When you host your own Lemmy instance that means every server you federate with is going to copy its data including images to your server. That means that if you federate with someone who is poorly moderated, you can end up hosting CSAM yourself. You need to be prepared to deal with that problem.

I did it for awhile but didn’t want to deal with the CSAM. Shut it down after a few weeks.

I think that this was maybe true the first time around in 2016. Trump was a brick through the window. But the 2024 election made no sense. Trumps campaign was based on hate, revenge, facisim and economic destruction. None of those values are supposed to align with your average rural republican. I also grew up around them and was raised to be a rural republican. Trumps stands for virtually none of their values. Those people changed their values this time around, including more own parents.

Sure, but I came from Windows. Is the security situation better over there? Flatpaks just work. I only install verified flatpaks, and I remove most permissions with flatseal before even launching it.

I don’t understand the hate for flatpak. I wouldn’t even be on Linux if it wasn’t for flatpaks. I tried to switch many times over the years and it was such a PITA. With flatpaks I made the switch about a year ago and it finally stuck. Even got my wife to switch.

Yup. On my TV you can’t even change the name of an Input without Internet. Fuck you Roku youre blocked from the internet forever.

For me its not realizing that my email aliases will stop working if I stop paying. Wish I would have just went with simplelogin

Added one more to the pile

I use ducks AI chat to help me with small tasks and its honestly pretty great. Always worked and has provided me with useful results.

They claim its anonymous, maybe they are lying, maybe they are not. I make sure to rinse anything I put in there first just in case.