If Linus genuinely went off the rails, the kernel would just get forked. Even right now, if the way the mainline project is run doesn’t work for someone or what they are doing, that can and does happen.

Linus has power because the people who contribute to the project allow it, and they allow it because over the years he has consistently endeavoured to make decisions based on what is in the best interest of the project. People want him in charge, because he has done, and keeps doing, a really good job.

He hasn’t always been nice to deal with, and he can get spicy when he puts his foot down, but whem he does, its not on a whim. And if he’s wrong, and you can articulate why and how, in good faith, he won’t ignore the logic of what you are saying out of some childish sense of pride.

But I was a lot less knowledgeable then than now so it may have some degree of user error.

TBF, eerything getting deleted should be straight up impossible no matter what the user does.

Did you ever find out what the actual cause was there?

Nothing like this has ocurred for me in over a year of use. And if it does, my nexycloud data folder is on a btrfs volume with regular snapshots, and backed up onto off-site storage.

If it’s still a problem I’d love to replicate and help with a fix.

I used to use google keep, and also struggled to find something which would work between my phone and desktop.

Eventually Nextcloud notes improved enough to be the replacement that satisfies.

It’s all markdown, existing as files in your nextcloud folder. That meant exporting my google keep was easy.

The desktop and mobile app are both simple but sufficient IMO. Make sure to install the rich text editor app for nextcloud, or you’ll have to write plaintext markdown.

The downside is that if you don’t already run nextcloud, setting it up is beyond overkill. Then again, you may find use for the many, many other things it can do, too.

Both are perfectly serviceable, but for the self-hosted storage/office suite combo, Collabora simply fits into Nextcloud better. Which is likely why you don’t see OnlyOffice discussed much.

Collabora is just more integrated. The NC and Collabora developers actually directly collaborate on integrating it into NC as the “official” office suite.

And AFAIK the backend of Collabora is simply LibreOffice, meaning the “desktop” version is: LibreOffice. The UI is the same, too, though they might’ve diverged since I last used LibreOffice on desktop.

Personally I’m not really concerned with formats, as long as I can finish documents as PDFs, and Collabora has brought a google-drive-like experience to my nextcloud instance that OnlyOffice didn’t manage. Either way I was able to do a google takeout of my drive storage, and just plop that into my nextcloud. But with Collabora, actually interacting with the resulting files within the nextcloud UI has been nicer.

I guess by libre office you’re not referring to Collabora?

Collabora is the online version of Libre, and absolutely integrates with mobile, nextcloud, web browsers, collaboration, etc.

I initially used OnlyOffice with my Nextcloud instance, but switched to Collabora with my own CODE server once I realized it was MUCH more thoroughly integrated into nextcloud.

That’s not really how the comments on alternativeto work. They are relative.

If you got to spotifys page, it will list similar services, each with their own comments, and the comments under youtube music, for example, will be about how it compares to spotify.

So, to leave useful comments, you only have to know how a given piece of software compares to what you used before. You don’t comment on how a given thing compares to everything else, only to one thing at a time.

Then, as other people browse the alternatives, they can use those individual comparisons to navigate their way to what they need. Stuff like “this can’t replace that for this use-case, because reason, but it does this other stuff” is extremely useful when looking for something that does what you’re looking for.

So leave a new one.

Totally. I often go directly to it to find applications.

It’s how I found kdenlive, it’s how I found audiobookshelf, etc.

“formatting and typo”

No, I’m willing to bet you have plenty of energy. Society has simply deemed that all of it must be spent on being productive for the sake of everyone except yourself.

“If your employees have energy to spend on meaningful activities during their own time, you’re leaving money on the table. Squeeze them harder while they are on the clock.”

To be fair, e-ink has been reinvesting hard into RnD. That’s why there have continued to be new generations of panels, with color capabilities and faster refresh-rates etc.

And yeah, the larger panels aren’t cheap, but small cheap ones have already been used for years as re-usable price tags and product information displays in stores. They don’t even need a battery as the image will stay on the screen without power until the next time they need to be programmed to show new product prices and details.

They might be charging a lot for the panels, but they are also not a patent troll, sitting on a technology without doing squat with it.

I don’t think anyone uses Gimp for painting or drawing. It has the filters and extensions and tools which make it useful for cleaning up or editing photographic imagery.

If I’m looking to paint or draw, I fire up Krita, not Gimp.

There’s Darktable for handling photos, as well, but that’s an alternative for Lightroom, not Photoshop.

Well yeah. But it sure likes to pretend at being one.

Matrix does all of this. When you log in on a new device, you verify the login on an old device where you are already logged in (or provide the master key, set up when you created your account).

Some clients will indeed cache your entire chat history to provide search. And not all rooms are encrypted, you can disable it for rooms where it’s unwarranted.

And as Signal/WhatsApp show, doing all this on device is quite doable. It’s just a pain sometimes with the message history not also being stored on an always accessible server, and messaging relying on always going through that one, single, primary device.

That’s because both Signal and WhatsApp don’t store the message history anywhere except on your primary device. (plus personal backups) That’s why WhatsApp desktop stops working if your phone is off. Because it works by getting your message history, from your phone.

So to get the message history on Signal/WhatsApp in a chat you just joined, someone else already there would have to send you the entire chat history from their primary device. Which might not be on. Or have the battery to spare to stream years of messages to random people coming and going from the chat.

For “a seamless experience” Discord only needs store the message history on their servers, just as they already do, but do so encrypted.

For you to see that history, all that needs to change with how invites work, in that they would come with a decryption key transferred in the same secure way normal messages are. So your client can then access that server-stored chat history and decrypt it.

The difference here isn’t that WhatsApp and Signal are encrypted, it’s that they fundamentally handle messages differently from discord. Their servers only deliver them. So you can’t get the chat history from their servers, because it isn’t there.

Have you ever had to worry about the encryption keys in chat apps that encrypt messages? No?

That’s because the app handles it all. Why would you think I’m suggesting something complicated?

All I’m telling you, is that the technical limitation you claim exists, doesn’t.

Where is this coming from?

All I did was confirm that discord has zero merit in terms of privacy, in reply to a comment that merely suspected it. And yeah, I personally find it less than suitable as a point of communication for software projects.

But the only big problem I had with you was pushing the “if you have nothing to hide” fallacy in any shape or form.

Well, first, at least encrypt your damn DMs.

Second, allowing access to message history is perfectly doable if the invite process involves the inviter providing the decryption keys to the invitee.

That’s how discord does it.