I’ve been told that Artemis Fowl in the books is actually a nice and smart person. In the movie he comes across as an arrogant dick for a larger part.

Correction: FOSS Android Lemmy apps. It’s missing a few.

It’s also about the people though. Been living in the south for some time. Hard to talk to people, even harder to make friends, very rural for the most part. I even would describe a city like Stuttgart as rural. At work people approached me and said „hey you also aren’t from the south right? I noticed“ and were happy to have someone to chitchat with.

Just my own experience… I’m very happy to have made the decision to move away again.

Maybe it’s easy if one isn’t a German since there are kind of expat communities? I don’t know.

I wasn’t talking about that and I’m unsure why you are making this about privacy. The topic was about market share and seizing control of certain markets. Microsoft is a really big player in that game and Google ist irrelevant in comparison.

This isn’t about just web browsers. Yes. Google is a step ahead in that field. And ten steps behind in most others.

What I was trying to convey to you is: Don’t downplay Microsoft just because Google is currently a relevant topic in one corner of it.

Yes. That’s important to. No that doesn’t mean they are playing in the same league.

2.2 billion euros in a decade. Doesn’t feel like too much.

How is Google more dangerous. I think you might have a wrong impression based on the current flood of news articles, because the web drm thingy is the current hot topic. Don’t get me wrong. There should be a spot light on it. But Microsoft is still playing a whole different ball game overall.

I just read about it in the news since I no longer use Teams. But having used it in the past and then have switched to a Slack+Zoom combination. My god. It’s just on another level. Having two products that each focus on one thing and try to make it great kinda works.

Anecdotally Slack has it’s fair share of issues once in a while. Zoom barely ever.

Ah. Feels similar to the relevance discussions on the German Wikipedia. Gatekeeping at its finest.

I don’t care about stuff working OOTB - half the fun is messing around with things IMO.

I generally agree. Backups for me are just something I don’t want to tinker with. It’s important to me that they work OOTB, are easy to grasp and I have a good overview.

The web interface is important to me because it gives me that overview from any device I’m currently using without needing to type anything into a terminal. The OOTB is important to me since I want to be able to easily set this all up again even without access to my Ansible setup or previous configuration.

To each their own. I’m not saying your way of doing this is wrong. It’s just not for me. This is just my reasoning / preferences. It’s also the reason something like borg wasn’t my chosen solution, even though it’s generally considered great.

Features that are important to me are things like an easy overview of all backup jobs (ideal via a web UI), snapshots going back every day for a week and after that every month. Backup to providers like Backblaze or AWS and the ability to browse these backups and individual snapshots.

I’d assume that you can build all of this with git annex in some way. But I really want something that works out of the box. E.g. install the backup software give it some things to backup and an B2 bucket and then go.

What I’m curious about is that the git-annex site explicitly days that they aren’t a backup system, but you describe it as such.

Somehow “took me a while to wrap my head around it” doesn’t make me feel comfortable. Apart from git-annex themselves saying that they aren’t a backup system and just a building block to maybe create one, a backup system should imho be dead simple sind easy to understand.

Paid for the web interface as well. I really like that it’s super simple and just does it’s job. That would be the one I’d also recommend.

Look into Veeam. The free version should be enough for this workflow.

That depends on what you want. Folks where talking about a YouTube replacement. If TILVids is that for you right now and you don’t expect more content there then it’s all good.

Because what’s the point otherwise. Let’s just make a YouTube without videos. That will surely work.

That’s why you carry two sets of Airpods on a 12 hour flight. /s

Just fyi: That person was trying to make a joke.

Yes. But instead of spending ever free minute on it I’ll only check it once or maybe twice a day.

Most communities I cared about feel less lively. Except for maybe two or three.

Don’t closed ones like 1Password also have audits? But I guess it’s a personal philosophy.

Why are these the only real choices? What makes the others not real?