Nothing specifically, just nice improvements cumulating over the years.

Installing Linux on most hardware became really easy maybe 5 years ago.

Gnome works quite well on a larger touch-screen. Edit: ah, Ubuntu should have that by default.

Lead acid can boil over and fill a badly ventilated room with flammable hydrogen and other toxic gasses.

A well maintained LiFePO4 battery that some modern UPS use it probably less risky, but I think the risk for both is very low.

You could have also not have been a grammar Nazi. It was clearly you that started the debate, don’t expect people to adhere to higher standards than you yourself are willing to adhere to.

The title was perfectly understandable and they were the adult in the room by ultimately giving in and fixing what you complained about.

They deleted an entire comment chain of nothing but off-topic brickering started by you being a grammar Nazi after they decided to be the adult in the room and fix the title you objected to.

It’s all transparent in the mod logs, you can form your own opinion.

This is nonsense. They stepped down voluntarily because of unfounded accusations of such (and because they felt their time was better spend elsewhere than to deal with such community drama).

There is a special .iso archive for all past releases.

Yes, don’t expose Windows to the internet 😒

https://opnsense.org/ is a good system if you want an easy to install and open-source firewall.

Edit: no need to buy their official hardware. Any x86 system with two network ports will do.

There is also an open-source alternative to this: https://github.com/matanui159/ReplaySorcery

Although it seems to be no longer actively maintained.

When you are actively charging the batteries off a solar panel for example, it will be even higher, up to 17V 14.5V or so I think. The automotive PicoPSUs only cost a little more and will smooth it out up to 24V I think… there are even some models that go up to 48V.

Edit: why the down-votes? Is this incorrect?

Some people want to be able to reach their server via SSH when they are not at home, but yes I agree in general that is not necessary when running a real home server.

Get a PicoPSU for automotive use (there are two varieties, one that needs stable 12v and another that can run directly off a battery with varying voltage).

The historical Nazi Germany was actually quite supportive of zionist efforts and interestingly the reverse was also true for some time before the holocaust got into full swing.

Don’t leave SSH on port 22 open as there are a lot of crawlers for that, otherwise I really can’t say I share your experience, and I have been self-hosting for years.

If you can install a second gigabit NIC into the optiplex it can work very nicely with OPNSense as the main gateway. Then you can connect the LAN side to a simple un-managed switch and branch out to anything further from there.

Edit: OpenWRT is a bit of a pain to manage on x86, so I would try to avoid it for that.

This is nonsense. A small static website is not going to be hacked or DDOSd. You can run it off a cheap ARM single board computer on your desk, no problem at all.

Well then, your assertion that Matrix gives it freely is false.

My point is that it should never give out that data, or even store it permanently in the first place. This is just a fundamentally bad design from a privacy perspective, and other messengers don’t do that.

This is false, too. Historical event visibility is controlled by a room setting. (And if you don’t trust admins of a sensitive room to configure for privacy, then you’re going to have bigger problems, no matter what platform it’s on.)

This is not false, what you mean only hides it for normal users, but it still ends up in the database of all participating homeservers and all the admins of those have full access to it. I happen to run a Matrix homeserver myself…