digital_voodoo

I've seen a lot of people recommend LocalCDN over Decentraleyes: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork...

This doesn't work on my Mac. Only Cmd + Shift + Fn + . works. Don't know why, tbh.

Thank you for speaking for the rest of us.

Thank you for this. I feel relieved to read two opinions like this in a 15-minute span, the first one being on Reddit.

Since the WFH, I've been getting more and more meeting requests, often in the form of a calendar invite coming by mail. That gave me the idea of self-hosting my calendar (email is already de-googled, I have my domain + a hosting plan, etc.). I've literally spent a whole day looking at all the existing options, trying a few of them on my VPS and my Pi, etc. Incomplete documentation, abandonware, half-baked tutorials. No one seem to come close to Google calendar (the most common for the layman).

And I'm saddened that every time I want to make such a move, it's like everything is telling me to learn a skill (Python, Docker, code, etc.) before achieving my goals. This is appealing to the average user. I have a day job (that is nowhere close to tech and programming) and if something has to require not only involvement but also learning new skills before being done, it's barely worth the cost. That's, for example, why GUI took over the console for the general public.

Back to my issue, I've decided to create a Google account (without Gmail) for the sake of Calendar, Drive, etc. Unfortunately. If someone like Mozilla offered an alternative productivity suite, I'd pay for it in a heartbeat. In the mean time, I'll have to go back to big-G. Unfortunately.

Thank you for the movie and the book references. I'm always looking for things like that, to teach myself how to see and look beyond appearances.

This.

One of factors allowing the rising of debt, theoretically speaking, is the value of the corresponding asset. When the latter is over-valued, debt follows.

Maybe I'm missing something, but why do you find that rejection normal?

"Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not" [1] I've had countless hours of discussion with a few friends on this. Seems to sum up quite well how I see it. [1] https://ourworldindata.org/talent-is-everywhere-opportunity-...

A little different experience by my side: I always try to have as little devices as possible. So I often buy smartphones with large (6.4+ inches) screen, to serve as e-reader (among other features). The screen technology might not be the same, but I'm quite satisfied with it.

Yes. Inoreader. Tried Feedly, but at that time Inoreader seemed to have most of the features I needed + it was really multi-platforms.

I wanted to self-host, but the time committment required for maintenance (not of the service, but with other services already running on the VPS) made me choose Inoreader.

Every now and then I look around to see if there's a new player in the feed reading game, but often stick with Ino.

Hey, thank you for the extended review. I agree on all the points you've made.

Concerning the microphone, yes it's terrible enough for me to avoid taking my calls with it. So whenever I have a incoming call in the middle of my music/podcast, I have to take off the XM2 and put on a tiny bluetooth earset (both connected to the phone). A bit cumbersome and not great.

For the touch controls, I live in a very hot (tropical) area, so no chance of having winter here ^^

I've had Sony WH-1000XM2 for two years now.

Bought it just before boarding for a 7-hour flight, and it was great. Even after a dozen flights since then, I'd still recommend it anytime. Its noise cancelling is amazing (source: I've tested it in comparison with Bose QC35, everyday in the shop before going for this one).

The XM3 has been released a while ago (minor update IMHO), has good reviews and is regularly discounted. With Black Friday almost there, you should get good deals on it.

I personally don't feel the need to buy it since I have the XM2, but I could get it for my wife.

"but no chemistry on my side".

Seems like you are trying to solve with your head (models & co) what is essentially a heart problem.

If you had that chemistry, I think you wouldn't be asking yourself so many (deep?) questions. Once you have that deep connection, almost everything else falls into place.

Source: been there, done that.

Good luck.

PS: how about posting this to Reddit? seems like a more appropriate audience and higher expected response rate than HN for such a question.

I wish I could "give you gold" or at least upvote your comment a thousand times!

I think OP was speaking of the userbase + what the users submit. It's the same problem when you want to switch to a "privacy-oriented" chat client. What's the point of being alone to chat, when most of your social network is elsewhere and doesn't want to move a toe?

A cross-platform note taking app, with the ability to jot down an idea and later associate resources with it (links, media, other notes, etc.).

Idea + resources = Project (like an article or a book), and tags can help allocate the same resource to multiple projects.

It should allow the note taking to be very quick and fast, like writing a message.

And yeah, I've been trying a bunch of apps over the years. Evernote, the closest one, doesn't fit yet.

There is a large choice of publication platforms.

I'm not tech-savvy enough and mostly don't have enough free time to fiddle with the installation of Ghost, Hugo and Co. But at least I know they exist.

For the time being, I've installed Wordpress on my own hosting and with my own domain name. It's not ideal, but I considered Medium when setting up my professional blog, and decided against it for the above-mentioned reasons.

It isn't weird;) Wife and I have many conversations about how knowledge absorption is becoming bare media consumption. Listening at her, not as geeky as me, raising her concerns about it, was truly delightful:)

THIS. OMG, if my lifelong quest would end here... Thank you!!! This idea of central topic + attached resources in various formats is what I've been looking for, for ages.

I might test it asap, and later see how to adapt my ecosystem (Android + macOS) for quick/best access. Offline would be great.

Reading, by far. I'm getting sick of every single thing being videofied. It seems like an "attention hack". Wife has been feeling the same too.

I'm open-source oriented, and others have mentioned Mycroft so I'd add Leon AI https://getleon.ai/

I've installed Wireguard on my VPS. All is nice so far. I don't know how secure it is, i-e if people can do a whois on the IP and see my identity (it seems protected by my hoster, though).

This is me.

Apathy.

This has been and still is one of my main quests, too.

I have tried almost everything: Evernote, OneNote, Google Kepp, lastly Wenote (Android), Dokuwiki, etc.

Currently I'm jumping between Notion and Telegram (saved messages).

I'd be more than interested if something 'better' emerges. Or, when I know code, I'll probably start my own as a side-project.

This is great! Could you please provide any instructions on how you achieved it?

Pocket for me too. Wish I could use Notion for this (I use it for many other things), hope they release their Firefox extension soon.

I am in one of the regions where Truecaller is growing rapidly.

And I've found out that the best defence is a good offence: registering my number myself but with totally false information seems to supersede what other register about me. And that's what I did. Not with Truecaller, but with another app (CallApp) that seems less greedy with permissions.

I've tried many alternatives to Google Maps, and ultimately came back to it.

But for it to be so relevant, I think that a reasonable level of 'tracking', even in real time, is necessary.

I am a privacy advocate, always trying new and open source alternatives (had to learn command line in the process), but sometimes the overhead for having a decent and sometimes quick service is not worth it.

My 2 cents...

Didn't know this, I was using an Alfred command instead. Thanks!