Would a timeline really provide much benefit over viewing screenshots in a folder?

This one has a calendar:

https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/auto_screen_capture.html

For me, I often get to Friday afternoon and realise I haven’t recorded my time all week.

Supposed to be billing clients for tasks.

Screen caps every 15 minutes helps me see what I was doing

Sharex auto capture?

I mostly agree with @shadejinx. I would add that when editing the same note on two separate devices syncthing will at least fail kind of gracefully in that you’ll whatever.md will still be there but you’ll see an additional whatever-conflict-hash.md along side it so you can easily fix it up. Synctrayzor for windows will give you a nice notification and UI with which to resolve.

Nextcloud is great but it’s a real behemoth. Loads of stuff you don’t need.

IDK what you mean exactly but I sync between computers and devices just fine.

LOL. Sure mate. Keep smelling your own facts and I’ll eat a bag of dicks when … checks notes … the Italian government produces a FOSS browser to compete with Chrome & FF 🤣

Most of this is self referencing. Like the default search engine is not an example of Google’s control, it’s Mozilla’s revenue model.

The remainder sounds like personal gripes that you’re misconstruing as evidence of nefarious intent.

There’s also plenty of evidence to the contrary, total cookie protection to name but one.

Additionally, beurocratic processes produce terrible software. Log in to any govt website as a refresher.

Finally, browsers are incredibly complex, if this model worked you’d use it for much simpler projects first.

IMO a folder of markdown files is the way. Interoperable with so many things.

Out of curiosity, can I ask what it was that made mastodon click?

I had two or three goes before realising that choosing the right instance can give you an engaging “local” feed. That seems dramatically less important on lemmy though.

Perhaps, but all of these points rely on a subjective definition of what a community is, and I think that’s still emerging in the fediverse. A Facebook community is different to a reddit community which is different to a lemmy community.

I can understand your position but I don’t see it that way.

I think lemmy is a fairly early iteration of the fediverse and it’s still finding its own format and associated culture.

For example, maybe more people will start using multiple accounts, or use accounts only for a few months before discarding them.

A lot of redditors treated accounts like some kind of alternate self, to be manicured and maintained indefinitely, which might not be the right move in the fediverse.

Also, a lot of things aren’t really communicated to users on most platforms. The information is there if anyone cares to invest even the briefest moment in understanding the fediverse

It’s always going to come down to trusting someone though right ?

Even with a larger corporation who tells you they don’t sell your data, it would only take 1 employee to see the opportunity to sell 1 billion email addresses or something.

Also in the fediverse your data is pretty much freely available to everyone. Instances need to publish the list of users who have upvoted a given post or comment. Anyone so inclined could build a profile of comments and posts you’ve liked from freely available data.

Lemmy still feels a bit wild - with lots of instances springing up in the last few months and not really any time for admins to demonstrate their attitudes to different issues.

Mastodon is a little more mature though, I’ve been at fosstodon.org for a few years now. The admins there are regular participants in the community. I think I’m on the “Elon” tier in their patreon - $11 a month.

I agree.

I’m a hobbyist. I don’t work on really large or complex projects. I just want to get the most productivity for my spare-time-dabbling and having tried a few times to get into typescript it seemed to create more “extra steps” for me than it saved.

Syncthing and maybe pro expense.

I’ve never used pro expense, I just searched f-droid for “finance” and looked for something using local storage.

You probably need to acknowledge that whatever you find isn’t going to be a 1 for 1 replacement for your current workflow.

, and something like “pro expense”

… but projects being popular is not an indicator of how awesome they are.

This is sadly the way of all “awesome” lists. They start of as a curated list of awesome resources, but once they get popular they just get overrun with all & sundry so they’re just lists of not-necessarily-awesome things.

It’s interesting to see that issue though, at least someone has acknowledged the problem in this case, but I’m not sure how productive an issue like that can be? It does have some specifics but it also kinda just says “remove things which are not awesome and add things which are awesome”. Some privacy things are so divisive.

Yeah I uninstalled as soon as I realised it was a persistent notification. Fuck that.

There’s an issue on their github asking about how to download the db. It’s from February 2022 and has no responses.

https://github.com/openfarmcc/OpenFarm/issues/1374

Ads just suck all the way up and down. I don’t want to support anyone who makes money, even indirectly, from advertising.

I have two oki mc363’s (office and home).

Cost about $600, 6 years ago. Weighs about 30kg, must have a cast iron chassis or something.

Rock solid, great printer scanner in every way. Wouldn’t change a thing.

You’re a legend mate.

I find it infuriating when people refuse to be wrong at all costs, and just delete their comment when they are found to be indisputably wrong.

It’s nice to see someone who can just acknowledge that they misunderstood, as do we all at times.