My favorite April Fool’s joke was convincing my then-elementary age kids that they missed April Fool’s Day. Somehow I managed to do this completely deadpan. Them coming home from school and immediately yelling “DAD YOU TRICKED US” was the icing on the cake. They’re teenagers now and still talk about it. Good times.

Recently though, I’ve grown a distaste for AF jokes in general. I fell for two of them within 10 minutes of waking up. One was a youtube creator (miniminuteman’s “Atlantis” episode" that he’s actually been working on for months), and the other was a buddy of mine on a Discord we’re in telling us that he blew his engine in his only vehicle.

To be fair though, in years past I would find a photo of a wrecked vehicle that matched one of mine, same year/make/model/color, and post it on social media captioned with something to the effect of “well that was short-lived” or “luckily it was just me” or whatever. The last time I did it was a few years ago, my wife (then girlfriend at the time) called me within 10 minutes of posting it, clearly panicked, and demanding to know if I was at the hospital 😂 I should have looped her in, in hindsight. But I don’t do it anymore anyway because 1) everyone caught on 😅 and 2) fuck Facebook.

That’s my take. I subscribe to the whole “piracy is a convenience issue” mindset. If you’re gonna make me pay for 12 different subscriptions just so I can have access to a few decent shows, I’m cancelling everything and just pirating it. Fucking greedy-ass companies are never happy until they get all the revenue.

No clue what us3n3t is, but Usenet is doing great.

I’ll have to give this a shot. I’ve tinkered with Monica a few times over the last several years, but never really stuck with it since their mobile interface wasn’t exactly…good.

Optionally you can also activate the CardDav server to sync contacts to and from your phone.

This right here is going to be incredibly helpful. Manually adding contacts is a serious chore. Syncing with my phone makes that process 100x easier.

I’m not exactly an expert, but I’m comfortable enough that I can figure out most things.

I still prefer a GUI option for a lot of things.

This. OMV is no-nonsense.

Barebones with a wide selection of useful plugins. That’s kinda how OMV operates, and it’s fantastic.

The profit metric they look at isn’t profit itself, but actually year-over-year profit increases.

That’s the imaginary money line that tells shareholders and execs how much the actual money line has gone up since last year. When a big company says they’re operating “in the red”, they’re still making ungodly amounts of profit - just not as much as last year.

Find better sources. If you’re not seeing something you want in the places you know about, put in more effort. You’re not gonna find shit from a google search.

As for myself, I hopped on Usenet and ditched torrents almost entirely. Far better selection of pretty much everything.

Matter is a shit-tier standard. The fact that big tech companies put their weight behind Matter and that several have already walled it off behind mandatory account creation tells me all I need to know about their intentions with it.

Right on. I actually saw your response to the other person down lower right after posting this 😂

I’m curious to see how you tackle this puzzle. I usually just text myself with this kind of thing, but I know that doesn’t work for everyone…

I find that just texting myself does the trick for things like this. But that’s how I operate. I’m curious to see how you tackle this puzzle.

Edit: disregard

The .io TLD that tech startups love to use is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory.

KeePass2Android is a fantastic project. I’ve been using it for 10+ years on my Android devices. Every once in a while I’ll try a different variant, like KeePassDX, but I always return to the spartan look of KP2A. It “just works”, with no extra fluff.

merging changes from different clients is part of the keepass database format and “just works”.

This is the best thing about KeePass in general.

This bit from the heise.de article stood out:

Kiteworks, on the other hand, is less than enthusiastic about – a closed group of developers who are now using the same code in their own company that they already developed under Kiteworks or ownCloud? For Kiteworks, this smells like poaching, so the company is going on the offensive: in an interview with heise online, Kiteworks CEO Jonathan Yaron stated that he intends to sue Peer Heinlein under German and US law: “We love open source, but we won’t let anyone steal from us”.

facepalm

I’m hesitant about OpenCloud. Their parent company is Heinlein Group, whom I know nothing about, nor can I find anything about their reputation. The website uses a lot of marketing fluff, which puts me off already.

I’ve been using KeePass for almost 20 years now, used to host the database on Google Drive. I started using Syncthing about a year or so ago, including Syncthing-Fork on my Android devices. It’s nearly flawless - I sync the database across 6 devices (two phones, two laptops, gaming PC, NAS [which is backed up regularly]), so there is the occasional conflict maybe once every few months, but I think that’s more user error than anything else. It’s fairly easy to resolve since Syncthing clearly labels the affected file.

It’s very important to remember that “Syncthing-Fork” IS NOT the official Syncthing project. Syncthing-Fork uses Syncthing under the hood while providing a mobile-friendly wrapper.

Edit - Re: Syncthing Fork “drama”:

Catfriend1 (the original maintainer of Syncthing-fork) recently put in their 2 cents.

TL;DR - The new dev is fine.

For me personally, the fact that 1) devs from both F-Droid and Syncthing itself have reviewed and confirmed that the code is safe, and 2) the original maintainer vouched for the new guy, is good enough for me. There will always be those who refuse to trust anything, even from the original developer, and they are often the most vocal about it - i.e. the “vocal minority”. Whether or not you want to listen to their criticisms is up to you. IMO, they’re just beating a dead horse.

Aegis Authenticator hits every one of your points. I know because I have the same requirements for a TOTP application.

I also use KeePass for all of my passwords. KeePass can do TOTP, but I prefer that to remain separate.