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• Replacing Ticktick with a Self-Hosted ToDo App

  Hi Folks, I’ve used Ticktick as a SaaS task manager app for years now. There was a time when I had tried almost every productivity app under the sun and Ticktick had the best features and app and a WAY better pricing structure than alternatives like Todoist. Nevertheless, I had growing concerns about privacy and control of my own data as I need to be able to trust my to-do app with information about my life that I don’t want repeated to every advertiser on the internet. Bearing in mind the...

• Post #1880296

  I have an XPS 13 9370. It’s still chugging along great on Linux. No real slowdowns. Drives an external 4k monitor with no lag or issues. Like you, I’ve had to replace the battery… 2-4 times by now. A $30 battery every 2 years seems like a pretty reasonable price to keep this champ running. It looks like the framework may be my next laptop though. I’ve been watching them for a while now. That or system 76.

• Post #999467

  I agree. I’ve thought a lot about how valuable signing a simple message with a key can be. In an age where machines can appropriate your likeness, how do you accumulate and shed reputation, how do you prove it was you? One low tech version was taking a photo with a newspaper to prove you are a real person. Another is exchanging a public key with a person in real life so you can have reasonable certainty that communications signed with that key are legit. Since this boils down to denying wha...

• Post #750741

  My cam is a Viofo or something like that, but I can’t recommend any of them. I’ve had l my share of annoyances and I’ve read similar about Garmin, Blackvue, and others. Its also been a few years, so they may have new models, but from what I see online, they look more or less similar. What I did learn is this: Having front and back cams made it easier to pick out a license plate because you have more time to get a clear shot. You can also see what happened before that dickwad cut you off....

• Post #612274

  I used KDE because that’s what I use on desktop. I hear some of the others are further along. Flashing was easy. I could not set up my SMB shares in dolphin and if it wont talk to my NAS, it’s not terribly useful to me. I will play around some more with it sooner or later. I believe I used Android- tools on Linux to send the partitions via fastboot commands. It was a 2 gen old phone for me (had the OP9 after it) so I wasn’t worried about anything going wrong. Feel free to shoot me a DM if...

• Post #611212

  I’m looking for orgs fighting the Colorado one. I got “replaced” by AI recently, so I have all the time in the world to right letters, make calls, and go to town halls. I just don’t want to do it alone.

• Post #465774

  I’m going to report the shit out of any of these companies if they have locations in California and Colorado (if it passes in CO). If the law is scoped that wide, there’s no way they’ll actually be compliant. Even corporate desk phones have an OS. :-D