I got pissed off at Google Photos, which led me down a self-hosting rabbit hole. Ended up installing Linux everywhere, even my "gaming" one eventually (I do development, and WSL was a resource hog).

The hardest thing to degoogle has been email - I've used the same address for years. But I use Thunderbird so at least I don't have to see ads in my fucking inbox

Dark patterns, gotta love em

I just got one so reading this makes me hopeful. Fallen out of love with gaming a bit in recent years

These posts are getting really old and tired. I'm here to learn more about Linux, not hear the same recycled view on hOW BAd windows is

Yes... They don't seem to show up in the primary tab, but they're there nonetheless. Nowhere is safe, and nothing is sacred.

I use FreeTube but hadn't heard of Newpipe before. Thanks for the recommendation!

Immich

I'm aware :) really, anyone that backs up anything at all shouldn't be using ONE THING for backups.

Personally, I use it to "sync" photos from my phone to my computer. I run nightly backups via a cron script.

Still, can't say I've had any issues so far

Maybe unpopular opinion, but... if you're not interested in learning DSA with any form of rigidity, you don't have to learn those right out the gate. Just get your feet through the door. Build a small project, automate something - you will learn about your chosen language's data structures by default. If there comes a point in time where you're expected to know about DSA, you'll probably have found the reasons/motivation by then

Kill that interview king 👑

Or should, for that matter

Same here fam

Hang in there buddy. Do what you gotta stay sane (within reason), get back on the horse stronger 💪🏼

We're all gna make it

Feels like maybe you're not the target audience for this article

I hardly ever see people talking about Pocketbase in threads like these, but as a dev I love it

Master copy on my desktop

At midnight, my cron job kicks in and mirrors it to

• hard drive
• makes a backup to another machine via restic
• makes another restic backup to backblaze

I DO have an ad blocker. I still ended up seeing an ad, that one time. It might've been on mobile. Or I might have had my ad block turned off. Either way, I've gone out of my way to make sure I never see an ad in my email again. Used mobile devtools to uninstall the Gmail client, Firefox with uBlock add-on, etc...

Well shit, when you put it that way

Same here! I was worried I wouldn't use it (I haven't been gaming on PC much) but I actually game on it much more than on PC

I use Obsidian for notes too. Recently, I've been playing with Starlight (based on Astro) for notes that I want to put on the web. It supports .md & .mdx files so creating a page is pretty much just copy + paste. Haven't gotten around to self-hosting it yet though