https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync - Android rclone port.

Its done on a schedule but I backup once a day to backblaze b2 using my own keys for full e2ee by wrapping the b2 remote with a crypto remote. Been set it and forget it for about 3 years. Supports many other cloud or self hosted remotes.

Its not in any store last I checked. I use https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium to manage installing and updating.

I’ve been using etesync for contacts to fill the void when I first discovered it wasn’t supported. I don’t really use any of the other features outside of a e2ee cloud sync of contacts.

Don’t know if they can. If I’m recalling correctly he holds enough Class B shares to retain supermajority voting power.

Anyone else using the same concept would have to write an increasingly convoluted while loop with extra steps.

Sounds like an origin story for recursion.

Something like https://graphite.com/ to create stacked PRs that are reviewable probably would have helped. Can be replicated with local LLMs or remote AI providers with locally configured agentic workflows. Never used graphite personally, but I’ve seen some open source maintainers use it to split up large PRs.

Like, from Yellow Dog Linux? Was my first Linux distro as a kid (grew up with an Apple computer). Red Hat based so checks out. TIL.

Totally agree with your overall point.

That said, I have to come to the defense of my terminal UI (TUI) comrades with some anecdotal experience.

I’ve got all the same tools in Neovim as my VSCode/Cursor colleagues, with a deeper understanding of how it all works under the hood.

They have no idea what an LSP is. They just know the marketing buzzword “IntelliSense.” As we build out our AI toolchains, it doesn’t even occur to them that an agent can talk to an LSP to improve code generation because all they know are VSCode extensions. I had to pick and evaluate my MCP servers from day one as opposed to just accepting the defaults, and the quality of my results shows it. The same can be done in GUI editors, but since you’re never forced to configure these things yourself, the exposure is just lower. I’ve had to run numerous trainings explaining that MCPs are traditionally meant to be run locally, because folks haven’t built the mental model that comes with wiring it all up yourself.

Again, totally agree with your overall point. This is more of a PSA for any aspiring engineers: TUIs are still alive and well.

There is a praise/validation kink for that.

Firefox Nightly + arkenfox userjs + uBlock Origin + Bitwarden as my daily driver.

Been a couple years since I checked up on arkenfox still being good. I get flagged as a bot all the time and constantly get popups about WebGL (GPU fingerprinting) so I assume its working as intended for my threat model.

Tails when I really care.

Mullvad VPN as my regular VPN with ProtonVPN for torrents.

GrapheneOS / NixOS as my OS.

Proton Visionary for most cloud services except passwords and I don’t really use Proton Drive. I do use ProtonPass for unique emails to every provider.

Kagi for searches / AI.

Etesync for contacts because Proton didn’t sync with the OS last I checked.

Backblaze B2 for cloud storage with my own encryption via rclone (Round Sync on GrapheneOS)

Keypass for a few things like my XMR wallets and master passwords I don’t even trust in Bitwarden.

https://jmp.chat/ for my mobile provider.

Pihole with encrypted DNS to Quad9.

https://onlykey.io/ for the second half of my sensitive passwords (Bitwarden, LUKS, Keypass, OS login). First half memorized.

Its a lot. I burned myself out a couple years ago keeping up with optimizing privacy and this setup has served me well for 2 years without really changing anything. The cloud services are grey areas in terms of privacy but the few ads that leak through uBlock have zero relevance to anything about me.

Soma. Its like sleepytime ecstasy that lasts 20-30min.

high levels of serotonin in the body - agitation, hallucinations, fever, sweating, shivering, fast heart rate, muscle stiffness, twitching, loss of coordination, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.

https://www.drugs.com/soma.html

robopuke

The cremlings emerge.

Toooo real. Its like companies have taken the worst of everything and just call it agile. List out every task and estimate them so we have timelines, but don’t actually architect anything as that’s waterfall. Fake waterfall, with fake dates, but fingers will be pointed like they were real commitments, and spend a month doing it for this executive power point instead of fucking off so devs can build the damn thing.

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1142157838153895941?mx=2

• 2019

They were setting the stage for this in his first term.

I ended up just building a box after looking for the perfect NAS and finding it didn’t exist. The software is usually just crap or the hardware is underwhelming. Got a Node 804 case to slap in plenty of HDD space. Running NixOS so I’m in control of the software. In retrospect I wish I had gotten a rackmount type case. Tossed in an Arc GPU for better transcoding shortly after the initial setup.

If half your employees aren’t acting the way they do in private, they’re putting on a mask and not being their true selves

But you’re making this point in defense of someone aligning themselves with a group who targets trans, women, and whoever else they can bully not like them for being their true selves… Do you not see the hypocrisy of such a point given the context of the quote?

Major desktop environments are KDE as you mentioned and Gnome.

Arch wiki is a good resource even if not running arch. You may want to look into their dotfiles page to back up your settings: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dotfiles.

NixOS ended up being my distro of choice for reproducible installs but it has a high learning curve and poor documentation so I wouldn’t recommend to start with. That said you can still use Nix on other distros with home manager to manage dotfiles and install non-system apps.

Distros just pick the default things to install. You can always use the package manager to install something else like a better file manager.

A lot of choices are simply subjective so its hard to recommend any one distro. Mint is close to windows, based on Ubuntu and uses Gnome. Ubuntu based on Debian I find to be user friendly. Not used a Fedora based distro in ages but there is also Silverblue I’ve heard mentioned positively.

Distros like Arch and NixOS are more design your own system setups. Pick what you want. I used arch for a bit, but got annoyed at keeping all my systems in sync. Had a huge wiki of all the tweaks I made. Then scripts to automate some of it. I started looking at automation tooling like ansible when I found nix.

Not tried it myself: https://disroot.org/en