Even though it’s not strictly required if you’re only using your services over your local network or a VPN, your browser won’t know that’s what you’re doing. The security warnings got so incredibly annoying for me that I switched to using https on everything.

There are also some specific web features that only work over https (including some optional upgrades needed for Nextcloud iirc)

I read a job listing recently bragging about the company’s AI usage by saying “One of our engineers hasn’t hand-written a single line of code in 18 months”

Like okay dude…

I’d ideally like to be put in a virtual queue for a callback so I don’t have to be constantly paying attention to my phone. I’ve had this offered a couple of times and it’s great, how is that not the standard already??

I discovered recently there is an “Ungoogled Maps” patch available on Morphe. Obviously a fully open alternative would be better, but none of the alternatives I’ve found do public transport in the UK yet

10.10.0.254 here, because I wanted my main rig to be .1

Holy shit are you me? I started doing exactly this with an old laptop, NixOS and Plasma-Bigscreen too!

Hold on, even if you’re using torrents, you still have to pay for a decent indexer right? Or has stuff changed in the last few years?