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Voroxpete, 5 months ago (edited 13 days ago) to selfhosted in Joplin alternative needed

Here’s what I would be looking for;

• Decent mobile app (more than happy to pay for this if it’s a one time fee)
• Bonus for a OneNote / Evernote style Android widget. Being able to scroll through and quickly select from my most recent notes in the OneNote widget is really helpful.
• WYSIWYG editor on mobile and desktop (why in God’s name does every Foss notes app insist I use a markdown language?) with bullet points, numbered lists, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and headings.
• Checklists (as in, ability to add checkboxes to notes)
• Ability to create an arbitrarily deep folder structure
• Tags would be nice
• Import from popular apps like OneNote, Evernote, or Joplin is basically essential at this point. A lot of us have way too fucking many notes to move by hand.

Voroxpete, 6 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to selfhosted in Uid/gid in docker containers don't match the uid/gid on the server?

You can do that with regular docker. Just add your user to the docker group.

(don’t forget to log out and log in again after adding new groups to your user)

Voroxpete, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to upliftingnews in It's one of the biggest experiments in fighting global poverty. Now the results are in

There have been trials in Western countries. Ontario, Canada ran a basic income trial that was stunningly successful until a Conservative government came in and shut it down.

My favourite bit of data from that trial was that employment actually went up, not down. More people were working once they started just giving people money. The only exceptions were amongst mothers of newborn children, and students (y’know, people who have much better things to be doing than working).

Sadly it was only one town, but the results we got before it was shuttered absolutely proved that the concept worked.

Voroxpete, 11 months ago to asklemmy in What password manager do you recommend?

I switched from Lastpass to Bitwarden. Couldn’t be happier.

Voroxpete, 11 months ago to asklemmy in People who work in food service or customer service: What’s the dumbest thing a customer ever insisted was “the law” or “illegal”?

We developed a very effective strategy for this at a furniture store I used to work at; the moment the customer makes any suggestion of legal action, all our employees were trained to immediately say “I understand. Have a good day” and end the conversation on the spot. The unhappy customer immediately tries to press the issue, because what they want is for us to magically teleport a couch here from China or whatever, and at that point the employee says “I’m sorry but as you’ve notified us that this issue is now the subject of a pending legal action any further communication will have to go though our legal team.”

Repeating this a couple more times would inevitably lead to the customer admitting that they were bluffing.

Voroxpete, 11 months ago to asklemmy in Isn’t it a bit of an annoying having repeat communities across various Lemmy instances?

Reddit has multiple repeat communities too, they just have different names. Just to take one example, there’s /r/Canada, which got taken over by right wing assholes, /r/metacanada for those same right wing assholes to go full mask off, /r/onguardforthee for the people who didn’t want to put up with the right wing assholes… You get the picture.

The fact that there are multiple overlapping communities with similar purposes can be frustrating, but it also provides layers of redundancy, which is what the fediverse is all about. We’ve been learning a lot of object lessons recently about the problems of putting all your eggs in one basket.