I'd rather they used SUSE

is there a thriving selfhost/homelab type place that is active?

I mean, you're right here.

Is there any benefit to hosting your own Lemmy and mesh it with the other Lemmey's out there?

If it's your personal instance: altruism. You're taking some burden off of the main Lemmy servers by hosting your own with your content. You're saving them bandwidth, storage and CPU time.

If it's a public instance meant for others to use: you're participating in decentralisation and keeping the Fediverse alive. Every new instance has their own mods, rules and policies. It's like a little island connected to other islands to form a community.

I can wrap my 70 year old head around it.

Holy shit I hope my brain can process new tech at that age like you. Good luck, DM me if you have trouble.

Mullvad, IVPN and Nym for clearnet browsing. PIA, AirVPN and Windscribe for torrenting. Windscribe and PIA are probably good for either but this is my classification, take it as you will

I wish the communications of politicians get hacked and their plans leaked. They don't care unless it happens to them.

Synology is like Ubiquity in the self-hosted community: sure it's self-hosted, but it's definitely not yours. End of the day you get to deal with their decisions.

Terramaster lets you run your own OS on their machine. That's basically what a homelabber wants: a good chassis and components. I couldn't see a reason to buy a Synology after Terramaster and Ugreen started ramping out their product lines which let you run whatever OS you wanted. Synology at this point is for people who either don't know what they're doing or want to remain hands-off with storage management (which is valid; you don't want to do more work when you get home for work). Unfortunately, such customers are now out in the lurch, so TrueNAS or trust some other company to hold your data safe.

FreshRSS or TinyRSS

I don't get it. Where is the idea that "Fedora focuses on security" coming from? Fedora requires an equivalent amount of work like other distros to harden it.

I personally use Alpine because I trust busybox to have less attack surface than normal Linux utils

Not bad. I'll take that if it loads without javascript. I'd like my instance to have a web UI that I can use without JS

I see. You need either IPSEC/OVPN or need to encapsulate wireguard in an SSL tunnel. It's a little involved but possible to do

Debian stable + XFCE for me. Missing newer packages though. I'm interested in what problems you had with Fedora

Can this be made into an android app to hook into android's APIs for their modem? I think that would make it a lot more portable

How do they plan to "ban" encryption? What are they going to do if I get a VPN and download the Signal APK?

Indeed. I have seen lo______ol around for a while now. We need to name and shame Reddit mods. And move more people to Lemmy. Unfortunately, the Reddit boycott didn't go well because normies have a sick compulsion to pardon any and all acts by corporate. Normies are the biggest digital masochists sans exception

1. Create git repo
2. Put all config in git repo
3. Create repo on codeberg
4. Clone git repo to both VPS and laptop

No extra money needed

I see. So they're just going to dump similar to Apple. This is slowly going to make it difficult for AOSP devs to change stuff as they need

"apolitical" tech-bros who are mostly just interested in their six figure paychecks and fancy toys.

This, I understand.

laissez-faire "libertarians" who are ideologically opposed to the restrictions in the GPL

This, I do not. Apologies for my tone in the next paragraph but I'm really pissed off (not directed at you):

WHAT RESTRICTIONS???? IF YOU LOT HAD EVEN A SHRED OF SYMPATHY FOR THE COMMUNITY YOU WOULD HAVE BOYCOTTED THE MIT AND APACHE LICENSE BY NOW. THIS IS EQUIVALENT TO HANDING CORPORATIONS YOUR WORK AND BEGGING THEM TO SCREW OVER YOUR WORK AND THE FOSS COMMUNITY.

I feel a bit better but not by much. This makes me vomit.

They are maliciously harming the community. They need to be named and shamed. I still seethe at OpenBSD using it. Why is it so hard for them to understand? Why do they want to give away their work for the taking to corporations who just want to make money off of their backs?

If I don't give them permissions to use Bluetooth and cut off their access to WiFi (VPN based firewall), is this threat prevented or am I a fool?

The problem is, European leaders are sacks of shit too. They don't care either.

Find me a car produced in 2024 or later which does this