Because I’m an idiot. 🤦 Thanks!

you call them or just show up. It’s like the 2000s out here.

TIL: I’m living in the 2000s and didn’t realize it. 😅

Yeah, this is what I do. Sometimes I show up and the place is closed. I wasted 30 minutes driving there. It’s annoying. But, not so annoying that I want to use FB. (For me personally. I understand people have different tolerances.)

I’m older, I guess, this is just what we did when we were growing up.

Yeah, I guess you’re right actually. You pay money and get more features. I tend to think of subscriptions for Open Source more as donations, but Fluxer is a little different.

But, yeah, like someone else said, you can self-host and not pay anything and get access to everything. Did I mention it’s fully Open Source without a CLA?!

Real question, can you describe this experience more? How do businesses get locked behind Facebook?

I’m glad I deleted my accounts years ago. I don’t have loss aversion from leaving them. I don’t know what I’m missing, I guess, and that’s good.

Did you guys also consider Fluxer? I tried Stoat first, but the main instance is really slow and there are some video features disabled due to high cost. Which is totally fair.

Fluxer seems to have more features and their main instance is a lot snappier. They’re also accepting donations via Plutonium. Which seems to be helping with the server costs.

Both are AGPLv3, with Fluxer recently saying they’re gonna remove their CLA so that it’s true Open Source.

Last I heard, Stoat isn’t planning federation.

Fluxer IS planning federation. https://blog.fluxer.app/roadmap-2026/

Honestly, yeah, I’d do the same. After several past jobs required Linux, even downgrading to a Mac feels pretty bad. Can’t imagine Macroslop Wangblows.

Actually, one thing I want to do is switch from services being on a subdomain to services being on a path.

immich.myserver.com -> myserver.com/immich
jellyfin.myserver.com -> myserver.com/jellyfin

I’m getting tired of having to update DNS records every time I want to add a new service.

I guess the tricky part will be making sure the services support this kind of routing…

God I hate those stupid magic links. They’re WAAAAYYY slower than just using my password manager.

AND they kinda contribute to locking you into Big Tech. I sometimes have problems with those stupid links because I don’t have a Gmail account. Somewhere along the stupid chain there’s probably some stupid check that delays or blackholes emails to non-big-tech domains.

Not even once.

It asks to verify pin once a month. Which I think is fair, since it can help you recover from a lockout / transfer your device.

Even that is too annoying. OK, I just realized there’s a way to turn off reminders. Trust me bro, I’m not gonna forget. I’m a big boy.

backups are important, but they can also be disabled

Ah! YES! Thanks! I just poked around deeper in the settings and disabled them. Backups are not important to me. I don’t want to backup my messages.

I have never been asked to verify my recovery key.

Maybe it’s because I had backups on? Let’s see if this popup goes away.

Donating to open source projects is important, as it’s a large portion of their funding.

Agreed. Which is why I donate to them… And I still get the popups! I’m already a donor, leave me alone.

Overall, I want to give my attention to my messages, not to Signal. Leave me alone. Let me message people. I don’t want to be nagged. WhatsApp doesn’t nag people nearly as much. I know Signal is overall better, but user annoyances like the excessive popups makes it harder for me to try to convince normal people to use Signal.

I’ve been using Signal more to test if I can recommend it to other people… it’s mostly like WhatsApp, which is good…

Except, can we please disable all of those god damn popups. Everyday: “Hey! Verify your pin!”, “Hey! Verify your LONG ASS recovery key!”, “Hey, plz donate!”, “HEY! I couldn’t start a backup”, “HEY LOOK AT ME!”

Uhh… Sure, I’ll try the super salad…

Time to switch to Plan9!

I don’t want to sync files at all. I want files to only be on the server, accessible via web interface. Like Google Drive.

Yeah, that’s what I was doing before when it was just me. But, my wife isn’t gonna wanna mount an SSHFS. It needs to work like Google Drive, meaning web interface.

I’m not giving Google anymore money. I’m actively going to vote for their competitor, Motorola+GrapheneOS.

(Not buying used Pixel.)

I’ve been wandering the laptop desert for a few years now. Lenovo, Dell, System76, Framework, StarLabs.

I’m currently on a Dell Pro 13, but the keyboard really sucks and the hardware isn’t fully Linux compatible.

StarLabs had keyboard issues and terrible battery life.

Framework seems like Linux was an after thought. Their HiDPI display isn’t fully Linux compatible.

I recently got my parents an X13 and everything just works. Camera, Bluetooth, graphics, display. All good.

I prefer 13in screens, but I’ll take the repairability of the T14 gen 7!

That’s cool… I guess…

What I really want is to continue to use F-Droid though.