only get worse.

"... they have to play by the same rules as Apple"

Now this does not exactly help me feeling more comfortably about this issue.

I do not think so and AFAIK only the export of strong encryption is prohibited by law in the US.

But it is not about prohibiting encryption but the possibility and/or necessity that Apple has another key to decrypt your data with.

It does not matter where they keep the data as long as the companies headquarters are on US soil.

Please tell me why do organizations use canaries[0] then to tell people they where not forced to cooperate?

The funny thing is that I just read a bit of the linked Wikipedia article to find this: Companies and organizations who no longer have warrant canaries

  The following is a list of companies and organizations whose warrant canaries no longer appear in transparency reports:
  * Apple
  * Reddit
  * Silent Circle

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

1. Yes, they have to. At least in the US any company has to cooperate with the law enforcement as you might know. The only choice to do business in the US or based on US governed soil is to comply with them.

2. Apple at least put some effort into this matter because otherwise there would not be so much media attention to breaking into iPhones. To get data from android on the other hand seems to be no problem at all.

3. We are already in hell but we do not yet see the flames surrounding us.

4. If collective choice matters so much we are all doomed and you know it. Try telling the Joneses about encryption etc. - they will still use WhastApp, Facebook and the likes because it is so convenient over a way of burden and hard work to get there or even live without all these "magical devices and services".

The most important take away for me is:

Don't use services like Facebook.

Of course now a lot of people will moan when they read this because they think my alternative is living in a hut in the forest but what I want to say is that these companies have that kind of power because we gave it to them by exclusively using their services because it was so convenient when they lured us in.

Using other services or even building them on your own is more effort but it could be worth the extra time when I look at scenes like this one.

The new release looks awesome and I will give it a try. Thank you for the great work!

I am still missing one thing: A live markdown editor (real time preview) like in Mark Text[0] and Typora[1].

Of course MindForger contains much more really useful features to connect thoughts and stay organized but somehow I prefer the writing experience with real time preview (it is also less intimidating for users who don't know markdown which is very likely if they don't work in IT).

I don't say this has to be the de facto default but I would appreciate a "live-mode" you can toggle.

[0]: https://github.com/marktext/marktext [1]: https://www.typora.io/

I had to smile when I read this :)

When I was visiting China last time I did not find the post office so I went into a hotel near the supposed location of the post office and just asked them if they could send my letters and so they did. Of course I payed for the stamps (including a tip).

This just puts the focus on another problem then: Tiny companies get eaten by big players [0] until you don't have any choice or it is too much of an effort to you to switch to an alternative solution.

In my opinion it would be helpful to acquire knowledge how to provide services on your own or to connect with people to share services (like a NextCloud).

On the market you will not find a provider that can guarantee to be it's own master or exist at all in years to come. Also I have the bad feeling that a lot of providers try to prohibit data export to keep you caught in their eco-systems (e.g. see Apple deactivating the _basic_ function to export contacts to a SIM card).

So now it is early enough to find a way to own and protect your data but in a few years it may be much worse and some day probably impossible or at least impractical.

The upside to this is that no single service will just "go away" and as long as your NC-server is running you will have access to your services.

[0] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

+1, I completely agree!

Especially the screenshots help to get motivated to try it and if you try it you will notice it just works as advertised - awesome :-D

Our system will force them to accumulate until there is 2 or maybe 3 big players (probably MS/AMZN/GOOG but maybe one will be Alibaba) and the other competitors will more or less slowly be assimilated.

It happens to many business branches and the last barrier is the law prohibiting cartels and monopolies but it does not work globally.

Around cocoa some days ago a cartel formed and there is other examples where we only have one real provider left.

One big pro for the way our capitalist markets work always was that the competition will drive innovation. In the end of course this cannot work anymore and we can see many businesses where consumers just have to take the products that one big player offers.

Look at Intel processors which are built into nearly every device nowadays. Of course in the recent history AMD started to face them again but it will be a long time until they even come near the market share to really compete.

Yes there is other CPUs as well but who even speaks about them or considers (knowingly) buying a device with something different than an Intel CPU?

Windows only + not open source?

This is a real deal breaker.

Really looking forward to this future as there is several advantages following this approach:

1. Decentralized, therefor more difficult to attack or destroy.

2. Increase in autonomy, which in my opinion is always good (I'll be glad to stop paying those parasites more money just because they decide to increase the prices though they have to pay less for buying power somewhere else).

3. More knowledge about physics will spread - more knowledge is always good in my opinion.

And this is THE WAY to go I think.

We need something like social networking, payment and communication as layers of our networks with open protocols to just use this service without bothering creating an account on FB and other malicious services.

Sometimes I'd wish our internet would be more like the network the computers in Star Trek use.

Thank you for the hint. Last time I needed to do this I wrote a script which basically does the same without being that versatile.

It helped to understand more about local cert storage (e.g. cert9.db) etc. but I prefer using a tool like this which is maintained by the community and probably still works some years from now.

Or you die trying like some people at my school did.

I am sure there has to be a more human way to learn to deal with this.

+1 to Katarina & Aggelos for creating and sharing this with us!

I often need graphics like these and my design skills don't match Katarina's so I am really thankful you give us the right to use the work in commercial projects as well.

Have a great time with your beloved one's and hopefully some awesome food :)

It is only to human to react like this.

Did you recognize how many people relate to their own experiences when you tell them a story while totally forgetting about the things you just said?

You are totally right and if someone wants to present their project because it is similar they should at least say something about the differences etc. not just paste a URL to promote it.

I feel similarly and would feel a bit awkward telling someone that I use it.

On the other hand I think I have to face the fact that I am just not good at remembering a lot of tiny details - especially about people I have only met a few times or don't see very frequently.

I think remembering stuff about a bunch of people is possible but when you interact with a lot it becomes more and more difficult to remember everything.

Of course one could argue that in this case you maybe should "sort out" your relationships to determine who of all these people is really important to you but that feels even harder for me than using a personal CRM to have a good relationship to people that are not part of my circle of best friends.

Family is another example. I didn't choose them but I have to see them once in a while and among other features recording what presents I got them and they got me would be good enough to at least not blow up some celebration because I would get the same present again or being able to connect presents to people who gave them.

If the world was more like disney imagines it to be then this could be possible. Or your parents are very rich and you don't have to pay rent etc. for yourself.

But in the end artists just like open source maintainers need money to pay their food and most of them can't afford to stop charging for their work.

I would love to do that but I can't afford it so I won't. If the system changes and the government gives every citizen 1k $ / month we can start this discussion again because I would really much appreciate to do things that I like without having to take money for my work.

I prefer neovim because it has a more active developer community (487 contributors vs. 2).

I have more trust in the strength of a community to go on developing it. In case something happens to the vim contributor(s) - e.g. one is struck by a lightning and the other one gets sick for a long time then it will be difficult to maintain it.

As long as everything works fine I didn't have any reason to try vim again. Though I am happy to see they move forward as well.

I think "pre-packaged" approaches like this (or hugo, gatsby etc.) try to solve a very specific purpose.

As I see it from a quick glance this one is for people who want to publish math/science work and therefor it supports rendering LaTex.

I read about people building shops with SSG's and I myself use hugo for many tasks.

Sure I could still do it manually but I prefer writing content in markdown and SSG's like hugo because I am way faster and don't tend to forget something. When I build the site then everything is included and I am ready to deploy.

SSG's work with neat little plugins to ease your work with SEO, links and whatnot and while I didn't understand this in the first place I sure did when I finished my first project with hugo.

Just give it a shot and tell us why you still don't need an SSG but rather stick to coding everything yourself.

I will never look back and I enjoy working with SSG's.