Honestly I cannot think of any right now because I am so fed up with corporate proprietary crap.

Good! I am a mid-life Gen Xer and it’s not the fault of Gen Z that the world is fucked up beyond all recognition. The Boomer and older Gen Xers fucked it up for everybody.

I don’t see this functionality in Lemmy. Mastodon has settings where you can limit your posting visibility to only those who follow you. But anybody that you don’t expressly block will still be able to see your profile. More privacy features mighr be in development.

Probably your best bet is to keep your fediverse handle as anonymous as is possible. That would be the best advice I have to give. Also, don’t give clues as to your whereabouts in your posts. Nothing on the Internet is trult private and infosec is hard. Always assume that a fediverse instance could be compromised at any time. Use some common sense and basic operational security and you should be okay.

I have to admit I like the concept of rootless containers very much.

Thank you for the recommendation. I am checking it out now.

The only DDoS that I can half-way tolerate is ones that go against corporations/governments that do evil shit. And even then, those attacks had better not effect people’s health and welfare needs. Yes, assholes abound.

I would consider myself a very beginning docker user so I’ve a long way to go but I can see, given that I am a beginner, it might make sense to pivot now to Podman.

I currently use Libby without a SIM card.

Definitely! All it requires are having a Google Account.

I hate assholes that do this. Why? I mean really why?

What about Void are you liking?

Check out The Odin Project. It is a free full stack developer course. I’m going to give it a try myself.

Ah thank you. I clearly had no idea. 😹

Lemmies? 🤷

In Lemmy, subreddits are known as communities. You join a community by its name, for example !mycommunity@example. Do a search for that community, click on the search result, and you’ll be given an option to subscribe. Note that the search might come up as 0 results even though you got the community name right. It’s just taking longer to find the community.

I have a Dell OptiPlex 7050 micro with 16GB of RAM and 256GB SSD. All it’s doing is running OpenBSD as my firewall and router. But it is doing some complex routing and traffic shaping and queueing. It’s also a VPN termination point for the WireGuard tunnel between my cloud VPS and home network. My cloud VPS is, in this case, a reverse proxy.

I get the appeal of the single board computer but it never held much interest for me. That could possibly be because my manual dexterity isn’t that good and I found the assembly side of the SBC to be daunting. I’ve been more interested in using the tiny form factor Dell Wyse and Lenovo micro machines.

Shout out to fellow Arch person!

I can relate! The best antidepressant for me is immersion in my hobby of open source software and computing. I also enjoy learning for its pure sake.

What’s really funny is cheese whiz on a steak sounds nasty. But biting into one is like a small piece of heaven.