So I guess what I’m saying is fuck both of these old dudes.

Ah, the arrogance of youth. I remember it well myself.

Thanks, I was wondering who the other guys were. Torvalds in the former enemy’s lair. He’s the winner in this pic.

Can’t unsee it now. Fuck.

Why do we post alternatives for Windows applications on Windows, on a Linux community?

The article lists:

htop
bpytop
bottom
btop++
glances

Apparently all those work on Windows as well? Because otherwise I don’t see the point.

This is what I do. I keep the old ones around for a while, and every time I realize that I’m not missing anything, and delete them.

Worst case, I’ll have to root around in my backups. But it has never happened wrt browser bookmarks.

zsh

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I once did some research & measurements about power consumption; my takeaway was that as soon as the screen is off any ol’ laptop (with the charger constantly attached) consumes pretty much the same amount of energy as a RasPi with identical storage attached.

I used a 2008 hp consumer laptop as a server between 2015 and 2021.

Damn. As a German! That’s shameful. And of course utterly nuts.

I found this question on reddit with a really good reply, if someone’s interested:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230605123206/https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/58doy0/ive_seen_a_number_of_conspiracy_theorists_and/

Sadly, Weigelt does not stand alone in the Linux community. I used to frequent one of the oldest and largest Linux forums, and there were all sorts of crazies. But more importantly, the general tone was more conservative than you’d think. Or rather Libertarian.

FWIW, X.org is Libre already.

And that article does not inspire me to delve deeper into the topic.

I am running things locally.

Sorry, I missed that. It invalidates part of my comment.

I cannot get an ssl cert for my local network stuff

You can make a self-signed cert. If your mobile app does not have an option to accept it (“ignore SSL errors”) then it won’t work, maybe there’s an alternative?

caldav does not support recurring stuff on the todo … It seems that they all internally juggle how recurring stuff happens

CalDAV is a protocol, which remains the same. The server has little to do with how apps handle things. I have no experience with tasks, but under the hood it’s just another calendar and does not treat recurring events differently. I’m guessing these limitations/inconsistencies are app specific.

So your server is running NextCloud? I hope you have it locked down tight, with all it’s web ui access points.

I started out with by doing my own calendar.

Wasn’t the first thing for me, but the most consistent over time. Calendar and Contacts, synced between phone and laptop. I used first DaviCal, now Radicale.

The next move I did was to bring my todo list over.

AFAIK these are just CalDAV calendars labeled todo; all you need is a different client app, the server software is the same.

Only downsides is that it is a bit more strict (particularly on the mobile app) about an ssl cert.

Can you explain? Doing things encrypted by default is extremely important.

Yeah I also feel that the splitting is already happening, or has been the case for the longest time. I wonder what’s so different about Ubuntu in that respect.

There’s no linux-firmware package on Debian. I guess that’s one of the major changes that makes Ubuntu different from Debian, under the hood.

Anyhow, on Debian:

• firmware-linux: Meta package, depends on:
  • firmware-linux-free (that one really is a sammelsurium)
  • firmware-linux-nonfree: Meta package, depends on:
    • firmware-misc-nonfree (big one, could well be made into a meta package depending on vendor-specific packages)
    • firmware-amd-graphics (another big one)

I personally don’t like their kitchen sink approach.

Thanks for the tip. Already set it up. I like it - does just what I need and not much more. And the web UI can be disabled.

I’m not sure how you’re having compatibility issues as I would think CalDAV is a standard protocol?

There used to be a mismatch between the spec and Google’s implementation of it.

There used to be a mismatch between the spec and Google’s implementation of it.

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A simple whois (querying a public database) points to Prague (CZ) - and reveals the name & address of one person. Of course that most likely isn’t his personal address, the guy could still live in the USA. And his last name indeed does not sound very czech, could be Russian, but I cannot be sure. Somebody in the fediverse claimed that he’s a Russian asset but I haven’t seen anything that would support that claim, apart from the obvious.

whois

• archive.is: Denis Petrov, Prague
• archive.today: tucows.com and lots of REDACTED
• archive.md: almost no info at all
• archive.ph: This TLD has no whois server

It’s just their way of saying

“You need to keep your bloated system updated, which will require you to buy new hardware every few years. Anything else is old.”