It might be too late for you, but for anyone else who stumbles across this:

The easiest way to transfer emails is just log into a client like Thunderbird, let it download them all, select all, then drag and drop them all to your new provider. If you have a lot of historic emails, filter by year and do one year at a time

• Continually increasing subscription prices
• Ripping off artists
• Introducing AI bullshit
• Blocking explicit songs unless users verify their age with a third party

Do you know who wrote the buggy code?

Of course I know him. He’s me

Pretty sure Wikipedia has a single button that changes all present tense to past sense. Someone who’s more familiar with it correct me if I’m wrong though.

I scrobble all my navidrome activity to listenbrainz, which gives a weekly playlist of recommendations. You might have to wait a few weeks before it can establish your tastes depending on how much music you play.

Go into Settings > User Tags and enable the “track votes” option

In Luigi’s Mansion 2, there is a boo who speaks in binary called Boolean… At least, in the British release. In the US localisation, its name is “Combooter” which is a far less satisfying pun.

Technically it kind of already is. My username is the one I’ve used with little variation for 13 years, including my youtube and my website where I show my face. Everyone I know IRL knows my username, some of my friends even call me Spatchy and it would feel weird if that particular group didn’t (to the point I occasionally have to remind them it’s not my real name).

I’m still weirdly obsessed with not sharing my data with companies even though more of it is public than is probably sensible.

I use Thunderbird on both desktop (Linux) and mobile (Android). I currently have five accounts in a unified inbox:

• Gmail (2 accounts): ‘professional’ one I give to people and the other one for generic account signups - currently migrating away from both of these.

• Mailbox.org: the replacement for both my gmail accounts as mailbox.org allows aliases. They are completely EU based and don’t sell your data. Costs a small fee of €15 a year.

• Zoho: for my own domain which is public and attached to my various projects as a developer contact address

• Microsoft 365 🤢: Had to add this one literally today because I’m going back to uni in September. Hate that they use microsoft, but thankfully the uni enabled IMAP/SMTP instead of only allowing Microsoft’s proprietary OWA protocol.

As for general usage, I treat my inbox like a to-do list. Once I’ve completed all tasks relating to an email, it gets deleted if it’s not important or archived (usually if it’s anything to do with money like a receipt or invoice). I usually only have at most 3-4 emails in my inbox at once.

The only thing that annoys me about Thunderbird is that occasionally if I delete a message, it will leave a blank ‘ghost’ message where the old one used to be that has a date of 01/01/1970 which only goes away when the program is restarted.

Remember it’s not just ads. This info is sent to insurance companies too

Most people wish that game could be erased from the timeline IRL too

Use your browser’s reader mode, it usually bypasses any popups like this

Ah yes, the vagina nostrils

As far as I’m aware, alpine isn’t designed for regular use, but as a minimal distro for container environments. Of course there’s technically nothing stopping you from using it on a desktop but you’re likely to be on your own in terms of support

The server should still support mods fine. You’ll need to find a launcher that supports your OS, your mods and drasl-based authentication.

Texture packs will be fine, you can change them in game

Something that may influence your decision: Minecraft by default requires a Microsoft account.

Look into Drasl if you want to set up a Minecraft server without needing one

Does this mean they’ll finally be adding calls to the web version?

I’m no expert, but I read that self hosting your own instance doesn’t actually help with privacy since the search providers still track those requests and if you’re the only one using it, that’s just tracking you with extra steps.

Of course if you use a public instance, you have to then trust that the instance isn’t tracking you

Either that or Danish. They love that stuff over there for some reason

Remember Microsoft Tay? Remember how it got turned off in minutes for saying stuff like this? This is the timeline we live in.