I went a step further and am paying an accountant to handle this mess, using my favourite libre email client to contact her. I know, it’s a privileged position.

That’s what I do, /music

Good for you for not having any problems mate! I’m sure this invalidates the parent poster’s problems.

I’ve been testing Claude the last month. It’s good for 90% of the tasks but for the remaining 10% i couldn’t convince it to give a proper answer and used ChatGPT instead. Technical questions and coding is what I use llms for.

Any particular problems you’re having or have you briefly used Pidgin in 2008 and think nothing has improved since then?

XMPP. It just works, requires very little resources, is stable and has decent clients.

I would go with Snikket instead of Prosody if I had been starting now.

Conversations on phones, Dino or Gajim on PCs, plus a conversejs install on the xmpp server, to allow web access when needed.

Conversations is easy for the family to figure out.

This whole thread is depressing to read, full of corporate bootlickers putting blame on you.

I use bittorrent for isos and the files usually have hundreds of seeds. They are used.

Same for Armbian.

ncdu -x / will only show you the files stored on / without counting /mnt and other partitions.

You can usually delete files (not directories!) in /var/log safely

I got my phone after 5 years of waiting too, it’s a nice paperweight. I power it on twice a year, do a full update, play for an hour and put it back in the drawer.

Pine phone is a nice gadget but I don’t think they contribute to software development as much as Purism does. Not that I recommend buying anything from Purism because of their business practices.

No no, that’s how i’m working around the problem now, but i’m sure sni sniffing will sooner or later make my domain well known

I second the complaint about subpaths. I have all my services on a single domain, except for HA. It’s for security by obscurity, when you issue a certificate for a subdomain you start getting malicious traffic probing for vulnerabilities almost immediately. I don’t have this problems for services with non-obvious subpaths.

I can’t understand the stubbornness of developers to accept patches for fixing this problem.

Space is one thing, bandwidth is another when you don’t have a gigabit connection or ability to upgrade to one

I don’t need to do it with native-installed programs. And they are properly integrated with the OS, if you install them:

1. You get a menu entry in gui
2. You get a binary or a wrapper in /usr/bin

There is no .desktop menu entry and i need to remember a lengthy fqdn which does not autocomplete, great ui

In Gajim flatpak too, plugins only can be used if packaged for Flatpak.

Kodi is good for many streaming services too, just not Netflix. It has been good with HBO Max.

You did not say what kind of streaming services.

For anything self-hosted or torrents/debrid, just get a Raspberry Pi with LibreELEC.

If you use Netflix and the likes, you will likely want something officially supported. My partner likes Netflix for some reason and after years of using the unofficial addon by CastaginaIT, I gave up and got her a Firestick this winter (having set up a separate VLAN for it and ripped out the microphone, of course).

The unofficial Kodi addon is an amazing piece of reverse engineering work, but it’s not really great that you have to log in using your computer every month or two, and occasionally download a 2GB binary, before you can watch a movie on Netflix half-asleep.

Are you an xkcdpass bot?