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.

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. 😂

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

Yeah, I describe OpenBSD as very easy… for those already who are already quite familiar with Unix.

Very nice for setting up quick servers.

Getting more into the BSDs.

I have OpenBSD as a desktop on a laptop I have and it’s great.

Also wanting to get back into retrocomputing.

Fair enough. A lot of us are something along the lines of androids, and that’s probably more an oversimplification of the species that’s the primary demographic of the system.

We can probably fairly easily modify this/make our own graphics to represent us at the least. Might have to get the resident graphic designers in our plural collective onto this.

The artist likes foxes.