I see… Welp, guess I’ll go back to what I was using before!

Is this good news or bad news?

It’s infuriating, isn’t it.

Moral of the story: don’t read the Daily Heil. On top of mining your data like there’s no tomorrow, it’s a racist, homophobic, transphobic, fascist, pseudoscientific crock of absolute shit.

I like SchildiChat the most, since it has a nice UI and supports both E2EE and calls.

Not a bad idea, tbh

I use Syncthing

Fair point. Just because I have an opinion doesn’t mean people should listen to me. /srs

It might not actually be that bad, but I rarely like change. In my opinion, all software should have a sort of legacy UI mode.

EDIT: You don’t have to listen to my opinion.

I haven’t touched my YouTube channel in over a year now, but at this rate I’m thinking of deleting it altogether. There doesn’t seem to be a PeerTube instance willing to host all of my content (it’s essentially an archive for old PSAs, with occasional top 10s), so I reckon I’ll download the entire channel with JDownloader and then wait until I can host an instance of PeerTube or MediaGoblin.

My HP’s hinge broke, too. I had to pack the entire back of the case with putty in order to fix it, and it’s still not quite right.

Well, I often just do a bank transfer or card payment. I’ve tried to use Monero, but I’ve had trouble getting ahold of any crypto without selling my soul to Guardarian.

The letter arrived yesterday.

I like the Gormanian and Holocene calendars; but I use the Gregorian for compatibility with the rest of humanity.

Also, as I live in Britain, I use an unholy mixture of metric, imperial, and archaic measurements.

Length of an object? Centimetres. Height of a human? Feet and inches. Mass of flour? Grams. Mass of a human? Stones, pounds, and ounces. Distance by car? Miles. Distance on foot? Kilometres. Volume of a soft drink? Litres or millilitres. Volume of beer or milk? Pints. Volume of non-dairy milk? Also litres and millilitres.

Honestly no

Europe/London, BST, UTC+01:00

Do you use a different calendar system, by any chance?

Yes, but one would assume I meant the 19th of the current month of the current year.

Also “They said the 19th June 2024” doesn’t work so great as a title.

It was two days ago.

19th June

I have a few machines, which run:

• Raspbian Bookworm (arm64) with IceWM - Raspbian is the only desktop RPi distro that works out-of-the-box. I chose IceWM because it’s fast, light, customisable, and I can make it look like it’s 2004.
• openSUSE Tumbleweed with Xfce+Bspwm - I keep going back to openSUSE. It just works. As for the desktop, I wanted Xfce but with tiling.
• Mageia 9 with LXQt - I just needed something lighter than Fedora Xfce, as this machine only has 4GB of RAM.
• FreeBSD with i3 - Thought I’d give BSD a try. I was pleasantly surprised.
• Gentoo (WIP) - I’m just throwing random distros at my MacBook until something sticks. Gentoo is fast and can control the fan without me having to git clone and compile the drivers (ironically).
• crunchbang++ (i386) with Openbox - This is a mid-2000s MacBook, running one of the few Linux distros that actually boots on it.

Some distros I tried but did not like were Pop!_OS, Slackware, Zenwalk, Freespire, Redcore, Fedora Atomic, ArchBang, and antiX.

Sone distros I’d like to try are Qubes OS, Clear Linux, CRUX, Kwort, Paldo, Exherbo, NuTyX, T2, Chimera, Adélie, Frugalware (no new ISOs since 2016, but the packages are still updated), Dragora, Parabola, Hyperbola, PLD, KANOTIX, Calculate, ALT, ROSA, and AUSTRUMI.

The reasons I have not yet tried these are mostly down to my limited hardware and the complexity of some of the distros. With others, it’s often down to WiFi drivers not existing for my proprietary cards. And then there are also a couple of distros from Russia, which I feel I can’t trust at the moment.