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Cake day: December 8th, 2022

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  • If you do not want to (completely) self-host but do want freedom with your custom domain then Migadu is a superb choice, it’s like heaven/nirvana/paradise 🎇 for email admins 😀 https://migadu.com/

    And you can technically still do some sort of part-time self host. The very difficult part of self-hosting email these days is the sending part (and the big and smaller tech bros rejecting your emails), not the receiving part. So if you want to learn, you can self host the receiving part, store your email at home or on some rented server and then use Migadu to send your emails out. Migadu has a feature called MX proxy which can be used for this part-time self hosting take.


  • What you can do is pretend to reinstall (–reinstall), download only (-d), for example for xfce4 meta package :

    sudo apt-get -d install --reinstall xfce4

    Then stop it after it shows you which packages it is about and copy and paste all the packages it mentions in a simple file (myfile) and execute that.

    For Gnome it could be like this (leaving out a lot of packages to make the example fit on one line) :

    
    sudo apt-get remove --purge baobab chrome-gnome-shell folks-common fonts-cantarell gdm3
    

    As you can see do note which display manager you’re currently using. Executing the file you made can be done with :

    bash ./myfile



  • During the Covid-19 pandemic I was very happy to use Conversations for video calls. Quality seemed better than with Signal during that time, and with Conversations you could resize the video window if you needed to do something on your phone during the call. I was not sure Signal could do that in these days. I also like Dino IM on the desktop but lately I don’t have any other people I know who can be bothered to use XMPP over Signal or email.

    There’s a Dino fork https://dinox.handwerker.jetzt/ I’m not sure what to think about it, it looks too fancy and I dislike the Most secure part but it claims to do calls better than the original Dino IM.


  • Another way to try to fix dependency problems, including complicated ones that apt cannot solve, is to use the magnificent aptitude deb helper. If you have aptitude not installed you can possibly still install it with dpkg. Download aptitude deb file and the aptitude-common deb file and save them to disk. For example for Debian : https://packages.debian.org/trixie/aptitude With dpkg it is in dependency problems situations still possible to install new software. Maybe dpkg --force-all or something like that is needed.

    Make sure to make backups of your valuable things first via a Linux live session.

    After you have aptitude installed, try e.g. :

    sudo aptitude update

    or

    sudo aptitude install ncdu (or install some other small program you didn’t have installed already)

    It may already show a suggestion solution.