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jlow , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in zoom alternatives

There's also https://opentalk.eu/ but I have not used them.

jlow , 4 months ago to Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System in Jellyfin 10.9 Coming Soon!

Also of you can stand the quality check out DVDs in charity shops or second hand online (Ebay etc). (And give away / resell after you made a "backup".)

jlow , 4 months ago to Technology in Hmmm 🤔

Check out the BBC podcast on the One Coin scam, it's beyond me how these people can live with having destroyed so many lifes (yes, I know how, by hallucinating a world where they're the good guys):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84

jlow , 4 months ago to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. in [Question] Should I switch to a Raspberry Pi or just buy a new HDD?

I would also replace the harddrive with an SSD (and maybe replace it (mini) pc once you can afford it). With a Pi you run your OS from an sd-card which can work for some time but isn't ideal from what I've heard.

jlow , 4 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Intel Survey Finds Maintainer Burnout & Documentation Top Open-Source Challenges

That is interesting because writing documentation and onboarding users is something people without coding skills can do and for me it (still) feels like I need to know how to code to help with projects. Nice.

jlow , 4 months ago to Technology in Faster backup solution?

Be aware that syncing is not a backup (if you have not specifically set up one way sync). If something goes very wrong and you loose or corrupt data on the main machine corrupt files may be synced (or files deleted from the "backup" machine as well).

jlow , 4 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Alt to Acrobat Pro for Live Hiding PDF Comments?

No idea if it can do that but people seem to love https://stirlingtools.com

jlow , 4 months ago to Fuck Cars in Bryson's America: Why would you walk?

So 416 mph, not bad. That good olde made-up paleo diet, right?

jlow , 4 months ago to Privacy in Skiff sold out to Notion

Yeah, the icons are really cool, I like the chunky, 3d-look.

jlow , 4 months ago to 196 in the dichotomy of humankind rule

Waffles with (vegan) bacon and a syrup of your choice?

jlow , 4 months ago to Technology in Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024

Depends on your use-case obviously, for me it's very nice to have all feeds and read status on all devices (laptop, phone, tablet) and don't need to add a new feed to all devices or set it up again when I change phone, reinstall Linux etc. It also has user-management, so you could have accounts for friends and family and even expose it to the internet (which I wouldn't at this point) or but it on a private mesh / vpn like Tail-/Headscale.

Edit: Whoops, I was talking about self-hosting. Having it as a web service has the same benefits if you don't wanna tinker with tech, obviously, (with the caveat that people from that service know what you read ...)

jlow , 5 months ago to Technology in Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024

For those who wanna #selfhost I hear

https://www.freshrss.org/

is pretty good. I kinda gave up on RSS when all artists moved from Tumblr and websites with RSS to the disgusting social networks ...

jlow , 5 months ago to Fuck Cars in Paris Votes To Triple Parking Charges For SUVs

Is this true, though? I heard an interview on the radio today woth a guy complaining that there were no exceptions for electric cars.

jlow , 5 months ago to Privacy in Data trading between credit agency and address trader illegal (noyb)

Noyb doing the good work again, unstoppable!

jlow , 5 months ago to Technology in How Quora Died: The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.

Yeah, this is sad, just read a post that Desgner News shut down, it also was mostly spam jn the end, no one cared anymore. But maybe that's ok? Things change.