The issue isn’t how it’s built or based on its that Microsoft can use its control of the os to make it extremely difficult to avoid it.

AI is worse than crypto. Most crypto projects use proof of stake which is way more resource efficient than mining. Also the mining that does happen usually happens where there is excess generation instead of azure datacenters

Android can be configured to require a pin after a reboot which is an ok compromise if you want to invoke the fifth amendment

If you look at it as generic could provider it’s not good, but if you look at it as making m$ run they’re software instead of you it’s awesome because most m$ software is not fun to run

Usually in the observability space it is primarily based on the volume of data and sometimes seat count. Especially if it’s freemium like elastic where users can get an idea of volume by running a POC of the free version. Companies do this because of small teams who deploy large infra that would make contracts unprofitable

When it is the cause of a problem it’s not always obvious at first so you spend hours troubleshooting the broken app until you look at DNS and a simple DNS issue

Altispeed technologies sells both otherwise I’m not familiar with anyone else that does it since I self host

If your Linux distro is using btrfs you can format it to btrfs and use btrfs send for backups. Otherwise the filesystem shouldn’t be to big if a deal unless you want to restore files from a Windows machine. If that is the case use ntfs

Along with the views of it’s users it’s just fun to say things like enshitification and the great enshittening

Bitwarden keeps a local copy of the data that can exported if something ever happened to bitwarden. If you want to keep an encrypted backup you can export the CSV and store it on an encrypted drive as a backup but not big worry about syncing it to all devices

I self host seafile. Nextcloud and syncthing are also good options. There are people that sell hosted nextcloud and seafile

Is that how they make it?!

I use headscale and headscaleui but I’ve heard things about net bird and netmaker

I have been using cheogram but I’m not sure where their servers are hosted https://cheogram.com/

The empty window is actually an ancap that sells flags

I use vikunja for this it can self hosted or cloud hosted

I fail to see how that differs from the current Internet

Podcasts, blogs, and YouTube. The Jupiter broadcasting and late night Linux podcasts are great For blogs Jeff geerling and serve the home are really good.

Shameless plug for my project shiftmon that’s hosted on gitlab it uses ansible to glue together Telegraf, Victoriametrics, Grafana, and Loki

https://gitlab.com/shiftsystems/shiftmon

Different distros build their packages with different options and have different versions of those packages so the Ubuntu and fedora php packages might have an optimization the arch one didn’t