Check out Yunohost. It’s a self hosting project built on Debian. It lets you install a bunch of server “apps”, including some that will sync contacts for you (Nextcloud, Baikal, My WebDAV).

You can install this on an old computer you have laying around, or on a VPS. Syncing to an Android device you’ll need to use DAVx5. Syncing to iOS is actually easier since it has built-in DAV support.

More like: you’ll have to buy a whole new car.

This isn’t really true. We all have different characteristics. Some people are naturally more suited to certain things more than others. Yes, everyone can improve a given skill to some degree, but not everyone can be “good at” some particular thing. It’s OK, because they can be good at something else!

Banned for posting cringe.

Obviously you will make up your own mind, but I have had to block shitjustworks entirely, due to the amount of fashposting I’ve seen from there. For comparison, Lemmy.world often annoys the shit out of me, but I haven’t had to block the whole thing. The main thing is how the instance moderates. You can always block users and communities, but those “light-touch moderation” instances will always end up full of the worst people.

Because they had a civil war, and even though the nationalists lost to the communists, they still feel entitled to the whole country. To properly understand present circumstances, you need to understand how we ended up here.

Did you know that Taiwan calls itself “Republic of China”? It’s official stance is also “one China”, but under ROC rule.

Damn that sucks :(. Seems to me I have to disable my VPN in order to discover devices, but I can re-enable it afterwards. I use it mostly for clipboard sharing between devices.

I use KDEConnect. I don’t know about iPhone but it works with Android, Linux and Windows.

The replies illustrate the problem nicely.

There’s communities I like on .world, so I just ban the most insufferable users and comms.

I’m really happy with Posteo. It costs like 1€/month.

I don’t have the time right now to get back into it, and it’s been a year since I last tried, so I don’t recall the specifics.

I’ve been using Linux daily since 2007 (Ubuntu Feisty Fawn). I’ve learned a lot, and there’s some things I’ve never learned. Docker is one of those things that has been a problem. I also don’t do a bit of programming.

Homie, I have been there. I spent days. I found it confusing. I don’t recall all the details, but I wasn’t able to get it all working. I will try again some day.

I appreciate your confidence (and your docker evangelism), but I don’t have the bandwidth to tackle a docker project right now. I don’t believe I was ever building containers, as I was leveraging projects like DockStarter designed to make things more painless. I’m sure I’ll try again sometime, but that time isn’t right now.

Yes, complete lack of understanding. That is a problem when it comes to working with something. I don’t understand python and venv either, but I got it working anyway in about 10 minutes. My experience with docker is that it had too many moving parts, particularly when it came to networking. It obviously seems easy to you and lots of other people, but it hasn’t come easily to me. I’ll probably need someone in the room with me to ever understand it.

I have a system that’s been working well (except for this new thing I’m trying to add) for a couple years now. I am not looking yo replace it with docker (something that I have failed with in the past). Maybe next time my system breaks I’ll take another look at docker.

I guess I must be stupid, because I’ve tried a few times and never understood it. I tried projects like DockStarter.

I’ve tried a few times, and have yet to fundamentally understand it. Been using Linux since 2007!