Do you use bash? If not, which one do you use? zsh, fish? Why do you do it?

Mostly fish, because it just feels much more modern than bash, it has good built-in autocomplete and I don’t have to install millions of plugins like of zsh.

Do you write #!/bin/bash or #!/bin/sh? Do you write fish exclusive scripts?

#!/usr/bin/env bash Occasionally I also write fish scripts. Just replace sh with fish.

What should’ve people told you what to do/ use?

zoxide

general advice?

As @[email protected] already suggested, use shellcheck.

is it bad practice to create a handful of commands like podup and poddown that replace podman compose up -d and podman compose down or podlog as podman logs -f --tail 20 $1 or podenter for podman exec -it “$1” /bin/sh?

I don’t think so

Well yeah, it’s not a proper long-term solution. But making a twitter account with a burner email from Guerrilla Mail is surprisingly easy, I guess that will be the only option going forward.

If the machines are on the same network, try LocalSend

Yeah Vultr is great

As far as I can see on their website, they don’t mention end to end encryption or zero-knowledge encryption. If that is true, it means that they are able to read all your emails (and so can the government if they order them to reveal the data). They sometimes use some pretty confusing marketing slag in general. It’s misleading because they advertise things like in-transit TLS encryption, which is standard nowadays. Even Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo and other mainstream email providers have this by default. This is nothing special and they hope that people think it means the same as E2EE. If you care about data ownership, you should also care about (end-to-end) encryption. Only when you are the only key holder, you can be sure that no one can access your private stuff.

Twiit (https://twiiit.com/) checks for nitter instances that still work and redirects you.

Sure, you go ahead and try it out for yourself to see if it works. Just wanted to let you know that selfhosting an Email server is not easy. Regarding ethics, I like Proton because they support privacy, open source software, and they never sold out to VC. Their website is accessible via Tor, they accept Bitcoin payments and they actually care about their users. That’s probably the most ethical email provider you can find.

You need to update Pihole

They probably don’t allow email. Most VPS providers (even paid ones) block SMTP port 25.

I wouldn’t actually selfhost email, it’s not particularly easy and there are many issues you will probably encounter. I recommend ProtonMail, it’s $3.50/month if you only need email and for $8/month you also get calendar, cloud storage, a password manager and a great VPN. Also, they are very focused on privacy and encryption and their apps are open source. Alternatively you can go with IVPN or Mullvad, both are great. Digitalocean has been fine in my experience, have you had any issues with it?

You can get it from F-Droid

RustDesk is FOSS, written in Rust and can be selfhosted.

No, it doesn’t use ActivityPub. It’s a separate decentralized protocol.

Immediately blocked lemmygrad and hexbear

I was just curious. Use whatever works best for you.

You mean XCP-ng?

• XCP-ng on my virtualization host
• TrueNAS Core on my NAS
• Ubuntu Server on my Jellyfin media server
• Debian on my other server that I use for testing purposes
• DietPi on my Raspberry Pi

Wouldn’t Linux be easier to manage and better in terms of performance?

Damn, fuck Windows. Fortunately I don’t have to use it.

The ONLY DNS server you should have set on your network is a/the PiHole(s).

That’s exactly what I do, since I never had any stability issues with my Pihole.

Windows calls them ‘preferred’ and ‘alternate’ DNS servers. That roughly translates to primary/secondary.