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You are welcome, thanks also for asking my opinion about this too.

My post isn't a "constructive" contribution, neither a "destructive" opinion. I might just be rude saying that with those words, but I didn't insult anyone or anything, I just said I disliked it and that I took a good decision to move after reading this. 🫤 I do like the Fedi, I suppose you can get it.

I’ve run a small public web server for well over a decade and never had any issues with hackers.

It's never late to get hacked or an attack or a problem with your ISP router firmware. I don't think that's an excuse.

receive backups from my other servers

You can simply do cronjob and scp user@server:/path/to/backup . to get things from server to your local network, I don't see the need to expose your router to the public. For a web server, there are cheap VPS providers for less than 5 dollars a month, and you save up energy, hardware, and improve safety at home.

Lol, so good I left Beehaw already. Do whatever you want now, not going to miss it, neither their admins.

I am into tech/programming/devops, I make my own servers, but I would still prefer to be under CGNAT as I feel more safe. I wouldn't open any port or tunnel to my local home network, I wouldn't feel that safe. So for me, a CGNAT is perfect.

Open source is the right term, I don't care if I need to pay for products I like, what I care is that the code is public. Then, if the license is also permissive, it's a plus.

https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer

EDIT: Unless you are an expert on PowerShell to know exactly how to disable that option, it is better if you just activate and disable the spy software.

People explaining how to do it:
https://superuser.com/a/1360999
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/53ukcs/comment/d7xg5vw/

I think you are mixing the big companies monopoly with Open Source.

very dificult to self host email

It is not (example: https://mailcow.email/), the difficult is to keep it safe, updated and pay the hosting, but there are alternatives of email hosting like https://posteo.de, so I would say you just didn't search for any alternative.

before we had personal websites

You can still self-host your own website, if not, you can find a provider or use alternatives like https://gohugo.io/, it's full of it.

community forums then reddit came and take over the forums making profit of off it

You can still use Lemmy and forums... I never used Reddit, so I don't see what's so good about it, a part of some posts that has some good info as any other forum or website that I got into. I don't see how this damages open source or where is the issue with the open source.

The real problem is the people ignorance, they are still using the big tech apps that have more marketing that other ethical apps. But there is nothing wrong with FOSS here, big tech uses this mass control as government does too to control civilians feelings and thoughts.

Big tech also does open source because they are very interested in Open Source, such as Linux, the system that runs the world. Without Linux (which is open source) the world couldn't run. All routers, servers, IoT, many devices (etc.) run Linux, Open Source.

Any closed source app that big tech or small tech do also uses Open Source tools and libraries. And you are an ignorant.

Dell XPS 13 with the "developer" label is also pretty nice so it's all good, but check that it has the "developer" label, or it will be not designed to be compatible, if I'm not wrong, the main difference is the Wi-Fi adapter. Also, out of this topic, careful with the finance and credit card, it's always a scam unless you really need it to work I wouldn't spend money that I don't have.

EDIT: About the compatibility, on this Reddit post, people are saying there is not really any difference https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/fjb9na/difference_between_the_standard_and_developer/, and I think the Wi-Fi adapter was only on the old versions (years ago when I bought mine). Haha... 😛

Woah, thanks!

Same, I would go to Arch (for me the best distro, it's clean), and if you want something easier just Linux Mint.

EDIT: I would forget about PopOS, really think this distro suck.

Yeah, I knew it, I still would get a TUXEDO computer, something like TUXEDO InfinityBook S 15 - Gen8, the DELL XPS 13 is very small, small keyboard, very portable but not really nice to work with. And TUXEDO looks much more into Linux than DELL.