Try Matrix bridges or Beeper

I know this will usually draw the ire of more experienced users (yes I use Arch btw) but if you really want an install that is as hands-off and foolproof as possible you are generally gonna be better off with an Ubuntu distro.

I put Kubuntu on PCs for beginners/noobs because it gives them access to more advanced options if they need them in the future while also typically being fully functional out of the box.

Ubuntu distros typically have extensive hardware support and a lot of testing. Yeah it’s not going to be the most cutting-edge but you don’t want that, you want it to “just work”

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package friends
E: Unable to locate package to
E: Unable to locate package play
E: Unable to locate package games
E: Unable to locate package with

I came across this issue on my own discord server, the system kinda encourages you towards those higher security levels without really being especially clear about what it will do to the user experience.

One thing I would clear up though:

I think both sides in the OP are correct here.

Yes, the server admin sets the security level that triggers those requirements.

But it’s also true that the server/admins do not get your phone number, that private information is only kept within discord’s verification system. It is not sent to the server admins.

Yeah if he thinks he has it so bad send him over to a prison in the southern US for a bit, bet he’ll be missing his “inhumane treatment” back home

I really tried to like openboard but the way it hides the % key and the location of the / key drove me back to gboard

It always capitalizes Internet for me

For only $50/month disable tracker detection on your trackers!

He was a good friend

It’s a Reddit tradition!

It is a consequence of how the networks were physically built when providers thought that cable and download speeds were all anyone needed; it’s not just a software switch they can flip if they wanted to.

This is true of so much of our infrastructure in the US.

Not bandwidth speeds specifically but just aging infrastructure that was built out long ago and not properly maintained and/or updated over time

What about when they buy a new printer and need drivers.

Printers have “just worked” on Linux for longer than Windows has provided drivers through Windows Update. What printer do you have that requires special drivers in Linux?

Linux is a problem for people who come from windows and need more than basics but are not tech savvy enough to get their hands dirty.

Spot-on. For people with minimal to no computer skills in the first place Linux will serve them well.

The one who well struggle the most ironically are Windows “Power users” and other intermediate/advanced users who don’t have the equivalent skill already in Linux or time/willingness to learn Linux systems.

I have a fairly “bleeding edge” laptop with an RTX3000 series GPU and an AMD CPU/APU and I have been surprised at how well it runs on Linux.

Not only is my battery life consistently better but it handles the GPU switching flawlessly and performance in games is also consistently noticeably better than what I experienced running Windows on the same hardware.

Even in just the last year or two the advancements in Linux support have been downright incredible! (At least in my personal experience)

Of course I’m using Nvidia’s proprietary drivers, but I was in Windows too and my experience has only improved by switching to Linux.

It’s not a Windows app.

You can run it on Windows with Docker, but I would suggest a Linux server and a reverse proxy for the best experience (like most self-host solutions)

The installation documentation is here

And here

Definitely Immich.

There’s a lot of these kinds of services, hosted or self-hosted that are labeled as a “Google Photos replacement”

But very few of said services have features like face matching and object recognition alongside automatic backups.

IMO it’s not a legitimate replacement for Google Photos without those features and Immich really delivers on that without compromising your privacy.

“Several cases?” Lol

Virtually every bill that passes in Congress contains riders and typically only passes because of those riders.

After they abandoned the multiplayer cause they coudnt give it money printing shark cards?

At least the multiplayer got attention, the single-player game never got anything after the initial release.

Listen if past me couldn’t keep up that’s on them.

We’re all probably better for it.

I’m way cooler than that guy.

I use and love Kopia for all my backups: local, LAN, and cloud.

Kopia creates snapshots of the files and directories you designate, then encrypts these snapshots before they leave your computer, and finally uploads these encrypted snapshots to cloud/network/local storage called a repository. Snapshots are maintained as a set of historical point-in-time records based on policies that you define.

Kopia uses content-addressable storage for snapshots, which has many benefits:

Each snapshot is always incremental. This means that all data is uploaded once to the repository based on file content, and a file is only re-uploaded to the repository if the file is modified. Kopia uses file splitting based on rolling hash, which allows efficient handling of changes to very large files: any file that gets modified is efficiently snapshotted by only uploading the changed parts and not the entire file.

Multiple copies of the same file will be stored once. This is known as deduplication and saves you a lot of storage space (i.e., saves you money).

After moving or renaming even large files, Kopia can recognize that they have the same content and won’t need to upload them again.

Multiple users or computers can share the same repository: if different users have the same files, the files are uploaded only once as Kopia deduplicates content across the entire repository.

There’s a ton of other great features but that’s most relevant to what you asked.