Haven’t had issues since the 2000s. Use a separate boot partition, use UEFI, you’re golden.

The Customs and Border Protection agents have authority to request a foreign entrant (even with visa) to unlock their phones. They can also deny entry if the entrant doesn’t cooperate.

So they don’t need to have backdoor access to WhatsApp. They can get in through the front.

First, keep your condescension to yourself.

Second, that’s not evidence, that’s FUD.

OnlyOffice does for sure, not sure how well it works on LibreOffice Online.

LibreOffice online exists. It’s not mature, but they could have invest half their time in making it so.

Only Office is natively cloud based, with an optional offline/desktop version.

Both are open source, if the concern is project governance, create a fork and rebrand.

Is there any evidence of any wrongdoing or are we just considering all open source software from Russia a bad actor by default?

A move that all mastodon instances should have taken proactively. Federation with Meta only benefits meta

Toxicity? How so?

Nice deep dive.

Really? Is there an alternative that hits all the points above? I’m really asking.

• persistent IRC style chat rooms
• virtual “servers” to organize said chat rooms, manage privileges, control visibility
• integration with bots for all sorts of things (moderation, user welcome, dice rollers, etc.)
• integration with games/music players/etc (I don’t use it but it’s very popular)
• privacy and moderation controls
• client allows fine grained notification controls
• voice, video, and screen casting simultaneously
• “server” templates: use an existing server config (roles, permissions, rooms, etc.) when creating a new server.

That’s just off the top of my head.

It’s enshittifying, but the value proposition is still hard to beat. I’m really hoping Matrix catches up with the feature set soon.

Nheko provides an interface that is reminiscent of Discord. Fully featured and fast Matrix client.

That depends. A lot of the power consumption comes from spinning media. Even very old desktop Intel chips have CPU throttling and consume very little while idle. Corporate desktops, even old ones, are usually quite economical.

You don’t need more than an old desktop with a low powered i3/i5 and a free drive bays to build your first NAS. Just install TrueNAS and get going.

I think GL.inet has tiny ones you can use.

I haven’t sunk much time at it, but I’m not aware of any training data focusing on code only. There’s nothing preventing me from running with general purpose data, but I imagine I’d have a snappier response with a smaller, focused dataset, without losing accuracy.

I am curious about trying an application specific AI. Like just for coding, for instance. I assume the memory requirements would be much lower.

One way to avoid the pitfalls of hosting for others is hosting an instance just for yourself. Maybe immediate family too.

As for RAID, just go with TrueNAS software raid (courtesy of ZFS). All that is needed are physical bays and SATA cables/ports. You can buy cheap external bays if there aren’t enough on the PC.

VMware’s predatory practices make wary of their products. I’m avoiding it for all new installs.

I share your optimism to a point. If it convinces one municipality to not adopt Flock, it’s a victory. That said, I can see a corrupt government issuing an alert to track a car down. However, if done correctly, this action will be undeniable and visible, and it can’t give them heavy information.