There’s a world outside the US/European false dichotomy.

I’ve been with Fastmail since 2019 and you couldn’t pay me to go elsewhere. 🤷‍♂️

Everyone likes a bit of VAG, surely? 😉

Agree with you. That last paragraph reeks of Reddit-like monetisation of community goodwill.

The US$75 Lifetime price has traditionally been their Black Friday deal, regardless of the usual price.

Anyone’s guess if that deal will still be a thing, given their recent behaviour, though.

Nice. :)

But next you’ll be saying you don’t know how to use the 3 seashells…

This is what FAFO in public looks like. Gold!

Can confirm. Libation is amazing. Easy to use and just works.

A fintech who specifically targets the BNPL* (including groceries and other essentials) market? Of course a loan shark company is planning to follow the Spotify IPO route. 😬

Maybe they actually help some people with this model, but I’ve not seen the data.

*Buy Now, Pay Later. Can’t afford food this week? Spread the payment over 6 weeks! Just don’t think too hard about next week…

RES for Lemmy when? 😄

They’re designed to deliver the maximum amount of flavour in ~20 seconds.

So: bag first, then just-boiled water. Wait/steep for 20-60 seconds, fish out the bag with a teaspoon and squeeze against the cup, and then milk.

You may be right, but I worked around this using https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#Network_services_with_NetworkManager_dispatcher

Essentially, I added the CIFS shares to my fstab with the _netdev option and created /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/30-nas-shares.sh containing:

#!/bin/sh
WANTED_CON_UUID="UUID-OF-MY-WIFI-IN-NETWORK-MANAGER"

if [ "$CONNECTION_UUID" = "$WANTED_CON_UUID" ]; then
  case "$2" in
    "up"|"vpn-up")
      mount -a -t cifs
      ;;
  esac
fi

This waits for my WiFi to come up, ensures it’s my home WiFi, and then mounts my shares.

There are probably other and better ways to do it, but it works.

Thanks for sharing this. Subscribed. 👍🏻

While I’m a fan of Tintin (and Asterix, Valerian, and others), I don’t think “Hey, this century old European comic is good!” is sending the message that OP thinks it is.

I see what you did there…

I don’t mind it with companies that produce multiple products, as nesting them does make sense.

But for one-hit-wonders it’s a bit… 😬

The most American post I’ve seen on Lemmy to date. 😬

I was thinking more of one product companies using a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Boop Snoot Partners, Inc/<Software Name You Remember Installing>/ convention, which seems to be the norm inside %APPDATA%.

But I take your point. 😊

So much this. It’s like these clowns don’t read the XDG directory spec and think $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME are interchangeable, and even that cache files can be in either or both. No, one directory you need to backup for when things go sideways, and the other can go to /nev/dull.

I’m not a fan of ~/.local/share/ being the data directory (two directories deep seems stupid), but it’s definitely where regular data belongs.

Never mind developers who, in 2025, still think their project is special enough for a $HOME dotfile/dotdir or - somehow worse - those who put $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<weird-name>/subdir/[subdir/]. The latter strikes me as well-meaning Windows developers trying to follow best-practice-like-Microsoft-does, but it makes my teeth itch.

Rant over. :)

If you’re going back that far, I remember hearing a story about the Australian military experimenting with immersive AI during a typical “give us money” event where a helicopter was flying over an area and the kangaroos scattered at the sound, disappearing over a hill…

Then reappeared with RPGs and fired them at the helicopter, taking it down. Lots of red faces and mumbling about working out some kinks. 😄

tl;dr: I’m old enough to remember when “AI” was a benign comic novelty. 🙃

Calibre (Kindle) and Libation (Audible) are essential backup tools.

Y’know, in case their servers are down…

Every serious person in law enforcement, who doesn’t have an agenda, acknowledges that the old fashioned policing methods make all of this redundant.

It just takes longer (and so costs money), which is what this is about.

These people would destroy the security of the world’s protocols just to save a few quid. It’s deplorable.