@jpmens I did a review a little while ago and considered Joplin too! Admittedly, this was in the context of personal note taking, and Joplin was a strong contender.
Here I'm mostly interested in the collaborative side, and nothing quite fits the bill for me these days.
@thibaultamartin that's a very balanced write-up, and I agree with you about Joplin's iOS app being 'suboptimal'. Even so, I think I've become used to it, so there's that. :)
We reached the point where my brain autocorrects "AI" to "pollution".
All the companies touting AI in their products are now telling me they don't care about making human life more difficult if it can earn them a few extra dollars.
@thibaultamartin I was thinking in my head last night that IIRC crypto is using more energy than Argentina and now AI using more energy than France, Silicon Valley alone has already reversed what little gains we've had in fighting climate change. All to do absolutely nothing useful except trying to put more billions of dollars in the hands of a few dozen people. It is pure insanity. And just recently Sam Altman was saying we need to invent new energy sources to power AI. Not fight climate change. Not live sustainably. Just to feed this beast.
Planify is a neat todo app for @gnome that supports sync with todoist and @nextcloud. It even works on (Linux) phones!
I’m so thrilled to see the number of high-quality apps independent people create for GNOME! I’m certain the hard work of the GNOME team on the documentation and on libadwaita is no stranger to that 🚀
I regularly think about this essay about the evolution of #centralization in computing. It focuses on businesses and research, but I have a feeling that the next stage of #decentralization will happen via the general public.
We don't have to rely on energy-hungry, leak-prone servers to run 24/7 to do our basic tasks. We need more local-first computing.
“With multi-billion-dollar grants to [chip makers], the US govt has spent over half its $39bn in Chips Act incentives”
“This won’t mean complete self-sufficiency. Production of smartphones and consumer electronics would be disrupted in the event of a crisis in east Asia”
BILLIONS of dollars in grants are not enough to make the US self-sufficient.
Meanwhile a few dozens of millions going to @gnome and @postmarketOS would make the US and EU much less vulnerable.
@thibaultamartin@nextcloud Good move from Nextcloud, but they are not the cheapest here.
HETZNER offers 1 TB (twice as much for 1/3 of the price). Illimited users, daily backups, secure tests all passed, hosted in Germany too).
@gverdun I'm a self-hoster and work for a company doing SaaS offerings: I know that pricing a service is HARD.
Hetzner's core mission is infrastructure, which certainly allows them to do economies of scale that @nextcloud can't afford to do (yet?)
Hetzner is also using Nextcloud without contributing anything back. The GPL licence allows them to do it, but they benefit from the free R&D, while Nextcloud bears all the costs
Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.
Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.
We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.
@thibaultamartin@postmarketOS@gnome We need a legal obligation to release of all relevant code and schematics for all chipsets that are no longer supported by the manufacturer.
I'm still on an old Pixel 2, running an "ancient"¹ GrapheneOS. I replaced the battery, but it works fine.
It's also a security risk, which i'm well aware of. This shouldn't be the case.
I hate how the Internet distorts our relationship to time, i should probably write something about that one of these days.
@thibaultamartin@postmarketOS@gnome We need to stop all the big tech semi forcing obsolescence on phones, computers etc, by updating OS in ways that prevent older devices working.
Dopamine culture is one of the main reasons why I care about local-first, offline computing (the other being resilience).
@gnome has a strong "native apps first" culture, that local-first computing depends on.
It's making tremendous progress to be adapted to phones, the most ubiquitous devices in real life, where it can run in large parts to the efforts of @postmarketOS.
It's my biggest source of hope for computing the respects people.
It's been a while since I last browsed the GNOME Circle curated apps directory and wow. So many focused apps that do one thing and do it well. So many utilities to tackle tasks easily. Can't recommend enough to have a look at it.