Pro tip: if you write an open source program as an alternative to some proprietary application, don't just present it as "an open source implementation of $PROPRIETARY_THING"; explain what your program actually does.
I've found lots of projects that present themselves as alternatives to proprietary products that I've never heard of, so trying to figure exactly what they do requires me to somehow figure out what the proprietary one does and how it works.
Encouraging people to learn how to #selfhost#email is nice idea. Lots to be learnt there.
Pointing them to postfix is what you do if you want them to suffer.
Not sure why more folks don't use #opensmtpd, which has a clear and well documented configuration format. Actually, the whole thing is really well documented and a pleasure to set up.
Perhaps it's simply less well know, but at this point it's not "new" any more.
@whynothugo
It's usually something to do with links, etc. It's a mess and I don't have enough knowledge to confirm for sure.
I however do know that vlc has sftp support built in. You can see this under browse, three dots, add favorite. And I believe you can open a direct sftp url to a file under more, streams, add stream. I never used this so I wish you best of luck. I don't have much experience with streaming video from a non local server over a protocol like that.
Replies are "this has been asked before, use the search function".
Use the search function.
Lots of other people asking the same question, receiving the same reply.
If something has been answered before, put a link to the answered question. Saying "this has been answered before" produces garbage results for people who are actually using the search function.
My mobile service provider charges €132/year for my current line, but they charge €82/year for new lines.
I need to make a list of stupid services that assume that randomly require SMS validation, and can then save €50/year buy just switching to a new line.
I wonder if that would help reduce spam calls / spam SMS too.
A few years ago I worked at a company where the CTO and another executives didn't think that global warming was an issue because they lived in a region a couple of hundred metres above sea level, and land around them was fertile, so they'd be fine with rising sea levels.
What the Linux ecosystem needs right now is a solid community-maintained distribution for non-technical people.
Like, if someone who's using Windows asks me right now "which Linux can I use on my laptop", I have no answer.
My partner tried Fedora, but it was so unstable and broken all over the place that she asked me to get rid of it, even if it mean starting from scratch again.
She now uses PopOS and I've had to configure dozens of things for her that would have been trivial on Windows 7.
Alpine works great for me, ArchLinux is great too, but neither of these are suitable for people who aren't developers / sysadmin or something very close.
@whynothugo What I think would help the Linux ecosystem is two things:
An advertising campaign for Linux in general, or for a single distro. This is unlikely to happen, because most people interested in Linux despise advertisements, but I think it would really help develop a public awareness of alternative OSes.
A major laptop manufacturer shipping Linux by default on their flagship or business models.
Sure, having to open a terminal to fix a problem is not newbies friendly. And having to open a car's front cover to fix an engine problem isn't friendly at all either.
Yet somehow I only hear people complaining about one of the two. And it's not the one which can lead to injury.
In an alternative reality, people prefer comfort to status symbols, so they ride public transit instead of each one buying and piloting their own cars.
@vixalientoots In places where public transit is not the most convenient/comfortable, it is usually because people invest in private cars instead of the (much cheaper, scalable and sustainable) public transit.
The "if you don't like some software just don't use it" mindset completely misses the point.
Software that you don't use still shapes the entire ecosystem.
Just look at how many modern APIs are designed to behave more like Windows "to make software easier to port" or "to make cross-platform development easier".
Can I disable this behaviour on #mastodon where it jumps to the next post when I press the Down arrow key?
It's infuriating, because every time I press the down arrow key, I actually want to just scroll a bit (usually to read the next line of the currently visible post). Like on pretty much any other webpage since the mid-nineties.