Any second-hand business class laptop that fits your budget, i.e. HP Elitebook/Probook/Zbook, Dell Inspiron/Latitude/XPS, or Lenovo Thinkpad.

Businesses tend to get rid of them after 4 years, even if they’re still in good condition. Great bang for your buck and easily repairable if something does end up breaking.

You’ll have to install Linux yourself, but generally support for older hardware is OK.

IMPORTANT: make sure the BIOS isn’t locked before buying.

Glad you all are back!

Dual SIM phone

That and without an income source, you can’t pay content creators, so you can’t attract them to the platform in the first place. People dislike YouTube for running ads, but the ads are what pays for the videos.

IIUC the main problem with security (and how most WP sites get pwned) is the plugin ecosystem. There are thousands of plugins out there, which means that among many secure ones, there are also many (very) insecure ones. If you’re judicious and don’t install low-quality plugins, it shouldn’t be a major problem.

WordPress itself has automatic updates turned on by default, so if a vulnerability is patched in WP core, that will land on your site automatically without any effort on your part.

One plugin that’s I use on my WP sites is the free version of the Wordfence firewall. While not really necessary given the above, it does give me a little peace of mind.

All that said, the main draw for WP is to be able to manage a website without having to touch code. If you’re happy to write your pages by hand, a static site generator is definitely a lot more lightweight than a CMS like WordPress.

Self-hosted WordPress blogs were actually already able to federate with the fediverse (if the blog admin installs the requisite plugin). The recent news is that blogs hosted on WordPress.com are now also able to federate.

WordPress.com is the name of the hosting service by the creators of WordPress, but you can also choose to host the WordPress software elsewhere (and many do).

robux.exe

In WordPress, one blog can have many authors, so it does make sense to consider it a group

Ancient cursed technology that powers 43% of all websites

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You know that they made the software in the first place, right? As in, the WP.org people and the WP.com people are the same people.

Don’t really know about the US, sorry. eBay might be a good place though.

Any second-hand business class laptop, i.e. HP Elitebook/Probook/Zbook, Dell Inspiron/Latitude/XPS, or Lenovo Thinkpad.

Businesses tend to get rid of them after 4 years, even if they’re still in good condition. Great bang for your buck and easily repairable if something does end up breaking.

Windows: “I gotchu, fam.”

Jerboa, because it just works and doesn’t overcomplicate things.

Does it work well?

hates Macs

buys M2 Mac

dog knows who’s ARM implementation

I think Hackernews (sans the occasional edgy political take) and Tildes might be worth learning from. Let’s make it a goal to contribute content that others may learn from and do away with the copy-paste doom-and-gloom comments.

So HN is quite heavily moderated (just turn on showdead if you want to see the graveyard), and Tildes tries to keep the community cohesive with their invite-only policy (limiting growth).

Lemmy, on the other hand, allows open sign-ups and does not have a strong (HN-like) moderation culture. If anything, it has more of a Reddit-like moderation style, with a bunch of separate communities ruled by their own mods.

Therefore, it remains to be seen whether appeals to the userbase will prove effective as Lemmy grows. Note that as Reddits userbase grew, the quality of the discourse went down, Eternal September-style.

There are, though, still a couple of big differences between Reddit and Lemmy. The latter probably won’t try to attract users by running big campaigns in mainstream media, like Reddit did in later years. On the other hand, there’s the risk that Meta’s Threads or other (future) big tech platforms might end up federating with Lemmy.

Here in the Netherlands my level of German is widely called “steenkolen Duits” (coal German) because it’s course, harsh, hard and dirty)

That’s actually not the etymology. Steenkolenduits (spelled without a space) is a riff on steenkolenengels, which was the basic/broken English spoken by dockworkers with sailors on incoming British coal ships (steenkolenboten).

https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steenkolenduits

AFAIK you don’t have to use it as a router. If you configure all the interfaces to LAN it should just act as a switch/AP combo.