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I'm looking for ideas that are either specific issues I encounter (over and over again throughout a day/week/month) and then explore it to see how big of an issue it actually is, if it's a minor annoyance or if someone is going through it but at a much larger scale. What I mean by this is probably best reflected by a product such as Ansible - someone had to reinstall some image at a point. Then they had to do a bunch of configuration. They might have done that once a week/month/year. Then they found out that other people do this a lot more often - someone maybe did this daily or hourly. The more often, the bigger the scale.

Otherwise, I'm looking for ideas around some of the core things I'm interested in more generally - climate change is a big one, so from a technological standpoint, what would be pain points there for mass adoption of a particular technological solution. Does the average farmer know how to use automation software to run hydroponics? Probably not. Can I make something to simplify that? How much work would it be? How much money could I potentially get?

So I think if you don't have any particular ideas on your own, or you think that everything is great or that the pain of the current issues you're facing is small enough to bear, then yeah, by all means, talk to people. You'll be surprised the sort of things that come out.

Sorry for the disorganized post, but I hope it made some sense.

I think there is a big problem in how people view AI. It's not artificial or intelligence. It is a powerful "structure" or tool for pattern discovery. A good read might be a critique of recent advances within natural language processing. The Guardian even published an article "written by AI" but all of these things hide the fact that there isn't understanding associated with these structures. The same way a car goes from A to B faster than you would, it doesn't mean it holds any understanding of WHY you would travel, it doesn't hold any understanding on HOW it should choose the path and so on.

While these are great at aiding a competent user, they are not tools for original and new creation. Someone will point me to the written article, drawn image and so on and claim originality, but it's all derivative, there isn't real experimentation, there isn't something as shocking and mind bending as we had when Jazz came into being, nothing as new as the stream of consciousness type of writing of Tristam Shandy or nothing as gut wrenching or disturbing as Zdzisław Beksiński's work.

We are, however, living in an age where lack of imagination is rampant. We are boring, unimaginative and we can't seem to come up with anything new. Everything we do, is similar to what "AI" does, we create derivation, nothing new or original. I must agree here with some of the things Jaron Lanier highlights in his books whereby we haven't had anything as good in a long time. Also why my examples are from quite a few years ago.

So I'm not worried. It's not intelligence and as far as preparing for it - expand your imagination. Expand your boundaries and feel more at ease being uncomfortable. These are tools and it's up to your imagination to push the envelope and create new things with the help of them.

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LM - language model. Taken from a paper I wrote about NLP:

Gary Marcus acknowledges that the system manages to achieve impressive results by providing fluent answers to previously unseen questions. It sticks to topics well and it achieved surpassingly accurate behaviour (Marcus, G. 2020, para. 31). Despite this, Marcus criticizes a very important aspect of the system. Despite its vast database of information, it cannot extract meaning from the sentences it manages to present to questions the user asks.

GPT-2 will provide different answers of varying relevance to the same question. The answers it provides could indeed be conceived as potential continuations of the sentences presented, but sometimes the meaning is completely lost as the LM does not hold information on concepts and objects.

If GPT-2 is viewed as an example of what is possible when we have access to a very large database, modern neural networks can come up with general rules even when there is no guidance or supervision. In this respect, the achievement is quite extraordinary, as GPT-2 can provide answers that are meaningful with little to no background information. The simple fact that this is possible tabula rasa is quite impressive.

However, based on the examples provided by Marcus in his article, it is clear that all that we’re looking at is an extremely elaborate version of ELIZA1. The answers show that there is no substance to the information that is replicated by the LM – it simply doesn’t understand the information it provides the user with. The phrase that made me side with the points brought forth by Marcus in his article was the quote attributed to Ilya Sutkever the co- founder of Open-AI “If a machine like GPT-2 could have enough data and computing power to perfectly predict the next word, that would be the equivalent of understanding.” (Marcus, G 2020, para. 76)

I find the statement to be, if not incorrect then wildly superficial, as word prediction does not equate to understanding. One of the examples provided in the article highlights this even further:

A is bigger than B. B is bigger than C. Therefore A is bigger than _ B. A is bigger than B. B is bigger than C. Therefore A is bigger than _ which can also become a huge hit.

The two above are question and answer pairs taken from Marcus, G 2020 (Marcus, G. 2020, ‘GPT-2 and the Nature of Intelligence’)

I just moved to Signal and told everyone I was going to do that. Some have followed and some haven't. At a point I had 6 messaging apps to talk to 6 different people and it was untenable especially after moving to Graphene OS as I didnt want to run microg.

Those who havent migrated, well, not a huge loss and sone have switched over to email. Discussions also gained a bit more depth with the move to long-form writing. It really comes down to this - do you want to have fewer apps? then make the switch. Do you want to talk to everyone on their preferred platforms - continue as is. There are some apps that help mitigate this (I believe element can through addons) but I wanted to cut down not add complexity.

It depends a lot on the day. My most constant notes are my personal studying notes that cover some tasks that I set for myself in a day, the work I do, any difficulties and any blockers things that worked well.

These personal notes are like diary entries, nothing fancy, all in regular MD, kept on my laptop/desktop/work system, synced with syncthing and pushed to a remote repo.

--------------- ## 12 May 22

TODO: - [x] progress with work in the first 2 hours of the work day - [ ] spend 60 minutes in the morning on the exercises (01:21) - [ ] spend another 60 minutes after lunch on exercises

Time Spent: 01:21

I managed to get to the Q&A section yesterday, which means I got through another 5 pages, not great, but good enough I think. The day was busy as it lined up with my monthly backup checks and I got sucked into a hole doing some maintenance on the logins and adding 2FA [...] ---------------

At work it depends a lot. I generally create a new folder for each new sprint and then dump in there things related to the sprint. If there are things that I feel are relevant to other sprints as well, then I add those to my main notes.

Most of the notes are simple, describing maybe some data flow or some abstractions I need to keep in mind. Any new API that I might want to be aware of or anything of the sort.

If it's a new technology or if it's something new that I need to learn from scratch, then I take time and setup a blank markdown and a new folder for that particular thing. Last time I spent time digging into this sort of stuff was when I had to put together a small console app that did a backup from one Azure Storage account to another (transferring tables and blobs). I wasn't familiar with the interfaces or the best way to achieve this, so I spent a couple of days putting something together.

Depending on where you are I would probably recommend looking at used Thinkpad P1/X1 Extreme. They tend to be within your budget if you're looking at a model from a year or two ago and they work very well on Ubuntu (Debian as well if you look at grabbing non-free drivers for whatever isn't working) and Ubuntu derivatives.

While I know there are a few suggestions for gaming oriented laptops, but I'd suggest you are careful going down that route as some of the cheaper models feel very flimsy and if you end up working on this for longer periods of time, things such as sharp edges, sub-par (rattly) keyboard, bad screen or hell, even weak hinges, can be very frustrating. There is also the issue that Linux support might not be as good.

I had an E460 and it worked fine for 6 years (I dropped it a few times and someone spilled coffee on it) but even 4-5-6 years down the line I could find replacement keyboard, replacement battery and even replacement case for it. When I gave it to be used by someone else, I had swapped these parts out, paid probably 60$ for them but I knew that the laptop will keep running fine for a few more years. I don't think I could find replacement case/keyboard for some gaming laptop 6 years down the line...? Or maybe I could and I just haven't had the chance to look.

To sum up, get an older Thinkpad or maybe even an older Dell Precision.

Oracle is wildly inconsistent and I'm still not sure if I like their offering or if I hate it.

The good:

- My page runs on the 1 AMD VM and it has been working fine for a few months. - The VM is faster than the equivalent Github/Gitlab Pages offering and I have way more control. - Using the ARM VMs under one hood gives a lot of performance and I setup a VM to migrate data from one rclone crypt remote to another crypt remote (which meant that the VM had to download the data and then upload which was brutally slow on my connection). - It's great to be able to test out some things on a machine and not have to pay for it and I would gladly pay for more VMs if not for the bad...

The bad:

- I had issues activating my initial trial and it took a bit of back and forth to get it running because their fraud prevention system kept blocking me - The ARM VMs aren't 100% free, but you get free VM time. Which means that after the 1st month trial, the VMs actually get suspended or put on hold, despite you not using up your allowance. I had a Bookstackapp instance running on one and I find one morning not being able to log in. After fiddling about and trying to figure out what to do, I decided to restore my backup on to a new VM but I never felt that these are reliable after that incident - The entire management interface is hugely complex and lots of parts are hidden unnecessarily (try to find how to raise and ticket and then after a while, try to go and find where your incident is and where you can check its status...) - You can't seem to get an old account deleted... I had messaged sales, support and a few others. I asked for help on Twitter as well, but while I got I think two emails about "your account is now deleted" I could still log in with that old account. But they DID suspend access to always free resources on that account... So I have this old account hovering, which was made to see what they offered and I could never reactive it to use that one and support suggested that the easiest way would be to make a new one. - Their Oracle Agent/Resource Monitor is really resource intensive and it's one of the first things I recommend removing - Their iptable rules are also quite restrictive and it's at the top of the list for things to remove when setting up a new vm

So, I believe I had mentioned this before, but you do get what you pay for. I still recommend them for anything that's not critical or that important and for someone wanting to dip their toes in managing a VPS and some other considerations, but otherwise pay for what you use and go for something that's simple, proven to work and reliable if all you're looking for is VPSes (Digital Ocean, Linode, Hetzner (although yesterday's post about someone losing data and getting 20 euros wasn't that positive), OVH, ServerCheap, etc).

I think the question will invariably result in people telling you that it's an age thing. That your interests have changed and that you've matured. That you reached a point in life where you, like many others, can't spend time to mess around with tech, but you just want something that works or you just want to relax after a hard day at work. And that might be all very true. I know I don't have time in day to play 10-12-24 hours straight to finish a game and wait to meet up with friends to talk about it. I know I also don't have time to be bored on day and spend the entire day doing distro hopping for no other reason than to see what has changed since the last day I did that.

Another answer can be that you now see past the veil that technology raises in front of itself. You now know the technical background, you understand the cold hard facts that form the software that you use and consume.

I think though that reality is a lot more complicated. The big reason for that is money and capitalism.

Let's say you are coming up with an idea for something, an app, a movie or book. You now have to get some money to make it because it's non-trivial, but you're committed to getting this idea off the ground. You put in your blood sweat and tears and after a long agonizing period to have something you're proud of which you then share with the rest of us. Here, one of the stories that always comes to mind is the first Matrix movie. I am sure that a similar story has unfolded in a lot of other fields, creative or technical. Now that creation took everything from you and it might yield some financial results, let's say 10% ROI. Maybe more, but let's say it was 10%.

Now in order for you to make that thing, you had to give everything. But what if someone copies your recipe for success and pumps out 5 or 10 similar creations. What if someone decides to make some ripoff or to catch the wave and flood the market with replicas. Or even worse, what if the people that bankrolled your first creation now own the IP for the creation and they decide that you now need to expand or follow up your story. What if your amazing Game 1.0 now is followed by Game 2.0 (which copies most of the same and ads very little content, yet generates a much higher profit margin?). Then Game 3.0. By Game 4.0 they decide to just remake Game 1.0 so they call it Game 1.0 Remastered - All the original content in 4K. Or Movie 1.0. Or Avengers 7.

I think the big problem is that our creative and technological mediums have been flooded by people coming into it for the money. How many articles do you find with "learn to code and make beaucoup bucks!!!"? Similarly, how many new, up and coming directors and actors do you see that create something as culture shocking or defining as American Beauty, Fight Club, Batman (1989 one...)? You don't. Because people join tech for the money, because no one studies creative writing, directing, but our STEM universities are flooded. The humanities are flooded by a different group of people, no longer willing to push the envelope, to explore what makes us unique, crazy, weird and interesting.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that money has corrupted tech. It corrupted the creative arts and it has corrupted us. So we have tech that can generate revenue, tech that can provide that ROI and that steady growth. We have "art" that at best replicates a long lost era or a cultural trend to make some quick cash.

Tech will not be cool and will stay uncool for as long as people are in it for the money solely. It will not be cool for as long as a VC expects to get it's money back + something extra. And why is the VC there? Because it's hard to compete against the giants without extra funding...

Sorry for the scattershot post, I am still refining a lot of my arguments here, but I hope the main point comes across...

I might switch back to it as I had some delivery issues with Cloudflare on some messages, but the issue was the email size, as emails with attachments wouldn't come through. +1 for the change!

A bit of a plug, but I have written a small piece with some suggestions for services that could be used to hide and not share your main account as well as some pros and cons to them here - https://psyonik.tech/posts/keep-your-email-private/

TL;DR - Cloudflare email works great if you have your domain on Cloudflare, Firefox Relay is cheap and will work with emails up to 150KB and a number of email providers give you the ability to create aliases (Runbox allows up to 100 aliases).

Similar to other people in the comments, I blog for a few different reasons despite having maybe 100-200 actual visitors a month.

If I learn something I found interesting, I try to think about its usefulness to others. If I think it could be even moderately useful, then I spend some time thinking about how I would write about that topic or idea. Having to even go through the process of translating it into something for others to read helps me clarify the idea. For example, if I wrote code to do something, why would anyone read about that? Maybe they've encountered the same problem and they dont know about this solution. Maybe their solution is more inefficient. Maybe its more cumbersome. Whatever the reason I need to think about this first.

The next step after thinking about , why would anyone want this, is how do I explain it well? Is my explanation clear? Am I making too many assumptions? Am I forgetting things? It also helps me cement my understanding and highlight gaps in knowledge.

Sometimes its also a rant about something I found particularly irksome. There are those as well.

Lastly, I am not a native English speaker, so it helps me improve my vocabulary and it helps me think in English, which then spills over into my day to day life where communication at work and in society happens in English.

All this means that I write, probably like most out there, for selfish reasons although probably not ego related. I care about an abstract reader from the point of view of understanding and grammar but not from any financial or self-promoting pov.

It feels quite busy after claiming minimalism. Also, not a huge fan to see Disquss being used and a bunch of JS just to serve static content. Seems like most of the things us humans do - a cacophony of contradictions. Like the simple color scheme though, so points for that.

Whenever I reach the point of thinking about getting a laptop to replace my desktop I keep being reminded that my desktop has parts that are at this stage around 9 years old. I am reminded that it still does everything I need, it still connects to anything I want, any way I want and it still runs my os(es) of choice without batting an eye. And if a part fails? The used market provides!

I am so sad to see things go down this path and it is so frustrating to see common sense beaten to death by some product manager, marketing vp or CEO saying that thin, light and unrepairable is the future...

I think the idea of the participatory web came at a time when people who were participating in the web were a lot kinder and a lot more curios and open about the web in general. I remember being able to scroll through a few forums on which I spent time and being able to engage in conversations with complete strangers with relative ease (late 90s early 00s). At this point, even a somewhat harmless comment on here can result in abuse very quickly or in a swift escalation towards uncivilized behavior. It's still vastly better to a lot of the other arenas of discussion though.

Which says firstly something about the quality of the discourse that can occur within the comments section and the tone of these comments.

Comments have also devolved into a collection of memes and one-liners that don't add anything to the discussion in the best case scenario. At worst, they lead to my previous point. As gregdoesit said in the top comment, a lot of comments have evolved into straight up spam and, similarly, on my blog, I added my contact email address if someone wants to follow up or inquire about anything I post there.

So I think that the participatory internet is dead to some extent. I never got this "comment on a news article" thing either. If a bomb goes off and tragically kills 5 people your "thoughts and prayers + praying-emoji" doesn't add anything. Commenting "fake news" also doesn't add anything. A team losing a game 2-0 or 38-0 also doesn't need a comment section "no, they didn't!".

What I think I'm trying to say is that there is little to be gained, it ads additional maintenance overhead and it can also become toxic very quickly. An older page I had use to provide comments but most of my time was deleting the 10-15 comments posted every day by bots.

Also, the irony of me posting a comment about being anti-comment isn't lost on me.

@maydup-nem: This reads a bit like one of those black or white arguments and reductions you exceedingly read online... It also reads like comments people make after reading the title or perhaps the first paragraph to a more complicated discussion. The article doesn't make the life of someone famous as a way to live, it opens up the discussion and poses a few questions about the nature of our experience, how it is drowned in an endless feed or visual or mental stimuli with little to no depth.

I also found it interesting that you felt the need to comment on it to be honest. But that's another thing entirely.

@bambax - I spent time trying to reduce my mobile usage as much as possible, but I find it that anyone with even moderate technical requirements, cannot live "phone-less". 2FA is the main thing that comes to mind. I can live without a browser, instant messaging or youtube, but accessing some of my own resources requires 2FA through an application and at that point, as VariableStar says it, I don't think I want to dismiss any of the advances and advantages we have just for the sheer sake of renouncing technology and the malaise it brings with it...

I think the main goal is to exercise control over our online activities, to be a bit more aware of what it is we do and what it is we get from it. Of course, not everything needs to have a net positive outcome, but when it comes to technology, I do think we should use it more as a tool, which we aren't as far as I can tell.

I agree that shallowness was present and will continue to persist, because, let's face it, I don't think we want to spend all of our waking time in constant thought, gravely agonizing about the minutiae of existence, it's meaning (or lack thereof). That doesn't change the fact that we shouldn't gravitate towards the other extreme with reckless abandon. Balance and moderation are words and types of behavior that are becoming extinct though in today's society and I keep feeling technology is largely to blame for it. It is just an opinion though, so highly subjective as such.

Self hosting seemed so very daunting up until a year or so ago. I decided to give it a shot while struggling to find a way to keep my notes. OneNote isn't good (no Linux support), wasn't a fan of Evernote, Nuclino was crawling on my old laptop and I ended up finding BookStackApp.

This led me to find a cheap VPS, install it using the install script and then figure stuff out from there. It led me to setting up a home server and working my way through the entire setup - format and mount drives, automate backups, automate hdd health checks, setup smb, docker, traefik, emby and so on.

At this point I'm looking at experimenting with Proxmox as my server is overkill (it also made me realize how few resources are used in these setups... we end up needing 2-3000$ systems to just run an OS... which is absolutely ridiculous). Linux showed me that in order to do any meaningful work you don't need a 3k machine. In any case, I'm in the process of arranging ALL my notes in order and I plan on publishing a guide that walks a user through the setup step by step.

I know people are talking about a lot of the complexities, but you can always share your knowledge. Help someone setup an old linux box to use as an smb nas... get them to install jellyfin or emby or plex on it and even there you have already massively helped them in the right direction. I think it's our responsibility to share our knowledge and empower people to migrate or at least understand what's involved.

This seems similar to Barrier in Zorin OS. Not across tablets and such, but across Zorin OS devices. I remember using this to share keyboard/mouse across my desktop and laptop, but I rarely end up actually using it.

It seems like one of those things that is interesting in concept, but I can't say I'm seeing the need/use case for it outside of that...

A service like Nord VPN or other such VPN providers setup a connection between your device and an exit point that they manage (a server to keep things in a client-server structure). So the idea there is that no one monitoring your traffic should ideally see what websites you visit, what things you download or what devices you connect to (I'm keeping this broad and very surface level to be able to reach a common point of understanding and if anyone adds to this, by all means, let's clarify this as it's quite a complex topic).

So let's say the local government blocks access to certain content, you can connect to a VPN provider's network, select an exit point (a server) and your traffic is routed through them. But this can be monitored by that provider and I read an article recently that highlighted a lot of free VPN providers cannot be tracked down to companies, so you couldn't say who is running those servers. Which means, you don't know if all your traffic isn't actually recorded in the end and sold on to someone.

This brings me to the first difference - you can setup your own server (at home or more likely through an infrastructure as a service provider like Hetzner, Ovh, DigitalOcean, etc) and install Tailscale on it and on your device(s). This way your connection is secured to the server and the server is the exit point now. Your provider in this case, cannot see what your server is serving you. The added control here is that the server IS YOURS, so you can clear logs, take it down and setup another one and so on.

The second difference is that a VPN in most canonical cases has a client-server construction. But this means that there is a hierarchy and that all your devices use that server as a gateway of sorts. If I understand it correctly, Tailscale acts as a mesh that is laid on top of your existing connections, but it means that devices that you connect to the same mesh, behave as if they were on the same LAN network, but over the internet. So let's say you're on holiday, you can connect to your home computer (assuming your device and your home system have Tailscale, an internet connection and are running ofc) as if it was on the same network. Because it is. It's on a virtual network where Tailscale creates these connections and manages the IPs on the network. So you can view your movies, copy over your pictures from your phone to your home computer and so on.

You could also maybe have a home server which might be running a number of services. Enabling SSH over the internet has it's risks, but Tailscale could alleviate a lot of these risks because you would have a fixed IP on this virtual network and so does your server. So suddenly, you can define a rule on your server firewall that says "hey, block everyone, except THIS ip".

Lastly, you could maybe even just share pictures, documents and whatever else with friends, family or anyone else who is running on the same Tailscale network.

I really hope I haven't completely misunderstood the service and I'd be happy to get more clarity or some better examples. These are SOME of the use cases I can think of, but there are probably more! Btw, I don't use Tailscale, I am considering it after having considered other mesh networks like Yggdrasil as that's the part I'd be interested in...

I used to work in sales and I remember one of my coworkers who was a really good salesperson, but they wanted to get off the sales floor. They had enough and just wanted to move on to a managerial position. The pay was about the same, but the hours were better and it was easier to get time off.

He had applied to openings twice and each time one of the "lesser" salespersons got the job. When I was leaving I asked one of the managers why this person wasn't getting the job - they had experience, they had loads of knowledge, they had solid people skills and excellent sales figures. The answer was - "we can't lose him as a salesperson".

It kind of stuck with me - what happens if you're too good for the job you have. What happens if you've "overfitted" yourself to the current role... It's one of the reasons for which every year or so I start getting an itch to try something new. A new company, a whole new role within the same company, just something else. In the last 8 years I had 9 jobs at 7 companies and each time I got a raise, I got more interesting projects, I managed to do more interesting work and met a bunch of new people. I know this isn't for everyone, but I know I'd never want to be indispensable. I want to be replaceable as that's the same rule I apply to my roles. Really good read and I'm afraid I'm seeing another person like that in my current role...

I wrote about email privacy in general a few days ago and after talking to a few friends who have read the article they asked about actual email privacy - what happens to the content (my article was mostly focused around obscuring your real address and I don't talk about securing the contents of the emails).

The problem when approaching the issue especially with not-so-technical people is the difficulty of explaining how encryption would work in this scenario. Unlike Signal where a user A sends a message to a user B and the transmission is encrypted because they are using the same protocol, email is a bit trickier to explain. It would be like sending a Telegram message to Signal. Someone needs to do some conversion from one to another. Even when they use encryption, the methodology applied to encryption can be different.

So while I agree with "we should use encryption by default" for non-technical users, this isn't as straightforward. The top comment highlights an issue of the current "send a link to their server" approach, which is what Tutanota uses for example. Everyone moving on to encrypted emails would entail a mass education of users to use PGP keys for example, managing the keys themselves, understanding encryption at rest and the list goes on...

Finally, users are horrible at remembering/maintaining their passwords. Fully encrypted services such as Protonmail and Tutanota (I know proton doesn't encrypt the subject line) do not really offer password resets in the classical way - "Oh I forgot my password, well, here's my phone number give me a new password" or "just send me a reset link to this other email". This means that there is a very real risk of losing complete access to your email address or potentially losing a lot of emails. I believe Protonmail allowed password resets but it would wipe your inbox and Tutanota only allows reset using the account key that you have to generate and save somewhere, but again, a user would need to be aware of this and manage it well...

Great idea. We should. We won't, or at least, the majority won't.

I have been using F-Droid for about 2 years now as the main source for the few apps that I use and updates are coming through without interaction. Bitwarden/Aegis/Tutanota/Syncthing/K-9 all receive regular updates as far as I've experienced during this time.

I also haven't had issues with update flow. When was the last time you used F-Droid for a prolonged period of time?

There are plenty of privacy respecting analytics out there - Plausible, Matomo or Simple Analytics. Depending on what your actual needs are, you can also just use something like GoAccess, logwatch, Splunk or multitail to check your logs and use those for analytics information.

In one of my previous jobs the marketing department complained about Google Analytics not working on one of our pages. GA hadn't been working for about 10 months when they raised the incident. It was such a low priority that it took another 4 months for someone to fix it.

While I get that someone people are slightly foaming at the mouth because of GDPR (and this starts an entire debate about an aging political population that doesn't understand technology AT ALL) going overboard, my question is - do we actually use all the analytics that are provided by GA?

How many marketing teams/sales teams/etc actually use ALL the information provided by these tools. Aren't there other better ways to measure your campaign and product performance? Do you just want to see time on site/page? Abandon rate? I mean, most of these tools feel like they concentrate the Western mentality of "I need an SUV because I might have to put in more than 2 bags in my car".

/endRant

I used it for about a month or so now, it has been quite useful setting up aliases for online shopping and the sorts. It's surprising after a month how many I actually created... I think that says more about our current state of affairs than it does about the service itself.

If it's goal was to sound condescending, then it was achieved. But I believe it's counterproductive to spend (what I can only assume to be in the region of $100 million) to be condescending towards your audience for 2 hours. Maybe it wasn't my kind of movie to begin with, but interesting point nonetheless.

Fully agree with your point on Matrix. It's seriously unfortunate to see it reduced to this...

Really enjoy your project! Setting it up on a free Oracle cloud VPS is very straightforward, setting up automated backups is also very easy and restoring is again, very very easy! Thank you for your hard work on this project, it made me start working on my own take on how notes should be handled and it gave me a place to keep things that I find interesting and keep notes on everything I learned throughout uni over the past couple of years.

Thanks again, your work is really appreciated!

I honestly hope they fund the Graphene OS project if they do this or if nothing else, make it clear that you could also do this yourself. /e OS tells you that you can install it if you havr compatible hardware or buy it from them, same for Calyx OS.

For those wondering why you'd want this - I use Graphene OS on an old Pixel 3 and battery lasts 2-3 days easily. I dont have to constantly fight all anti-patterns in modern day Android, but I can still chat, email, text, browse and watch videos...