Swarfega @ Swarfega @lemm.ee

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Apart from on a wet tiled floor

I'm not an iPhone user but I seem to recall reading about battery issues with iOS 17?

Every vendor can have issues, that's more surprising when Apple controls the software and hardware. For Microsoft they can only control the software.

Imagine hating school

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Not all games just work. For sure though Proton is absolutely amazing. The only thing stopping me ditching Windows completely is my kid still plays Roblox which doesn't work on Linux.

I'm sure they're concerned about security, but the main reason is they don't want to give up their cut of any app sales.

I have a Pi4 that runs a couple of services to run in the house. Even this still needs regular OS patching, updated images pulling, troubleshooting etc.
I ran my own mail server many years ago but I can't reliably do one anymore. Besides, death can happen at any point and I'd hate to leave my family with email mailboxes that are just gonna stop one day from something breaking or a domain not being renewed.

Which is fine. But self hosting has multiple complexities. It's not just a case of installing and configuring a mail server. Maintenance, security, electric costs etc just add up.

I'd sooner have working emails and leave all the management to the provider.

I built a midrange PC last year. Non of the motherboards in my budget had USB-C.

I got the PS4 Pro when it came out. There were so many PS4 games at that point that I hadn't played. All so cheap too. I got the PS5 as I figured there would be so many great games coming to the console. Honestly, the only game that's PS5 exclusive is the Astro's Playground.

I know internally Broadcom is screwing over VMware employees with new contracts. I've heard of staff pushing back three times so far to get contracts changed.

You can work around the need to go around updating all sites with your new email address... at least the next time you need to change your email address.

I use SimpleLogin to create a unique alias (on my own domain) for each website. When I finally migrated to Proton all I had to do was add the proton email address to SimpleLogin and delete my old GMail address to get it to point to Proton (I started migrating to aliases before moving away from GMail). Likewise if I ever move in the future I only need to update SimpleLogin. I was looking to move to Skiff when my Proton renewal was due!

To set this up I had to obviously update every single website which was very time consuming. However I have much better protection now as email addresses are disposable should a site start spamming me. The only site that actually knows my Proton email address is Bitwarden, Proton itself and SimpleLogin.

Looking in my account I have over 300 aliases. Crazy.

I liked Skiff but moved to Proton as Skiff was still too new for me to trust at the time. Glad I went with my instinct.

Shame though when people are actively taking their privacy seriously and getting away from the major free providers.

I went with SimpleLogin with a custom domain.

Their free tier storage offering was amazing. I honestly couldn't see how they could offer so much for free. I was very tempted at the time but chose proton. Although I think I may move to Fastmail when my renewal is due.

Regardless of who you choose. Use an aliasing service. It makes moving to a new provider/email address a breeze on the future. It took me days to go around updating all my 200 sites online. If I ever move from proton it will take me 5 minutes to ensure all my sites now go to my new provider.

My only tip would be to create a new domain rather than using a shared one. This will prevent some sites from blocking you from using an alias.

British streets were never built for the amount of cars we have today. I can see why parking half on/off is needed.

I live in a new estate where homes either have two spaces on their driveway or a parking space. People still park fully on the path. To the point if you was in a wheelchair you couldn't get by. People also don't use their allocated parking space and park outside their house on the footpath.

I've not heard of these before. Do you use them yourself?

I could hear what he was saying but he was talking quite fast which makes it harder to understand.