Another recmendation for Actual. I spend very little time having to interact with it, because after the initial setup, all transactions are now synched from my bank accounts, and 90% are automatically classified into my categories (not by “AI” or something, you just set rules like “payments to Rewe are always groceries”).

Surfshark does too

So do many others, I’d assume

No, not really. The imperativity of ansible vs the declarativity of nix actually does make a big difference in practice.

Prisoner Of War:

Actually… From a data-loss POV, it’s actually pretty much fine; since the server only serves an e2ee file anyways, each end device’s data is sufficient to recover everything.

I.e. if you host Vaultwarden, log into it on your mobile device, save all your logins; then fuck up the server, it doesn’t matter, because your mobile device not only still has everything, but also does not need a server connection to export everything in a way that can then be imported again on a new server installation.

And what is the advantage of that?

Also I am pretty sure I have at least some secrets in my shell history

What’s a tomato?

Because a commit should be an “indivisible” unit, in the sense that “should this be a separate commit?” equates to “would I ever want to revert just these changes?”.

IDK about your commit histories, but if I’d leave everything in there, there’d be a ton of fixup commits just fixing spelling, satisfying the linter,…

Also, changes requested by reviewers: those fixups almost always belong to the same commit, it makes no sense for them to be separate.

And finally, I guess you do technically give up some granularity, but you gain an immense amount of readability of your commit history.

This comment section is… something.

If you host the bridges yourself, it makes no difference to privacy.

It’s simply convenient to have all chats in one place 🤷🏼‍♀️

Same. And even if you were to fuck up, have people never heard of the reflog…?

Every job I’ve worked at it’s been the expectation to regularly rebase your feature branch on main, to squash your commits (and then force push, obv), and for most projects to do rebase-merges of PRs rather than creating merge commits. Even the, uh, less gifted developers never had an issue with this.

I think people just hear the meme about git being hard somewhere and then use that as an excuse to never learn.

Grew up on it. My dad set up a Ubuntu 4.10 PC for my brother and I when we were 3/5 (no internet, obv), and it stuck.

Used Windows for a brief time in highschool to be able to play online with friends.

Went right back to Linux when going to university. Will never change back, both for ideological reasons and because Linux is just better.

Next step: NixOS on a phone

ALright, thanks for the recommendation :) And yeah, “weird” and “metal” are good descriptions. Additionally, the backstory we got in S1 was definitely “fire”.

I liked the first 80% of the first season, and stopped watching halfway into S02E01. Is it worth continuing? Do we get any answers? Are they satisfying?

Alright, thanks for the info, that’s good to know. Trying to make the jump becomes more enticing every day.

Thanks for sharing! Sounds about as good/bad as I was expecting. How’s the browser experience? Also, are there any features/tweaks you are aware of that you could not get through Nix, that the more “commercial” Linux device manufacturers have developed for their devices?

Holy crap! A NixOS-on-phone user in the wild! You are rocking my dream setup. How’s your experience been with it? Is it remotely daily drivable for phone things?

What does this have to do with Privacy?

Some might say interconnecting everything could be a legitimate goal. Nonetheless, some people started to report about huge amounts of data and metadata being sent to Matrix central servers.

Curious that this claim is without source in the original.

I also have porblems with their claims about bridges. Bridges are Band-Aids to allow you to communicate with people not on Matrix, not a dark masterplan to build a central spionage hub.

By default, a homeserver trusts matrix.org in questions of federation and identity of other servers. You have to get that trust from somewhere. You are free to choose another source for that.

(For example, my homeserver isn’t federated at all, and has that trusted server removed; it doesn’t communicate with anyone. Also it’s not synapse, but that’s besides the point.)

That’s great.