Good in theory, but for me when I’m at my sensory limit I can’t have anything in my ears, nor the pressure of anything over them.

It’s a no-win situation in that respect and it sucks.

I can’t have anything in them either. Too sensitive in the skin.

But I can have things OVER them. So AirPods Max or the Sony cancelling big headphones. No earbuds.

Running 'optimize table <table>' reclaims the space on MySQL/MariaDB.

Tried installing using pxeboot, with cloud-seed. Runs through and then spins at 2.5Ghz getting no further and no way to log on and view logs.

Never gets far enough to write to hdd.

Logseq's native sync now has smart merge which I have found prevents issues like this.

I switched to https://ente.io/ a couple of months ago. I used Google Takeout to grab my bits and imported it into ente.

Some massaging was needed of the takeout data to remove some dupes but uploading was smooth and the UI is pretty good.

with E2EE, I guess there is no search? I find this to be the single biggest limitation of proton mail for example.

I find the ability to search for faces and objects a key element. Otherwise my photos just collect dust (figuratively).

Search is fine for my uses. It doesn't have the facial recognition to quickly search for all photos of a person but it looks to be tagging things in an accepta le manner and I've found the things I've been looking for.

I used their free trial - 1Gb of storage available for a year iirc - to try out a few things but then ran in parallel for a while and now have stopped syncing my new photos to Google. Good luck with whatever you decide!

Ente have 'ML Search (beta)' option, I have just spotted on their desktop app:

'This will enable on-device machine learning and face search which will start analyzing your uploaded photos locally.

For the first run after login or enabling this feature, it will download all images on local device to analyze them. So please only enable this if you are ok with bandwidth and local processing of all images in your photo library.

If this is the first time you're enabling this, we'll also ask your permission to process face data.'

thanks. Any other offerings you considered on your journey to ente.io?

I looked through the standard 'alternative to Google photos' top 10 lists that get updated occasionally and none of them offered a similar enough experience to make me look deeper.

I saw ente on a Reddit post somewhere. I like it's a mostly paid product with what seems to be a sustainable free/trial tier which is unlikely to drive them out of business. I like the e2ee, and their clients being opensource and they provide an easy way to keep an offline mirror (through the desktop client). It ticks my boxes.

No longer any way to view Twitter data without being logged in. Nitter front ends have gone dark. ‘Temporary’, apparently, but time will tell.

troyhunt answers this very question: https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs...

It's an answer, but I still find it entirely unconvincing for a static personal blog. Better? Sure. Necessary? Damning if it's absent? No.

The pricing is good, but the experience for mail is poor.

I move from Zoho to Fastmail a year later and it’s a much slicker experience.

(Just mail, I didn’t use any of Zoho’s collaborative tools.)

What are your pain points? I've been using at low volume and while it's not as flashy as gmail, using with something as Thunderbird for the heavy lifting is not too bad.

It's not even targeted at me and I found this painful to read.

The point you suggested that hosting their own email server is the most trivial step they could do to solve the problem is when I switched off.

I moved to Zoho for business and have 2 accounts there for £10 each/year.

The configuration of the service is much easier than Google makes it. Filtering took some getting used to, but I have it working much better than I ever could on Google, so happy bunny there. And the Android client is OK too.

The only meh part (for me) is the web interface for email/calendar isn't as streamlined as Google, but being out of that eco-system more than makes up for it.