I used ES File Explorer for 10 years before finally giving up on an old, pre-enshittified version, and switching to Mix.

I don’t love it, but its the best out there today.

Just found Wanda from Corner Gas

No

Everywhere

Isn’t that partly because the US has like 52 sets of law (50 states, DC, Fed) and maybe more (County/Parish, etc)?

Installing apps in Windows is a privileged process. This keeps the average user from corrupting a system.

The only users that can install apps are ones with Install Apps permission (I forget what it’s actually called). Anyone in the Admin group has this. The group Users does not.

In a business/domain environment, very few people get local admin rights. For a home user best practice would be to run as a User or at most Power User, and only do admin level stuff when logged in as an Admin.

No one does this, of course. (I certainly don’t, even though I know better. It’s just easier to not do risky things and maintain backups).

And this really exposes a major challenge with FOSS.

Names have meaning - it’s why Office is called Office.

This gnu naming isn’t much of an issue, because this is stuff only technical folks handle. But if we want end-users to embrace things, we need meaningful names - meaningful to them.

Whenever I tell my friends or family to install Jellyfin so they can access my media, the look on their face says it all.

MediaMonkey - alright, I get it (yea, not FOSS)

Plex? OK, if someone then says “think MultiPlex Theaters”, you get it. (Also not FOSS)

Jellyfin? What is that? Jam on a sharkfin?

These work really well:

Resilio SYNC (Yeah, not FOSS, but the name makes sense)

SyncThing (FOSS)

FolderSync (not FOSS)

Notice a trend here?

I have a printed spreadsheet for all the software I use - if I haven’t touched a service for a couple months, I’ll forget the meaningless name.

Fuck inkjet. If someone gave me one I’d go Office Space on it and throw the remnants away so it can never harm someone else.

Just switch to reader view

(But this is a cool option, and gives a better result)

Sorry, but they weren’t legitimate before anyway. RDA’s aren’t scientific, just observational. So we have zero idea what anyone actually needs.

There’s no way you could say the average person should have a given intake of pretty much anything. Way too much variability in a population. At best you may be able to state a range.

I’m sure that floor is the same as the rest of the house, as floor is built first, then walls atop the floor.

So wouldn’t worry about the loads it can handle.

Tonal and Logographic didn’t become Lingua Franca because they’re more difficult to learn and standardization is even more challenging than with Alphabetic languages.

This is like language 101 stuff.

This is well explained in Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet by The Great Courses.

Attention Whore is what we used to call such people.

Seems like we should bring it back.

They do?

Think we need some examples

I don’t see anything like this in search, even DuckDuck.

What do you have on that you see this? (Or what have I turned off?)

I do use Ublock and Noscript, but they don’t list anything to block on search engines, really.

Almost any messaging app is better, the question is what do your friends use, and can you get them to switch.

I’m a fan of XMPP because it’s an established protocol you can host yourself (if you wanted) - this removes untrustworthy providers.

It really comes down to what’s your goal?

I’ve had better luck using MKV for my Samsung TV.

But yea, Mp4 is generally more compatible.

It’s shocking how little resolution plays into quality. I’ve re-encoded some videos down to 480 and played them on a 65" TV and they look fine.

I can also make videos look terrible by just trying to save space by reducing the quality level of the conversion while retaining high resolution (1080).

Ok, bye.

Just search, and run across other recipes in links of current ones.

There are certain cooks who I’ll check occasionally (chef John at foodwishes.com, Nick Stellino).

I also have some cookbooks: the cooking bibles (Joy of Cooking, Gourmet). America’s Test Kitchen cookbook for standards to start from.

Otherwise I do a search and see the person’s actual site. If there’s AI generated crap, I just never go back.