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The previous system never blocked scams because scammers didn't bother to check if your phone number was in the block-list before calling you.

That new law is not going to change the number of spam calls most people will get, as they're not from properly registered businesses.

I run a dozen PHP (Laravel) / MySQL / Redis apps on a single server which cost 45€ per month.

Applications each have their own FreeBSD jails, so they're isolated.

ZFS incremental replication on top of regular app backups provide a quick recovery process should the hardware of that machine fail.

Moving those apps to the cloud would cost orders of magnitude more, for benefits I don't need.

In the NextCloud instance somewhere.

I'm very happy with Memories.

I store my pictures on a NAS jail. That directory is mounted read-only on another jail with NC and Memories. I like the guarantee that my gallery app cannot alter my files.

Also, many gallery apps don't allow browsing a directory tree. You have one level of "albums" and that's it. Memories support it. I have pictures 5-6 directories deep, following a system that makes sense to me.

I want to backup my entire phone on a local server I own. Apps, app data, settings, WiFi passwords, call logs, etc. Good luck without root.

I use wireguard as my main VPN to connect to my homelab from my phone and my laptops.

I also have an OpenVPN as a backup option, running behind sslh. My same port on my router (443) serves both a webserver hosting photos, and that OpenVPN instance. This allows me to VPN into my home in most firewalled office networks.

I wonder if it also happens to people with aphantasia, who are unable to visualize things in their head.

My requirements were: - ability to sync the TODO lists between devices (web and android). - ability to have sub-items, so that I can organise my complex lists into magnificent trees of tasks. I sometimes have 5 levels of details on some travel checklists. - ability to handle periodic tasks, and ability to create a task and hide it until a specific date (topics for my future self) - ability to be self-hosted.

I'm now using Vikunja, and Tasks.org for the Android side. That setup has worked for me wonderfully for a couple years now. Vikunja has a ton of features I don't use, and that's fine. They don't get in the way.

I have a rooted Graphene on a Pixel 9, and the only bank which isn't working is Revolut.

I document technical things on my blog and hardly anyone reads it. But later on when I need that thing again, I just go there and I have the perfect documentation available for the topic (it's perfect since I wrote it hahaha).

The way I've seen OKRs work so far was always the same:

Top management defines a strategy for the company.

Each department (commercial, marketing, product, etc.) create department OKRs from the company OKRs.

The year/term starts.

Each department comes to the implementation teams (product, IT, BI, support, etc.) with a HUGE list of poorly defined objectives or tasks.

The implementation teams only have limited capacity and can only deliver maybe 15-20% of what everyone wants. No one actually thought of checking if the objectives have any reasonable possibility of being delivered at all during the term.

Optional drama to decide what's going to be actually worked on might happen.

When the term ends, and if communication isn't a disaster between the departments, some MVPs are delivered.

A new term starts, and either the previous objectives are continued, or they're simply forgotten in favor of new ones.

Rinse and repeat.

edit: formatting and typo.

Quite a sad story.

I host 25-30 people on my couch each year, and I've had wonderful times with so many different people from different backgrounds. Some of my surfers had some weird stories about weird hosts, but I've never had anyone tell me anything about drugs, rape, or anything violent.

In my opinion, latency is a super important concept that got forgotten once we moved every application to web interfaces.

I remember the 90s and the 20s, when everything happened locally on the local hardware. It was quite easy to type fast, move the focus around in the various forms using tab and shift-tab, move from tabs and windows with ctrl/alt-tab; and there was keyboard shortcuts for most things. I remember being able to execute complex operations between multiple applications using only my keyboard and without having to use any brain power between each step.

Now most things are moved to cloud applications and we interact with them with web browsers. Keyboard shortcuts are (mostly) gone, and each click or operation triggers a request on the other side of the world with a high HTTP latency, and that prevents the brain from chaining them for free.

I remember being able to do almost everything using my keyboard. Now good luck interacting with a web console without switching back and forth from keyboard to mouse for 50% of the steps.

I guess that's also why many developers (including myself) still love the CLI environments.

> The main positive that I see is that typing no longer requires thought.

This is why I've been using keyboards with nothing written on the keys since 2004. At the time, I was in high school and had no money to buy a professional keyboard, so I spray painted my cheap keyboard with black paint (fun fact: I'm still using that very keyboard to type this).

I've never looked at my keyboards ever since. I can type all letters and all symbols without thinking about it. As an IT person, I couldn't imagine how much brain energy I would waste if I were to look down and search for anything.