Nah, it’s the thread creator’s job to not post clickbait. But ok, it looks a little bit like hosted nextcloud. Hetzner has that too, if anyone cares.

Infomaniak appears to be a random web hosting company. Why is it of particular degoogling interest? Am I confusing it with something else of the same name? Is it an app, or what?

Is there a simple explanation for the increased AfD support? I’m in the US and have almost no clue about EU politics.

I’ve been using Debian MATE. It’s mostly ok.

I use Thunderbird and hate it. Full of bugs and cramdowns (not sure what the right term is) where they make a bad setting that you can’t undo. Also too difficult to find too many things. And way too many non-mail features. I haven’t bothered seeking a good alternative but Thunderbird leaves a lot to be desired. Forking isn’t likely to help much. It needs total replacement.

This is spammy and AI-style long winded. I didn’t read much. A shorter version without the advertising would be more useful.

The usual way to stay mostly private is just set up a corporation and bill through it. Here in California the annual fees are enough to be annoying but in other states they are very low. I once played with the idea of offering “company as a service” that would do everything for you online, but meh.

I was just looking through old books and noticing my Yggdrasil manual the other day. That was one of the earliest plug and go cd-rom distributions. Before that was e.g. Slackware and the early Debian, both of which involved big piles of floppies. I also remember sending Linus an email and getting an answer. I’m sure he is too much of a busy celebrity for that now.

I’m unfamiliar with element and revolt. Someone suggested Session to me and it looks interesting. Jami sounds good in principle but it’s been too flaky to use for me so far. Jitsi Meet is maybe ok and I guess I’ll try it next.

Well the small reactors still have to be cost competitive.

It’s a research reactor, it will be relatively small because it’s not intended to provide a production power source.

I get that and a research reactor is a fine thing, but I’d like to have gotten some info about the scaling potential. Like are there obstacles to large scale utility power being generated with thorium?

He’s confirmed alive

Unless Van Hollen brought back fingerprints or a DNA sample, or the family got to talk to the guy on the phone and confirm it was him, I have to keep open the possibility that Bukele put in an imposter.

Noo, really, idk what Disco was but tags and recommendations from other humans are plenty to find good AO3 fic to read. And AO3 itself has been getting hammered for months, presumably by corporate AI crawlers. A recommendation engine would also have to crawl AO3. That’s very difficult to do because of said hammering. Even the regular download feature barely works now if you use fanficfare for it.

Borg is a backup program not a synchronizer. Backing up to mutliple targets just means running a normal backup to target 1, then another to target 2, etc. Maybe what you really want is git. There are also some self-hosted multi-access notepad programs, sort of like how google docs work. Anyway if your problem requires a server or synchronization, look into self-hosting rather than some cloud thing.

It’s hard to understand what you want. Why multiple devices? Why remote storage? Why not just use your laptop with local storage and encrypted backups? If you must have remote storage, why not self-host it on a cheap VPS? Just who are you trying to protect your data from? It’s a lot different if you think Trump is after you or something like that: you have to check your bed for microphones, rather than just worrying about your computer software.

So far I’m satisfied with just using my laptop for personal files, but if I were more paranoid I’d set up a separate laptop with no internet and take some additional precautions besides that. Anyway, the more machines you use, the more potential security holes you have to deal with.

Multiple backups is just a matter of running a script that backs up to more than one place, right? I use Borg for backup, and pointing it to multiple targets is pretty easy.

I know some people have gotten Nvidia stuff working, but from what I can tell, it’s still iffy. Maybe you were lucky.

I believe the Nvidia driver situation still sucks and maybe always will due to Nvidia incalcitrance. You could try pulling out that 3060 board. Next, what motherboard are you using? That might also have compatibility issues. Other than that, dual booting has sometimes been a pain, but if the system is coming up you’ve gotten past that. Your system is pretty powerful and should work well.

Get a SIP account with a VoIP provider and run a SIP client on your laptop. I’ve been using Linphone on Android and it works but isn’t great. It does say it has desktop versions. I haven’t looked into alternatives.

Phone OS’s usually won’t let you get at the voice stream, to prevent malware apps from tapping your conversations.

You could alternatively use some Bluetooth hack as someone said. It would help if you were more specific about what you wanted.

I use Debian on an old Thinkpad and (mostly) don’t have such issues. Installs and upgrades in particular work fine. I had probs with the wifi driver on my x220 but it works fine on the similar t520. Framework might be trying to do too much.

Doggone US carriers for shutting down the 3g network. I’d love to see the TSA goons try to install their crap in my old Maemo phone.

Can you keep the paper journal in a locked drawer? Will your homies seriously try to break in or pick the lock? Could you use a non-networked computer (old laptop) to encrypt the files, and lock that in a drawer?