Any particular problems you’re having or have you briefly used Pidgin in 2008 and think nothing has improved since then?
Any particular problems you’re having or have you briefly used Pidgin in 2008 and think nothing has improved since then?
XMPP. It just works, requires very little resources, is stable and has decent clients.
I would go with Snikket instead of Prosody if I had been starting now.
Conversations on phones, Dino or Gajim on PCs, plus a conversejs install on the xmpp server, to allow web access when needed.
Conversations is easy for the family to figure out.
They fucking what? I need to get off the couch and cancel my support too
Then yes, learning Ansible is a good way to have base OS settings for your systems. I love that it’s agentless - works over SSH.
The ugly part is that they keep updating it in a backwards incompatible way. In one version the paramerer is called “file” and in another it’s “dest”, they pull shit like this and don’t provide a tool to update playbooks automatically.
But updating is rather optional.
It’s crazy, given that all these devices have something powerful like an esp32, isn’t it?
I’ve done some of my home stuff this way, but I had to program it myself. Tasmota has some features which can be used without a server, but that’s just for simple stuff like switches. For whatever reason (simplicity for non tech people?), out of the box products don’t work this way.
If you don’t have days of spare time, you buy ready made products and set them up in minutes in Home Assistant
Additionally, libraries for XMPP exist in most languages, there is a varying degree of completeness, but they all do a good job of hiding XML from the programmer
Thos, exactly this. Whenever I ask the question OP asked, it’s always some people who used some ancient client in 2008 and never bothered to try again. And then Matrix came to existence with their marketing and they happily started using it, even though it didn’t have any better features
They formally changed the name in 2020, your school was up to date
There are still people alive calling Iran Persia. It will take a while until Holland rebranding to Netherlands will take over, whole generations learned about Holland in school and will continue to use that name until the day they die.
I have emails going back to YAM on Amiga in 2002, some games I wrote for GBA and mobile platforms that don’t exist any more. I have some old IM logs but reading that was so cringe I should delete it, with wipe
not rm
. Some of the obscure old music I have isn’t available even on Soulseek (except when I’m sharing it). Source code of old programs I and my friends wrote. And photos, of course.
I wonder how my old 5.25" floppies are doing, my project to back them up goes for 20 years now and I backed up none because I’m too lazy
This prompted me to open Tempo I have installed from F-Droid but haven’t used in a while, and the app crashed on startup. Logcat had the most unusual message:
03-27 18:40:31.304 W/GooglePlayServicesUtil(6188): com.cappielloantonio.tempo requires the Google Play Store, but it is missing.
Two pitfalls I had that you can avoid:
I replaced that noisy, power hungry beast with a small quiet 900W APC and I couldn’t be happier
No no, that’s how i’m working around the problem now, but i’m sure sni sniffing will sooner or later make my domain well known
I second the complaint about subpaths. I have all my services on a single domain, except for HA. It’s for security by obscurity, when you issue a certificate for a subdomain you start getting malicious traffic probing for vulnerabilities almost immediately. I don’t have this problems for services with non-obvious subpaths.
I can’t understand the stubbornness of developers to accept patches for fixing this problem.
Kodi is good for many streaming services too, just not Netflix. It has been good with HBO Max.
You did not say what kind of streaming services.
For anything self-hosted or torrents/debrid, just get a Raspberry Pi with LibreELEC.
If you use Netflix and the likes, you will likely want something officially supported. My partner likes Netflix for some reason and after years of using the unofficial addon by CastaginaIT, I gave up and got her a Firestick this winter (having set up a separate VLAN for it and ripped out the microphone, of course).
The unofficial Kodi addon is an amazing piece of reverse engineering work, but it’s not really great that you have to log in using your computer every month or two, and occasionally download a 2GB binary, before you can watch a movie on Netflix half-asleep.
Not to “victim blame” because such unsafe junk should not be sold. But a $100 bike with amortized seat and spring suspension of wheels has no right to be durable. But an $100 simple bike with shimano gears or no gears can last for years.
Real Debrid has very high transfer speeds and it’s cheap