Keepass is very good. Bitwarden just has a server side so it’s easier to set up and use for multiple devices.

Yeah brave search can be used without the browser. But I can understand not wanting to use either given that info.

Just annoying that as usual it shows up on Firefox but not if I use Edge or Chrome.

I really feel like captchas single out Firefox intentionally.

Ubuntu has been uncomfortably close for awhile now.

Thats better if you have your VPN change IP often, and also because VPN IPs are shared (unless you pay for a unique static IP) which means more noise in the traffic.

But if you have a dedicated VPN IP, it’s basically the same then because your data can be tied to you at that IP.

No IMO.

Docker is universal, you can easily migrate to any system. If you migrate you’re stuck on TrueNAS.

Also you can use watchtower for auto updates with major version pinning when needed (ie; postgres), or one of the many docker images that notify you when updates are available.

It has pretty good results in my experience.

Brave search also does, but it always wants me to complete captchas so I’m not using it anymore.

I don’t like that searxng says no tracking, yes the app itself has none, but the backend search providers still track the requests from the instance IP, so if you’re the only user I don’t understand how it’s any better than just using google/bing/etc directly with ublock origin.

Immediate captcha on my first search lol.

With a private searxng instance searches still come from your single IP so if you use ie; google, bing, etc… You’re still being tracked heavily.

Unless you use a public instance where your searches are ‘lost in the noise’. But then most of the search engines will block it so it doesn’t work very well in my experience.

Cryptomator is the easiest to use option IMO, and it supports windows, linux, macos, android, and ios.

It also doesn’t use a giant blob of a single file like Veracrypt does so it can be used on cloud storage easily.

The more techy alternative that’s harder to use is rclone mount + crypt.

Bluesky already has domain based verification which solves that perfectly, I guess people just don’t want to use it.

Sure, but until it actually gets used significantly in that way, we might as well just say it’s centralized.

It’s the username so already quite visible.

For example someone at say, NPR, could use a name like @bob.npr.org which is only possible by verifying ownership of the npr.org domain name, so there is no need to vet anything.

How come they don’t use the already built in domain verification? It’s basically fool proof to certify that an account is owned by a specific entity.

Why does this capture that feeling so well lol

It already has domain verification which is better IMO. Its more reliable and safer as you have to own the domain to use it.

Nope, it’s 100% centralized.

There’s also one called SMS Import / Export that I haven’t tested, but looks pretty simple.

KDE Connect, works pretty well.

For a backups I think QUIK SMS on F-Droid has a backup option.