Imagine if all the people who prefer systemd would write posts like this as often as the opposition. Just use what you like, there are plenty of distros to choose from.

You install the Google services and Play store from the gOS Apps application, then use them like normal.

Behind the scenes they run in the sandboxed environment, but to the user it makes no difference.

• Open the GUI network settings
• Set DNS to the IP of the PiHole, make sure the “automatic” switch is off.
• Do the above for each active interface (ethernet, wlan) and for both IPv4 and IPv6
• Save/apply settings
• Turn the interface(s) off, then back on
• resolvectl flush-caches just in case

Look at resolvectl dns to check there’s no DHCP-acquired DNS servers set anymore

If you use a VPN, those often set their own DNS servers too, remember to check it as well.

I run GrapheneOS too. Fortunately there are so few issues that I can just focus on using it, no need to engage the community around it.

Protonmail, but not really because of encryption. I just liked their Android client and webmail the most. I’ve had sensitive backups on Proton Drive for a long time, so that also played a role in the choice.

I hosted my own server for quite a few years, but the SMTP clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, K9 mail) all doing things slightly differently made me give up. Biggest push was that K9 mail didn’t really move deleted mail to trash. These were probably dovecot configuration issues, but I got tired of searching for solutions. Never had any deliverability issues.

The article is old, yes, the first one from a search engine. If you have a source for saying it’s not in the works anymore, I’d be glad to see it. Not saying you’re wrong.

Just this month there was a statement from FiCom (finnish organization advancing IT businesses’ interests) urging our government to not accept the bill, so to me it seems it’s just under development.

link to statement, Sep 13th, in finnish

Coming soon to EU, probably.

https://edri.org/our-work/why-chat-control-is-so-dangerous/

This is true, with a couple gigs of RAM and SATA storage Nextcloud is not at all bad. Assuming an instance with not that much simultaneous users.

It feels like slow sometimes, then after an hour with M365 at work it doesn’t feel slow at all.

In Finland synchronization in gearboxes is starting to become a thing nowadays. Double clutching for 20 years now (38).

Just kidding, got my first automatic two years ago, so yes.

There’s a base image of ublue, which is Silverblue without a DE. I’d suppose you can mostly just layer e.g. Sway or i3 on top.

Traditional package model will still have it’s usage, of course, I agree. But if Silverblue works for a developer like me, I’d say a for more “regular” users immutable distros seem like a very viable option.

I recently put the nvidia variant of ublue-os on my work laptop, which has Optimus graphics. Couldn’t be happier.

It’s great to see these variants popping up! I really think ostree may be the future for desktop Linux, and not even very far away.

Rsyslog to collect logs to a single server, then lnav for viewing them on that server is a good combo. Oldschool but very effective for self-host scale.

Glad the tip was useful!

For a bit enhanced log file viewing, you could use something like lnav, I think it’s packaged for most distributions.

Cockpit can be useful for journald, but personally I think GUI stuff is a bit clunky for logs.

Grep, awk and sed are powerful tools, even with only basic knowledge of them. Vim in readonly mode is actually quite effective for single files too.

For aggregating multiple servers’ logs good ol’ rsyslog is good, but not simple to set up. There are tutorials online.

Did a bit of research and found out the feature is available on Fennec F-Droid too via about:config.

Here’s how to enable: https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/

I’d second this. Fedora is great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not rolling or stable.

I think stable was referring to not crashing here.

Most Debian based distros, actually.

If they offered a way to export/import the DB and user files as is, it would be great. But you are kind of stuck with Hetzner if you go there, transferring elsewhere will be a pain. Probably need to use the desktop client to download everything and then again upload to the new place.

You are not alone

Yes, you are correct. I was however talking about how to make it convenient for new users unfamiliar to the Lemmy system to find communities to subscribe to. The point was to get the built-in search to show as much communities as possible.

The current system is not convenient or clear for the average person at all. Not complaining or anything, but that’s just a fact. I got started two days ago, and the number of “how to find communities” posts in that time is quite high. Took me the first day too.

I’m also thinking of setting up a server (would host a public Synapse instance and maybe Mastodon too), and thought about this same issue.

Perhaps a bot that just goes through a list of known instances and just subscribes to communities would do it? Might be a bit heavy though. Not sure how much load Lemmy federation puts on the server.