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I know what you mean. However, I can’t tell whether recommendations are ads or just very bad recommendations.

But there are plenty alternatives, so you just should switch services.

I went for Tidal, which also supports better bandwidth (HiFi and Master) and Apple Podcasts. I’m actually very happy with both services. You will find tools online to migrate your Spotify playlists to Tidal and when it comes to higher bandwidth: trust me, you will hear the difference and when you did, you will not want to switch back to lousy 320kbps MP3s.

I am so sorry for this off-topic comment, but I really need to thank you for showing me - an European - why Trey Parker and Matt Stone created Terrance and Phillip xD

I fully agree. And Wayland supports HiDPI with fractured scaling very well. Also tablet devices work better on Wayland. If you’re running Linux on a Surface, you should definitely switch to Wayland. It’s really time to ditch XServer and I wonder why Ubuntu and derivates still use it by default.

This might be out of scope, but I dream of a general purpose programming language to develop web based applications.

I think overall web dev is kind of broken caused by the fact, that we still let web technologies evolve instead of reinventing them. To write a web based application you need several languages, which are furthermore separated in front- and backend.

NodeJs kind of tries to fill the gap, but it’s still just a technology which refers web languages.

I think of a different kind of technology that might not be based on html/css/js + backend-language.

This question really bothers me as well. I remember the time when designers came in and taught developers not to use pop ups, because pop up annoy and scare users.

I prefer browsing the web using uBlock Origin just to get rid of all the bloat. However there are several sites that are not compatible. And I’m pretty much directly closing the browser tab.

I wonder, whether it’s just me staying away from sites that annoy me to hell, because all the sites still use such pop ups. Following I wonder, whether site maintainers use all the analytics crap tools anyway. I mean, all the pop ups must have some sort of impact? Honest question: are there any site maintainers analyzing there logs and might answer my questions?

+1 on WordPress

WP is a full blown CMS. It’s very versatile and you can achieve a lot with just the core. Additionally the Gutenberg Editor is the definitive editor for building content-pages.

A few month ago I tried to find a CMS as feature-complete as WP. However, I wasn’t able to find any good alternatives. I also asked on another forum and summed up my favorite WP features:

- Extendable admin area

- Custom post types

- Single- and archive-pages/-routes

- Taxonomy aka categories and tags

- Dynamic meta data (especially with ACF)

- Solid page editor for content

- Action-/Filter-capabilities

- Shortcodes

- Open Source

- Very compatible upgrade philosophy

- Media Library including automatic image scaling

- User Login

- API Support with custom routes

However, you need to know, that WP is higher settled than frameworks like Laravel. Especially data-management gets tedious on bigger instances. Just have a look at the DB schema and you will see, what I mean. On our company we solved this issue by integrating Illuminate/Database btw.

Good question and very relative nowadays. You should have a look at ILIAS. It’s been developed by German universities. However, it’s very versatile and pluggable.

As a company we are offering several integrations.

ILIAS is very strong when it comes to collaboration, but it doesn’t offer video conferences out of the box. Actually, I also don’t see ILIAS in that position. For such requirements you should definitely have a look at other solutions like MS Teams, Zoom etc. just because of scalability. Here in Germany mentioned solutions aren’t allowed because of privacy concerns. However, there are open source solutions followed by a system offered by the state for schools and other educational instances.

Yes. You can use iTunes to create (optionally encrypted) offline backups. Following you can disable automatically created cloud-backups.

Is it really necessary to have a proprietary backup solution on Android OS?

Don’t get me wrong, this shall not be a buy-iPhone-be-happy-posting. But it really shocks me (well it’s also kind of amusing) to hear, that you are really talking about rooting your devices, to have a backup solution.

So, back to topic: I’m really curious, doesn’t Android really ship with a working backup/restore-solution out of the box?

Thanks for the advice. Do you have some sources?

Ring is absolutely a shame, when it comes to privacy. Following, it comes with a monthly fee if you need video recordings.

We had critical situation at home, so we also decided to set up a recording camera. Brand name is “Eufy”. Yes, you need to register an account to watch the streams, however recordings are stored on a sd card. They also offer door bells, which require a gateway, which then stores all the recordings. Eufy adversites it’s products for being secure and private, however… I just think everything comes with a price and Eufy offers a fair trade between privacy and comfortabity/usability.

So for me: Ring is a no-go and I’m not willing to set up and maintain a homebrew-solution.

Pen and paper.

There’s nothing better than just a piece of paper. It’s responsive, suits every pocket, supports text, drawings, graphs and doesn’t get destroyed when it touches coffee. Also there is a psychologically effect: Turning away from the computer and checking a task using a pen gives you the feeling of having something finally completed/done.

I tried to digitalize it so often using Todoist, Wunderlist, MS Tasks, recently release MS Lists aaaand so on. But nothing really suits all the needs. And relying on many tools for task management will burn you out.