I mean, maybe google should stop shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to messaging. See: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

Come visit us over at !bbs@lemmy.sdf.org ! Would love to build up a community around this.

It’s all good. I only know because I’ve been a paying customer since pretty much the beginning.

I get the sentiment, but Flickr hasn’t been owned by Yahoo for a while. They were purchased by the folks that run SmugMug.

I work at a top 10 US financial institution. All devs/engineers and ux folks get issued macbooks as standard. Probably been two years now that this has been the case. Being able to use all the unix command line stuff, along with more reliable machines, longer expected life, and higher productivity (those M series processors rock) make it a no-brainer. HP zbooks only go out to the people that specifically request them or are reliant on the few apps that do not have either a web based option or macos equivalent (its going to be the web based option that solves this over time I expect. Prob not a lot of incoming ports).

non-technical people looking to use an alternative operating system

Umm, you don’t see the oxymoron there?

Sponsorblock for YouTube was a game changer for me. Highly recommend it to everyone.

For sure, turn off wifi on the tv and also block it’s MAC address at the router. Plug in your trusted streaming box of choice via HDMI and only use that (Nvidia Shield, AppleTV, Roku, AndroidTV, Homebuilt Plex box, etc).

Family group chat and shared albums in iOS. Solve 90% of the needs.

I guess that’s nice. I installed cloudflared myself and get the same results that way with my pinhole. But it was an extra step.

Another +1 for namecheap here. Have a dozen or so domaions/projects with them.

AppFlowy isn’t web based?

Interesting, I feel exactly the opposite. I’m far less inclined to use a web based tool. For a backend sync/storage or admin interface to a server? Sure. But for the user interface/business logic? Let me run it locally as a native program. To each their own I guess.

Well, that’s good to know. Thanks!

Didn’t know there was a discourse. Thanks!

Cron jobs are mainly for enabling and disabling internet access by mac address on a schedule. I also like that these commercial products force search to google or duckduckgo safe search, and youtube to youtube restricted on a per user basis (which really could be done by mac address). I mean I can prob do all this with firewall rules myself. But a slick web interface would be cool.

Since 1999 I’m only on my second Brother Laser printer. They are champs and 3rd party toner is inexpensive.

Would be curious in the article if you can turn up a link to it.