Standard in Australia. And common in the UK (it’s traditionally a dot, but slash is more common now).

But I’m team ISO-8601 when there’s a chance of an international audience. At least where locale information can’t be used.

“Muh freedums profit” outweighs life. The silent bit spoken aloud. Cool cool.

As expected from this timeline and this garbage conglomerate.

It begins. More of this from media and other organisations, please!

That pretty much describes 90% of Samsung apps, none of which can be deleted (from phone the UI, at least). 😬

Want to know what it does? The app store won’t tell you. Worst descriptions I’ve ever seen.

Want to know how useful it is? The app store reviews won’t tell you; same with every other official Samsung resource. They’re all spam, unrelated, or (presumably) from people hoping Samsung will reward volunteer sycophants in the same way Google did.

It’s so frustrating.

If you’re after text, there are a number of options. If you’re after group voice, there are a number of options. You could mix and match both, but “where everyone else is” will also likely be a factor in that kind of decision.

If you want both together, then there’s probably just Element (Matrix + voice)? Not sure of other options that aren’t centralised, where you’re the product, or otherwise at obvious risk of enshittifying. (And Element has the smell of the latter to me, but that’s another topic).

I’ve prepared for Discord’s inevitable “final straw” moment by setting up a Matrix room and maintaining a self-hosted Mumble server in Docker for my gaming buddies. It’s worked when Discord has been down, so I know it works. Yet to convince them to test Element…

The situation definitely sucks.

What’s the saying about piracy? It’s not a morality problem - it’s a service (business model) problem.

“The easiest way to stop piracy… is to give those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.” -Gabe Newell

Disagree with you on the BD issue, though. Much more capacity, higher quality video and audio, and drives are dirt cheap. I have a BDROM in an external enclosure, and it handles DVD and BD perfectly. 🤷‍♂️

I don’t disagree, but there person to whom I was replying said they were after legal copies. That means you’re going to pay for them, digital or physical. 🤷‍♂️

Imagine being a One Piece, Bleach or similar fan and wanting the full collection… 😬

Whilst I agree, there’s (currently) nothing stopping you from buying the DVDs? Many of the shows I’ve wanted own for repeat watching are released that way.

Though it’s probably a time-limited thing, given that physical media is getting rarer and everything is now all about rent-seeking, where you’ll own nothing, have nothing to hold, and be thankful to be able to pay monthly for it.

Interesting. This isn’t the “‘no’ with lots of words LOL” that I expected from a/their CEO, and does more to highlight the problems with Netflix’s model.

Can’t speak to Fedora specifically, but most package managers let you configure the number of concurrent download threads it will use. Most are 3-4 it seems. Finding yours and setting it to 1 will probably do exactly what you’re asking.

Another option is to set it to only download the files, then install manually once they’re local to you. The options for this differ (eg. when installation order matters), so an RTFM is worth the time spent.

Classic “I’ve made a HUGE mistake” moment from yet another “thought leader” suffering from AI/layoff FOMO. 🙄

GOG does preservation. That and Archive.org are the ones I use.

One way could be to grep your history, then compare the matches against a distro source?

It’ll be tedious if it’s lots, but might be a solution if you don’t have a backup.

That sounds more like Flipboard than Pocket?

But I’ve not used either in many years, and I’ve never been a fan of algorithmic discovery, so it’s possible Pocket went down that route, too.

Both. “I am an idiot.” “You should know better.”

Pocket won’t be missed. Self-hosted alternatives like Wallabag are better and private, so switched to it many years ago. Integration (and enabled by default, requiring about:config to disable) ensured I’d never use it out of principle.

Fakespot (the website) was genuinely useful to help ID scams on Am*z*n Marketplace, though I never used the extension. But I think that enshittified in recent years, so (in the style of Stephen King’s Misery) it’s probably for the best.

Related, the Keepa extension is useful as a price rigging detector, but I expect that will “number must go up!” soon enough, too…

A sword and a dildo. Fightin’ or f…un. Your call.

Short answer: Eventually, yes. But it also depends on what you mean by “privacy” and “danger”, and what else you’re doing with your NAS.

Longer answer:

Your NAS can be used in the ways you want, and with the privacy levels you want, without signing up to or using additional cloud services. By choosing to use QuickConnect, you’re trading some of that for convenience.

History shows that most providers will have a data breach. What that breach includes depends entirely on what you given them and what they’ve taken. Including what their ToS and Privacy Policy says, and has ever said the entire time you’ve used it. That’s assuming good faith and competence, as some services gather more. And then there are things like court orders, some of which you’ll never hear about.

It also depends on their security model. It’s quite likely that they’re using their own certificates (as it does when you browse to your NAS’s web interface), so would mean they’ll be automatically decrypting and re-encrypting the traffic going through QC. This will often be stated as “end to end encryption”, despite not really being that.

If your concern is filenames and such, then it’s likely visible to them. Whether they record them is up to their current policies. If your concern is the contents of your screen, video or audio, then it is unlikely. Especially with things like SSH or remote desktop that may have their own transport security.

However, if you use your own remote connectivity option (eg. WireGuard, Tailscale), you’re not sending data through their servers.

FWIW, I use Photos and Drive, and both naturally work seamlessly on my LAN. When I’m outside my network, I usually rely on what I’ve saved for offline use. But when I want something specific, I use WireGuard to VPN to my home network to get it. No cloud services and no “I hope they don’t get breached this week” garbage - just a secure point-to-point connection between my device and my home.

tl;dr: It’s less about what a company says/does about their service, and more about not giving them the opportunity to get it wrong, do bad things, etc.

Your initial response got peoples’ backs up because of its dismissive tone and (it seemed to me, as you hadn’t provided context) apparent advocacy for web-based tools like O365 or GSheets.

Many office application users wouldn’t consider vim as an “office application”, as they have their word processing app, their spreadsheet app, their email app, their chat app, their file explorer/manager, maybe something other than Notepad as a text editor, etc, and don’t really know much beyond some of what each of them can do.

The fact that vim (or Emacs or vim/nvim with plugins, or LazyVim or Doom Emacs) can do all of those things would blow many minds.

But the setup effort and learning curve is still there, and also requires that they have sufficient permissions/policy to be able to install things.

IIRC, Voyager doesn’t provide any notification capability. (At least not the version I use from Droid-ify).

It’s never bothered me, as the only things I want notifications for are extremely limited. But I get how others might want the option.

It’s likely because regular Android notifications all go via Google services. I’m not sure why the dev doesn’t add the ability to use Ntfy.sh or any of the other non-Google options, though.

There’s likely to be an existing feature request for it, though.