Even if Illinois was feasible, I don’t think I’d want that. I’d rather fix the system. And quit dancing around the issue of Puerto Rico statehood.

I went through and manually deleted all of my comments when I left; they’re all back again as well.

I think it depends what’s on your phone. I don’t use mine for email or banking; it’s 2FA, phone calls, and a map. I’m using a Galaxy S8 that I purchased in the summer of 2017, and I don’t get any updates any more.

If I had bank account information or access to other sensitive data I’d be a lot more concerned.

My biggest problem is apps that stop working. My carrier doesn’t support my phone with their voicemail app, for example.

I’ve been running mail servers for about thirty years; my personal ones and production for 100K+ users.

The personal one is a pain for the reasons you mentioned. I use sendmail instead of postfix, but I was able to use some rules to push certain messages through other relays.

I signed up for Amazon SES and have so far stayed in their free tier. Mail coming from one of my addresses always goes through SES, and mail from any address to certain domains (aol.com, gmail.com, etc.) go through SES as well.

It allows me to ensure delivery for my important mails, but leave things up to chance for less important ones.

It’s the best solution I’ve been able to come up with for a really annoying situation. Big Tech ruined it all.

It’s not the same post. It says above that this is a link to an article because the first one replaced the link with a photo.

Apparently I screwed up my post. When I posted the article here I tried adding a photo from the article, but it just replaced the entire URL despite the URL having a different field than the image. I can’t seem to edit the post to put a link back to the article without losing the image (which is currently cross-linked to another group by someone else).

One is that I can keep family email (everyone on the server) in the same ecosystem, so private information send between family members isn’t as likely to leak.

Another is also privacy – my mail isn’t being used to build a profile about me.

I also like the control and the ability to look at logs. If I don’t get an email, I can look at the server and figure out why it didn’t show up. It just provides more information for me.

I’ve been using my own cloud-hosted SMTP relay and Zimbra server for over a decade now, and I love it.

There can be a bit of a learning curve, and in some cases sites won’t accept mail from cloud-hosted domains. I add those domains to a rule in sendmail that sends those domains through Amazon SES, and then they get accepted.

If you do go this route, just make sure that your recovery emails or 2FA for things like your registrar go somewhere else. If your cloud provider pulls the plug on you or something you don’t want to be stuck waiting for an email that can’t arrive.

I love the level of control that I have over my email and wouldn’t have it any other way.

tl;dr: steep learning curve, but worth it in the long run. Keep gmail as a recovery/2FA account or something, though.

To me, I feel like this is a problem perpetuated by management. I see it on the system administration side as well – they don’t care if people understand why a tool works; they just want someone who can run it. If there’s no free thought the people are interchangeable and easily replaced.

I often see it farmed out to vendors when actual thought is required, and it’s maddening.

So he’s saying people wouldn’t sacrifice much if they were to leave Meta-backed services?

Also, note that doesn’t increase the stripe size for old data; it’s just for future writes.

But you could copy the old data to a new location and it would take advantage of the new stripe size.

It used to be that you couldn’t grow the pool, so you needed all of your drives up-front.

Now you can start with four drives and slowly grow over time to whatever your target goal is. It’s much more friendly for home labs/tight budgets.

Finally! #15022, it’s been a long time coming…

Only in the sense that they worry about the working class rising up and making their wealth worthless. That is, if they get to stick around to see.

No, we will never be an oligarchy. A plutocracy, yes, but I think money is the deciding factor here.

TechDirt is a larger, well-known site.

I’ve had similar things happen to my much less popular site and it took a long time to get it resolved (this wasn’t with Cloudflare, though).

I’m curious what the process would look like for a small startup or something.

I like LibreCAD, but it’s a little too simple sometimes. I miss the power of AutoCAD, but I don’t miss its price.

Three things I want are

• being able to assign heights to objects and do 3D stuff
• being able to assign labels to objects (instead of circle3761 I’d like to call it ‘fountain’ or something)
• splines are really finicky, and you can’t do things like a fillet on more complex objects

It took a couple of days to get used to and probably a week of use before I was 100% comfortable, but I find that it meets most of my needs now.

I use LibreCAD for architecture work and will take a look at FreeCAD.

Has anyone else tried both for architectural work? How did they compare for you?

I’m way more concerned with Vance. Like you say, Trump does what’s best for Trump. If Vance becomes President for whatever reason then ideology takes center stage.

I feel an urge to go play Horizon Zero Dawn now.