I fully understand the argument and kinda agree. That said, here’s why i still use the Telegram self-chat just like OP, you can suggest a note-taking app replacement if you think:

• Paste a link, instant preview of it without user intervention, can play it right on the app if it’s audio/video if i want or get a preview of it if it’s just a page without opening a full browser (this puts it automatically above a “synced notepad” which is what i understand note taking apps tend to be)
• Synced across devices
• Both desktop and mobile
• Private, no one else sees it
• Easy and convenient, i usually have Telegram running already, just switch to it on browser or desktop and copy or paste the thing

Gimme a note taking app that has all these, that is not a big program needing lots of resources to run all the time, and that i can self-host for the server part (or E2EE P2P like Syncthing) and we’re cooking!

Since i use the self-chat on Telegram a lot i’ve wished for exactly the same thing in the past as i’m planning on leaving the service, so far haven’t found a right fit yet

This advice is not directly related to that, this is the same advice given by security-oriented organizations all over to compensate with people being people

At this point we have some things established:

• MC is very much a Ciaphas Cain/Lightspeed Masayuki style character, does not want absolutely anything with the hero thing but is pushed to it by external circumstances AND must act like it because the consequences of the whole thing ending would be BAD, i utterly love this
• Narrative Causality itself is having an absolute blast making everything the MC does look like he’s a super-competent hero, when in reality he’s just messing around and trying to NOT be a hero
• There’s too much fanservice around Tino, and doesn’t look like it’s gonna stop
• The abusive relationship between Tino and her sensei Liz seems to be played for laughs but is rather offputing

Both very good and very bad things about this series, i think the good are worth remaining but that might change

Actually felt bad about that poor robot, no one deserves being the target of these jerks 😂

He’s the duct tape that keeps the story together, without him there would be no story, and if he were to disappear it would dissipate into nothing, plus he serves as our audience proxy. Also i just cannot get enough of him and Licia interacting, they’re too damn adorable!

Noted, thanks!

Wait, Bofuri S2 was inferior to the novels? Oh man, then the novels must be freaking awesome! Gotta get to that! Any details of from where to where is adapted from the novels to the anime?

What’s the “best practices” for DNS these days besides running your own local service?

They bought an ads company AFTER this person took the reins

Not customers, users, otherwise they’ll start paywalling features

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

We’re seeing the fallout from a commercial service used for public interest communication falling in real time with Twitter, so many public service things that depended or still depend on Twitter have outright broke as it turns into raw sewage and people flee it. That should have NEVER been the main communications medium, and now the price is being paid. I understand as i too am in a place where WhatsApp is near-mandatory, but this is something that WILL have bad consequences sooner or later.

Only 42?

First AI and now freaking Bitcoin…

Need to retry this at some point, last time i tried it, the Kindle app worked in Wine but had no connection, i suspect this was a Wine configuration issue

I didn’t knew about lsof -i, noted

Thanks!

As somebody that might be changing phone sometime this year and to cover all the possibilities, do we have a recent comparison of all these projects?