@chrisward.de the McKinsey way

I’m not trying to optimize speed or ergonomics, I just think it sounds fun to learn. Any benefits if i do switch are extra.

Will i wreck my qwerty typing ability? I guess we’ll find out.

The mental tension/short circuit that comes from fighting muscle memory is a unique experience though […]

Finally, if you have a lot of audio files and want to drop streaming, I recommend getting a modded iPod https://player-mods.com/en-de, and self-hosting navidrome https://www.navidrome.org/

The apps for navidrome aren't pretty, but they're functional. At home I opted for owntone to stream to […]

Another tool that is not strictly self-hosted (but you can!) is AnyType

https://anytype.io/

It's a peer-to-peer notion-like tool, very flexible and really easy to use. It syncs device to device. This is now our family wiki.

You *can* self-host, but I found it difficult at first, and you don't […]

- Actual is a good budgeting tool, pretty similar to ynab, and with integration with german banks https://actualbudget.org/
- Penpot is a really good design tool, just ditch figma. I do prefer desktop tools like Sketch, but open source is better https://penpot.app/
- FreshRSS, an RSS feed […]

- Vaultwarden/Bitwrden is a good password manager, it still has some things to improve (eg. requiring network to even load on desktop), but constantly improving. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden - Linkdingstraightforward, sharing isn't great but we've managed to work around it for […]

self-hosted apps I like and use:

- Pocket ID makes signing in easy, I like not having passwords, and my family find it easy to use. https://pocket-id.org/
- Immich for photos is excellent, https://immich.app/ ... the only friction I've had is because iOS makes it almost impossible to seamlessly […]

@liaizon I’ve been playing a lot with vintage macs, and it’s amazing what developers did for that platform. I think that only happened because of the combination of strong human interaction guidelines + an OS that let you change *everything*. I feel linux today is closer to those conditions than […]