and tied to SAP.

🤢

Removed by mod

Removed by mod

So they see you as a human. Not a gay human.

We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals.

As long as they’re hired for their skills and not to tick a checkbox i don’t care.

you no longer have a moral obligation to transition anything over to your coworkers.

My coworkers didn’t let me go, my boss did. If i knew a shit coworker of mine would inherit the project then sure, otherwise i don’t see the point of burning bridges.

Old ThinkPads

You may have an ATM near you.

Just keep in mind it’s a path, take your time.
Also, what may be important to you may not be for someone else and vice-versa, so look up and read up on threat modeling. This should probably be first on your list.

mini pc before the isp modem to filter dns

You mean after the modem and before your network? Then that solution is feasible, otherwise it really depends how The Net enters your domicile, odds are coax or fibre…
You may be able to flash your modem+router+switch black box the ISP provides, but YMMV on that one.
Regardless, you can set-up that mini pc inside your network as the authoritative DNS server to act as a DNS sinkhole — i.e. using a PiHole.

I have a pc w dual boot

Suggestion: linux-only with windows inside a virtual machine; other virtual machines can be used for self-hosting also.

backup data

Use 3-2-1 and make sure your backups are working.
Look into RAID and LVM or, better yet, ZFS.

dell optiplex

Lenovo Thinkpads tend to have a following in linuxland, but that’s personal preference.

What am I missing? Where should I look?

Techlore has a series of videos on the topic and, along with the new oil, they have a weekly video on security and privacy. Non-tech-friendly. There are quite a few podcasts on these topics.

You can further your privacy by using frontends to common abusive sites (which i link to, sorry), such as invideous for youtube, etc.

A programming language is always interesting, linux is mostly based on C and it’s not a bad start. I’ll duck for cover now. Shell scripting — bash in particular — will get you a long way, as well a command-line text editor to change config files.

32 bit version of firefox, because it makes a huge difference in low ram devices.

How so? What CPU does she have?

Last time i searched for “lightweight” linux distros (for an old Thnkpad) the ones i saw recommended the most were: TinyCore, Puppy, Porteus, Absolute, antiX, Q4OS, Slax, Sparky, MX.
I saw Bohdi and other Ubuntu-based distros suggested quite a lot as well but my definition of lightweight means under 1GiB usage.
For a DE go with XFCE or some other lightweight DE.

They succeded in a way, XMPP lost a lot of users back then in the era when communications where migrating from group-focussed IRC to individual-focused Whatsapp (or their respective walled-gardened messengers).
Better than matrix in the ways 2poVoq@slrpnk.net listed above.

Suggestion accepted, looks nice.

Why is it in your opinion better?

It’s an open protocol, unlike 99% of chat protocols. It’s self-hostable and federated.
It’s IRC’s successor and been around a long time, first popularized by Jabber. Snikket made it even easier to use.
It was also EEEed by Meta and Google to lure users at a given point, with leads some to say “it’s dead” — far from it.
Edit: you may need to ensure OMEO versions are the same across all clients.

As a TV for your kitchen?

Depends. On. The. Country.
Any company will be subject to the country’s laws, be it ISPs, VPN providers or a second-hand clothing shop.

The good ones will get away with no logging if they can do it legally.

I think SimpleX is mesh?

this distribution would need to be able to handle running for weeks on end without a reboot.

Any decent distro then.
Slackware ftw

They were still on Xitter?

Last time they seeked input they ignored it and shoved systemd anyway…