Meh, I’m feeling like this whole concept is pretty flawed and it might be better by now to just run Graphene or Lineage out of the box. Maybe a niche Android phone manufacturer like Unihertz could find incentive to do something like that.

A fully FOSS dumbphone would possibly be of more interest than a smartphone, fwiw. Enough smartphone projects have failed that I’m unexcited about this latest one.

You can’t. You might want to, but email just doesn’t work that way. Sorry.

Someone posted this last week:

Caption: “I hope the NVidia driver doesn’t crash”.

I’m using Markor for notes and it’s ok though missing some stuff. I’d like it to support Org markup and git versioning.

I’m pretty happy with fastmail though it is on the expensive side. At the lower end, mxroute.com is ok.

Not that resilient. Mods and admins controlling discussion, defederation due to dislike of the messenger, etc. I think the federation model is flawed and it should be done at the client side instead of on servers.

TEFL work often pays kind of badly, but it’s an ok thing to do if you don’t have better options, of ir you’re trying to spend some time travelling while bringing in enough cash to cover basic expenses. I wouldn’t want to think of it as a career.

The land of gallon thing is ridiculous imho.

You mean the pint’s a pound poem? It’s not even right, you know. A pint of water weighs about 1.04 lb.

That thing about the queen and the princes etc. is silly and just gets in the way. Don’t those people have anything better to do?

I wasn’t aware of much defederation from .ml. I came here from .world because .world was defederating from too many other instances. I think what we really need is a new client that connects to multiple instances and does its own tracking of read articles and stuff like that. The Lemmy federation model was well intended, but I would say it has failed. Even at the popular instances, the fediverse is fragmented, which wasn’t supposed to happen.

I would say look for a SIP carrier in Europe rather than someplace that makes you use a special app. Here in the US, twilio.com, voip.ms, and I think jmp.chat are popular. IDK about Europe or whether any of those operate there. I know you can get .au inbound numbers from Twilio but placing calls from there might be harder. What about getting an outbound VOIP service and phone number that’s actually in Oz? You’d then be connecting with a SIP client from Europe which could result in janky audio, but it’s something to try.

Google gets lots of your email either way, since many of your correspondents will be on gmail. I’ve been getting domains mostly from porkbun.com which offers free whois privacy. namesilo.com has it too.

Wait, FOURTEEN? I thought you were going to say 19 or something like that. Either way just be honest, you’re taken, there’s too much age difference, and (apparently) she’s not your type. She should meet up with someone her own age.

Don’t ever write any really private data to the SSD in cleartext. Use an encrypted file system. “Erase” by throwing away the key. That said, for modern fast SSD’s the performance overhead of the encryption might be a problem. For the old SATA SSD in my laptop, I don’t notice it.

“Why are we running from the police, Daddy?”

“Because we use Emacs, son. They use vim.”

–old Slashdot T-shirt

I used proxmox and have played a little with nix and guix, but simplest is just use debian, put /home on a separate logical partition from the system partition so you can reinstall the system without clobbering user files, and as people keep saying, backup early and often.

Simplest is use /etc/hosts to set up names, if there are just a few.

No a lot less, twilio is $1/mo, see also VoIP.ms and vitelity.net

I’d say run a local imap server rather than dealing with the weirdness of storage shares across multiple OS’s.