This article made me think about what I can do with my Pocket PC 2003-based scanner that I have.

I don’t particularly agree with this.

Having different interfaces does mean multiple accounts across services is better, but I don’t see “one account for everything” as something important for the Fediverse per se.

In fact, I really like that they’re interoperable at all. I can post something on my PieFed account then boost it on my Mastodon account. I can upvote a post I think is cool, and if I think it’s really cool, I can boost it directly on Mastodon.

I love being able to comment on PeerTube videos or Lemmy threads with my Mastodon account, or to reply to my friends on my PieFed account.

PieFed also lets you follow Mastodon accounts, so I can comment on the posts of people I follow on PieFed if I want to.

Xeovo appears to use WireGuard and OpenVPN. They don’t even seem to have their own client.

KeePass is made with Windows in mind, so it might not have come across OP’s radar if they don’t use Windows.

I do love Posteo, but they explicitly do not support custom domains, as said in their FAQ. However, it is very strongly anti-AI, and has strong ethics that I think anyone in your situation would agree with.

For VPNs, I love AirVPN a lot, though I hear it can be rather slow. For me, I personally use it for downloading Linux ISOs as well as getting past wonky internet connections and it works really well for those use cases. From what I could see, Xeovo also seems to be torrent-friendly as well.

I’ve recommended Aegis to close family and have used KeePass (as well as XC and ChiPass, which is an AI-free fork of XC) in both a personal and professional capacity. I will have a look at AliasVault though, as I would like to move away from BitWarden myself.

I dunno, I remember learning about the SNES vs Genesis when I was in middle school.

It does.

A quick look at the sidebar and hovering over, one of the moderators of this community appears to be a lemmy.world admin if that’s what you mean.

Considering how big lemmy.world is, I’d guess it’s more a bit of overlap than it being the same people.

I definitely tend to think short term. If I enjoy the process, then I can go long term, but I am prone to short term thinking.

I’m trying to think more long term though. 😓

I’d seriously suggest looking into the history of Usenet or maybe even Fidonet and BBSes in general if you want to look at distributed forums that don’t have Reddit-like karma systems as examples, and the lessons you can draw from them.

One of the first things, as someone who came of age long after the heyday of Usenet, I noticed was how similar Usenet is to Reddit as a forum.

Also don’t forget to update your NetBSD torrents!

Decided to celebrate by shaving after two years of not shaving in protest as an intersex person generally seen as a woman! 🥳

For VPN I do like AirVPN a lot.

I do currently use Bitwarden for my 2FA as well as my passwords, though I should look into Ente Auth.

Well now I want to see a benchmark that pits the Wii U against a PowerMac G5 👀

I’ll be honest, I forget that NodeBB has become federated. Despite having run into an actual incompatibility problem between Piefed and NodeBB. 😅

I personally use Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/etc. for social news rather than bolted on forum-like features. That’s where I think this software shines.

If you want a decentralized forum, I’d seriously recommend you look at Usenet and NNTP. Then again, I promote the usage of network protocols for what they are good at over forcing everything through the web. 😂

Yeah, iirc it was a former NetBSD developer who made Void.

Alpine still honestly feels more BSDish in some ways than Void to me. Probably has to do with Alpine’s install scripts being similar to OpenBSD’s.

I’ll be honest, I’ve learned the hard way that there really isn’t any 1:1 BSD experience on Linux. Some may have similar packaging systems, but the base system depends on packages on Linux-based OSes. A shame because my favorite thing about BSDs is that packages are optional.

That being said, I do think the most BSD-like experience with the Linux kernel is going to be Chimera Linux, which was, funnily enough, created by a former Void developer.

We don’t really experience this, though we’re very switchy and had accepted that there is no one in the body with our legal name.

That being said, we do hope you and your headmates are able to get into better working conditions. ❤️

Definitely a very good post.

It reminds me of Chimera Linux’s stance on systemd, which I found to be the best explanation on systemd before these blog posts.

You know, I remember when 9front said things about Ruby

It eventually found itself redacted under different unfortunate circumstances.

Eventually, there became nothing