My son and I had a blast with this one. We took turns doing runs through all biomes and found tons of blueprints and secrets. So fun!

Pop!_OS

Gnome with a bit of a macOS twist. I really like it. I'm excited for Cosmic!

First ever was #1, first one I beat was #11 though

100% agree. I've only just started my privacy/self hosted journey almost exactly 1 year ago. Still learning, but I'm loving the experience so far.

It's absolutely bad when the US does it. I made no claim otherwise. Cheap tech being used as an entry point for data mining the customers, regardless of country the products are sold in is pretty well documented at this point.

That's quite a leap, isn't it? When China has demonstrably expressed intent in data mining the world.

https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/chinese-hackers-are-using-backdoors-to-gain-unrestricted-access-to-companies-and-governments-and-its-not-about-the-money/articleshow/75796403.cms

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18523701/huawei-vodafone-italy-security-backdoors-vulnerabilities-routers-core-network-wide-area-local

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-hacking-group-backdoors-products-from-three-asian-gaming-companies/

Plenty more examples if you look even briefly.

Now with free spyware/backdoor!

Ooh, I lost track of that one. I remember seeing the trailer but it was at least a year ago and completely forgot about it. I'll definitely check it out!

Micro Mages is so good!

What a garbage take. Use what you want, homie.

Recent convert myself. And now that I've experienced mail, calendar, notes, and file storage all in the same app (android, at least) I can't go back to separate apps.

I'd love to try it out but only self-hosted. And so far I can't get it spun up. To be clear, I'm sure that's a me problem. That said, the instructions are pretty spartan and a few commands to run and "that's it. you can now create an account and login!" but that doesn't work for me.

I currently have Immich running and it's good. But I've had two updates break my install, requiring hours of work to get it back to working reliably. They have a disclaimer that this can happen and isn't ready for production yet, so I don't fault them for that. I'm just on the hunt for something more reliable. Ente seems like it's been around a good while. I just need to figure out what I'm doing wrong. The S3 backend is a pretty great feature, imo.

Dang. Again? I know they have the disclaimer that it's not to be relied on for photo backup yet and thankfully I'm not, but it's so much better than any of it's peers that I'd love to ditch the other apps.

Im not certain in regards to security in this context. But any new features in Quillpad you'd miss. If that's important to you. Otherwise, keep on using quillnote instead!

Quillnote has been abandoned. Quillpad is the fork that has a somewhat active development, if that matters to you.

I'm extremely picky about Notes apps. I've tested so many Open source as well as closed source apps. I'll be interested in what others are using, but the features I want are:

• Cross platform (Android, Linux, and MacOS)
• Universal format - markdown is a bonus
• Good task handling with checklist support

So what I've settled with is Obsidian (not open source) due to its simplicity of reading and writing to a folder hierarchy of plain text files. But since it sucks at task and checklists, I've been using Quillpad. It only syncs with Nextcloud at the moment, but there is promise of plain text file and bring-your-own-sync-solution on the roadmap.

Notesnook is a nice app, but since it's all E2EE, there is no plain text without exporting your notes manually. Shame too because it handles tasks and checklists very nicely.

Honorable mention: Acreom it's not open source yet, but that is on the roadmap. It is local first and plain text files on desktop OSes...but not on Android, meaning of you want to sync between your desktop and mobile you have to use their cloud. And I don't want to do that.

Joplin gets mentioned constantly. But it adds weird metadata to every text file and changes the titles of the files to some garbled hexadecimal string, which makes it impossible to know what you're looking at at the file level. And the task management/checklists is awful. Android app is bad too. I'm sure I'll get hate for hating on the FOSS golden child, but that's ok. This is simply my opinion. Like I said I'm very picky.

It went great, actually. Very easy to build in. I did end up taking the bottom panel off to make part of the install easier. Cooling seems to be really solid. It can get a bit loud when gaming due to the way shape of the vent holes in the side of the case, but I usually have headphones on anyway.. Much quieter if I were to leave the right door off (CPU side), but obviously not an option. The thing is dead silent in normal usage, the fans only really kick on for me during game sessions.

• Habits
• Tasks
• Quillpad
• Firefox
• Bitwarden
• Immich
• Miniflux
• Wallabag (also testing Omnivore)

Any DE that looks remotely like Windows. My journey to Linux began with a seething hatred of the way Microsoft does pretty much anything. Including the Win10 UI. So when I jumped ship I wanted something completely different. I tried Gnome on a couple distros but ultimately landed on Pop!_OS and really like it!

Can't link directly to the plugin, but the github page for it is here