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ubuntu just feels like debian with unwanted mods on top. if some specific proprietary sw you need only support ubuntu officially then ubuntu’s the better choice, but if not i see no reason to use it tbh

i found lain to be kinda scary as a kid

how old? if its ios 13+ you can install reynard browser which is a full gecko firefox port including addons support.

xmpp. don’t matrix, it causes selfhosting-phobia for normies because its ui sucks. i had a friend try matrix with me for a while and now they’re never trying another foss messenger again unless its proved to be very good.

there’s few old scripts (mostly for mailing list archive usage) that takes mbox input and outputs html. not pretty but they could work in this case. searching is another issue though

i don’t use its recommendation system, i subscribe to a few good channels i know through rss

if there’s none on nyaa i believe they’re lost…

i just put git repos in a dir on my server and use ssh to push/pull

last i checked it was very difficult to run your own instance (including voice chats)

google killed the ability to search in js-disabled browsers like those

recently saw this article here, i’m not sure if ecosia is a good solution now. their results seem mostly identical to ddg/bing too though it’s occasionally better than them for some reason

qwant is good, but they geoblock certain countries including mine since 2023 or so. having to use proxy/vpn for just searching really sucks

not a proxy, it directly uses google cse on client side so it’s no better than directly using google

yeah, i search with ‘before 2023’ to filter AI slop often

google (and few other engines) keep giving me errors, and search results mostly empty due to timeouts (or even with no error, there’s just only few results that are completely unrelated to the query)

ddg gets results from bing, startpage is the one that gets results from google

looks neat, will look into it. tysm!

kinda works, but their results are a bit crippled compared to google (also, no way to search specific timeframe)

is this on a residential IP?

bruh i literally mentioned in the post that SearXNG isn’t working properly

ddg is my primary right now, it absolutely sucks for korean queries sadly

i don’t have any complex ‘webapp’ hosted on www. just static files and few simple cgi scripts. i keep my httpd and sshd up to date. that seems to be good enough

a full DE isn’t necessary, i only use a WM (FVWM).

i don’t say this often, but you could’ve literally searched on wikipedia..

finallyyyy

i always use curl icanhazip.com for checking my external IP… iirc some “IoT” devices also use it for some reason

true, but this is a real “universal” remote so…

the xiaomi ir remote has presets for basically anything i ever needed a remote for. i have it on my primary phone so it has saved me on a few occasions.

idk how it works on grapheneos. but on normal android i could use work profile for this. and singbox inside the work profile to open a local socks5 proxy, then connecting to it from outside the work profile.

random LG or Xiaomi android phone. they have ir blaster built in.

at least on my LG G2 it works even after installing a custom rom (lineageos)