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Self-hosted or personal email solutions?

I have a unique name, think John Doe, and I’m hoping to create a unique and “professional” looking email account like johndoe@gmail.com or john@doe.com. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for...

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As far as I know Gmail and others also offer using your own Domain with them. Maybe that’s easier for you.

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I even got Long Covid, but I never lost my taste or smell. I kind of wish I did. Because I’m too weak to brush my teeth regularly.

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No, I’d actually be interested in that myself. I currently just rsync to another server.

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I’ve invented machines to take the consumerism out of Christmas. I’m going to get rich by selling them for a ton of money!

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How about Wally Gubbins? A series of silly skydiving videos. My father has a ton of them on VHS. I loved it as a kid. I just looked, you can even find them on YouTube. So maybe not that obscure.

In terms of software I remember having several ad games. So, games that are basically just an ad. I had a Bifi game. Some weird game about colours where I don’t remember what it was for. And a “game” about Chesterfield Cigarettes. I remember that I had to install QuickTime Player to run it. It was basically like Google Streetview when you walked into buildings with a few interactive elements put in. No idea where I got it. Might even still have the CD somewhere.

Edit: I found the Chesterfield thing: archive.org/details/see_you

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I usually play the pirated (abandoned) version of No One Lives Forever because I’m too lazy to deal with the disc.

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I just use the filters. Manually sorting everything into containers is too much effort for me.

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Especially the early QM videos by Sabine Hossenfelder are great. Lately she’s just researching popular science news which may or may not be correct. But I like that she is at least stating her bias when she has one.

But I cringe every time she has a NordVPN ad.

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It’s so great. For every problem they have put in at least three ways of solving it and two or more they didn’t even think of themselves.

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Funnily enough I was more or less just testing out my Steam Deck because I had just put in new hall effect sticks. And I can’t blame anyone but myself for just switching through the options.

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I think you can choose to play on after dying, but you won’t get the golden dice after completion.

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Continued SpoilersI’m especially interested in Dev’s reaction and whether Jen and Aliona will let anything slip next time they stream. I mean, they were probably both there when Jen recorded it.

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This really depends on where you live and what the laws there are. But most analytics usually already come with a policy you can copy and paste.

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I thought Gnome got rid of the tray.

Anyways, this probably depends on the application. You’d have to find out if there is a command line option in the application to start it minimised or in tray.

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XSLT would like to have a word with you. “Arrays” start at 1.

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In the Networkmanager you can set that a connection is either available to all users or just yourself. If you set it to “all users” its configuration will be saved somewhere in /etc/Networkmanager (I’m too lazy to look up the real path) and will therefore be available for Networkmanager on boot. If you just make it available for yourself Networkmanager will only attempt to connect after you log in.

I think the default is to make it only available to yourself, because then you don’t have to enter your sudo password when you set it up or want to change something. The downside is of course what you describe in your post.

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I will try to make it easy to understand:

  • Having social security for everyone: good
  • Making people suffer or die: bad

The Soviet Union and later Russia and China excel at the making people suffer part. But tankies seem to ignore or flat out deny that.

The USA isn’t much better. See their prison system or healthcare.

I think the most successful countries are Norway and Iceland. But they have a free market so they might be called capitalist. But it’s heavily regulated and they have very good social security services. But that might be called socialist or communist. In Germany we call it social market economy.

I hold it like Obi-Wan Kenobi: Only a Sith deals in absolutes. Look beyond labels and see what is actually working the best for everyone.

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Not to nitpick but did you just say china and russia are bad because they make people suffer, then say never to deal in absolutes?

Absolutes in the sense of “they’re communist, they can’t be bad”. Ends don’t justify the means. America isn’t good because it’s “free” and “capitalist”. Russia isn’t good because it’s “strong” and “communist”.

People are assholes. Especially when they get the power to be assholes. A dogmatic easy system alone will not prevent that. This is a hard problem going all throughout human history.

You should read Animal Farm. It tackles the topic quite well.

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You really really need some history lessons.

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It’s not a children’s novel. And something doesn’t have to be “for adults” to be insightful.

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Yeah, you’re right. It isn’t really NSFW. But in some super stuck up cultures this is considered offensive.

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I’m a simple guy. I see a Gothic community, I press subscribe.

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