Not entirely related but whenever I told my dad to “install Linux” he shrugged it off. Then I specifically started telling him to look into Linux Mint and sent him a link to the site and he was more intrigued.

I prefer end to end encrypted xmpp

The issue here isn’t DNS. The issue here is a large portion of the internet relying on a single data centre on the US East coast. Ideally, a lot of competing hosting companies would exist so if one goes down, it’s just one service and very few people notice.

Makes sense. DNS is quite a single point of failure

I think Ian later died

On the flip side, I use Ubuntu and I’m very happy with it. I didn’t like Gnome so I realised I could easily switch to KDE Plasma. It’s still miles better than Windows. Although I did have issues once installing Selenium, turns out it didn’t play well with snap packages which I didn’t know was there (I was using apt-get install)

LFS

Is there anything that’s better that you recommend?

So I make a new user for it, but NOT root?

Iirc, 2.0 is more of a symbolic release rather than any big changes

Make sure it’s all powered by the cloud

Years before I switchedish to Linux, I already started preferring FOSS applications. Basically I made a bunch of word templates, then by an error, my licence for office was revoked (I was supposed to have it with my place of work at the time) and I realised that I built my house upon the sand. So I looked into openoffice formats and got libreoffice, and remade all of my templates in that. I believe there are also other office apps that would be able to read my documents just fine, pretty sure?

Anyway, eventually the issue was rectified, but I was definitely not switching back to MS Office. I had adobe for a bit but their tools were annoying to keep cracking. switched to Inkscape and gimp. Then I started toying around with selfhosting so had a linux CLI on a few machines. You think I’m using Windows Server? 🤣

Do when it came to when Ibgot a new computer, installing Linux just made sense.

My old computer is my gaming machine though, still runs windows and I use it occasionally, then get reminded of how much I hate windows.

Wordpress?

I’d recommend Jellyfin. Dead easy to use.

I know some ISPs can enable it if you call them and ask them

I tried, but my IMAP server recently stopped working. It also got flagged as spam by literally everyone I sent an email to.

Build a spaceship

Scatter them about the place. Make appliances smart. Would be more interesting than a cluster.