Buy a single-board x86 or ARM PC with more than one ethernet port on it and install openwrt, or opn/pfsense on it depending on your sensibilities and enjoy.
I use an OpenWRT ONE router, it’s a BananaPi with OpenWRT on it.
Update and reboot regularly, don’t get behind.
No.
I was an NPR supporter for years but now I find them to be more in line with being a voice for corporate Democrats and the status-quo.
The rest of the radio is a wash.
The cheapest?
I um, rebuild my own vape coil. Thing is, I know that’s a rather outdated concept, but one fine day, I ran out of coils, remembered I had a rebuildable for this device and just… never went back?
4 inches of wire, and a clump of cotton. I usually never rebuild the wire and just install new cotton.
So, ~$0.05 therabouts.
Main-character types that think their exception is rule enough to be bitter.
Everyone sucks, build your own router or depend on the enshitty options at your local ScamN’Shop.
what about the average consumer?
He’s fucked.
Consider the Following
Big Country - Influenced your favorite band, bagpipe guitars, google it.
They Might be Giants - Not JUST a fun jokey band, just mostly one. Some of their songs are lyrically and musically brilliant tho despite the light tone.
The Menzingers - A lighter hardcore band with a southern rock vibe that puts out really heartfelt and just awesome stuff.
Yeah, but listening to all of it, you get the sense it’s more 12 albums with 10 fluff pieces around them.
In no timeline am I ever putting Laminated Denim up against IDPLM&L, or Gumboot against Nonagon. Their bar for quality is kinda loopy.
I liked Phantom Island, a good B+ record from them with some of my favorite singles. They’re still an extremely strong band, they sometimes spend 1-3 albums fucking around before making another hit.
The same reason any other rich, out of touch person does anything, the quest for more money and/or recognition.
It ain’t like Hollywood is paying very well anymore and her main gig was what, one franchise? Mmmhm.
Guess it’s UAE spyware now.
Pssssst.
no one “owns” XMPP.
Lemmy has a bit of a reputation of being the “fight club” of the fediverse…
To a degree, I’d agree on that one. Some people come here looking for an argument, farming vibes in the doorway, don’t let it get to you.
Wait, you guys want to survive it?
Seems, kinda like XMPP?
(but optionally, it does have group encryption, with a catch) Onboarding isn’t the issue, really,… getting people to care enough to try… moreso.
Painting a target on himself
Put it before the white box, then wireguard or ygg out to a vps. Fuck 'em.
Google: that,… isn’t up to you
People get what they pay for.
Lemmy is the spirit of the UBB board continued, many of us are the remnants of the old web, just following the endless chain to whatever the next big exodus will be, seeing how many come with us, and the names that fade with each hop.
I have treated Lemmy differently. I was pseudo anonymous on Reddit. I treat Lemmy the same way I treat a darkweb overlay network. (no this isn’t my first account)
This has more to do with the times than community trust, but I’ve been an anon for a while before too, it’s nothing new.
skill issue
Apart from “increased security”, what is actually the point of these releases?
That is the point. The desktop landscape… aside from maybe KDE, changes very little over time. It’s more that new software is created to try out, while old software would rather retain their current userbase and not be tarred and feathered over sweeping changes.
in the background, though
The kernel is constantly adapting and updating to changes in the cybersecurity threat landscape, and shit is happening, all the time, relentlessly, forever.
truck full of letters backs up to Meta’s headquarters
“there, that’s more appropriate.”
A switch and you’re all good, fam.