Rip Sony.

I don’t really get the idea of decentralized internet.

The internet is already decentralized. There are millions of websites hosted on thousands of separately-owned machines.

“Decentralized” services like the fediverse use thus exact same structure and bind them together by a search/aggregation API.

The “centralized” part of the internet is DNS/IP Assignments, Service providers, and search.

You are perfectly allowed to go your whole life without using search, or by self-hosting searX.

If we go back to the age of webrings, that is essentially decentralized internet. It seems like every decentralized internet idea is just a rehash of this with some Tor ideas sprinkled in.

You are never going to be able to pull a “Silicon Valley” and make every device into a mini server. The ping and uptime would be horrific.

This is what I need.

If you only need to drop files on the same LAN, then you really don’t need a server. P2P is perfect and cuts out the middle man.

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(Context: Most companies including Nintendo claim that any act of piracy is a lost sale, which is completely a lie)

Sorry, I think options like Firefly III for that might not be sufficient for small business, but it was the only great Foss personal finance software for a long time.

Odoo is the gold standard for business. I think they also have a business finance app? It isn’t free, but the cost is reasonable.

Otherwise, I use Leantime for project management. If you work in a project-based or contract-based company (like consultancy or design house), then it has a lot of project & product features including time tracking with a plugin. Not financial though.

Oh boy! Here goes

Desktop:

• Bazzite
• KDE Connect
• KiCAD
• FreeCAD
• Plasma
• LocalSend
• Thunderbird
• Bitwarden
• Code OSS
• Krita
• CoreCTRL
• LibreOffice
• CuteCOM
• KopiaUI
• Calibre
• Heroic Games Launcher
• Lutris
• PrusaSlicer
• Okular
• Inkscape
• FluffyChat
• SyncThingy
• Elisa
• Haruna
• Kdenlive
• YouTube Downloader GUI
• Paperwork (stille can’t get network scanners working on Bazzite with sane set up)
• Solar
• ProtonUp-QT

Phone:

• AntennaPod
• Immich
• Aegis
• Heliboard
• Organic Maps
• Breezy Weather
• Aurora Droid
• K9 mail
• Signal
• Fluffy chat
• Home Assistant
• Eternity
• Findroid
• Gadgetbridge
• Fitotrack
• Loop habits
• Tuta
• StreetComplete
• Wireguard
• Unit converter untimate
• mastodon
• ntfy
• newpipe
• KDE Connect
• bitwarden
• findroid
• localsend
• material files

server:

• Leantime
• Bookstack
• Immich
• Jellyfin
• Home Assistant
• Traefik
• Crowdsec
• Authelia
• Dozzle
• Glances
• full *arr suite
• transmission + wireguard
• paperless-ngx
• cloudflare-ddns
• syncthing
• valheim server
• Boinc
• stash
• ntfy.sh

If I donated $5 per month to each of these projects I would be broke 😂

Lol league was extremely toxic in 2010 when streaming wasn’t a thing. I got sucked in and became toxic in 2011-2012 before I quit altogether. Best decision I ever made regarding video games.

It is the player base, not the streamers, that ruin the game.

But maybe this will help a little bit.

Here in Belgium we have cryptographically signed tokens on our legally mandated IDs.

You can use that token to do all sorts of things (my company uses them as authorship signatures for our quality system for medical devices), but if we had some standard like that, then we could have some software that would have a OTP based on that that is a huge list of valid OTPs in a website API or so, not linked to the token itself. (So you would have to trust this software that generates the OTP). You will get people using the same OTP, but that wouldn’t matter because it would just be a validity check. Lind of like the old product key generators for games.

Sure this could be abused or gotten around by a programmer or hack, but for 95% of the population it would be effective age verification without giving away any information or statistics. Sure, people could also abuse it and save a code and use it constantly, but then they would already have been verified. Sharing a code around would also happen with teens, but it would be far more effective than not, especially for the low stakes of age verification.

Literally the 2nd post on !tech@programming.dev is about mega corporations financials. Many other posts are about legal cases of megacorporations.

It seems to be less about technology, and more about the market and software drama/politics.

At least no musk spam.

Those trackpads better have damn good palm reject because getting to those thumbsticks without brushing the trackpads will be impossible for many people.

Isn’t drake a pedophile? Last I heard was a big commotion because he had abused underage teenagers or something.

And now everyone seems to be back to liking him? I can’t keep up.

Not OP, but maybe because it is a survey from a Linux group and discord has treated Linux like 2nd class citizens since 2015 and they don’t give a flying fuck about making the experience as good on Linux as windows. It is an afterthought.

And it is not like they did anything special at all this year to warrant a “of the year” award. Discord has been out for almost a decade. That is like saying windows is OS of the year when they have done almost nothing but bad decisions this year and the OS is already been out for a long time.

Nice try FBI.

In all seriousness, matrix encrypted chat would be better.

Also in UT1999 right? It sits in my memory, but all my friends only played ut1999 until like 2012 lol.

Better compared to the MK4S price since you get the enclosure with it.

That being said, definitely high compared to bambu, but that is also because bambu takes advantage of much lower labor, operating, and land costs in china. It is quite normal for EU-designed and certainly EU manufactured products to be more expensive.

I always seed the big ones, but sadly, rolling release distros outside of Arch and smaller distros have abandoned torrents because they change snapshots too frequently and/or don’t have the user mass to support it.

Interesting, when I started using FreeCAD I had 0 training, and I have managed to make it work just fine. Was mostly frustrated by the topological naming problem, but that is fixed now.

You can do quite complex things with it.

You just have to put in a bit of effort and think in an additive sketch-extrude workflow. But yeah, not easy to transition from solidworks.

I hope they fixed the broken shoulder button problem. That tiny piece of plastic should be replaced with spring steel for sure for such a high-ware part.

Had 2 break on me. Sent one back, fixed the 2nd via hot glue for a while and a 3d-print when I got a printer. 3rd one has still held up (5€ at the sellout along with the steam link)

Well the gadgetbridge comment is not really true.

It can’t pull activities from Strava, runkeeper, or similar or push to them. Syncing across services via APIs or Heath Connect stops it from really being a proprietary watch software replacement or a google fit replacement as they all do that and it is a core function because people want to use the apps they want to use. For example, lifting tracking from Progression or similar which other apps like gadgetbridge or strava just aren’t made for. It doesn’t have the functionality built in to cover every activity set.

GPX is extremely limited and is only GPS data, not good for fitness trackers as they track all sorts of activities. TCX or FIT are better, but of course managed by Garmin. There isn’t really an open alternative standard. I guess the closest we come is the Health Connect API which is completely local interoperability.

Just send the energy directly back to the power executives houses with a high power laser. They want the energy for free so badly to pad their profits and buy a 5th yacht, give it to them 😉