I use old thinkcentre machines, they’re cheap and are powerful enough for decent servers. I have them loaded with 16gb of RAM and 2x265gb NVME each for mirroring. They work wonderfully.

I’m pretty sure beeper is against TOS if they’re using the Matrix bridge I think they’re using.

This guy is hilarious!

Guess so

SimpleX has been around since 2020.

I’ve tried this out a bit recently, it runs really well but I can’t figure out why it exists. I don’t really understood the appeal of “everything apps”.

Delta Chat is still really good though, I definitely recommend people check it out.

Edit: didn’t realize there were some multiplayer games, being able to send a chess invite is actually pretty cool.

banking apps

Works in the browser for me

dating apps

Works in the browser for me

YouTube

Newpipe or clipious

proprietary alarm

Why?

google maps

I’ve been using osmand for years across Canada, works fine for me

cute icon pack

😂

To each their own, and use whatever tool you prefer, but moving away from google and proprietary software is a lot easier than people think.

Aurora is a full replacement for the play store. I’ve been using fdroid as my only source for apps for years now. It has everything I need.

The reason is privacy, everybody has a reason to use it.

Self-host an instance with no karma and no mods.

Well known software built using Matrix. A lot of people have been following this project.

Syncthing will also work with Nextcloud.

Liberapay, 12$/year to any open source project I use. It isn’t much, but its what I can afford.

Well I guess my personal definition of backup is wrong.

Sounds like pedantry to me.

raid1 + data duplication

Photos, videos, music, documents, etc… are available on multiple devices using SyncThing.

For 24$/year porkbun has been really easy!

Lutris is great, does that count?

Gandi was recently purchased, and and is slowly going down the drain. I moved all my domains and emails to porkbun.

$20/mo?! When free alternatives exist, why would anybody do this?