If the people you want to have access have static, exclusive ip addresses. Which is pretty unusual, these days.

I mean, you can have a look at recent merged PRs. With proprietary engines, you just don’t know.

I could do a lot of things I do on the daily on my phone. But it would be more finicky and annoying. I have automated pretty much all regular maintenance my PC needs long ago. I just don’t see what I’d get, except for more janck.

Cloudflare also has one that gives you some more data than Netflix’.

https://speed.cloudflare.com/

Didn’t Vivaldi? I don’t really use them cause I mostly avoid non-FOSS software, but I seem to remember them announcing they’d be keeping support.

Out sound like you are outsourcing comment-writing to an LLM.

If you need to keep windows around, you can also do what I do for my VMs. Download Win11 Enterprise IoT LTSC from massgrave.dev. Doesn’t have Bing search in the search bar, just local, no Co-pilot, no bullshit.

I’d prefer not having to use it at all, but some software just doesn’t play nice with wine yet.

LLMs are stateless. The model itself stays the same. Doesn’t mean they’re not saving the data elsewhere, but the LLM does not retain interactions.

The bigger issue is that reports currently don’t federate. A report will always go to the admin of your homeserver (which might be you) not the admin of the homeserver the room you’re in is on, nor the admin of the homeserver of the other users.

Most larger (1-2k people) communities get around that by just having you ping the mods in reply to the offending content, which is a band-aid.

A spec for federated reports is apparently being worked on, but not yet available.

A discord server-like would be a space, containing channel-like rooms. The main difference is that rooms can also exist independent of spaces, if you just need a single chat for some people instrad of a group of chats.

You can set permissions for a whole space, it’s just that they currently work differently than Discord. Members have a power level, and you set the power level from which each function is available. So, e.g. Sending messages from Pl 0 (representing normal users), banning users from PL 50 (representing moderators), changing server settings from level 100 (representing administrators).

It sounds complicated, but once you get used to it it’s pretty easy.

Matrix is not

With LiveKit for calls / screen share, it is for my group. Though I’m not saying it doesn’t have issues.

will never be

Community-developed homeservers like continuwuity have gotten a lot of new support on the last few weeks. Clients like cinny are getting pretty close to a replacement ux wise (if you look at PR2599 on Cinny’s GitHub, they are working on and will soon merge support for LiveKit in a way that is very close to voice channels).

I also generally think that the only way to replace Discord as an ecosystem where you talk to many people from different communities is a federated protocol, not a bunch of new silos, one for each community.

Yup, typo. It is lit, though.

I have deployed LiveKit for my homeserver yesterday. I’m not gonna lie, it does involve a bit of work, but once it’s running it is very seamless.

I had a brother laser printer with a pre-heating roll that went bad. Sourcing a replacement for that was pretty annoying. But I get your point.

Well, my fellow countrypeople consistantly go for the very obviously wrong choices.

Curiosity Stream is fine if you are looking for a service that let’s you pay to stream nature docs. The rest, I’d probably avoid. Some of the because they suck, others because there are better alternatives.

Edit: Commented thrice due to app issues.

Yeah, I usually approach this stuff from the standpoint of someone who is already actively self-hosting. For people stuck in Google/MS, it is certainly better.

Vaultwarden is free. Bitwarden is free. Bitwarden Premium is 10€/year.

For what it offers, Proton is pretty expensive. They are also making inter-operation with other services difficult or impossible.

There’s much worse, but they aren’t that great either.

I just said that the economy breaking isn’t really a convincing argument to me. As for the rest - I am not sure the birth rate would make a significant difference either way.

That is a very different argument from no one being around to run the economy. I don’t necessarily disagree, but I don’t think that the ratio of workers to owners will change meaningfully before the system is at a breaking point due to missing labour. Not having children also doesn’t preclude you from working to induce mass action.