some_guy

I don’t self-host email but I don’t use my own domain to have control over it. Look into FastMail and a custom domain. That’s the happy path.

I’ve owned a few devices like Orange Pi but really more as a curiosity that I never did much with. I have, however, seen discussions suggesting that when you move away from the RasPi ecosystem, support for various tooling gets more complicated because you’re in a much smaller pool of hardware and this makes them more effort to setup. I don’t know the validity of that, but it sounded plausible to me.

Just get a Pi. Just because you don’t need wifi doesn’t mean it won’t potentially be useful down the road.

I’ve been disappointed that PP is the only way to support the site. Patreon would be nice, but anything that isn’t the company that cheated me out of some money two decades ago even though I had documentation that I’d paid the other party would be fine. I hate PP.

I’ve donated a few times regardless. Sometimes you can’t escape companies you refuse to engage with if you wanna engage with someone else on the other end.