Oops, added a suggestion of Simplex before I saw your answer. +1, I guess 🙂

Simplex chat has a default “private notes” chat which is essentially chatting with yourself as you describe it.

Simplex is available for a lot of platforms and devices, and easier to install and maintain than Nextcloud. I’m not sure if it ticks all your boxes, though?

Probably just the usual f-droid pipeline. Give it until the weekend?

I’ve been looking at Vosk, but haven’t found a good client for their API yet. Anyone else?

Ah yes, the anglocentrism of software development. I gave up on Google translate years ago because it clearly only catered to English speakers. The other way around was such ham fisted mistranslations with English syntax, it was basically useless.

I understand the ease from an admin POV, but besides locking users into a third party, corporate suite, everything UX about Office365 sucks balls.

Yeah, I’m not invested in either online opinion-haver, but have read the occasional tech post by both that made sense… in isolation from their idiosyncratic ickinesses.

I’m sure this “DeVault Report” may have truth to it, I was just turned off by the first, retaliatory paragraphs. Like, “we could’ve let you perv on minors, but then you went after our guy” vibes.

I only read up to the part where they pinned the Stallman Report on DeVault and then claimed that thing they just mentioned definitely had nothing to do with this hit piece, nope, nothing.

Need I read any further, i.e. does this have legs beyond “we dug up some dirt on this guy because he said bad things about our groupthink ringleader”?

Ugh, “grow on social” is such a contradiction in terms, especially when using automation and strategic platforms. Growth as a commercial impetus is never social.

For one thing, no — a brand trying to sell you stuff isn’t your friend, period. For another, this is such a tired 2010s tactic. Please let it lie.

Look, I’m glad there are FLOSS tools for influencers and brands. Let’s make everything FLOSS on principle! What I do react against is turning social platforms into what are essentially advertisement channels.

I personally favour human interaction over nondescript, one-way signaling from (individual or corporate) brands trying to “grow” their presence on social media. But that’s just me.

Fwiw, I found this project that may or may not make a batch export possible (but I can’t tell if that includes front matter): https://github.com/kursad-k/joplin_batch_exporter

Will probably take a good deal of finagling. I’ve seen plenty of file converters, local and online, but markdown to ICS sounds super esoteric.

Is there even front matter in Joplin files that could fill in the required fields of an ICS?

“Peek”.

“We’re sharing another peek behind rhe curtain,” unless you’re hiding a mountain top back there.

I can co-sign that. I had several low grade laptops in a row that would choke on KDE and the like, almost as bad as on Windows. So I just went for a light window manager instead of the big memory hogs.

Now I have a fairly current, capable machine, and guess what? The light WM is still outperforming any DE, and I never bothered changing that habit.

I haven’t actually used it either, just came upon it as a possible replacement for Libreelec/Kodi. It looks interesting, but a full Linux DE might be too much for my home theatre needs.

There’s Plasma Bigscreen if you’re into the whole KDE experience, specifically for TV usage.

I wholly disagree with everything you just said, including that your friends and family by your own assessment are unable to rise above average skills. But you know them better than I do, of course 🤷

It’s free on f-droid, though? https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/

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

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.