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@afewbugs There's one thing that I can somewhat, only a bit, accept as an excuse for talking about NextCloud in particular: It operates on CalDAV Standards and the Tasks part of that ... sucks badly. Like, terrible. I've not been happy with any of CalDAV synced Tasks because not only is support shoddy, but for exactly the reason you give.

However, NextCloud could – as any one of the stakeholders – try to push for something different or find ways to enable this use case better.

Case in point: What do people use for such tasks? Alarms are... hard to manage. Calendar entries are overwhelming. I try paper but I forget too often.

@volpeon understandable. Who was so cruel to create another form of existence? In this economy?!

@WeirdWriter @rysiek

These two paragraphs struck me in particular:

> That’s in stark contrast to, say, Google+, which despite corporate backing, incomparably larger budget, and being pushed down people’s throats through forced integration with YouTube, survived mere seven years, nine months, and a week.

Because unfortunately Google probably doesn't see that as a problem. Or even as the Fedi winning. For them, longetivity doesn't matter, but peak user count.

> And once it shut down, it shut down. A social network of millions just blipped out of existence one day. All those moments – lost in time, like tears in rain.

This, too, for them is a good thing. No-one else can profit from "their" data.

This just makes it so crystal clear how the big one's interests aren't aligned with ours. Google+ wasn't really failing in their book, it had served its purpose and then ceased to do so. To us, this is loss. To Google this is just business.

@ariadne @whitequark @mcc I found it mostly just incredibly stable, predictable and well-documented. The man pages were top notch, and the system felt properly engineered. But it has definitely aged a lot and most Solaris distributions nowadays import lots of Linux and FreeBSD tech.

Sun not open-sourcing everything was partially legal reasons with 3rd party contractors holding the copyright, e.g. with i18n code. And then Oracle came and put a nail in the coffin.

But yes, most of the ideas of Solaris live on, be them SMF (upstart, launched, systemd) or ZFS (Btrfs). Like most of Sun tech, Star Office being LibreOffice now, Sun Java, etc.