Tipp Nr.30: Achte vor dem Kauf neuer Geräte/Technik unbedingt auf Fallstricke. Diese können sein: App-Zwang, Cloud-Anbindung etc. Nicht jeder »Scheiß« muss mit dem Internet verbunden sein. Wenn die Hersteller dann pleite gehen, sind die Geräte meist nicht mehr zu gebrauchen. Vorausschauendes Einkaufen kann das verhindern.
In case you might think that I've got my #PIM under control: 3 hours ago I had 791 items (from 2019 onward) in my #inbox. Those are ideas, tasks, notes, bookmarks I captured but didn't process yet. 😲
At the moment, I brought it down to 274 and I'll continue throwing things out tomorrow. 🏆
@jameshowell Do not get me started on 10 years of mostly unprocessed photographs while I was busy working on a photograph management workflow with tools. Probably the highest class of #procrastination possible. 🤣 #PIM
The org mode people looking at my feeble attempts at cross-platform notes management with all the veiled contempt of a Vulcan sent to get an atmospheric CO2 scrubber working after the humans fucked it up again.
@gnomon@emma The worst you can do is to be ignorant about your tool choice, taking "anything that is pre-installed" and assume that it's supporting your use-cases in a good way.
It seems to be the case that I can't log into GitLab.com any more using my native #GitLab account without activating some third party domain(s) for active JavaScript content. 😔
IMHO, basic functionality should work on any website without third party access. More and more web pages are violating that rule. 😢
@benjohn You could say that this is the way people learn: by experiencing bad things, learn their lesson and maybe change in future.
However, when people actually DO face negative consequences, e.g., with exposure of their personal data they gave away in the public #cloud without thinking, they can never recover. Their digital profiles are leaked and distributed among #databrokers forever. Any change can't fix the issue any more.
Reinventing a mediocre wheel just to avoid the perfect solution for that class of problems (Emacs + org-mode) doesn't seem to be a really thoughtful decision to me. YMMV.
Drop me a line when you want a short demo by me and you'll see why you should not invest effort in workarounds.
All in all, all decent #PIM tools tend to emerge into Org-mode anyway.
I'd like to use #GNOME Contacts on my #NixOS desktop for managing my contacts, because the bundled #PIM suite of #KDE#Plasma does not fit my needs.
However, when I run it, it seems like some backend is missing.
Can anybody advise me what the package is that I got to install to make it work on other DEs than GNOME?
How does everyone store contact information? The full enchilada - birthdays, addresses, emails/chat services. any other info about friends, family, the people you love?
Am looking for something accessible on mobile and phone. text doc on a file-share service? Or perhaps a really nice bit of software for it? (Web. Linux and/or Android for preference)
Over the years I tried many different to-do apps to find one that suits me. Finally, last year I read a lot on managing my personal tasks and implemented a system that works for me. I wrote a short article on my false presumptions and the solution.
An introduction in measurements of antenna systems and analysis and avoidance of passive intermodulation (PIM) with special consideration on distributed antenna systems (DAS) and the influence of PIM on different mobile radio bands
Now in German and English available!
Version 1.1 from 12.05.2023
Eine Einführung in die Messung von Antennenanlagen und in die Bewertung, Analyse und Vermeidung passiver Intermodulationen (PIM) mit spezieller Betrachtung verteilter Antennensysteme (DAS) und den Einflüssen von PIM auf verschiedenen Mobilfunkbändern