At this point, you’d have to be crazy to be a business and use MS software.

I watched a total solar eclipse. It was really cool. I can’t imagine being some ancient tribesman experiencing that, not having a clue what was happening.

Honestly? Hundreds of billions (maybe trillions) of dollars to invest in engineering, infrastructure, staffing, creator incentives, marketing, etc.

You’re talking about taking on a household name that has 2.75 billion monthly active users. That’s more than a quarter of the humans on this planet, and probably some in space too. They make over $50 billion dollars a year to make sure their competition is absolutely crushed.

Realistically though? Enforcing antitrust laws.

How dare you steal our technology! We stole it first!

Immich is better than Nextcloud for photos.

I don’t really mind it not being e2e encrypted, since it’s hosted on my own hardware, but that’s good to know.

I just set up my own Matrix server. Holy shit that was annoyingly hard.

I’m not even done. I have to set up Element Call for audio/video.

“Name Brand”

Remember to back up everything before resizing your partitions. It’s so easy to lose all your data when you do that.

Ah, ok. That’s good to know. :)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Conversations is just a client, right? So if your server or your friend’s server is run by or backed by Google, they have the messages.

XMPP is not end to end encrypted, so whatever server you use, unless you own it, will have access to your messages. If that’s something you’re not comfortable with, you can run your own server or use an E2EE messenger.

Anything that’s fully end-to-end encrypted and trustworthy. So, Signal, iMessage, and ProtonMail (but only to other ProtonMail users) come to mind. WhatsApp and Telegram are supposedly E2EE, but I don’t trust them.

All data you upload to Google is subject to be searched and processed by them, whether you uploaded it intentionally or not.

You don’t have to change the color scheme, I would just say open up the color temperature dialog and turn “Original temperature” up and “Intended temperature” down to compensate for the yellow.

Here’s an example:

You can also choose Auto -> White Balance and it usually fixes it up even better:

If you use an AI image for your header, just take it into gimp and adjust the colors to get rid of that yellow tint. It’ll look a lot better and not be immediately off putting by being obviously AI.

Using an AI header image also makes me wonder if you wrote the article or just generated it with ChatGPT.

There’s that piss filter again.

Minimum wage being reasonable and houses being affordable.

You might have one installed in UEFI mode and one installed in BIOS mode. That happened to me, and windows never played nice because of it.

It pays in the long run to have your own domain for your email. Most providers can host your domain for a (usually) small fee, then you will never lose your addresses, even if your provider disappears.

Very cool. I’m consistently impressed by the KDE devs.