You’re asking the right questions.

VPNs aren’t much safer. You’re putting your trust in a vpn company instead of an isp. If the vpn company is compromised (such as with Pia) then you’re no better off than if you’d not used the vpn. Tor isn’t that much safer these days since the nsa runs Tor exit nodes. Best bet is a no logging vpn. Though you’re again putting your trust in them that they actually don’t log. Whether or not they do is only known to them.

While we’re recommending/not recommending vpns, don’t use PIA. they WERE the go to. But they’re owned by an American company now and based there.

I second homepage. It’s static so it loads blazingly fast. I tried some others, but as a new tab page, they took too long to load. Homepage, however, loads it loads in fractions of a second. Homepage++

Americans:

“praise the supreme leader!” - wow, brainwashing much?

“I pledge allegiance to the flag…” - Yup, this is fine.

stockholm syndrome

I usually stick with ubuntu/debian based distros, because it was the first distro system i used when i first used linux. so I stick with what i know. Though I did support a RH server once when i worked in IT.

I was HEAVILY into the apple ecosystem, so I have a lot of macs. I have a macbook, running MacOS, and i have a desktop computer that i was using for my server, but instead bought a ras pi, and now use my desktop AS a desktop (partly because i want to dump apple because of all the bootlicking that Tim Apple is doing towards drumpf), which runs linux mint. My ras pi runs ubuntu server. Aside from that, that’s the extent of my home computing. I have an iphone too. But my mac mini goes unused now, and thinking of selling it, but not sure. /rambling

i know it’s two years later, but the CSRF can be solved with CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS = ['https://your.domain.here/'] in conf/seahub_settings.py file. Just putting it here for anyone else that comes across this. Please note, do NOT put a trailing slash on the end of the domain. Lemmy will NOT let me put it there without adding the trailing /

my SD card in my ras pi got corrupted recently. Thankfully I had my docker directory backed up. I pulled the docker directory, docker compose up -d and within about 20 minutes (not including downloading time) I was back up and running. Docker is a godsend. all my apps were exactly as they were before the corruption.

I installed joplin, and while it doesn’t have flat file structure, I think this is the way to go. It’s easy enough to create backups through the UI.

eh, I’m going to keep my iphone, but I want to cancel icloud, because fuck giving them any extra money so they can buy yet another golden statue for trump.

there’s a dongle for that!

I never really considered that tbh. but for what it’s worth, I like a central repository

oh no. not ladybird! You were supposed to save us!

oh, I should note (geddit?), it should have an ios app and a macos app/web accessible site.

Gotify is probably the next best thing, at least in terms of self hosted. Though doesn’t have the wide support of ntfy.

Ntfy.sh is the hosted version. Hosted by the author. Ntfy (android, ios) is the app that you use as a client.

Sigh. Time to switch to gotify

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore

you’re gonna get a LOT of opinions here. Try some out and find what you like the best. Personally, I run Dokuwiki, mostly because i can just zip the whole directory, and move it to another server or back it up a LOT easier than something like MediaWiki.