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FairEmail is the Gold Standard right now imho. The learning curve can be quite steep though.

I always point people here: https://youtu.be/uPYjJYQEFSg

Hard to give you hints when we don’t know what your background is, so here is some basics:

For starting selfhosting I’d recommend getting comfortable with the linux command line at first (this may help: https://www.linuxcommand.org/). Set up a VM in Virt-manager / VirtualBox / VMWare / whatever hypervisor you want, install a Linux image (I’d recommend plain Debian without desktop environment). Now you have a sandbox where you can toy around. If you’re on windows you can use WSL2. If you’re already on a linux desktop, toy around there.

If you already got some hardware like a raspberry pi or old Laptop, get that up and running with a distro of your choice, plug it into your network and SSH into it, then you have got your playground there. Get the basic commands in like ls, pwd, cat, tail, touch, mkdir, rm, … And some things you can do with them. Check out their respective man-pages.

After that, install some packages, change configs (I’d recommend nano over vim for starters). From now on, there are no boundaries of what to do. Set up your first basic webserver with apache / nginx / caddy, install docker / podman and containerize / get some images, set up pihole, nextcloud, jellyfin, do whatever you like… Congratulations, you are now “self hosting”.

Maybe some day switch that Raspberry pi out for a thin client as seen in the picture from OP and install a hypervisor like Proxmox on it. If you got all that, which may take a while, you can consider networking and firewalls IMHO (you could get a cheap router that supports OpenWRT to learn about these things). Don’t open ports to the internet as long as you’re not 100% sure what you are doing. You can set up a VPN with DynDNS on most modems / routers connected to your ISP though, opening up your self hosted services only to you / anyone with access. Or use something like Tailscale / Twingate.

I could go on, but like I said, self hosting and home labbing is kind of use case / requirement specific.

I like your style, but I guess both would get you into legal trouble.

My condolences to anyone who thinks windows is more usable / suited better to their use case in any way.

Considering Bethesdas sloppy implementation approach, especially with object collision, things might even get more stable using the correct mods.

I remember using a mod on Fallout 4 that sets the fps in the loading screen to ~500 iirc bc they were somehow tied to the loading speed smh.

I actually plan on putting hardware related stuff on an extra pi since I only run a single proxmox node right now. Would be home assistant and nut tools for the ups but I might put pihole and unbound on that as well.

I am worried about the performance though because of home assistant. And it is pretty comfortable to have everything on one host that is far from being used to capacity anyway.

Thank you for your insights, they seem valuable at least to me, who is even further away from being a lawyer lol.

the normal way that Corpos avoid situations like this lawsuit is by making qualified statements, estimates within a range, non absolute statement

Would be nothing less than crazy stupid if they were to be found guilty for letting marketing be to honest / lawyers be to negligent.

Now again I am not a lawyer, but in many kinds of cases… well, anything that is entered as evidence, could potentially become public knowledge…

So, forcing this lawsuit may also serve as a way to make such records more widely available.

Would be great to see some antitrust level cases against LLMs using this - as well as hopefully even clearer and more qualified cases - as precedent.

Google has scraped Reddit and has basically all of its information, as well as the… basically the entire rest of the internet.

This is a big problem in the making, not only for reddit but for everyone. Apart from the societal implications of people getting their information from a non-deterministic system, deployed by one of ~5 big corporations whose intentions clearly differ from the ones of the people, while also feeding back details about themselves, losing their ability to think straight for themselves, impeding connections to other humans, …

Apart from all that, it will render primary and secondary sources irrelevant. This kills reddits and everyone elses business model on the web as we know it today.

Current lawsuit is over that ‘No’ being a lie, as well as whether or not it was an intentional lie, as in, they knew it would, and lied, and said it would not.

So this might as well be a blatant lie. What I tried to say before is that this question in this particular case is far from being able to deliver a solution to the root cause of reddits own misery. They had a good run, better and longer than most other big platforms out there. But this lawsuit is only some millionaires feeling the need to blame someone for wobbly stocks.

Reddit made it unmistakably clear that they don’t want traffic from people using their API and that they don’t want google or anyone else to scrape “their” content, which I’m pretty sure will have significant impact on SEO. They also have made sure to please potential shareholders by banning a ton of users and communities before their IPO.

As a result, the quality and quantity of discussion on the platform has lowered, some people even tried to mass delete their posts and comments which makes some threads to appear like ghost towns, which has also revealed the insane amount of inorganic communication (bots and the like).

So how exactly did google kill their userbase?

I sure hope he keeps his sanity and will have a worthy successor one day.

• effective API shutdown for everyone but themselves to force users onto their objectively worse own app that is filled with ads and telemetry.
• shadowbanning and even real banning for flimsy reasons. Banning whole communities because they think it pleases shareholders.
• AI agents that pollute and distort the discourse. Like posts with 10k upbotes and 5 comments.

That and essentially all the additional things that come with an IPO. All corporate owned social media has gone to shit sooner or later. Most platforms didn’t even make it that far.

Just checked and i guess you’re right! Time to do some distro hopping again lol.

Not the heroes we deserve, but the ones we need.

Would be great to see some major distros shipping with KDE by default. Fedora e.g. had this idea a little while ago.

Scary that they banned WhitePeopleTwitter, a sub with 3M+ subscribers.