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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Sorry, I think options like Firefly III for that might not be sufficient for small business, but it was the only great Foss personal finance software for a long time.

    Odoo is the gold standard for business. I think they also have a business finance app? It isn’t free, but the cost is reasonable.

    Otherwise, I use Leantime for project management. If you work in a project-based or contract-based company (like consultancy or design house), then it has a lot of project & product features including time tracking with a plugin. Not financial though.


  • Oh boy! Here goes

    Desktop:

    • Bazzite
    • KDE Connect
    • KiCAD
    • FreeCAD
    • Plasma
    • LocalSend
    • Thunderbird
    • Bitwarden
    • Code OSS
    • Krita
    • CoreCTRL
    • LibreOffice
    • CuteCOM
    • KopiaUI
    • Calibre
    • Heroic Games Launcher
    • Lutris
    • PrusaSlicer
    • Okular
    • Inkscape
    • FluffyChat
    • SyncThingy
    • Elisa
    • Haruna
    • Kdenlive
    • YouTube Downloader GUI
    • Paperwork (stille can’t get network scanners working on Bazzite with sane set up)
    • Solar
    • ProtonUp-QT

    Phone:

    • AntennaPod
    • Immich
    • Aegis
    • Heliboard
    • Organic Maps
    • Breezy Weather
    • Aurora Droid
    • K9 mail
    • Signal
    • Fluffy chat
    • Home Assistant
    • Eternity
    • Findroid
    • Gadgetbridge
    • Fitotrack
    • Loop habits
    • Tuta
    • StreetComplete
    • Wireguard
    • Unit converter untimate
    • mastodon
    • ntfy
    • newpipe
    • KDE Connect
    • bitwarden
    • findroid
    • localsend
    • material files

    server:

    • Leantime
    • Bookstack
    • Immich
    • Jellyfin
    • Home Assistant
    • Traefik
    • Crowdsec
    • Authelia
    • Dozzle
    • Glances
    • full *arr suite
    • transmission + wireguard
    • paperless-ngx
    • cloudflare-ddns
    • syncthing
    • valheim server
    • Boinc
    • stash
    • ntfy.sh

    If I donated $5 per month to each of these projects I would be broke 😂



  • Here in Belgium we have cryptographically signed tokens on our legally mandated IDs.

    You can use that token to do all sorts of things (my company uses them as authorship signatures for our quality system for medical devices), but if we had some standard like that, then we could have some software that would have a OTP based on that that is a huge list of valid OTPs in a website API or so, not linked to the token itself. (So you would have to trust this software that generates the OTP). You will get people using the same OTP, but that wouldn’t matter because it would just be a validity check. Lind of like the old product key generators for games.

    Sure this could be abused or gotten around by a programmer or hack, but for 95% of the population it would be effective age verification without giving away any information or statistics. Sure, people could also abuse it and save a code and use it constantly, but then they would already have been verified. Sharing a code around would also happen with teens, but it would be far more effective than not, especially for the low stakes of age verification.









  • I am a bit younger so chicken & waffels and a few other CS:S servers were that for me. Also Day of Defeat Source was underrated.

    Also, the minigame servers… The mini games people came up with!

    1 person shooting cubes at platforms whole others had to stay up, The prison, Piratewars, Multigames (the original fall guys), Prop wars, The one where there were like different power ups behind walls and then have different abilities.

    But also battlefront 2 was like that for me. SMD clan with its almost mythical figurehead. Glitching servers, shooting the shit with other people trying to find new glitches. Those were the days.

    While matchmaking is good for some games like Rocket League, it has really broken a ton of communities. I think that’s why there aren’t really "clans’ anymore, because people aren’t together enough to organize.



  • Not OP, but maybe because it is a survey from a Linux group and discord has treated Linux like 2nd class citizens since 2015 and they don’t give a flying fuck about making the experience as good on Linux as windows. It is an afterthought.

    And it is not like they did anything special at all this year to warrant a “of the year” award. Discord has been out for almost a decade. That is like saying windows is OS of the year when they have done almost nothing but bad decisions this year and the OS is already been out for a long time.






  • You pretty much have to get into self-hosting to truly have great replacements.

    Google music - tidal, or qobuz are the same thing but not as bad as Spotify. Otherwise you can self host navidrome or jellyfin->finamp

    RSS Feed: choose from like 10 Foss projects on fdroid

    Google home: Home assistant is self hosted and like 10x better and can integrate with more things

    PDF scanner: Microsoft Lens (not FOSS) but really really really good, doesn’t require a Microsoft account, doesn’t have extra permissions, and barely has telemetry. If you are OK with >10x slower, there is OSS Document scanner

    VPN: ProtonVPN, Mullvad, maybe PrivateVPN. You have to pay for one. The app is wireguard or openvpn

    Google photos: Immich is pretty much a perfect replacement

    WhatsApp you literally can’t get away from. Signal is the easiest replacement, but i could only get mg core friends on it.There is no way 99.9% of people can get their friends and family to switch to matrix or XMPP.


  • GPU advances have also gone way way down.

    For many years, YoY GPU increases lead to node shrinkages, and (if we simplify it to the top tier card) huge performance gains with slightly more power usage. The last 4-5 generations have seen the exact opposite: huge power increases closely scaling with performance increases. That is literally stagnation. Also they are literally reaching the limit of node shrinkage with current silicon technology which is leading to larger dies and way more heat to try to get even close to the same generational performance gain.

    Luckily they found other uses for uses GPU acceleration. Just because there is an increase in demand for a new usecase does not, in any way, mean that the development of the device itself is still moving at the same pace.

    That’s like saying that a leg of a chair is reaching new heights of technological advancement because they used the same chair leg to be the leg of a table also.

    It is a similar story of memory. They are literally just packing more dies in a PCB or layering PCBs outside of a couple niche ultra-expensive processes made for data centers.

    My original comment was also correct. There is a reason why >10 year old MCUs are still used in embedded devices today. That doesn’t mean that it can’t still be exciting finding new novel uses for the same technology.

    Again, stagnation ≠ bad

    The area that electronics technology has really progressed quite a bit is Signal Integrity and EMC. The things we know now and can measure now are pretty crazy and enable the ultra high frequency and high data rates that come out in the new standards.

    This is not about pro gamer upgrades. This is about the electronics (silicon based) industry (I am an electronics engineer) as a whole