Nobody’s saying it’s mandatory. People don’t want their web browsers to be full of bloated AI slop. Why should there be the AI components of Firefox on my hard drive if I’m never going to use them? Why should my web browser be full of low quality features I’ll never use? It’s enshittification. Not to mention the very quote you’re pasting specifies that it’s opt-out, not opt-in.
It increases the workload for fork devs the more crap they have to remove from upstream and the more the fork deviates from upstream.
I just did.
I wasn’t talking about any laws. I was talking about one specific cybersquatter.
We’re not talking about an individual, we’re talking about Lamborghini. I think cybersquatting Lamborghini is fine.
I find Matrix janky but still usable. What homeserver implementation and what client are you using? I use tuwunel and nheko. tuwunel works great for me and I think it’s probably a disservice to the Matrix protocol that the “canonical” homeserver implementation is written in Python. Nheko is somewhat janky for me but I like it more than Element, and I think most of the jankiness is because of the Matrix protocol rather than the client implementation.
I use self-hosted Jitsi for screen share, although this is just video conference software without the IM aspect of Discord. (Jitsi does have IM to be clear, but it’s a chat tied to a particular meeting, not like a persistent groupchat.) You could just use Signal chats as you have already been doing and send Jitsi links when you want to call. Jitsi has E2EE although I’m not up to date on the details of how it works.
Automatic daily updates for system packages. Automatic daily container updates with watchtower. I normally have things pinned to a reasonable major or minor release, so I do manual upgrades for new OS release branches and usually pin to a major version for Docker containers but depends on the container.
Never used a dashboard… I just manage my services on the cli with plain docker commands.
Yes, if you use the “task list” block. You can also have checkbox bullet points but I don’t use them, not really sure what the use-case for those are when you can just use the task list.
I self-host Notesnook and found it easy to set up. Been using it as my main note-taking app for years now and I’m really happy with it.
Idk about Immich but Vaultwarden is just a Cargo project no? Cargo statically links crates by default but I think can be configured to do dynamic linking too. The Rust ecosystem seems to favour static linking in general just by convention.
This is only because Microsoft’s employees have been relentless in their pressure on their bosses. They’ve been doing occupations of Microsoft buildings, office crashes, etc. They fire the employees who take part but then there are more employees who crop up in their place; there are just too many to fire them all. And Microsoft still provides a lot of support to Israel, so don’t be fooled into thinking that things are over.
You get a domain name, and use an A record to point it towards your server’s public IP address.
You tell nginx to forward requests to a given domain. For instance, you could tell nginx to forward requests to foo.bar.com to 127.0.0.1:1337. To do this:
http {
server {
server_name foo.bar.com;
listen 80;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1337$request_uri;
}
}
}
Note that this is a very basic setup that doesn’t have HTTPS or anything. If you want an SSL certificate, look into Let’s Encrypt and Certbot.
Also, the service you’re hosting (which I’m not familiar with) may have an example reverse proxy config you should use as a starting point if it exists.
A flip phone/dumbphone would sort of be mutually exclusive with my use case. I use my smartphone nearly exclusively as a lightweight mobile computer for web browsing, SSHing into my server, and messaging over internet (not SMS). I rarely use the “phone” features of my phone, i.e. phone calls and SMS. So I’d be losing out over the features I do use, in favour of features I don’t use.
If you’re being distracted by your phone and a dumbphone works for you, good on you. I think most people are like me and use their phones as a small mobile computer rather than a phone though, in which case distractions are best handled with one of the many apps/browser add-ons/etc that block websites or apps.
I think in general people start out in VMs and advance to containers. If you are already using containers stick with it, otherwise you are taking a step back.
Interesting perspective—I had thought that running an entire VM would be more difficult, but I’ve never used virtualisation for server stuff, only ever used VMs with a GUI VM manager on my personal computer. Thanks for the input.
B seems like a huge issue given that there are lots of adults who are not eligible for a credit card.
I use Alpine for servers because I like its simplicity. Not in terms of computational power requirements, just in terms of user experience.
Alpine is an interesting choice for hosting
I’d say servers are one of the main uses of Alpine, second to containers. It would be a much more unusual choice for a desktop OS.
They should be pretty on it for security updates. Librewolf is also hardened compared to upstream Firefox so if security is a concern, you’re probably better off using the fork anyway.