Have a look at YUNOhost for your OS. It's based on Debian and is designed to be really easy to set up and use, which might be useful for you as you have young children and not much time.
I haven't even looked at port forwarding. I think maybe some ISPs in some countries might block traffic this way but others will know better. Everything just works with Mullvad on Fedora with Qbittorrent, so I'm happy.
I've seen this being recommended for audio production but was put off disabling it because I didn't understand what it was. I'd like the performance gain though.
Me. Only Pixelfed, Mastodon and Lemmy for two or three years. I dont feel like I miss anything and in fact find it much healthier, especially Pixelfed. I never really used Instagram but love my Pixelfed feed of art and photography.
That's great you're on the water. I know a few people who have lived on the canals and I have a lot of respect for it. I'm on bit of a mission to sail the seas - wish me luck!
I think this is a good article and I agree with it.
A big part of how I got turned on to open source was emotional and still is tbh. I felt like I was being taken for a fool by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook and was angry.
The big money and power is in information technology now and it's the new instrument of imperialism, which is why 'enshittification' has happened. The great news though is that information is so easily shareable and reproducible, so the more of it we make free the harder it is for them to keep fucking us over with it.
I don't know when the next big civilizational 'reshuffle' will happen (probably on it's way now), but the more that we make common and free the less leverage the greedheads will have over us when it's time to work out a new settlement.
I think Cherrytree is my most important app. It's primarily for making hierarchical lists but you can hyperlink between nodes and to external files and URLs and you can insert files, images and tables. I pretty much use it for organising my entire life and archiving important files, links and documents. The database is a single file (which you can have encrypted), so it's super portable and you can sync it between devices. You can easily theme it yourself too (the default theme/icons looks quite old school).
It's funny to think now what a big deal they made about this in the media when it was announced. I guess it just didn't stick with people because hardly any of us can empathise with them.
Only joking. We're offgrid anyway, so unless they can figure out a tiny, cheap and quiet one I can buy off the shelf some time soon I will be solar for a while to come!
Panels have become ridiculously cheap per kwh. I was looking for some more recently and they had halved in price in the space of a few years while everything else has almost doubled.
I'd love to see more innovation in mechanical storage.
Have a look at YUNOhost for your OS. It's based on Debian and is designed to be really easy to set up and use, which might be useful for you as you have young children and not much time.