I think what he means is that if your backup is triggered from your main server and your main server is compromised the backups can also be attacked immediately. If the backup is requested from the backup machine you will at least have the time between the attack and the next backup to prevent the attack from reaching your backup machines.

For me it was KitchenOwl. It’s shopping list works and looks similar to Bring, which we had used before and made the transition for my wife easier.

If you don’t plan on supporting this for at least a few years I would say no.

If you don’t expect to have a decent local userbase I would say no (local in the sense of a common interest, e.g. it might be useful to host an instance for all members of even a small company if you expect a decent amount of posts).

If it’s just you and your family (let’s be honest: it’s just you) I would say no.

The fediverse can federate, but if everyone is using their own server it’s just a fancy peer to peer network.

I also think it may be the browser not using the DNS provided by the router. This is often called Safe Browsing or Secure DNS in browser settings.

It does, but mostly because we’re talking about an enormous amount of data. The number being advertised is 2 Petabyte…

I wouldn’t be to sure if Microsoft is working on something like this. What they did with Flight Simulator was pretty spectacular…

While almost everyone here seems to hate AI (maybe for the wrong reason, but who am I to judge) I like to have AI as it is able to provide answers a simple search engine cannot.

What I don’t see is hosting something like this myself. The managing of source and indexing them would take too much of my, my server’s and the web servers to be indexed energy (maybe I am wrong).

There are already good solutions (OpenWebUI with Ollama) that can be tweaked to almost do what you’re describing and the AI models get better every month, so I don’t think a custom AI search engine could keep up with it.

You can hope there will be a sudden price drop in about 5 years…

For a general guide on how to make ssh more secure I stick to https://www.sshaudit.com/

You can check your config and they also provide step by step guides for several distros…

The Switch is a family console. Neither Xbox nor Playstation can compete in this sector (and maybe they don’t want to).

As far as I know that’s not possible for WhatsApp.

I use INWX (based in Germany). Prices are consistently low (not always the cheapest, but fair). The web UI is a bit rusty, but it works perfectly and you can manage everything there.

That show is equal parts content and advertising. That is a bit too much for me…

Transport Tycoon was fantastic and thanks to OpenTTD I still play it from time to time.

Gothic 2 is by far the best Action RPG of all time. Witcher 3 comes close, but still fails to surpass it in so many places.

Banished always gets me with it’s atmosphere. It feels cozy but at the same time you are close to complete annihilation. Oxygen not included hits the same mark, but also has a distinctive art style and humor to it which I love.

Stanley Parable (and it’s Deluxe edition) never fails to make me laugh. But it can get tedious sometimes…

The 99 series is fantastic. I loved everyone of them from Tetris 99 to F-Zero 99.

This is bad advice. Do not listen to this guy.

If that’s where you draw the line…

Paperless-AI is fantastic. I had 750 untagged documents (all my physical mail since 2017). Paperless-AI processed all of them using a local Ollama installation, tagged them, created correspondants and a title for each document. So much work I didn’t have to do… 😍

Google Reader was such a great webapp. This and Google Listen are the two Google apps I miss the most.

I don’t doubt that this happened. All I wanted to point out is, that this move doesn’t conflict in any way with such things happening.