If they can keep the MS lobbyists out, it’s feasible, just ask Munich.

No. Maybe. Why not?

from various consumer advocacy groups, corporations, and governments

because people are demanding it.

Are they though? Also, r/whatever is a community, not the community. But everyone’s entitled to an opinion…

I’m hoping on the latter, quite the setting for a Rockstar videogame of older times.

I’m shocked, i tell you, shocked!

Gentoo’s forums are quite active and it’s one of my daily drivers. I think the others kinda faded away.

Don’t think so either but it has withered away.

What are you currently using?

Hardly obscure.

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Still hardly obscure and usage metric is anything but precise. Slackware doesn’t have something like Debian’s popularity contest and distrowatch only meters page visits.

Hardly obscure.

because email … is a much calmer version of instant messenger

TIL i guess…

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Install the headless version, no GUI:

${EDITOR} /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99noRecommends
APT::Install-Recommends "0";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";

and then run apt update.

Then install fluxbox session manager, oughta be enough.

they have paid developers

They should pay lawyers as well.

With Headscale being an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.

Tailscale

Have you considered Headscale?

What’s your mail stack and your take on self-hosting dying?

Depends on your threat modeling.

I have an address to register in irrelevant sites and the provider is also irrelevant.

I have an address for important use (utilities’ bills, government stuff, friends), currently tuta.

I also have an alias there for occasional registrations.

I’d try proton (has an .onion site) but they force you to supply a phone number or email address on registration, which for me defeats the purpose. They also leak a lot of links to clearnet.

Self-hosting has become increasingly hard but I haven’t tried it.