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> I tried for weeks to get OCIS working but gave up and went back to ownCloud 10.

I literally just finished my move from Nextcloud to ocis yesterday (Docker). There were so many silly issues (e.g., I spent 2 full days trying to figure out why an image was getting a 500 error, only to learn ocis doesn't support tall images). I have a full install script and integrated motomo too. So ping me if you want to give it another shot. (I deployed Baikal to replace dav functionality.)

Nextcloud has all sorts of problems and bloat. It's not worth it anymore to me.

Thank you. I wish you great success with it.

Desperately looking for something to replace Thunderbird's beyond awful tasks functionality. Downloaded for Windows and installed. Got to add accounts page and decided to wait until it's more on par with the Android version. As far as I can see, there is no uninstall option. So now I'm searching my computer for all the places I need to delete. Seems half-baked at this point.

Don't forget DataEase [1]. That's what I eventually moved to from dBase (although, IIRC, it was through back-and-forth evaluations of FoxPro, Clipper, and Paradox). DataEase was considered a "Fourth-Generation Language" (4GL) and it was wonderful to work with. As a teenage "systems analyst" working for a division of GE (my first paid tech job), I built a file room management system for their large file rooms (remember those?). Having to thoroughly test security, I put it through its paces and found a way to hack into any application built on DataEase. Eventually explaining the procedure to DataEase's development team (which included one developer traveling to my fraternity house for a face-to-face meeting; so funny trying to be business-like in a place with sticky floors and smelled like stale beer), they fixed the hole. There weren't any bug bounties during those days but, as a reward, they gave me lifetime upgrades and allowed me to go to all their training seminars for free. It was my 4GL experience that ultimately led to learning Cognos.

Funny aside: I remember the first time my GE boss asked me for an invoice as it was the only way he could pay me. I had no idea what it should look like. So he sent me to the PM of one of the COBOL contractor teams who gave me a template that I copied. The PM eventually asked me to do some COBOL programming for them as well. Good times.

[1] https://www.dataease.com/

The biggest issue I have with BookLore is it doesn't have an Android app that syncs automatically where you last left when reading on desktop. (And KOReader - at least from the app stores - can't be used on Android 15, is an incredibly ugly UI/UX, and the latest version doesn't seem to even work with BookLore.) Without that, I don't see the reason to switch from calibre.

Edit: An Android app without an account. There appears to be Kobo integration but Kobo requires an account.

I built it. [1] They didn't come.

[1] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/kqqqs/how-valme-works

Someone didn't do proper QA on their home page: their Google Play/Android icon (under Get the app) doesn't even go to their app; instead it goes to https://play.google.com/store/games?hl=en&gl=US.

tl/dr: "The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) went into effect January 1... The new law applies to U.S. corporations, limited liability companies and any other entities created by the filing of a document with a secretary of state or any similar office in the U.S... An estimated 30 million U.S. businesses will now have to file. The filed disclosures do not become public but may be used for law enforcement and national security."

Filing is done online at FinCEN’s website. [1]

[1] https://www.fincen.gov/boi

Silly me... I forgot this is Google we're talking about. Thanks.

Still doesn't work (since 9 months ago [1]): "Something went wrong and your request wasn't submitted. Check your internet connection and try again."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33338188

Because it couldn't possibly be more complex and attributable to other causes like, oh I don't know, kicking fathers out of their children's lives (with statistics from the US Census openly stating most all custodial parents are mothers and proportions are statistically unchanged over the years)?

"In the spring of 2002, an estimated 13.4 million parents had custody of 21.5 million children under 21 years of age whose other parent lived somewhere else. About 5 of every 6 custodial parents were mothers (84.4 percent) and 1 in 6 were fathers (15.6 percent), proportions statistically unchanged since 1994 (Table A)." [1]

"Custodial parents have become more likely to be fathers over the past 24 years, increasing from 16.0 percent in 1994 to 20.1 percent in 2018...

The number of custodial parents has varied somewhat over the past 24 years, including the proportion of fathers who are custodial parents. In 1994, about 1 of every 6 custodial parents were fathers (16.0 percent). By 2018, that proportion reached 1 in 5 (20.1 percent) (Appendix Table 2)." [2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20211212183149/https://www.censu...

[2] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

> "a glamorous effort led by a hype man"

> "This has the effect of turning technical discussions into debates over the character and achievements of Elon Musk— just the way he likes it."

> "But their founder is who he is, and what he has publicly shared is not so much a blueprint as an inspirational poster."

While I valued many of the thoughts in this post, it made me think of the meme "I choked on a carrot this afternoon and all I could think was 'I bet a donut wouldn't have done this to me.'" Putting aside the argument of whether or not scientific research, especially in space, is a proper role of government/politics, it is disappointing to see what I believe is an intellectual defect to undermine inspiration for human achievement with ad hominems in the context of a collapsing culture lacking meaningful debate on significant government war funding power delusions and destruction. Conquering technical achievements in any form (e.g., "port-a-potty chemistry," getting "to watch someone remotely operate a soil scoop from Mars instead of Pasadena") vs. conquering people is, IMO, a more appropriate intellectual debate. I'll turn my computer speakers up to 100% for inspiration by Elon any day to drown out the human destructive philosophies of the politicians this author appears to support. [1]

I think Ayn Rand said it well [2]: "The most inspiring aspect of Apollo 11's flight was that it made such abstractions as rationality, knowledge, science perceivable in direct, immediate experience. That it involved a landing on another celestial body was like a dramatist's emphasis on the dimensions of reason's power: it is not of enormous importance to most people that man lands on the moon, but that man can do it, is."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20211003211306/https://techsolid...

[2] https://newideal.aynrand.org/ayn-rand-on-apollo-11/

For many years, DO was my only explorer. It was perfect in every way.

Then XYplorer [1] offered a pro license freebee (looks like back in 2019 [2]) and I gave it a try. I'm still using that same version (15.90) from so many years ago. Never looked back.

[1] https://www.xyplorer.com/

[2] https://www.xyplorer.com/freezer.php

Tried it when I played with WSL. Like with radicale [1], I don't remember what specifically wasn't working properly but it didn't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33872707

I use davx5 with my NextCloud setup on the cloud. But that's not what I use (or want to use) for other events, contacts, to-dos, etc.

I had played with it for 2 days before I gave up. I don't remember what specifically wasn't working properly but it didn't. Even if I had gotten it to work, syncing between a Windows PC and Android device should not require that level of effort.

Caldav requires the cloud.

If you have a link for running a small footprint of a caldav/carddav service on my Windows laptop, I'm all ears. I played around using WSL and setting up a NextCloud instance but why do I want to use 2GB+ just to sync?

At the end of the day, I want all my personal events, contacts, todos, and notes on my laptop and able to sync directly with my phone. I'm happy enough with my current bluetooth sync and wouldn't trade it for UI changes.

I use Outlook on my Windows PC and transfer all personal contacts, calendar entries, tasks, and notes locally. I would love to move to Thunderbird primarily because "Microsoft bad" but then I'd lose my local transfer functionality (not to mention Xobni - which still crashes every-so-often - but the functionality is worth it).

One random guy's opinion (and a long-time K9 user):

Little UI design changes are NOT what you should be spending time/money on; they are a waste of effort given K9's already strong usability. I acknowledge it's your time/money but this does not make the app any more appealing. I know I sound like a broken record [1] but, at minimum, I believe Thunderbird could take quite a few users (who prefer privacy-focused apps) from both Google and Microsoft (not to mention 3rd-party apps [2] [3] [4]) by integrating functionality at the local level. This would be a considerable (IMO) differentiation in functionality. I will continue to use Outlook until there is a significant justification to switch to Thunderbird. And until "Thunderbird for Android" is significantly differentiated in functionality (i.e., ignoring UI), it will remain branded in my mind as K9.

- Signed: someone who still calls a tall building in Chicago as the Sears Tower

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31728531

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.callicia.b...

[3] https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/mypho...

[4] https://generalsync.com/en/

I do this all the time and it works flawlessly. You must have the Clipboard sync turned on (3 dots at top-right > Plugin settings).

1. Copy your text on Android.

2. Swipe down from top and select KDE Connect notification.

3. Choose Send clipboard.

4. Disco.

Speaking only for myself, I would LOVE to get away from Microsoft Outlook. As I've alluded elsewhere [1], there are some key functions that are needed:

- Full encryption integrated into the client for all data (e.g., I don't want Windows Search able to index the mail so someone has access when the client is closed/unencrypted; I also remember testing Thunderbird years ago and was able to go into the individual unencrypted .eml files [I think that's what they were] and read the messages without having Thunderbird opened)

- Full local sync with Android/iPhone (i.e., home WiFi, Bluetooth, or USB cable); it still amazes me that Thunderbird still doesn't have this built-in

- Xobni-like functionality (e.g., showing all emails and attachments to/from sender when clicking on an email, keyword searches); yes, I know the plugin is still available but it doesn't work properly with current Outlook versions (and no plugin like this exists for Thunderbird)

But if the upgraded K-9 also got other integrated Thunderbird functionality (e.g., calendar, contacts, tasks), that would be especially amazing as I could then move away from Google (which I'd also LOVE to do). For example, the Notes field in Google's base Contacts app is limited to 1000 characters. That means I can only sync Outlook to Android one-way (else I lose longer notes when they sync back).

To be able to move away from Microsoft and Google to open source... now that's a future worth dreaming about.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31683214#31686186

I continue to question why email clients with calendar, contacts, and tasks functionality don't have local sync integrated with Android or iPhone. Having said that, outside those "basic" integrated functions, my top 3 requirements to switch from Outlook are:

- Full encryption integrated into the client for all data (e.g., I don't want Windows Search able to index the mail so someone has access when the client is closed/unencrypted; I also remember testing Thunderbird years ago and was able to go into the individual unencrypted .eml files [I think that's what they were] and read the messages without having Thunderbird opened)

- Full local sync with Android/iPhone (i.e., home WiFi, Bluetooth, or USB cable); it still amazes me that Thunderbird still doesn't have this built-in

- Xobni-like functionality (e.g., showing all emails and attachments to/from sender when clicking on an email, keyword searches); yes, I know the plugin is still available but it doesn't work properly with current Outlook versions

The technical paper: Scalable super hygroscopic polymer films for sustainable moisture harvesting in arid environments [1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30505-2

No offense taken and, of course, the UI/UX would have to be redone. But to make that investment, more would have to be interested in the idea.

That was one of the general ideas [1] driving a platform I created years ago. It never took but I keep it going because I'm still fully behind the deeper philosophy [2].

I'd be very interested getting some help to make it successful if anyone has a passion for the idea.

[1] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/pkqqs/the-genesis-of-v... [2] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/kqqqs/how-valme-works/

Thanks for that trip down memory lane. I just searched for FAR and had a warm, nostalgic feeling viewing the screenshots. Norton Commander was one of my favorite tools and I missed it so for years as technology moved forward. I eventually replaced it with DO but moved when XYplorer offered a freebie one year. Haven't looked back since... until now.

> If men file for custody they get 50/50. Men who ask for full custody also statistically win more often.

You're pulling that statistic from where? At least from the US census bureau, here are the stats from 2002 that go all the way back to 1994 [1]: "In the spring of 2002, an estimated 13.4 million parents had custody of 21.5 million children under 21 years of age whose other parent lived somewhere else. About 5 of every 6 custodial parents were mothers (84.4 percent) and 1 in 6 were fathers (15.6 percent), proportions statistically unchanged since 1994 (Table A). Overall, 27.6 percent of all children under 21 living in families had a parent not living in the home."

[1] https://valme.io/c/mens-rights/88qqs/a-tale-of-two-children-...

True, but I did it right after the ad appeared.