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I do this, works exceptionally well. It also works via a USB key.

Three things that have bitten me recently:

1. beware of encryption, especially Microsoft and Apple. I've encrypted Apple disk images with lost passwords, and USB drives that I'm not sure I'll ever decrypt now that I've mostly moved to Linux

2. USB drives rot. I have at least one sitting on my desk that doesn't work, or doesn't work with Linux, or is encrypted, I can't tell but I think it's dead and I've no idea what's on it

3. assume anything other than text or open formats will be useless later. I've a ton of info archived in closed proprietary formats that I might never be able to access.

Duplication is inevitable. I've a box of CD/DVD archives, a dozen large USB drives, two NAS, and half a dozen computers, and with all that storage and space I can't even have a definitive music collection. It's on both NAS, multiple computers, an MP3 player, my phone, and all the copies are different. We've 14 terabytes of photos, and so I now need to buy another NAS to replace the two I have and keep the old ones as a backup. It's endless curation, both for hardware and data.

And yet, the code I've lost. The photos that didn't make it to backup. I have those regrets too, like they were truly valuable.

Final thoughts: cloud storage isn't storage, it's short term for shuffling data between devices. Even email isn't secure - Yahoo deleted all my messages without warning because I didn't log in for a year.

That is unfortunate for both symlinks and for a lack of LAN sync. Not having the ability to deal with anything I throw at it does add risk that the sync isn't true, but outside of the OS I don't use symlinks. LAN sync would save data transfers over slower links but with E2E is this isn't too surprising that it's centralised.

Thanks for sharing, I didn't find this option when I looked. This might be a winner for my uses.

Both Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive have had mass file loss events. Local LAN sync is hugely useful too. Upload speed matters, as does conflict resolution. These are features worth paying for.

I'm actively looking. NextCloud is on my list of maybes, as is S3 or S3-compatible services like OVH. I'm using Fastmail files as a stopgap via WebDav, but it's slow, doesn't give offline files, and I'll need to rig my own backup solution.

Everything I've looked at lacks a native client for at least one of my devices or has privacy concerns. Proton would be my first choice if they offered a Linux client.

The other route I need to explore is rclone - it claims to connect to everything. It would need to poll / cronjob to update rather than instant updates like the mainstream options. The downside is uncertainty - if Proton or whatever changes their private API or encryption scheme then things will cease to sync.

The end result of this will be myself as an adult no longer buying games, as I valid my data privacy and security more than interactive entertainment unless I can self-certify without a third-party service or sharing official documents. I pay by credit card, that should be enough proof of age.

I noticed this too. It makes all their articles look like self-promotion.

The 'send' example perfectly illustrates why I would find Material 3 hard to use - it makes it harder to write the message but easier to send. It's less usable.

Zone 2-3 here; Deliveroo is the only service that failed to even turn up, delivered to the wrong address then tried to blame me for "putting a pin in the wrong place" which I did not. Worse service ever.

Here in London, we've already boycotted all the services except Dominoes. Poor practices, delivery to wrong addresses, cold food, worse quality compared to eat-out, and items often missing. It's quicker and better for me to hike up the hill and eat the same food than to deal with all the nonsense. Deliveroo was particularly bad. On top of that, it's restaurant prices for take away food. There's no advantage for me.

This. A grouped agenda style would be really good, if it can handle repeated entries properly. On Android I exclusively use agenda mode but it's quite cluttered with recurring events.

I see the benefits in this, it's an interesting concept. I'd find it more useful if it didn't need to scroll on desktop. There's so much whitespace on the sides that could be better used on non-mobile form factors. I use a paper calendar, and while skeuomorphism probably shouldn't be a design goal, not having to interact to see everything (unless overloaded) would make it truly shine. Progressively giving more information on entries that are sooner could also be another advantage if done carefully.

We use a Roku, which we found out yesterday supports AirPlay from an iPad. It's an old model though, not sure if the newer ones do.

For me, if I click into a post it dims grey and refuses to do anything. It's very user-hostile.

It's just another Chromium browser.

I'm in the top 4% this year based on a Q/A I wrote in 2021 which it gathers a few votes a month. The ranking is an indicator of how pointless SO has become if I'm globally in the top 4% this year having posted nothing.

For me, there's no incentive to answer questions. It takes too long to get an answer, and the reply is usually some snide comment because too many assume it's an XY problem. It's generally worse than asking ChatGPT even when the AI gets it horribly wrong.

As for answering questions, I'd rather do that on my blog. Posting to SO is a time investment with zero return.

Surprisingly zero on one domain. Not because it's ineffective, but because it hasn't leaked as far as I can tell.

The other however has leaked, but that's because it's designed to - it's for social media where the email is available for use and has been abused by third parties.

I get surprisingly little. There's about 15 addresses that are persistent, and they're all caught by the spam filters. The most important job is to set up SPF and DKIM properly so spammers can't impersonate your domain and send as though FROM you, rather than TO you.

I run with a custom domain and a catch-all email rule, so all inbound mail goes to the same inbox, so I can use whatever@domain.com. Maybe it's still trackable but at least helps identify leaks.

I have the Pro-I and I get 3+ days on a charge. Right now it reports 21 hours since 100%, and 3 days left. It's been excellent.

No, just the basics is enough, and has been enough for me for almost 30 years. The move to containerised services has reduced the need to SSH to servers for the most part.

Personally I've enjoyed using Emacs more. With a good setup I have been more productive with that tools than I would have been with Vim.

One thing you can do is add a canonical to each page, which will help solve the the Bing/Google issue until they realise it's there. Do it before they add one.

You're already using Cloudflare, you could try talking to their support or just turning up settings to make it more strict for bots.

I've used https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ in the past.

I have a high res screen, and I preferred the squared corners.

You can get banned from gmail but not all email. There are plenty of alternatives to Google.

This feels a little like "the cathedral and the bazaar" in the sense that it's either controlled by a small group or allowed to fragment and grow organically in a less structured, organised-chaos model.

There are pros and cons either way, but finally it seems that we have a choice. The Fediverse is here and will remain, and seems to have enough gatekeeping to limit federation of unwanted/spammy/malicious servers. Centralised forms of social media will continue to exist but this new landscape will change how they work and will change the content created and shared.

Ads don't pay for the Internet, they pay for content. The problem is that's it's highly intrusive and mostly unimaginative leading to a negative sentiment. It's also pushing content that I haven't asked for, products or whatever.

I'd rather pay cash money for the app that is being advertised, than pay-per-view for ads promoting a free app I'll never download, which itself is funded by more adverts.

Ironically, it was the walled garden that kept me on Apple for so long. Having at least the illusion that apps were safe and secure gave me some confidence that most of the apps are reasonably safe does remove stress and means I don't have to vet things too closely. In truth there are nasties in the Apple world too, but I'm sure it's nowhere near as wild as installing random .apk files.

What made me leave Apple was for a real headphone socket, an SD card slot, and especially USB-C charging. Those were the non-negotiables for me.

I don't think the French government care much because the EU gives them more bargaining power. If they were bound beyond political pressure then we'd have French or EU embargos against Cuba for the last 60 years. France doesn't stand alone nor does the UK despite leaving the EU, which is why I object to US foreign policy spilling over political borders via internet-based tech companies.