Your experience (as a single data point) doesn't mean that everyone the age of the interns you work with uses Discord.

I'm responding to his personal datapoint with my own. I agree with you though..

Sure, but then you're putting all your eggs in one basket (hard drive). If you really want to divest yourself of the cloud then you need to set things up in a redundant and fault-tolerant fashion. And at that point the outlay is much more than 'just a hard drive'.

Did you skip the "back a million photos" part? That's at least 3 copies of every file, spread across your group. If you want maximum safety you can add a local backup too, which isn't much more money. You don't need to spend anything on fault tolerance. Your files should already be on multiple servers, but also if it goes down for a few days that isn't a big deal.

That was already covered in my top level comment though. Geographic redundancy not local mirroring.

Yes, you need two hard drives. If you’re really paranoid, use three.

Good lord, Oink was only around for 4 years? I was one of the earlier signups and it felt more like 10 years.

Maybe because what.cd picked up the torch and carried on for another few years? For me there was some sense of continuity between the two.

There was. Oink spawned both wcd and waffles. wcd spawned a few including RED.

Next thursday, RED will have been around longer than WCD...

Crazy

None of the successors captured oink for me (I proudly had their t-shirt), sadly.

You can install gboard on iOS - I haven't used the default keyboard in years

It's abandoned and buggy. I'm surprised google hasn't just removed it from the store. I suspect as soon as it actually requires an update because of a change in the OS it will disappear.

Yes, I loved it, but it crashed in too many apps and I had to switch to the Apple one :(

Unfortunately, it's simply not as good. I miss long-press punctuation so much.

This 1000x over! On Android you have this and you can tune how long a long-press is. It's amazing and should be an advanced feature on iOS.

I wish Apple would get over itself and expose settings for all-the-things, like how you can write default finder settings on macOS using the terminal.

Yes! I miss it very much. When I was on Android, I used to have it set to 100ms. I used to very quickly send well-punctuated text. On iPhones, it seems like the digitizer has 100ms of hysteresis built in.

now i just Lettuce my iPhone sden whatever it wants with no punctuation its not real good

Unfortunately, MacOS doesn't have settings (which I am told it had) for animation scales, like Androids have. The interface is sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

Yeah I tried it and it doesn't stand up to it on Android in my experience. I figured I'd rather not give Google any data if the experience isn't going to be the same.

That buggy abandonware that hasn't been updated in 3 years?

I remember listening to Longplayer when I visited the Millennium Dome [1] way back in 2000.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Dome

You can be human and not care about other humans.

FWIW, I've been daily driving Linux and an iPhone for almost 13 years now and I've never really had any issues with it. Maybe it's because I've not experienced some of the integration in the ecosystem and so I don't know what I'm missing.

I use Firefox as my browser across all devices so I can just share tabs via my account, and if I want to share text or files then LocalSend works just fine in lieu of Airdrop.

I wanted to try it out as I really need to clean up my camera roll, but it's not available in the UK :(

My bad, shared the US link! Here you go: https://apps.apple.com/app/ai-photo-cleaner-sorter/id6754172... Will update the post :)

It doesn’t make sense to conflate a decision made by the government with that of a private company, just because they happen to be in the same country.

I run several Talos clusters (provisioned by Cluster API) on commodity hardware which is part of a Proxmox cluster in my homelab