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My interests are mainly music, instruments, tech, Linux and self hosting.

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  • I’ve been a Joplin user as well for some time and decided to switch to something different too. I looked at Trilium as a possible alternative but decided it wasn’t for me. Seems like their self hosted sync server doesn’t have much in terms of proper authentication at all? At least from what I’ve seen from the setup and when I skimmed through the docs. However there does seem to be encryption available which at least seems to be something. The interface also seems very cluttered and has a wild amount of features I’ll never even dream of using extensively. I needed something more simple and streamlined.

    With that in mind and as I use Authentik for authentication and user management I decided to look elsewhere. I’m currently testing Jotty/Jotty.page, however they want to format it, and it has everything I need. But it lacks encryption and a proper mobile app. It does however have PWA support which is at least something. I do also enjoy that it is pretty much completely directory based. Even the users and user sessions and shared notes are just JSON files. This makes active backups a breeze and disaster recovery is going into a users directory and making a copy of their directories and .md files. It’s growing on me to say the least.


  • There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding your question from users. If I understand it correctly, you’re wondering about when the human species became less of hunter-gatherers and more socially adept animals and when and why societal progress started suppressing aggressive behaviours in tribe-based expansion and control.

    You referencing “protohuman traits” makes it a bit harder however since protohumans are before our own species of homo sapiens but I could imagine that a lot of those traits are closely related to early homo sapien society.

    I don’t have a lot of answers for you but I think the answer maybe lies in sociological studies and things like Social Contract theory. Maybe it’s that slowly people got more rights to not be hurt by others because they could bring value to society as a whole in other ways and with the invention of agriculture, things like jobs became more viable and governments formed with laws then religion came along and what not too heavily influencing rights and wrongs.



  • My Steam Deck has been my primary and only PC for almost 2 years. My laptop that I had broke and instead of buying a new one I decided to buy adapters and a portable monitor. I rarely game on it but manage my homelab and do web development.

    I’ve been trying some different distros over time and currently I’ve been sticking with NixOS, however it’s been giving me some minor inconveniences here and there so I’ve been thinking of moving back to Nobara again.

    When I do game I never really leave desktop mode and just play it normally. Lately I’ve been playing Peak, No Man’s Sky, Stardew Valley and occasionally some VRChat.

    Overall, it’s great, my steam deck works well as a secondary screen while plugged into my monitor. I place my chats and stuff there and then I do whatever else on the main screen.




  • I’ve always found the installation process of Debian unintuitive for people not used to linux. But I could imagine that it’s probably abreally good contender once the packages are installed and the DE setup with any necessary extensions for file browsers and other programs, for example preview of files in Nautilus for GNOME. Unsure if that is automatically installed or not in Debian but could be a good idea to check.

    I’d suggest trying a test install in a VM if you can to check how well Debian will hold after configuration. Package updates for my Debian servers happens every once or so week and with a DEs GUI package manager it could simplify the process of the user actually hitting the update button.











  • It’s an interesting topic me and my friends have discussed for a long time. On one hand, putting ease of use and user experience behind a paywall is terrible but on the other developers deserve compensation. Not everyone can donate and others doesn’t even figure that it’s an option.

    Pangolin I think does it very kindly by having a button on the lower left of the interface that you can click on and then also dismiss to hide that button for a week which I find a good common ground. But at the same time I also think it’s hard to justify hate towards projects that lock things behind a paywall.

    Of course if you lock security features like OIDC/LDAP like some do or self-hosting to “Local Infrastructure” it’s pure BS. I think there’s a lot of nuance to what should and shouldn’t be done in the matter but as long as it’s still open source it’s good in my book. Like self hosting Bitwarden gives you access to the paid features or you can pay them the small fee to not self host it and get some extra QoL features.

    People do in the end have to juggle software maintenance, community maintenance, organizing issues, planning features and implementations, keeping wiki and docs up to date, etc. On top of, I’m assuming in most cases, having to do a regular job too. I know for a fact I wouldn’t be able to do that at all so if they can get some motivation through either code contribution or monetarily it would potentially ease up things.