It sounds like you are an outlier. Believe it or not, it’s still one of the most popular messaging systems in the world. People send 23 billion text messages every day.

My job in life are public facing, so it is absolutely essential, whether I like it or not.

Looks interesting, thanks.

I might try that. I have to use windows through my employer, which is really where the need lies. I may try to set up WSL.

I’ve had a couple conversations on here about FOSS RCS and it looks like it’s just not possible because of Google’s obstruction. Pretty disappointing.

probably because FOSS devs think SMS needs to die, and I agree

Be that as it may, people send 23 billion text messages every day. If you’re at all involved with the public, it’s absolutely unavoidable.

This is great! I can’t do much other than cheerleading, but I’m definitely excited to hear about this. I use it every day.

I started out with an old laptop then eventually “upgraded” to a refurbished office surplus desktop. I highly recommend starting out on a project PC as a sort of proof of concept before investing any money into it. Even hosting the family media libraries, I have never had an issue with streaming video, etc. even with pretty dated hardware.

I tried Navidrome, and it’s a plus because it is compatible with any Subsonic app, such as Tempo (FOSS) or Symfonium (paid, independent dev, highly rated).

In the end, I personally had some stability issues (probably because I don’t really know what I’m doing). I find that the music server options in Jellyfin are the best option for me, and there are some very solid apps as well. I use Finamp, although there is also Fintunes, which seems to have more active development (both FOSS).

The built-in music player in jellyfin is pretty solid too, which is especially useful for playing on a TV (family dance party anyone?). Jellyfish is already on every platform, and I never did find a good TV client for Navidrome.

I’m sticking around this thread to find out if there is a good music discovery option because I haven’t found anything remotely close.

Edit: both Navidrome and Jellyfin allow you to set up multiple user logins. I’ve found it’s much better to set up individual playlists and make them available to everyone.

I live in a hot climate, so it’s really the expense of air conditioning.

Small adjustments to the temperature based on whether or not we’re home, pre-cooling versus cooling during the heat of the day, etc. makes a big difference on the bill potentially.

I’ve seen some scenarios where people were able to save hundreds of dollars a year just by adjusting the timing of systems. The price of electricity can go up and down during the day.

Maybe those cases are outliers and it’s actually not worthwhile, but it seems compelling. If I can put a system in place for under $100, that will be at least as good as what I have and possibly a significant improvement, I’m interested in trying it.

So which was the easiest?

Thanks for the tip! Others have mentioned that it’s very tricky to find one that works offline without the manufacturer’s software (website, login, data collection, etc)

Wow, very detailed! Thanks

Tailscale is my number one app of the year. It makes everything else I do possible.

Really interesting - I never used something like this but certainly see the value

Absolutely phenomenal. Great app, hosting, and development community.

It’s a good reason to start self hosting.

On mine I can just swipe the entire line to the right or left to delete.

Thank you! This is very helpful. I didn’t see these but Lemmy search is sort of broken for me right now.

Oh great. Sorry that I didn’t dig in too much further than the front page of the website.

Oh, that is a really interesting question. I do think that there are some open source assistants that may offer some flexibility, but that’s not really how I personally use a phone so I wouldn’t have any answer. I found this article from a few years ago that seems to suggest it was and may be possible.

yeah, just looking through the notes, it looks like both devs care a lot about their project and just have different visions for what a “Complete” notes app should look like. It’s nice to see, because sometimes when you see a fork of a project it’s because someone abandoned it or there is some kind of community drama, but that doesn’t seem to be the case afaik.