I have limited my usecases for selfhosting and thrown money at the problem. The usecases are:

• image hosting and sharing with the family
• backups of our family computers
• digital file hosting
• media hosting

The last one is expendable. The first three are backed up into the cloud. I use a Synology, thus throwing money at the problem. Their cloud backup just works.

Edit: use cases I do not self host are a mail server for example. The stress outweighs the 12€/year I pay for the service.

4GB works. My kids use a T410 from 2010 with a SSD and it is a pleasant experience for daily use (browsing, YouTube, small Linux games)

Have you seen the clip of the Irish who has prepared a cassette to be played at his funeral?

On iOS there is GPX Tracker which simply records a GPX track and can overlay openstreetmap data while doing so.

Because if the military wants something, budgets are big. And they do not need to make money.

Came to say this. Ginko is a symbol for longevity. I’d take it over a heart, @[email protected]

This @[email protected]! I run Linux Mint on a T410 with 4 GB of Ram and a 250 GB SSD and the user experience is quite ok for normal day to day usage like playing light games, browsing and HD video streaming.

+1 for Linux Mint for the power user. They will fell familiar and can start their journey from there. The most important concept I would explain would be package managers and flat pack, as in vanilla Windows there is no such thing.

The second one would be regular updates and that you have to do a little maintenance from time to time

Mint would be my recommendation for the noob as well. It is a clean distro and does not require a lot of maintenance except regular updates.

I love, how this project was done. Someone wrote and narrated the text, searched for all the music samples and pressed it on a record, when YouTube was already a thing. This is art!

Do you know this very meditative video, explaining the history of the break?

https://youtu.be/5SaFTm2bcac?feature=shared

It is cross platform. Users can try it, regardless of the OS and do not have to switch behavior when switching the OS.

Someone please stop time before I get any older; I want to get off.

Not as hard as you think. Stopping is not the problem. Stopping and still having fun is.

Ayyy! Caramba!

Great answer.

Thanks for posting this! I was born in 1980, so well after the crisis. It is very interesting to hear your perspective.

I use posteo.de and sync between Thunderbird on Linux, Thunderbird on OS X, Apple Mail on Desktop and iOS without problems. Calendar and contacts, too. My partner syncs between iPhone and Thunderbird on Windows.

The service is a German privacy aware mail service. It is 1€/Month.

Edit: didn’t see that you ruled out Posteo already. I still think it’s a great mail service.

Corporate Users. My guess is, that almost any office job where you work on a Computer has Windows as OS. You have a license for your job. The license for home usage is bonus money to Microsoft.

Fuck spez!

I love the rubber band hack!

How was your experience? What information did you miss, to make this a smooth transition?