Neovim. No other editor comes close to it.

AFAIK. All major clients for XMPP is open source and gratis.

Two good options for Android is Conversations and Snikket. Both are available on F-Droid and Google Play Store. Conversations on GPS is a donationware version though.

On iOS you have Snikket and Monal.

On the desktop you have Gajim. I think it’s available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS.

You also need an account. Conversations offers accounts for free over at https://account.conversations.im/. There’s probably a lot more services as well.

I don’t see Gentoo.

Add the command to your configuration for sudo/doas so you don’t have to enter a password for it when executed as your user.

It’s users like this who gives Linux users a bad reputation.

I’ve been using XMPP the past two decades. I use it because I haven’t found something that’s better.

There’s always pyinfra.

However. The easiest solution is probably a custom shell script that checks which OS it is and does different things based on that. It doesn’t have to pretty as long as it works for you.

Edit: Why do you keep reinstalling your operating system?

According to a blog post my Keeb.io:

Floating is probably the one to retire. Forearm support is your wrist’s best friend. Wrist support is your shoulder’s best friend.

The post is citing a small study of only 13 participants, but I think it’s way more of value than any personal opinion from some random dude on the Internet (which includes me as well).

With that said. I’m a wrist rest person my self. I’ve been spending a lot of time at the computer, probably too much time at times. And I have used wrist rest exclusively for more than a decade with various mechanical keyboards.

I’m the person who uses a highly keyboard driven environment that mostly consist of text-based software. I don’t use the mouse a lot, so I always rest my hands on the keyboard with the fingers on the home row (asdfjkl;).

This works for me, but you should listen to your body and what it’s telling you. According to the article it doesn’t seem to exist some one good thing that works for everyone. Which is probably true for most things.

However. Stay away from those tilted keyboards. They’re rather popular because aesthetics. Which is stupid. Your keyboard should preferable have a negative tilt, or at least have no tilt at all.

:D

Devuan if you want something solid and boring. Gentoo if you feel adventures and want something that’s fun and solid!

While they’re technically the same type of software, it’s still sort of like comparing apples to oranges.

VLC is your kitchen skink media players that comes bundled with basically everything possible.

mpv is more of a minimalist media player that let’s the user add the features themselves using add-ons.

Me personally prefer mpv since it’s minimal in every regard. I have turned of the OSC, and I use the keyboard for everything. I don’t use a lot of extras, but the ones I have, is add-ons I couldn’t probably live without, like yt-dlp and SponsorBlock (for YouTube).

I even use mpv as my music player with playlist that I manage using Neovim and the tool echo (to add new tracks to my playlists).

That’s exactly what I said? A ROM with a backdoor is a malicious ROM.

AFAIK. The only security risk with this is that anyone with physical access to your phone could flash a malicious ROM on it.

This shouldn’t be an issue for most people. And I’m pretty sure that those who cares about this runs GrapheneOS anyway.

The closest to politics I watch is why systemd sucks. ;)

Phone numbers are an issue, true, though you can get around that using a burner SIM or even a virtual phone number.

You can’t buy any SIM here without providing ID. I believe that’s more of a rule than an exception these days, but I don’t have any actual numbers to back up my claim.

However. I don’t think that anyone requiring extreme privacy would use any phone whatsoever.

Also, contact discovery has been working without exposing your phone number for over a year now.

I trust Signal when it comes to security and privacy.

The phone can be made by anyone. The OS needs to be Android or iOS at some point, which is unfortunate

With the Google Play Services or whatever it’s called, which is required for notifications to work.

Remember that they have killed people based on metadata alone.

That said, deGoogled Android has been around for more than a decade, allowing you to use Android in a privacy-friendly way.

It’s what I’ve been using for years. :) GApps has always been optional. Back in the days vanilla Android was even perfectly useable without GApps! It feels like AOSP is basically only a kernel these days.

So if you want, you absolutely can avoid being tied to Google and use Signal.

Yes, but you will have to rely on third party clients, which Signal don’t like. That’s not a great experience. :/

As you can see, there’s a lot more nuance here than “Signal isn’t private”; privacy, after all, isn’t binary, but rather a gradient.

I guess so. I’m not much of a person of nuances though. I like living in a binary world. :D

The way I see it, Signal sits in a Goldilocks Zone of “private enough” (for most threat models) and “convenient enough” for mainstream adoption.

That is true. Perhaps I’m a bit hard at them, but then again, I’m a binary person. ;)

Jag är kund hos Obe.net, och är väldigt nöjd med både deras tjänst, inklusive deras kundtjänst.

Jag var tidigare kund hos Bahnhof, och var inte alls imponerad med deras tjänster. Men det är ju ett minne blott nu när de lägger ner.

You’re forced to use a phone number and a phone from Google or Apple. Do I have to say more? This is not a claim. It’s a fact. Well. Unless something has changed?

I have never whined, but I can see how you wish that would be true. ;)

And, my apologies, if I have somehow hurt your feelings. It was never my intention to do so.

Haha! I appreciate your refreshing honesty, and I reward you with an upvote. ;)

Obe.net.

Jag har inget att göra med dem annat än att jag är en betalande och nöjd kund hos dem sedan något år.

De har—till skillnad från Bahnhof—trevlig och kunnig kundtjänst, är samarbetsvillig om man har önskemål om något och de hänger även på SweClockers, där de är omtyckta.

Tydligen bjuder de på startavgiften om man anger “iwantipv6” vid beställning.

Don’t use Signal if you care about privacy.

Edit: Cool. This is just like Reddit! You get downvoted for stating facts. :D