I dunno, I remember learning about the SNES vs Genesis when I was in middle school.

It does.

A quick look at the sidebar and hovering over, one of the moderators of this community appears to be a lemmy.world admin if that’s what you mean.

Considering how big lemmy.world is, I’d guess it’s more a bit of overlap than it being the same people.

I definitely tend to think short term. If I enjoy the process, then I can go long term, but I am prone to short term thinking.

I’m trying to think more long term though. 😓

For VPN I do like AirVPN a lot.

I do currently use Bitwarden for my 2FA as well as my passwords, though I should look into Ente Auth.

I’ll be honest, I forget that NodeBB has become federated. Despite having run into an actual incompatibility problem between Piefed and NodeBB. 😅

I personally use Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/etc. for social news rather than bolted on forum-like features. That’s where I think this software shines.

If you want a decentralized forum, I’d seriously recommend you look at Usenet and NNTP. Then again, I promote the usage of network protocols for what they are good at over forcing everything through the web. 😂

Definitely a very good post.

It reminds me of Chimera Linux’s stance on systemd, which I found to be the best explanation on systemd before these blog posts.

Yeah, I describe OpenBSD as very easy… for those already who are already quite familiar with Unix.

Very nice for setting up quick servers.

Getting more into the BSDs.

I have OpenBSD as a desktop on a laptop I have and it’s great.

Also wanting to get back into retrocomputing.

Not my instance (I’m posting from PieFed lol), but I noticed that lemmy.blahaj.zone has five UIs, including mlmym, set up.

I can second AirVPN. I’ve never had an issue with it, at least one that wasn’t ultimately user error.

Went to an auction and got a cash register for rather cheap. Now I can run a store from home as I have a scanner, thermal printer, and a credit card terminal as well!

Don’t know if I want to, but I at least have everything now lmao

If you’re willing to use OpenBSD, there’s OpenBSD.amsterdam as far as cloud providers go :^)

In all seriousness, they donate about 15-20% of what they charge you to the OpenBSD Foundation. I also like their service. Though again, they are OpenBSD-exclusive, so I can’t say I recommend the service for your use case (which seems Linux-focused) unless you really want to switch to OpenBSD.

SQLite also has licenses you can pay for as well as support contracts you can get, though not a cloud provider.

Unfortunately, I don’t really know of anything similar in the Linux world or in regards to other databases and cloud providers nowadays. I know DigitalOcean in particular decided to abandon all of their FOSS donations except towards Omarchy for some reason.

Heading to an auction, same as I do every Saturday. :-)

Last week I did get an old eMachines computer from about 2000 for a pretty good price, so I’m happy as can be.