Everything works except Thunderbolt/USB4 and Video output via USB-C

I wouldn’t use it as a NAS if you plan to use NVMe SSDs for fast storage (since you can’t connect them via USB4), but if you only plan on using SATA SSDs or mechanical drives, USB 3 should be fine. Other than that, everything you would need in a server is there and works flawlessly.

You can install Linux on ARM-based Macs too:
https://asahilinux.org/
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That’s awesome

Sure, but you did you download them, listen to them and then delete them, or did you keep them around for archival purposes? Because it’s rather untypical to re-listen to a podcast episode many times, which you might do with music.

I don’t know, I also use DDG because I can’t find a better alternative. I thought you had a better recommendation 😂

The only thing that comes to my mind is 4get, a proxy for DDG which is a little better for your privacy, since you don’t have to trust DDG as much. But it lacks some features like DDG’s Bangs.

There’s also LibreY, a fork of LibreX, which acts as a proxy for Google. Still not great though. The one thing I really like about it, it that it also has a built-in torrent search feature.

I think the best option is SearXNG, you can configure which search engines you want to use, and you can access DDG bangs by using two exclamation marks (e.g. !!yt for YouTube)

Unfortunately there’s no good self-hostable search engine with a good web crawler

What do you use?

Gone?

Why did you download podcasts?

When I finally got a seedbox and started downloading massive amounts of movies, TV shows, games and music (first to the seedbox, then archived everything on my home NAS, deleted everything with lots of seeders from the seedbox to save space, and now I only use it for either new stuff I want to download, or seeding content with very few or no seeders)

Are people sending $5 every now and then

That’s still better than nothing I guess

Does it also work with Mastodon? Because it is possible to reply to Lemmy posts from Mastodon, right?

Absolutely

Either use secure, encrypted VoIP calls (e.g. over Signal or another secure messenger with an end-to-end encrypted call feature)

Or you use a secure messenger that only runs on smartphones and doesn’t have a desktop client

I wonder how many of them will actually continue using it after a few weeks/months

Couldn’t you just use an adblocker extension in Safari?

Doesn’t I2P encrypt the traffic already?

I tried the second approach for some time, but using NoScript became really annoying, since I never knew which scripts are necessary, and which are used for tracking or some other bullshit. It was always trial and error, and just felt tedious and unnecessary. I wish NoScript would have a built in whitelist of scripts that are known to be necessary for websites to function, this would avoid breakages and make it much more comfortable to use.

And basically 99% of the modern web doesn’t work without JS. I don’t know why there are still so many people running around and saying “disAblE jAvAscrIpT!!!”, yeah like how the fuck am I supposed to use the web??? At that point, I could also just delete my web browser, it would literally have the exact same effect.

You don’t control any VPN services hosted on someone else’s (e.g. a cloud provider’s) infrastructure. They have full access and can technically do anything. And they see your incoming and outgoing connections. This is stupid, and doesn’t give you any privacy benefit. There are good and trustworthy VPN providers like Mullvad, IVPN and Proton. Just acknowledge that.

I’ve been using OpenCalc, but CalcYou seems great too