I went the self-hosting route too. I use seafile for files, immich for photos, vaultwarden for passwords, baikal for calendars and contacts, and freshrss for news. I could’ve consolidated most of it in a nextcloud instance, but I’m more attracted to the UNIX philosophy.

Regarding email, I’m using my own domain on Proton with simple login setup as a catchall to automatically create aliases. I went through all the accounts in my password manager and changed all emails to unique identifiable aliases, or straight up deleted anything I don’t see myself using anymore.

For de-googling, the hardest part after changing all email addresses on services (no redirect) was to switch “login with google” accounts back to classic accounts with credentials to either delete or switch them to a SL alias. Convenience really is how they get and keep you. I had to do the same with Apple and Microsoft too, and I’m not using these “login with…” buttons anymore.

One important lesson that you’ve learned as well is don’t put all your eggs in the same basket. Ask yourself what would happen to you tomorrow if a service you use (like Proton) revoked your account. For me, as I’ve set up catchall’s with my own domain, I could still set it up with another provider and not lose access to these. That’s also why I actively don’t treat their drive and calendar solutions as anything more than another offsite backup.

Resilience is key.

That is laughable, but how is it related to the original post?

Definitely. The world was so quick to sanction Russia for its invasion, but the US faces no consequences for its actions…

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Devices Run Java

I never thought this would need saying, but the point of writing essays in school is not the final product.

That essay will almost never be good enough to be relevant or published; no one expects it to be. The goal is to engage with the material, and learn to synthesise and present your ideas logically.

We must grade the process of writing an essay, never the final product; especially not based on how “good” an essay that final product is.

We’ve got to stop and ask ourselves why people don’t have AI complete video games for them, but do so for essays. It’s because in one case, the value is in the process, while in the other, the value is believed to be the result, but it shouldn’t be.

If people understood this, it would make no sense having AI write students’ essays. You can blame people for wanting to take shortcuts, but I believe our society and culture at large play a much bigger role in that trend.

Yeah, I think that’s what OP is alluding to. I don’t think pure BSDs like Free or Open have much driver support for Apple hardware. It’s already enough of a problem with Linux support.

This is a bad rant. Nvim has markdown format rendering too, does that make it worse? I’d say the markdown rendering was a good update, because now my tech illiterate coworkers can open the .md files I sprinkle everywhere and see them as their meant.

No, the true madness is the advent of tabs that stay open until explicitly closed, even if the program is terminated, and come back when you open the app from scratch.

Do a barrel roll!

Capitalism and exponential growth is not sustainable any other way. We’ve simply run our ethical and legal ways to drive more sales. What’s left is unethical stuff, or moving the goal post for what is legal.

We need to either implement a new system, or suffer the consequences.

We all have different standards of what “speaking a language” means, but good on you.

What we forgot is that peace is the subscription model. The institutions supporting it require constant attention and care. Once you take them for granted and decide they’re not needed, that’s when the default, war, comes back.

If you were using Linux in the 2010s you knew this was a thing