Thank you for clarifying that!

I saw “Germany” in the title and instantly assumed it was a pilot program at a local government level because I thought I’d read somewhere that in Germany, the regional governments do most of the heavy lifting in terms of legislation, with a very limited federal government, but according to the article, I was wrong:

Germany has made ODF mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure. The decision is incorporated into the Deutschland-Stack, the framework governing the development, procurement and management of digital systems for public administration at all levels. This is neither a pilot project nor a recommendation from a working group, but a mandate backed by the federal government and the coalition agreement.

The official document has been published by the IT-Planungsrat, the central political steering body comprising the federal government and state governments, which promotes and develops common, user-oriented IT solutions for efficient and secure digital administration in Germany: https://www.it-planungsrat.de/beschluss/b-2026-03-it.

After some more digging, I believe “Computerized Battery Analyzer” is how they are called, based on this battery testing video by Lumencraft (at about 48 seconds in, he shows his testing setup). Thanks for chiming in!

I’d heard of Framework, Tuxedo, and system76, but not the others. Thanks for the pointers!

I just meant like if Joplin ever stopped working or vanished overnight. I know it might seem like a contrived scenario, but I’ve always been a little skittish about apps that don’t store files in plain text in case I want/need to use a different editor. Sounds like that hasn’t been an issue for you, though, which is cool.

I see Logseq recommended a lot, but does it still try to force you to use bullet lists only?

Do you ever regret that Joplin does not store notes in plain text? (meaning you couldn’t edit your notes in a plain text editor if you wanted to)

I’m running Linux Mint Cinnamon (X11) on a laptop w/ Tiger VNC Server, and I’m connecting to it from another laptop running Fedora Silverblue w/ Gnome (Wayland).

Does ssh mean command line only or is there such a thing as graphical remote desktop sharing over ssh?

I’m looking for a graphical remote desktop experience.

EDIT: I may have answered my own question. With some searching, I stumbled upon this guide for remote desktop sharing by establishing a VNC session through an SSH tunnel. In the guide, the author uses TigerVNC. I’ll have to explore this some more when I have time later on.

Thanks for the tip. I’ve installed TigerVNC server on the host machine and connected to it from another laptop. Now my problem is that when I connect, it takes me to a clean session instead of showing me the existing session. A quick internet search and I stumbled upon x0vncserver, but no instructions how to install it. Or is it already installed? When I issue x0vncserver on the host, I get x0vncserver: command not found. Any tips on what I should try or search next?

I’m not following. I understand how Gas Buddy works (crowd sourced data entry), but how does that preclude free and open source software? For example, look at OpenStreetMap, open license database w/ a whole ecosystem of free and open source apps built around it.

I’ll have to look into these. Thanks for the tip!

This was my thought as well, but I figured I’d put it out there anyway just in case there’s some kinda workaround/magic that I hadn’t heard about yet.

Thanks for the tip about JetKVM. Does the JetKVM device itself require an ethernet connection to the router or can it connect over wifi? (from what I can tell, it’s the former)

Thanks for confirming. Your understanding is correct, I just want a way to grab some “clean” screenshots or videos of the laptop while it’s in boot or BIOS parts of the system. I have a video capture card in my “cart” but thought I’d put this out there to the lemmyverse before I smash that “Buy” button.

EDIT: I ordered this video capture card, we’ll see how it goes!

Clown take. This comment would make a lot more sense if the original post were made by some cry baby throwing a tantrum after getting spawn camped; however, in this case, the original post is spreading the word about how and where a product’s dev team can be reached going forward (and how/where they cannot be reached anymore). We very much need these kinds of announcements.

Does your group ever use video calls and/or screen sharing?

So Mumble for voice chat and Matrix for text chat?

How do fundraising drives like this work? Will OpenAI’s parent company issue a new class of stock or something?

When you say traffickers joined your rooms to post spam, how did they find you? Is it like email where they can just try every possible email address at a particular domain or was your room posted publicly on your website or something and that’s how they found you?