I’ve been eyeing Pico, but it doesn’t seem to be super well maintained? Do you know if it’s still active?

Pffft, killing football in Italy is as impossible as killing baseball in the US. Italians will go extinct before their favourite teams.

+1 for the GIMP3 excitement, and ×1,000,000 for the YouTube gripe.

All the more reason to !degoogle your devices.

Perhaps your phone has extra aggressive battery saving settings that kill the background process? The official Syncthing has a setting to run as a persistent service, which always helped me.

Otherwise see if you can make system exceptions for the app to run in the background, and allow it to auto-sync. It’s been a while since I used the forked app, buy it did help me out on a device where the official didn’t work for me.

Hope this helps.

who is downvoting me and why?

You’re probably making them feel stupid, people downvote for no good reason. It’s a them problem, not a you one; everybody should check AlternativeTo before asking for recommendations.

Yeah, phone to laptop, and I recently synced all backups and files from an old phone to a new one, too. Once you have the computer setup, you can basically connect phones by reading its QR code.

If the official Syncthing Android app is giving you a hard time, maybe try Syncthing-fork? IIRC that’s only the daemon and web GUI wrapped as an app. But I’ve used the main app only for the past few years.

I’d really recommend giving Syncthing a second chance, twist a few knobs in the settings until it works. I’ve used it for years with barely a hitch.

To quote Life of Brian,

Splitters!

…assuming of course these are people who left the open Fediverse to join another corporate platform.

I don’t have anywhere near your experience, but the key points (customizable, no bloat, good wiki) all scream Arch, as you predicted 🙂

I think we agree on the limited capability of (what is currently passed off as) “artificial intelligence”, yes.

According to that research mentioned in the article, the answer is yes. The big caveats are

• that you need to get conspiracy theorists to sit down and do the treatment. With their general level of paranoia around a) tech, b) science, and c) manipulation, that not likely to happen.
• you need a level of “AI” that isn’t going to start hallucinating and instead enforce the subjects’ conspiracy beliefs. Despite techbros’ hype of the technology, I’m not convinced we’re anywhere close.

Let’s take that etymology one step further: “fan” comes from “fanatic”, so a stan is a stalker fanatic. Which somehow has become a positive term in some circles.

Need to read up on smoke signals and/or carrier pigeons 🙂

Welp, there goes the [online] neighbourhood! It was nice knowing you all.

Was my first impulse too, but looking at their app selection now, it seems kind of … inutile? Unsexy? Old?

I didn’t want to pay for their search engine before, and this garbage sure as hell isn’t going to change my mind.

as we’ve seen, AI tools are trained on garbage

I would like this to be the takeaway lesson that humans are better at history. However, loads of accepted history is also trained on garbage.

Gotcha! Thanks for the ELI5 🙂

local-first

web app

I’m confused, which is it?