Like KDE Connect which uses only the local network.

It was my personal GOTY 2025. Fantastic game. I actually liked it more than Bloober’s SH2R because of the setting, visual presentation, overall mood and music. I didn’t hate the combat, either.

I don’t get it. It indexes pages which were already visited, right? So in order to find some website I need to first use another search engine. Afterwards, that website is in my browsing history and if I need it again, I don’t need to search for it. So what’s the use case for this project?

I do the same.

I thought those materials were used because of wireless charging and because they make the phone body double as an antenna.

I had an iPhone 5 for a few years, it was the perfect size for me. When Apple enlarged their smartphones with iPhone 6 I jumped back to Android because I had more options there. I went back to iPhone 11 Pro because it was again on the smaller side. After years of rejecting >=6’’ phones I finally gave in with Pixel 8 and Pixel 10…

Great idea! However, something bothers me. From F-Droid:

This app relies on catbox.moe to upload images and Google, Bing, Yandex, TinyEye, Perplexcity and ChatGPT for search.

I am not familiar with that service, so I went to the website and looked at FAQ:

How long does Catbox keep files for?
Forever. If you don’t want your file to stick around until the heat death of the universe, use Litterbox.

Are you (F)(L)OSS?
no.

Not sure what it is exactly but having my uploaded files stored in some obscure database until the heat death of the universe does not fill me with trust.

I have a Pixel phone and used the screen scanning tech (forgot how it’s called, but it’s the same feature, I believe) for OCR to copy the WiFi password from a photo of the sticker that’s on the router and of course it immediately sent that password to Google and run the search, ugh. I don’t want to send my WiFi password to some website I never even heard about, either.

Can you explain how it works?

Signal and Telegram both offer comparable functionality without mandatory recurring fees

Telegram introduced a subscription named Telegram Premium a few years ago. You get similar functionality there – setting colors to your profile or groups that you’re part of, custom emojis (including animated ones), custom stickers, an indicator that you’re on Premium, custom profile statuses, increased limits for sending files, etc. There’s a lot more, I just listed some off the top of my head. They’ve been pushing people into Premium. Telegram is perfectly usable without that, of course. My favorite Premium feature is that you can require unknown senders to pay a fee to be able to send you a message :D Meanwhile, non-Premium users can get spammed normally.

If you’re that paranoid you can host it yourself.

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs?tab=readme-ov-file

https://mozilla-services.github.io/syncstorage-rs/

It’s open source.

Voyager is free.

I meant that I can buy one of those Radeons dedicated to AI work, like the ASRock Radeon AI PRO R9700 Creator 32GB GDDR6. If I need to.

Currently my Ryzen iGPU is all I need, because all I need is to see the graphical desktop environment on my screen ;) It does the job well.

I use Claude Code as well and I am slightly concerned with that ID verification news, even more so because of the technology partner that they chose.

Say I have a GPU with 32GB VRAM and I am on Linux, what local LLM would be good for coding?

Currently I just have an iGPU ;) but that’s always an option, albeit a very expensive one.

For shopping lists I use Listonic. It’s easy to use and better suited for shopping because it groups products into categories, so you don’t have to sort them yourself and don’t have to walk around the store back and forth because you picked up strawberries, moved to the toilet paper section and diary and then noticed you didn’t pick apples. :) It syncs, so if you go shopping with somebody else, you can split and see what the other person already grabbed (as long as there’s connectivity, of course).

Oh, I guess I never ran into that problem myself. I do use Joplin on my PC and on my Android phone. Thanks for the info.

That’s fair. I myself migrated from Google Keep to Standard Notes and later to Joplin. I never thought that I needed for it to look like post-its :) But now that you said that I see why you wouldn’t be happy with either of the non-alternatives.

As for passwords, well, I wont talk about that. It’s not good but still not worst practices at least.

Paper notebook? ;)

I just wish syncing was a bit more seemless.

What problem do you have? I use OneDrive sync, which is not even recommended, because OneDrive doesn’t work well with syncing many tiny files, but it works surprisingly good. If I need to sync NOW (rarely), there’s a menu item for that. Otherwise the automated sync was good for me.

My Bitwarden and Proton Pass also require Yubikey to be present when logging in on a new device.

Joplin not mentioned. It’s like Standard Notes, but FREE, including cloud sync (many targets available). I used Standard Notes but their business model changed which drove me to look for alternatives and I landed with Joplin. Highly recommended!

By “same platform” do you mean keeping them in the same app or the same system (e.g., my Android smartphone)? I used to use Authy, but after I bought the paid subscription for Bitwarden I moved my TOTP codes there (and later to Proton Pass) because it was so convenient.