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I host email from my basement. Rackmount server down there runs all my VMs, including ones for Postfix, Dovecot, and Rspamd. Apache Solr/Tika are connected to dovecot for full-text…

I agree. If you're the only user of your instance, they can easily track you server-side by your IP address. You could mitigate this by routing your egress traffic (either from the…

I host everything from a server in my basement. Each local application gets a dedicated Rocky Linux VM on a proxmox hypervisor, with the VM/DNS/app configuration managed though a c…

Fantastic extension. I self-host Invidious, Teddit, Nitter, and Bibliogram and configured LibRedirect to use only my private instances. Unfortunately, the community instances are o…

"muh GPS" is definitely the most common argument people give me. Garmin still makes car GPS units. I have one and it works well. To be fair, I was able to refrain from mindless scr…

I have not found it to be overly burdensome. I have an indestructible kyocera flip phone, so I'm able to call people (and SMS in a pinch). I have an LTE-enabled tablet, so if I'm g…

Getting rid of my smartphone was without a doubt the most positive thing I ever did for myself. I'm sure some people have the self-control to use it sparingly. But for me, not havi…

(I'm the author of TFA.) I have never had this issue. Generally the issue is either IP reputation of your server (common with VPS providers if you get a recycled IP of a previous s…

Author here. I actually use OpenSMTPD currently, but I haven't bothered to write a full article about it. Details of my current setup are here: https://github.com/cullum/dank-selfh…

I wouldn’t take this as a representative sample of all men. In my experience, sharing feelings makes me feel worse and substantially reduces my appeal to others. I prefer to just d…

Because email is one of the few edifices left of the truly open internet, and some of us aren’t ready to concede defeat of what was once a free platform to a corporate oligarchy.

I too was a happy user of iCloud keychain for many years. Except one day, I made a new password on my Mac, but even after a few hours it hadn't sync'd to my iPhone. I followed some…

Never understood the desire for unions in the tech industry. Thankfully the USA has plenty of right-to-work states.

I should try something like that. Honestly just having the device in eyesight triggers some kind of latent mental FOMO. Removing the option entirely has worked well for me so far. …

It can!

I would imagine it's pretty bad. The interface is pretty slow and T9 is just frustrating enough for me to just call people instead. The call quality is great though! I use a HiBy R…

I have my eye on the MP02. Waiting until they get certified for VoLTE in the USA, otherwise it will drop to 3g for making calls. 3g coverage is limited in many metro areas of the U…

You will be in a tough spot if you're in the USA. All the nice Nokias and decent low-tech phones are rapidly becoming useless as carriers phase out 2g (and even 3g) coverage to fre…

All those things work fine with Gajim. Probably not the case with other desktop clients though admittedly.

Although most of my friends prefer Matrix these days, XMPP is still my favorite way of chatting. You can easily run your own Prosody instance [1] on a $5/month VPS and have a very …

I used to run Postfix + Dovecot + Rspamd with all the bells and whistles enabled [1], but I recently switched to OpenSMTPD + spamd on OpenBSD. Unlike rspamd, which has pluggable mo…

Thanks. I think the issue is DOCTYPE, here’s the real file that I use hosted on GitHub, haven’t had any problems with it. https://github.com/cullum/dotfiles/blob/master/fontconfig/…

Thank you!

Thanks for the feedback! I've added a tidbit about syspatch, and also warned users about the (somewhat unusual) state of updates for third-party packages on OpenBSD: https://www.c0…

About 7 hours on an oldish ThinkPad (T530) on a full charge: $ apm Battery state: high, 99% remaining, 430 minutes life estimate A/C adapter state: not connected Performance adjust…