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My experience has been that MAIB version updates are usually very smooth. Regular OS update (apt update/apt install) are smooth. The big problem is that the recommended path is to …

FWIW, I use MIAB and my e-mails aren't dropped regularly from what I can tell. Before this, I was using a mix of CPanel and gmail but for a variety of reasons, I wanted to take gre…

If my memory serves the project started around the time of a popular blog post called NSA-Proof Your E-mail[1]. It may have been Josh's inspiration for the project, I'm not sure. I…

Sitelutions.com still offers this. Without a paid account, the only limitation is the TTL.

You have to think about Postel's law in terms of protocols and mistakes in your implementation. You assume your implementation isn't perfect and neither is the other. Do your best …

Why not use both? You can support the content creator with a higher per-view rate and still block ads in other places.

I agree with you 100%. I've had it for quite a while. When I see Youtube without being logged in, I really can't imagine using the at all with the current level of ads - it's gotte…

I'm self hosting with mail-in-a-box as well. It comes with a nextcloud install. It hasn't been flawless but it's been good and I'm happy to have some control. With e-mail, I haven'…

Back when I ran slackware, it was pretty easy. You installed packages from the disk sets and the packages had the files they needed. It kept track of which packages wrote out which…

Knowing a number of foreign medical grads, I'd have to agree that they are not, as a rule, skethcy.

I like the idea of something like this that encourages you to start writing. It can be hard to get yourself to start creating. Having an easy outlet like this is a cool idea.

I also like and use Joplin - it can sync with anything that uses file sync but recently released its own server which is supposed to be faster.

Actually, they do. You pay half of the payroll tax and the company pays the other half. This is payroll tax and not income tax, that is Social Security and Medicaid. This is why if…

In KDE, in addition to being able to do this full screen, you can have regular windows without any chrome if you want. You just right click on the window title bar and change setti…

This question (and the one above right now) are good points. GPG isn't really a killer feature right now. I likewise haven't needed secure e-mail in a while. I just happened to not…

I've noticed that many of the linux repos are not up to date. If you're using those, you probably need to install it directly from the website to get the latest version and see the…

Syncthing is awesome for being a dropbox-like service for computers. I've setup a syncthing share as a folder inside of nextcloud which is enabled as "External Storage." This gives…

I've been using KeePassXC for a few years now. Before this, I was using LastPass and then before that, the original KeePass. Feature-wise, KeePassXC does a really good job replacin…

Ubuntu does support fingerprint login if you have supported hardware.

I really like duplicati. It works in Linux, Windows and MacOS. It has good support for tons of back ends for storage (nfs, cifs, dropbox, s3, ssh, etc). The software is FOSS and it…

Thanks for writing this up - you did a great job. I came across it on a DDG search when I was exploring WireGuard and as a result, I found it easy to setup!

In addition to the Chrome app, there is the Chrome extension. They basically do the same thing and the extension has no expiration message. The main reason I wasn't using the exten…

The rules also prohibit commercial communications (i.e. pecuniary interest). There are some limited exceptions which depending on your use may be enough. That said, ham radio is a …

Aircraft bands use AM rather than FM because of the FM capture effect. When there is a double transmission with FM, the receiver will lock on to one signal and exclude the other. W…

The slowdown of fiber vs vacuum is about one third. A 33% reduction in latency is fairly significant for some applications. I've heard of financial trading firms using microwave re…