Andres

@a @selfhosted @selfhostedchat Prosody (xmpp). The kids use Dino on their linux laptops, and Conversations on their android phones. The biggest problem we have is that the kids want to invite non-family members into the family chat, and I’m just not set up for that.

@ssdfsdf3488sd My understanding it that they’re both pretty much the same, so I wouldn’t unless snikket has stopped being maintained or something?

@poVoq @fmstrat I ran ejabberd for years before switching to matrix (synapse). Matrix was a disaster, plus jmp.chat is a fantastic google voice / VOIP replacement, so I switched back to xmpp (with prosody). Out of those options, prosody is clearly the best for self-hosting.

@BackYardIncendiary @ProdigalFrog If you have an old latitude, newer kernels also allow you to set min/max charging thresholds. My syncthing server (and NAS and a few other things) is an old 2013/2014 dell latitude e7240. It’s not the original battery, but I do keep it in decent shape via charging thresholds.

@irmadlad @lambalicious I just manually do the audio captcha. Every time. Because the picture captchas often don’t work correctly for me.

It does bug me a little that I don’t know what the audio captcha is being used for - am I helping an amazon echo transcribe whatever it is surreptitiously listening to?

@possiblylinux127 @Tattorack I still stand by this other major difference, though: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/114671239145822442

@possiblylinux127 @Tattorack See also this table: https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/comparison-chart-of-grapheneos-divestos-and-calyxos/5618

A bit outdated since Divest is gone (😢), but a core difference is that Graphene prefers proprietary google stuff that is sandboxed and not given any privileges, while Calyx prefers free software versions that might have other issues (eg incomplete, or unsigned coming from third-party sources).

@TheButtonJustSpins @Wolfizen lol. I’m not the original poster, but my spouse and kids just use vlc.

(we do have kodi set up for TVs, but we don’t use it very often. Mostly everyone watches stuff on laptops.)

@chronicledmonocle @Vinstaal0 I used to work for a dial-up ISP. Every IP is registered to an account, if you’re going through your ISP (as opposed to, say, coffee shop or hotel wifi). Though the people who have the information are different (ICANN/registrar vs your internet provider), there’s no anonymity in your home IP address even with CGNAT.

As far as your domain, you should have privacy protection enabled so people can’t find your personal info via whois.

@exu @Wahots Yggdrasil, too.