Sounds like a cost of living adjustment to me.

I'd also like to know where these surveys are being run, as the COL varies wildly between states.

People who value their sanity. WiFi is unreliable.

+1 for Connect.

The issues with IP reputation, and mail providers like Microsoft and Google choosing to make massive, sweeping email blackholes with no recourse are the real problem.

Hosting your own email is not really all that hard.

It does require some understanding of how SMTP works, and how to avoid things like backscatter - but its all very tractable.

I run my own mailserver on Linode. Granted it is a single user instance, and I don't send that much email, but I have had very few issues.

The few times I have had an issue is usually places just flat out not accepting email addresses with custom domains. (Looking at you, AutoZone... Looking at you.)

I really hope you have that backed up

Lemmynsfw.com has plenty

Lemmiwinks

Who in the world is using a USB printer in 2023?

Ethernet bby

As others have said, bitwarden. I've also heard good things about roboform.

I really love that bitwarden is not only open source but has been professionally code reviewed, and can be self hosted if you've got the knowledge to do so.

Of course, if you're self hosting it make sure you have a solid backup strategy for your vault.

All the servers I've spun up in the past few years have been Debian instead of my usual Ubuntu.

The last straw was kinda when I learned that installing docker via the install menu gives you the snap version instead of the normal one, with no indication that this is the case.

I'm using DuckDNS, it has a plugin for pfSense / OpnSense.

I've been testing some alternative SBCs like the OrangePi 5.

Currently mine is a fallback DNS server and reverse proxy for my network, trying to come up with some other uses for it.

They're still low power ARM boxes, but they're much cheaper than the RPi is at the moment.

Mail server, but mostly because deliverability in this day and age is a nightmare. If you're some one off running your own mail server in 2023 be prepared to deal with many headaches around IP reputation.

If you've got a copy of the data that's local, why are you opening up ports? Just run the backup job internally.

I'm also not fond of using SBCs as a NAS, by nature their I/O is extremely limited. It will probably work as a backup, but man do I not trust a USB interface at all.

I also recommend not relying on email for notifications - too unreliable. I use the healthchecks.io docker image and have it send me notifications via Pushover when something fails.

If you're using Hugo it also creates an RSS feed by default every time you build the site.

Depends on your needs and your threat surface.

Are you just an individual? Use Windows defender and ublock origin in the browser.

If you're setting this up for some older folks create a separate non-administrator id for them to use day to day.

As a business if you need antivirus your really want something with an EDR team behind it looking for anomalies - not just virus signatures. Something like bitdefender EDR or Huntress.

I've actually been fighting with this since yesterday.

Pocket Casts is one of my last things that I'm not self-hosting, and I'm trying to change that.

My list of requirements was:

1. Multi-device sync
2. Be able to play seamlessly from either a web UI or my mobile device, picking up where I left off on either device.

For my Gpodder backend I chose to use the GpodderSync NextCloud app, since I'm already running NextCloud.

I tried PinePods and PodFetch for the web interface, both of which had various issues with sync.

Supposedly there's a big update to sync coming for PinePods in a couple days, but I wasn't able to get it working at all.

PodFetch has its own internal gpodder server implementation, but for the life of me, I could not get it to keep listen state in sync. Also, I initially set it up to use OIDC authentication since I'm also running Authentik - but don't try to do that if you want to use the Gpodder integration. The two are essentially mutually exclusive, at least in its current state.

What I've settled on for the moment:

1. AntennaPod for mobile playback. (Be aware that there are additional steps for Android Auto support if you install it from F-Droid as I did)
2. NextCloud GpodderSync to keep track of listen state and subscriptions.
3. NextCloud NextPod app for web UI playback. I'm not exactly happy with this, as it's a very ugly and basic UI, but it does work, and it does keep track of where I left off the way I want. Hopefully the PinePods update fixes my issues with it, as the web interface for that was much more slick.

UPDATE: I recently discovered RePod which is also a NextCloud app, but the interface is much better than NextPod.

Doesn't come with a power adapter and has weird power requirements. Wouldn't power up at all with a standard 5V 1A wall plug, needed 5V 4A.

Apart from that it's been perfectly fine. I wish other OS than the armbian they provide supported this CPU.

Very nice choice of imagery for this community. I often find myself yelling at clouds.

I only rolled my own Wireguard VPN because I wanted to learn how things worked on the backend - I've suggested Tailscale to many other people, its just a really well designed product.

It's astonishing to me how much they're giving away for free.