GrapheneOS supports the 7 a until May 2028 with extended support 5 years https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-lifetime

Bought Pixel 7 a new for 335 EUR. Refurbished is another option.

Vanadium: Your Results Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 61101.0 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 15.9 bits of identifying information.

Proud digital commie since 1988 or thereabouts.

Apparently, they don’t need my business. Acceptable.

Thanks, useful information.

1. Do not have a mobile device
2. Do not install anything proprietary or governmental on that device you don’t have
3. Use borderline secure (GrapheneOS) OS on that device you don’t have and don’t unlock it if demanded unless your health and/or life is in danger

Does XMPP have feature parity with Matrix? I presume that bridges exist?

Poor people (who still can afford the end devices and an Internet plan) can of course share the costs in a community, or use one of the many free servers, as long as they are aware of the tradeoffs. Beigers not being choosers, and all that.

Federated protocols are not centralized in principle. It might not scale to one user-one server (which probably even Lemmy can’t handle) but if you’re signing up for a central server, you’re doing it wrong™. Don’t do that. The nice thing about Matrix client is that it allows end to end encryption, including groups. So that greatly limits what Mallory can do in principle. As to servers being costly to run, given what documented Synapse requirements are, you’re looking at less than 5 EUR/month for a single server. Which can be shared among several users, obviously. This is in the same range as costs for a monthly VPN.

Self-hosted Matrix is obviously unaffected.

It’s pretty hard to get banned on all instances of Lemmy. Particularly, your own.

You are rude, pointlessly combative and move goalposts. Bye.

The point is that even Lemmy instances not optimized for a P2P distribution model can be run on an embedded footprint on domestic fiber broadband. Which is going beyond 10G in some locations. Though symmetric 1G fiber is quite enough.

The aggregate network crossection and compute plus storage on network edge up to on-prem is already more than sufficient for the purposes without requring significant DC footprint. Even factoring in porn and cat videos.

The reasons many people use commercial cloud and DC hosted severs is cost, network quality and convenience. Self-hosting is a PITA but my point it would be adequate for the kind of people that consume resources like lemmy. Though you probably could build a Netflix scale platform on mostly P2P though it would be tough engineering.

You might find https://lemm.ee/post/36819921 interesting.

You might be surprised what the material and energetic footprint of dairy is.

P2P architectures run on a routed mesh mostly on network edge don’t really need DC server farms. Switching packets, especially minus porn and cat videos don’t take much DC space or power either. Lemmy isn’t that different from Usenet via uucp on dialup, even considering today’s scale.

Which blob are you verifying?

The European Union is not synonymous to Europe.

https://wiki.debian.org/ZFS has nice docs. I would practice in nonproduction first if you’re unfamiliar with zfs.