Professor de História formado pela UFMG, aficionado por games, leitor voraz de mangás, usuário de Arch btw™ e projeto de aspirante a corredor amador.

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • How do you host nextcloud? At home or on a vps?

    On a VPS. Later down the road I intend to build my own home server, but that will take some time and money. A VPS is not ideal, but that’s leagues above trusting Google and the likes, and so far it has been working well enough for me.

    Did you have any self hosting experience before doing that?

    None at all.

    Do you know Logseq? It’s an OpenSource/FOSS alternative to obsidian

    I did try it, and it’s a cool project, but not as good as Obsidian, imho.


  • I used to rely almost exclusively on Google for almost anything online. Fortunately, I’m much less dependent on Google and their services now. I’m even self-hosting some of my own services nowadays!

    • Search engine: Ecosia and DuckDuckGo
    • E-mail: Protonmail
    • File storage: Nextcloud (selfhosted)
    • Online Office Suite: Nextcloud Office (selfhosted)
    • Maps: OpenStreetMaps
    • 2FA App: Aegis
    • Translator: DeepL
    • Notes and Tasks: Obsidian.md
    • Calendar: An actual wall calendar :)

    Every single one of these apps/services used to be provided by google, so I think it’s safe to say I’ve come a long way!

    Of course, things could be better. I still use Google Contacts for synchronizing my, hum, contacts. I also use YouTube quite a bit, but as a paying customer my experience with it is just fine. I also use gboard on my phone — for bilingual speakers there’s just no good alternative, imho. And, finally, I download/update most of my phone apps through Google Play.


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    The paper we use nowadays is acutally a highly advanced, modern technology. It’s not the same kind of paper from, say, 500 years ago an expensive product only used by few professionals. Modern paper is a highly industrialized, mass produced, widely available, incredibly cheap and (increasingly) renewable product. It’s a technology as modern as tablets and computers, and arguably more integral to our daily lives.

    Will paper become obsolete in 50 or 100 years? Maybe, yes. but it may as well become even more integral to our daily lives. Who’s to say we won’t develop new technologies to make paper even cheaper and more ubiquitous that it already is?