Also big in healthcare/medical products,btw.

Yeah, it’s interesting base for some applications. We will see how good the compatibility is in the end.

Not Radius,Samba. But yes. In theory the Samba server can even run on a VM on the same PC(but that makes it really messy). Raspi or similar is far easier.

Univention offers a ready made distro for that,but not for ARM, though.

There are templates for that. And yes,of course it is bullshit that we have to do that.

But it’s less work this way compared to installing Linux and (-the worse part-) teach it to the more technologically disadvantaged relatives who used Windows for 30 years before their retirement. Or to kids who just want to use the same stuff they use at school.

I absolutely would wish that Microsoft would stop their bullshit (it wasn’t even out of the possible options for them to make AD cloud only - but a lot of government customers complained). But I wanted to show people that there is a middle ground between submitting to that fucking cloud account and ditching linux all- together.

In a family and SOHO setting there is an easy way around it,even without alternative media creating tools and Win11:

Active directory. Yeah. Microsoft. But not really.

Samba can be used as an AD server for ages now, it’s free,cheap and can run on a Pi or some NAS. These days it’s fairly easy to set up as long as you only use it for Identification services and basic networking. And Microsoft won’t bother you with their shit ever, as they don’t dare to push corporate clients too much.

I can recommend it very much. There are also full GUI distributions available,e.g. univention.

Well, together with at will employment it makes the slaves,eh sorry, team members much more well behaved.

Most definitely - Especially for woodworking FreeCAD is horrible and inefficient - even a friend who has been a contributor takes longer for some things than I do in Fusion360 as an occasional user. As a maker I love the idea of FreeCAD and the implications it has for third world countries, the amateur maker scene,etc. But I hate it for what it is. Which is so sad.

The definition of real time collaboration does vary widely from usecase to usecase and user to user. While the Joplin mobile app in theory does limit the minimum synch time to every 5 minutes there are (easy) ways to circumvent that and have a faster synch (I use every 60sec, but I selfhost).

Everything else you mentioned/require is available with Joplin. It literally has a checkbox Note-Type (but checkboxes can be easily added to every other note as well) which can easily be check off, Notes can be categorised into folders (Shared or not shared, with additional privacy locks available),etc.

Don’t get me wrong, I have a myriad of ideas/things I would like to see Joplin do better. But its usability beats Google Keep - by far. And by now my extended family has adopted it - from an 8 year old to an 80 year old.

Realtime? No. There are various Tab Solutions for that,like Etherpad,etc

But especially if you selfhost you can put in really short synch times, that will give you near real time collaboration and comes out of the bo without any plugins.

Joplin? Can basically do all this.

A lot of points you mention can be achieved with Univention (a debian based central management environment) and a few extra steps. Should be possible, imho.

To everyone saying it is not an Boeing issue:

We simply don’t know that,yet. It could be a maintenance issue with whoever Southwest contracted. From someone fucking up closing the engine cover properly to the use of counterfeit parts (actually a larger issue than most people know - it has brought down airliners in the past).

It also could be an issue with actual Boeing certified spare parts or maintenance protocols- Something breakers earlier than expected,some spare parts are not as good as expected, the procedure is overly complicated,etc.

And of course it still could be an issue with actual Boeing works - something is built badly and now, after thousands of hours finally kicks the bucket - there have been cases where repairs brought down airliners decades after them being down (badly),the same is absolutely possible for engineering or assembly mishaps. If that is the case Boeing would be really fucked.

Anyways: There is a reason NTSB reports take months to years until they are finished. It is ridiculous how many people “know” what the reason for this was.

Utter garbage. Period.

I travel around 60k km per year, a fair share of it by train and have travelled about two thirds of the European countries by train.

And I have the luxury to use the Austrian, Swiss, French, Italian systems on a monthly basis - each of them is far far better.

Trains are the superior travel system. And if you are lucky you have an urban train system that works decently. But both long range as well as freight are a dumpster fire.

Public transport? Yeah,in the bigger cities it’s decent, in the rural areas it is shit,though.

But railways? Absolute utter garbage and we have a worse on time performance than Ukraine… During the war.

Good that I’m living in Germany where sabotaging the railway system would probably make it better.

It depends on what you want. If you want a solution that makes sure your provider won’t be able to read your data? It is sure safe for that.

Generally I would distrust any company claiming that our swiss privacy laws are worth a dime - in fact they are shit and among the worst in Europe. Swiss intelligence laws actually force companies to cooperate in a much broader sense than even the national security laws in the US do. And of course there is no judge involved and they can basically share the collected data with whoever they want.

Because with proven concepts the swiss intelligence services would be locked out. And now people have to trust their claims of “swiss privacy laws” (who are shit - the worst in Central Europe. Switzerland had multiple scandals, from a system that had intelligence files on a large percentage of their “unreliable” citizens as part of the “Fichenskandal” to them recently admitting that most internet traffic within and all traffic leaving and entering Switzerland is monitored by the swiss intelligence services - without so much as a judges permit). Yeah, I know, they are audited…But since Snowden we all know how much that is worth.

Linux users and Temple OS users!

There were some really really cheap mobile phones made specifically for economically disadvantaged countries. India had a few as well.

Additionally Sanctions sometimes play a role - GApps don’t work everywhere.

Dude, you don’t even get “hopped up” on Fentanyl…