Good for you for not having any problems mate! I’m sure this invalidates the parent poster’s problems.

Thanks for a nice read!

I’ve been testing Claude the last month. It’s good for 90% of the tasks but for the remaining 10% i couldn’t convince it to give a proper answer and used ChatGPT instead. Technical questions and coding is what I use llms for.

Any particular problems you’re having or have you briefly used Pidgin in 2008 and think nothing has improved since then?

XMPP. It just works, requires very little resources, is stable and has decent clients.

I would go with Snikket instead of Prosody if I had been starting now.

Conversations on phones, Dino or Gajim on PCs, plus a conversejs install on the xmpp server, to allow web access when needed.

Conversations is easy for the family to figure out.

This whole thread is depressing to read, full of corporate bootlickers putting blame on you.

I use bittorrent for isos and the files usually have hundreds of seeds. They are used.

Same for Armbian.

Sounds like phpmyadmin lol

They fucking what? I need to get off the couch and cancel my support too

Tox uses NaCl as its crypto library, don’t spread misinformation

Not to tell you you don’t need a GUI calculator program, but the only times I needed one was on screen sharing when I had to show someone else what I’m doing.

For all other cases, python in console is the best calculator ever. You don’t need to learn Python to use it, and it’s most likely already installed in most systems that you use.

Ad. 2, have you seen https://www.zombietrackergps.net/ztgps/ ?

Then yes, learning Ansible is a good way to have base OS settings for your systems. I love that it’s agentless - works over SSH.

The ugly part is that they keep updating it in a backwards incompatible way. In one version the paramerer is called “file” and in another it’s “dest”, they pull shit like this and don’t provide a tool to update playbooks automatically.

But updating is rather optional.

Is it really so ridiculous that armed people blinded by a belief system could do that?

That you can afford premium versions or self-host

You slide down notification bar and if there’s not even one ad, please stand in front of that wall.

Family story. Maybe a fake one, I don’t know, there’s nobody alive to ask any more.

It’s crazy, given that all these devices have something powerful like an esp32, isn’t it?

I’ve done some of my home stuff this way, but I had to program it myself. Tasmota has some features which can be used without a server, but that’s just for simple stuff like switches. For whatever reason (simplicity for non tech people?), out of the box products don’t work this way.

If you don’t have days of spare time, you buy ready made products and set them up in minutes in Home Assistant

Additionally, libraries for XMPP exist in most languages, there is a varying degree of completeness, but they all do a good job of hiding XML from the programmer

Thos, exactly this. Whenever I ask the question OP asked, it’s always some people who used some ancient client in 2008 and never bothered to try again. And then Matrix came to existence with their marketing and they happily started using it, even though it didn’t have any better features