US LEO are the real ones. In UK+EU they really aren’t murderous villains, many don’t even carry a gun.

And politicians don’t murder, they just fleece us.

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I see what you did there 😄

I pay ~8€ per month at DreamHost, for many, many domains and databases and mailboxes. I worry that having to maintain a VPS myself is tedious and risky, and there’s no automatic backups, and there’s no tech support, and it can’t possibly be as cheap. I’m fine hosting some stuff at home, but for some things (like mailboxes) I want a real independent service I can trust.

I’m still a huge DH fan. It’s just that the latency from Europe is noticeable, and also there’s an increased risk that some self-proclaimed dicktator might do something stupid so I lose access to my account and my mailboxes. We’ve all read the horror stories of people suddenly being permabanned by Google and losing access to all their precious data. I’m trying to cover some scenarios here.

Hah, I get you, man. I left the place almost 25 years ago and nothing after WinXP was good. It irks me that open source Office suites just aren’t good enough (looking at you, Calc) or I’d be using Linux on desktop, too, not just on my servers.

Hey, I’ll take you up on that. Better than no sex, amirite?

Makers by Cory Doctorow is a great novel that explores exactly this.

Email is a must for between businesses. Having said that, lots of internal communication is findingther channels, like Teams, Slack, and so on.

Can’t argue against that!

If it ain’t broke, fix it till it is!

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Thank you. It makes sense that the demo shows ALL the features and I wouldn’t need to use all. It’s probably better for my OCD to skip this tool :)

Yup. Competent nerds like us make up about 0.0002% of their earnings. The big business is in corporate, and the hordes of plebs as a distant second.

Is it lovingly aimed at grease monkeys or also at normie vehicle owners?

I took a look at the demo site and felt a bit overwhelmed.

I was the lucky owner of a rare FingerWorks Touchstream keyboard for many years. If you don’t know it, it’s the precursor to the keyboards used in Star Trek Enterprise.

It’s a keyless keyboard. Two large flat mousepads with a keyboard layout printed on top, and you type by pure touch. There’s no mouse; the surface just cleverly detects when you are doing mouse gestures. Or a lot of other gestures.

Trekkie joke aside, it’s actually the magic tech that made the iPhone possible. Of course Apple didn’t invent anything, they bought existing future tech.

I miss that keyboard. They still sell on ebay, for 1400$!

184 billion transistors

My mind broke, reading this. From way back when you could count the transistors by pointing at them with your finger, to hundreds of billions on a postage stamp. How??

Maybe Lexmark? OKI? I vaguely recall there was 1 other not-evil printer company.left.

Otherwise, I’ve heard good things about clay tablets.

Wow, that does seem really useful! So clever to use Home Assistant, and nfc tags. Plus, it’s plain csv when you need the data.

Sure, but the challenge is how to block them without putting undue load on humans.

In the olden days, you’d just host a webserver and be done with it. Today you need elaborate setups to trick bots. It’s a losing proposition.

Just to the left of Demimoore.