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FWIW I'm still very much an advocate of the Mark Shuttleworth Convergence vision. It's the Holy Grail that makes sense to me.

Hehe You're the second person to convey that thought to me. So true though.

I got about 5 minutes of moonrise, before it clouded over and started raining. :( Oh well.

Or it could finally be the Year of Linux.

It would put me off using it.

Developers are working hard to rebase apps to run on RISC-V silicon. There seem to be a good number of open source apps already available, though I haven't seen a definitive list anywhere. I use the Alpine Linux repository to monitor progress : https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=&branch=edge&repo=&arch=riscv64&maintainer=

:) Thank you. Yes Mail in a box has been around for a while. Still not straightforward, though.

Hehe You answered your own statement! If it were ever to become non-trivial : I'd certainly do it (even though I know people who do, are bombarded with spam).

Yes... I guess if someone were to only use Tox, the device they were using it on would have to be on all the time, with one of the Tox clients running at least in the background.

Addendum At least you know when the other person is online... There's some advantage to that.

They're kept on other people's servers, is what I meant.

I've wondered before now about an e-mail system which hosts the emails on one's own device, and uses the activity-pub protocol : decentralised email, I guess...

The closest I've seen is Tox.

I am saddened that Caroline Lucas is not seeking reelection at the next General Election. She has been an excellent member of Parliament and a clarion voice on the environment.