In the article they talk about getting hit by millions of different IPs. It's probably on a different level compared to what a random, non-targeted site has to deal with.

A few years back when graphics cards were getting botted for resale, a friend of a friend was buying with bots using a (pricey) rotating list of hundreds of proxy addresses that would each make attempts at a very reasonable looking frequency. I'm picturing something like that, except with much more funding.

Users probably wouldn't be too damaged if an IRC server with a few public channels got hacked. I realize IRC isn't a true Discord alternative (and I realize that's what you were picturing when you commented- I'm not debating your point). I just can't imagine why a self hosting subreddit would need more than text chat + help bot.

I had two family cars that were Fords in the late 80s and 90s. One (Taurus) had its front windshield randomly explode on a hot summer day, and its oil pan later rusted out. The other (Mustang) somehow had no back seat floor by the time it was 10 years old (completely rusted out).

I have no idea how they treated their employees back then, but you weren't missing much when it came to the vehicles unless you're talking about a time before I was around.

I use k9mail with a work gmail account and it works great, has imap push and everything (no need for Google services).

It depends what country you're in. The US doesn't and Canada does (not sure about elsewhere).

Isn't Postmarket based on Alpine, or did that change?

I wrote a little script a while back that would save a temp file with fswebcam, run zbarimg on it to decode the qr, delete the temp file and if it worked it would pipe the output into xclip/wl-copy, otherwise it would try again (up to 8 times).

I hooked it up to a keyboard shortcut and I'll see the webcam light flash one or two times when I hit it, then know it's good.

It wouldn't be a ton of work to also have a popup with the qr value using zenity or something, maybe use the --question and pass it "copy $output to clipboard?". You could have an --error if all the scan attempts failed.

Feel free to shoot me a pm if you want help.

You can configure which features you want to have enabled. I have this running with just the gps locate functionaly enabled in case I misplace my phone or my wife wants to check to see if I'm almost home yet or something.

At the same time, I run Graphene with no Google services or apps and it's fantastic. The only thing vs a rom with microg, is you need to be able to depend on unified push or background listening for push notifications. Imo this is actually more de-googled than connecting to Google services with an open source client (which still results in your phone having a constant connection to Google). Graphene also provides options to connect to proxies or alternative services for things like location services, DNS, internet connectivity checks (which can also just be turned off), etc.

Syncthing desktop in termux and handle triggers like battery + wifi via tasker?

Speaking of upgradability, I wonder if an egpu could be connected to that usbc port.

I ran ps2 Linux as my "desktop" for 6 months or so back in the day. It wasn't capable of much compared to a general purpose computer at the time. Videos only played at almost full speed if you ran em in fbdev from a vterm with nothing else running. There was so little ram that using kde1 would run you into slow motion computing because of all the swapping. Window maker was ok, but running much of anything inside it would eat through that 32 megs of ram pretty quickly (I spent most of my time in vterms).