It took me two tries to get used to Kvaesitso but now I love it. I was using Nova until the Branch acquisition, then briefly tried lawnchair but had to move on as it wasn’t very stable. Once I realised I could start apps by pressing enter after searching I found it much quicker than scrolling through an app drawer. Unless you can’t remember the name of the app that is.

I’ve enjoyed playing Mineclonia on Luanti with my kid. I don’t know how it compares to real Minecraft but it’s been perfectly serviceable for our needs. It even has an Android client.

I’m in the same boat, but I’ve pretty much decided to move my Restic backups to Hetzner Storage, unless something better comes along before I do the migration.

It does some UDP fuckery to bypass NAT and firewalls

I wouldn’t be surprised if they use hole punching. It’s an old but effective technique which Skype famously used back in its heyday.

PJ Vogt’s new podcast is called Search Engine and is a good substitute for Reply All.

I’ve been using them for a bit over a year now and don’t have any complaints so far. If you don’t care about the office suite, their email only package is €1.50/month for 5 users, which is hard to beat. You can use your own domain too. I like that their web/android clients have a proper conversation view that also shows your replies (like Gmail does). This has been missing from other providers I’ve tried (except Fastmail). Their android app is on F-Droid and open source which is nice. There were a few odd translations, like “Transfer” instead of “Forward”, but I think they’ve fixed those since. It’s not been long enough for me to comment on reliability or missing emails, but so far so good.