klangcola @ klangcola @reddthat.com

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Cool, Obsidian didn't even cross my mind, thanks for the suggestion.

For mobile, just reading and ticking of existing items covers the main use cases for me. And sometimes adding new items too. That's soo cool that the Sleek Dev added support for arbitrary extensions. I love when FOSS Apps become interoperable on the same dataset like that. Yay for data portability :D

Time to try out Obsidian then

True, and so all honour to the creators for remaining FOSS, especially smaller projects spearheaded by a single dev

Altough usually when a shift like that happens in bigger projects there's a community fork, and the original project withers. Like Owncloud -> Nextcloud , OpenOffice -> LibreOffice, MySQL -> MariaDB

You could argue there's some degree enshitification through the Ubuntu snapification driven by Canonical. Although that's not so much about making Ubuntu deliberately worse, it's more moving Ubuntu forward in a way that aligns with Canonical's strategic goals. So its "paying the strategy tax" rather than direct enshitification.

For collaborative projects like Linux I believe every contributor would need to agree to any license change, which is practically impossible

Sleek looks amazing

But is there a FOSS todo.txt client for mobile (Android)? Searching around I could only find the official Todo.txt for Android on GitHub which is unmaintained since 2018, and some Todo.txt for Android on the play store which is up to date but not sure if it's affiliated or not , and no mention of being FOSS

Beautiful!

I like to think of FOSS as enshitification-proof

Firefox 1.0

Not only was it better than IE6, it was also free! Not sure how aware I was of the libre aspect initially, but around the same time I also dabled in (Mandrake? Mandriva?) Linux, which exposed me to GNU, GPL, and the idea of copyleft.

And then there was VLC.

It's also available as a standalone desktop application, which work perfectly even when you're offline

Skrooge is pretty good

Xchat with its sleek tab interface was the bomb

Yes! I can not recommend draw.io aka diagrams.net enough! (I still don't understand why it has two names and which name is the current "correct" one)

It works both in the browser, or as a downloadable standalone application that works 100% offline.

My favourite feature is exporting PNG or PDF with the complete diagram XML embedded as metadata, which means they can be opened and edited again by draw.io

It's very useful not only for networking, but all sorts of diagramming needs

Thanks for sharing, I have 3 hm90s I'm about to set up ( just waiting for RAM and SSDs ), these crashes sound super frustrating.

I was planning to run them detuned anyway to reduce the strain and temperature on the Power Supply, since its a non-standard USB-C which looks hard or impossible to replace if it breaks some years from now

I agree after seeing the patent , there's nothing groundbreaking or novel there.

Replace video for audio then there's already prior art for both control and synchronization with Sonos (2005). And a plethora of Winamp web interface plugins.

For video there was already the XMBC web interface. Sure there was no "app", but the patent is vague enough that the web-browser on the smartphone accessing the web interface can be considered the app

After looking at the patent it's clear it's way too vague, generic and obvious. It should never have been granted. (I Am Not A patent Lawyer). For one the XMBC web interface from 2009ish is prior art.

Technically the Kodi remote control app would be in violation of the patent, except it doesn't use any "back end server system".

If you replace the words "display" and "video" with "speaker" and "audio" then the Spotify app would be in violation as well, as it allows changing the playback device to any of your logged in devices.

Come to think of it, if you use Firefox on mobile to access YouTube, then "send tab to other device", and send it to a desktop computer connected to a big screen, it could be interpreted as violating the patent as it's using Mozilla's "back end server" to relay the message

Depends on what exactly was covered in the patent. The article only says

invented technology in 2010 to "move" videos from a small device like a smartphone to a larger device like a television.

Which is vague and an obvious bogus patent. Prior art exists in both the digital and analogue space

The AI arms race has begun!

Isn't this kinda thing happening already in the recruitment industry?

PixelDroid for Android. It's available on F-Droid too

Proxmox is so good it's hard to believe. It's VMware levels of features and convenience, while also supporting LXC containers, no license shenanigans, no enshitification, and the full flexibility of Debian under the hood

The recent-ish addition of Proxmox Backup Server is the cherry on top, with de-duplicated , incremental system image level backups with support for individual file restore

Yes both!

I use Qalc for unit conversions (I often need to convert measuring units without acces to internet) and SpeedCrunch for everything else

I now see my mistake but I refuse to correct it

Agreed, that sounds perfect for right now.

A certain community I'm subscribed to is very active right now, to the point of almost drowning out all other committees in my feed. A "temporary hide" would be very welcome