Good on him. I'm going to make it a point to listen to more Neil Young.

I remember Reddit. I used to like it there.

Rsync is what you're after, especially if you're moving large files. I regularly transfer hundreds of gb using rsync and it's great.

This is not spam. The blog post discusses a current hot topic. There's no advertising on the site. OP has nothing to gain by sharing this. Don't make people hesitate to post quality content just because the topic has been discussed elsewhere.

https://mxroute.com/ or https://www.fastmail.com/

I picked up a cheap lifetime account on mxroute a while back and have been pretty happy with it.

Some verified certificates are not free. As far as I know, Let's Encrypt does not offer any ev/ov certs. I've worked for e-commerce sites that could not use standard dv certs like you would get from Let's Encrypt.

Granted this is still not a good reason to give money to GoDaddy.

This sounds about right. My parents only use their browsers. They literally do not use any applications outside of the browser. They would be just fine on Linux but change is scary and everything just works.

Check out the Dell Wyse 5070. You can find them used within your budget.

Most normies will never pay for a search engine. I've tried and tried to show them the advantages of Kagi but the value just isn't there for them. I ditched Google for Kagi long ago and I couldn't be happier.

Meshtastic is fine for a small network but people are using it with the intention of building a city-wide mesh network and it's failing miserably. There would have to be big changes in Meshtastic before it's viable in such an environment. Meshcore however seems to show promise. The only downside being the need for repeater nodes since clients don't repeat. I'm seeing a little adoption of Meshcore locally.