I only read about half of that book but it had an incredible impact on my life. It didn't impact my financial success but rather my emotional inteligence.

Exactly, can't join another instance if they don't accept your application.

I only know how to do it manually by editing the url. Say you want to visit "asklemmy" on lemmy.ml and "asklemmy" on beehaw, but through lemmy.ml. The two URLs for this look like:

lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]

This may be a bad example because I don't know if beehaw actually has an asklemmy community.

kbin.pub/c/[email protected]

Debian + docker-compose

I do the same except I boot a usb installer instead of PXE.

No but I think it's naive to think otherwise. I'm not saying they're stealing your banking info but I absolutely believe they're collecting data on the actions you take ingame.

I set up a SearXNG instance a few days ago and I love it. I only wish I found out about it sooner.

Windows 11 on my main desktop, Debian + KDE on my garage desktop, and Debian on my home server and cloud server.

I can't quite pin down why exactly, but I've pivoted hard towards self-hosting these past few months. My biggest issue at the moment is finding a Gmail alternative.

Big corporate's latest data miner/spyware diguised as a game.