Yeah I use debian + kde for decades. Debian will install your pick of DEs at install.

Debian it’s a rock solid base that can be updated automatically with minimal user oversight

Yeah that is his point he is trying to make at some point you just have to come to terms with that trust since you are right it’s not feasible to build your own hardware.

No worries , but i think I’m not being clear if you build it from scratch. how are you going you going to compile it ?

Your welcome but that’s the point he was making even if you build everything on your own. The backdoor would be in the compiler. So even if you built /bin/login for example he would just inject it at compile time when compiling your code. But then you asked I will just compile the compiler but you have to compile it at some point and he can inject the code back into the compiler at that point.

If you read this you will never trust anything again. If you aee not familiar with him that is Ken Thompson one of the father’s of Unix.

Your domain need to be tied to cloudflare you don’t need to buy one from them. I just moved mine to them didn’t pay them a dime

Think of it this way the avg person wants to get value out of what they bought and they don’t think ahead. so they use the free trial rebranded as included with the price. Then before too long all their stuff in in there and they are too lazy or too tired to move off. It’s the cocaine selling model but instead of addiction it relies on apathy. And if you are the one of the people that does think ahead then you’re not going to use the service and so therefore they got to increase the price of their product without you putting a strain on those free services it’s a win-win for them.

Yeah but now they can increase the price with minimum risk and could even benefit to those that get lock their data into those services.

Nextcloud and OpenStack if you are looking to run your own cloud like deployments

Ah I misunderstood i thought you were only using it for Auth not the other blog features and pages.

That’s all good and all but it all you want to do is look at the stream a single html and a htacess page should do the trick

Why Wordpress seems like a heavy solution for a basic web page and lots of maintenance and security vulnerabilities.

https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-ripping-machine would be an option if you don’t need a web UI

Nextcloud has file sharing i just use KDE Connect though.

Obsidian is not open source but i also think it’s pretty neat.

remote kvm if you are relying on a box that no longer has a network connection you are SOL and need something that can power cycle the box.

Primary and secondary dns is not a thing. There is no priority for DNS. Depending on the device it will use ether address and will only try the other on failure.

doesn’t Synology NAS support SAN volumes out of the box? Then you just setup iscsi on the Linux system.