I fully understand the argument and kinda agree. That said, here’s why i still use the Telegram self-chat just like OP, you can suggest a note-taking app replacement if you think:

• Paste a link, instant preview of it without user intervention, can play it right on the app if it’s audio/video if i want or get a preview of it if it’s just a page without opening a full browser (this puts it automatically above a “synced notepad” which is what i understand note taking apps tend to be)
• Synced across devices
• Both desktop and mobile
• Private, no one else sees it
• Easy and convenient, i usually have Telegram running already, just switch to it on browser or desktop and copy or paste the thing

Gimme a note taking app that has all these, that is not a big program needing lots of resources to run all the time, and that i can self-host for the server part (or E2EE P2P like Syncthing) and we’re cooking!

Since i use the self-chat on Telegram a lot i’ve wished for exactly the same thing in the past, so far haven’t found a right fit yet

This advice is not directly related to that, this is the same advice given by security-oriented organizations all over to compensate with people being people

I like Snikket as a solution to this

Snikket is an attempt to solve the XMPP issues, or at least to reduce them, single all-in-one XMPP server distro and clients across platforms, and since it’s self-hosted no one should get their hands on your data (in normal circumstances).

That said, the saying goes “Perfect is the enemy of Good”. Just because a solution is not perfect doesn’t make it unusable, any of those options you mention full of problems are a helluva better than FB Messenger or plain SMS for example. Depending on your threat model they might be more than enough.

Heh, hadn’t seen KDE like this in ages, it’s been a while

They do, one with them at the top

In that line, is there an open standards, no Google required answer to the Chromecast?

Have you seen an XMPP setup these days that doesn’t have installed all the extra stuff to allow encryption, voice and a lot of other bells and whistles?

What’s the “best practices” for DNS these days besides running your own local service?

They bought an ads company AFTER this person took the reins

Not customers, users, otherwise they’ll start paywalling features

We’re seeing the fallout from a commercial service used for public interest communication falling in real time with Twitter, so many public service things that depended or still depend on Twitter have outright broke as it turns into raw sewage and people flee it. That should have NEVER been the main communications medium, and now the price is being paid. I understand as i too am in a place where WhatsApp is near-mandatory, but this is something that WILL have bad consequences sooner or later.

First AI and now freaking Bitcoin…

Need to retry this at some point, last time i tried it, the Kindle app worked in Wine but had no connection, i suspect this was a Wine configuration issue

I didn’t knew about lsof -i, noted

Thanks!

As somebody that might be changing phone sometime this year and to cover all the possibilities, do we have a recent comparison of all these projects?

Before anything, will this get a bunch of not technically knowledgeable people flagged by the *AA corps?