xtrapoletariat

joined 1 year ago
[–] xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What do you recommend?

If Signal was not simple, my family and friends would likely use Telegram or WhatsApp. Even switching to Signal required a number of (general) newspaper articles criticising the status quo. It's likely not optimal, but okayish and sharing opinions and holiday impressions feels a bit better.

Switching a service is a slow, difficult process and many contacts will not follow, given they would abandon other contacts among friends, family, parents at school, sports teams, ... (now, I'm here, using 4+ solutions).

If training or even curiosity for the technical process is required, very few people will follow. If it takes me (with strong IT background) more than 30 minutes to understand/implement, I may have a decent private solution, but I will feel quite lonely soon.

[–] xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago
  1. Password Safe Pro
  2. My Expenses
  3. FL Studio, formerly Fruity Loops (also: Desktop)
  4. Threema
  5. Through the Ages (boardgame adaption)

Otherwise, I usually prefer free open source solutions (FDroid), but I regularly donate to keep the projects alive. 1 and 2 are small dev studios that I am happy to support.

[–] xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just wanted to add that it's a music sequencing/composition/recording tool. I also bought it some 20 years ago and they really delivered the lifetime free upgrade thing - bought some upgrades and plug-in packs now and then nonetheless - - great tool. I feel that presently, I use roughly 20% of its features, but I never find the time to dig deeper.

edit: refering to the Desktop version

[–] xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org 23 points 1 month ago

I could provide a low-effort option...

[–] xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My daughter wishes to contribute

[–] xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

love the hat and also the grumpy face for the tech-duck (seemingly, you beat me to the idea)

[–] xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)