I use AdGuard and Vinegar Extract (Vinegar without the adblock part). IIRC those are free and work well for me, so try them first.

I have the QNAP TL-D800S. It’s an 8 bay DAS but there is also a 4 bay variant. Works well for me. It uses SFF cables to connect to the PC and comes with the appropriate PCIe card which seems more robust to me than anything USB for this.

It probably should be easier, but there needs to be a set process for doing it correctly.

Absolutely not, it’s a massive violation of people’s autonomy already.

Someone is in a mental health crisis, but not threatening themselves or others? Street Response pulls up instead of the cops.

but they can't have someone committed.

Which, in my mind, kind of defeats the purpose.

I think it’s completely unacceptable to involuntarily commit people that aren’t even threatening anyone. Let alone “threatening themselves” which is equally a concept that goes against autonomy and should not be a valid reason for commitment either. And I’m not even talking about how often abused this is in practice.

Sounds like exactly the right way to talk about physical buttons to me.

Apple

I’ve submitted at least 8 bug reports to them since Oct 2023 (and also many suggestions) through their feedback app. No response to any of them until now. The only closed bugs I closed myself because the problem went away in an update.

I’m pretty sure they don’t have any bug triager whatsoever.

I’ll keep doing it out of spite and because it’s what I do for open-source as well, but I’m really not sure if it has any effect at all.

Very true haha. NixOS is great and the best I've got right now but I would lie if I said it has never been painful.

Especially for desktop use I want to build my own distro which takes a lot from NixOS, mostly in terms of the central configuration but not much else (I definitely want a more sane package installation situation where you don't need stuff like wrapper scripts which are incredibly awful imo), but also other distros, and also with some unconventional things (such as building it around GNUstep). But who knows if that ever gets off the ground, I have way too many projects with enormous scale...

You can check for being an open relay with tools like this one: https://mxtoolbox.com/diagnostic.aspx

First thing I'd try is to use a "period-correct" nixpkgs commit for the libraries. It might even have the package already.

Sourcehut

It's just the network effect. Here unfortunately it's WhatsApp, you pretty much have to use it because people organize events in groups with it and whatnot, and you're the weirdo if you don't have it. I actually deleted my account for a couple years but recently caved and made one again because people just wouldn't use anything else and having someone else relay messages is annoying for both them and me.

I use iMessage when it's available but I wish for groups (or just in general tbh) everyone would just use Signal because it's both not tied to an expensive device and also not owned by a corporation with a track record of shamelessly exploiting user data.

If it’s packaged right, Breeze is gonna need those 50 dependencies whether it’s in Flatpak or not.

Oh god, why does it do that, making the link text be a different valid link is very misleading