robolange

I zoomed in as far as I could go and saw some occasional flecks of red. Is that just lint, or remnants of when it was defaced in the 70s?

How do they even think they can enforce the firmware provision? Erect a great firewall? Fine me, the American user, for downloading a firmware update?

> engineers may have to log into a jump box via a VDI to then use Jenkins to run a Groovy script to use Terraform to deploy containers to a highly customized version of AWS.

This hits too close to home. I'm sending you my therapist's bill for this month.

My main desire in trying NextCloud was syncing files with a handful of people, as a free software replacement for Dropbox. All of the other features were nice to haves.

I've tried several of the "budget" NextCloud hosts. I'm not going to name names, but all of them were very disappointing. File syncing frequently broke in hard to diagnose ways. And from a perspective of overall service, I would get 502s, 503s, or 504s far more often that I should have. This was with multiple budget providers. I didn't try any of the more expensive providers, because I couldn't afford it, so maybe this is a "get what you pay for" situation... But in theory, the size servers I was paying for should have been able to handle our traffic volume.

Anyway, after a couple of years of trying to make hosted NextCloud work for us, I gave up and bought Dropbox's paid service and haven't had any issues with it.

We use Cryptomator on top of Dropbox to ensure data privacy, by the way. Back when we were using NextCloud, we had been using their end to end encryption plugin until we discovered a silent failure mode in which it was uploading documents in plaintext to the "encrypted" folder. I believe nowadays the recommendation even for NextCloud is to use Cryptomator on top, rather than their built-in encryption.

I feel this. I recently ran into a problem with a kernel update breaking Bluetooth on resume from suspend. My Logitech keyboard and mouse that I use at my desk stopped working after each resume, and I had to go to the laptop keyboard and manually stop and start Bluetooth. On each resume.

Look, I'd love to contribute to the kernel, but the amount of time I have to play around with these things is now measured in minutes per day. So no, sorry, I don't have time to rebuild my kernel from mainline, and then bisect, and then cherry pick patches, and then test out proposed updates, and then help shepherd it through my distribution's patching mechanism.

So I just gave up on Bluetooth on Linux and plugged in Logitech's proprietary Bolt dongle, and re-paired my devices with it, and haven't had trouble since. I'd prefer to use standard protocols, but this isn't the first time a kernel update broke my Bluetooth setup, so I think I'll stick with what just works.

Naturally on the Internet there is an infinite variety. But using that Whole Foods site to filter the list to what's physically available at stores in my area, it reduces down to a list that's more or less Heinz and Heinz-like.

Yes, and the alternatives are more or less identical to Heinz. The diversity of flavors and textures that this article talks about no longer exists.

Great list. A few more:

- Your ISP is [ISPs are, to your 2nd point] actively hostile to running "servers" from your connection, so you must either pay a ridiculous premium for that privilege, or jump through hoops to evade their intentional breakage.

- Your other cousin does something illegal (sells drugs, posts revenge porn, threatens a public official) using your host and now the police are knocking down your door in the middle of the night and dragging you in for questioning. Even if you avoid charges, your neighbors eye you suspiciously from then on.

Makes me wonder how many weapons the other nuclear-armed nations have lost and not recovered. Like the US, Russia has thousands of them, and had tens of thousands more during the cold war. How many of them went missing?

I feel like various people are misunderstanding what I've written, so I'll try to clarify here.

> before you declare war on the ones that don't wanna change

I never "declared war" on anyone. I guess it's a lot easier having never used Facebook or Facebook products. I had a bad feeling about them from the very beginning and I've only ever felt more right in that feeling.

What would usually happen was, I'd meet someone new at some event, or maybe I'd be talking to a relative at a family gathering, and they'd say something like, "What's your Facebook? I'd like to add you to GroupX," and I'd reply that I didn't use Facebook. Then they'd follow up with, "You should join, it's <blah blah blah>," to which I'd politely explain why I won't ever join Facebook. And then one of two things would happen. Either they'd understand, and we'd exchange phone numbers or email addresses, or their eyes would glaze over and they'd find some excuse to walk away.

For the latter group, obviously we didn't interact online. For the former group, I'd text or email, and maybe they'd respond, and we'd have what I consider to be a normal relationship, or maybe they'd rarely or never respond, and we'd have no relationship. But in either case, I wasn't haranguing people not to use Facebook; I just wasn't using it. If not using Facebook meant I didn't have a relationship with someone, I was okay with that.

Exactly. At some point I've had a conversation with most of the people who have filtered out of my life over this. I explained the reasons why I feel that Mark Zuckerberg is a sociopathic scumbag and his company is a cancer upon humanity, with the consequence that I won't knowingly use any product made by any company he owns or controls. For those who've filtered out of my life, their response was mostly along the lines of, "You said words, but I wasn't paying attention. I think Facebook is fun."

For most of the non-techie people in my life, I just communicate via common open protocols like SMS and email, things everyone can use easily. I do encourage people to try Matrix or Signal, but I certainly don't require those to communicate with me.

I continued communicating with those I cared about via standardized technologies. Those who communicated back in kind I still keep up with. Those for whom this was a bridge too far, are no longer in my life. Maybe they weren't ever really important to me, which made it easy for me to drop them? Or maybe they were, but I was never important to them? It doesn't really matter; they're not in my life anymore, and I'm okay with that.