Tailscale is great. Don’t believe the bad press. You can always switch in the future if they change their trajectory.

I run all of that on a Dell Optiplex that I bought refurbished in your price range. I couldn’t figure out the self-signing certificates to run nextcloud without a domain, so I run OwnCloud, but hopefully you’ll have better luck.

By the same token, you could just read the Cliff’s Notes and burn down an acre of rainforest to achieve the same results.

Maybe not a novel, but probably an airport paperback.

I’m not sure you understood the point I was making. Multiple platforms exist on the fediverse. Interoperability is a nice plus but it’s not the core feature of the protocol.

Mastodon is strongest around microblogging because that’s what it’s built for. Lemmy is strongest for community discussions because that’s what it’s built for. There are options like mbin that do more to bridge the gap in different ways.

Success of a platform is mostly centered around doing a particular thing very well. There is nothing stopping someone from making multiple accounts across multiple platforms (or even the same platform).

I’d recommend trying to set up different accounts and see if you find one meets your criteria better.

There are different platforms that serve different uses. Using a common protocol enhances development and growth, and the flexibility of the protocol lets developers build on it without reinventing the wheel.

I tested a couple recently and chose Fossify Camera as the most usable. It’s pretty quick, takes decent pictures, and has a good interface.

Fossify is a group that has a number of very high quality apps that are generally as good or better than other open source alternatives.

This is great, thanks!

Like your grandma’s Facebook feed.

Yes!

Someone in this community once said that if you’re not ready with a backup plan, then you’re not ready for self-hosting.

The distro doesn’t really have much impact on the end result. Use what you prefer. Especially if you are using containers which is really the way to go anyway.

It’s worth noting that there are some problems with using Snap. I don’t recall the service I was using, but I was pulling out my hair trying to solve something that I could not get working. Turns out that the snap installation did not function in the expected way and the solution was to re-install without Snap.

I’m not pirating. I’m building my model.

A number of apps are already building piefed support. It seems to have some features that Lemmy lacks and more responsive development. I think it’s too early to count it out completely.

It’s main development is in Russia and some people have a problem with that, but the code is open, so it seems far fetched that there is anything malicious in there. I’m not an expert by any means, though.

I’m transitioning my (very small) office to OnlyOffice and OwnCloud this summer. I have a lot of autonomy so I can basically just make the decision.

I’m choosing OnlyOffice over LibreOffice because it’s a more similar to 360 an I will have to help the staff with very little tech literacy through the transition.

We’re not ready to transition the OS just yet (and may not be able to), but as the hardware ages, we may change over some of the less essential systems. Probably Ubuntu or Zorin.

Anyone still on Twitter is fine hanging out in a Nazi bar.

You seem to be really stuck on this. You posted about a grant program that Mozilla is involved in for a startup to work on developing a secure chat on a more open protocol. Now you dug up a LinkedIn post about the same startup attending an unrelated AI technology conference.

No one is saying that Mozilla isn’t involved in AI at all. The only thing I said is that the foundation is in trouble because Google antitrust actions are likely to harm their funding. As a result, they are cutting back in a lot of areas, including staffing, AI, and other side projects.

The original article ignorantly and irresponsibly overlooks the basic math of the situation.

Looks like a step in the right direction. E2EE messaging is a worthy venture under the Mozilla umbrella.

Not sure why you are posting about it in this thread about AI.

The author’s timeline is off. The AI investment was in 2023, before most of the Google antitrust activity. They are also scaling back their AI programs.

Why do people love to hate on Firefox? People have been harping on Pocket for years as a waste of resources that hardly anyone uses, but now that they are eliminating it, people are coming out of the woodwork to wax nostalgic?

It turns out that making a modern browser is a huge, complex task. It’s been said that it is more on par with maintaining an OS than another type of app. Mozilla is not perfect but why are we so quick to let the perfect be the enemy of the good?

It’s pretty tone-deaf to criticize layoffs on the same article that acknowledges their historic dependence on Google’s rapidly collapsing monopoly. Where is the money going to come from?

A poorly thought out blog post about the only major browser that isn’t built on Apple, Google, or Microsoft.