Destroyed lives and whole towns is hardly a "no problem". russia needs a good kick in the teeth, but these things are never free. I hope Europe is ready to finally stand up.
I run my email server, but not at home. Running it at home is not all all more difficult, but it will only work for internal traffic and inbound from the internet. Residential IPs are simply blacklisted by ISP and as such - nothing will reach external recipients. Still useful, but is limited.
To have your smtp reach everyone globally you need to run it on a business IP. I use Linode, has worked very well since the setup in 2019, although they did get acquired by Akamai, which might become an issue at some point.
Agree. I guess I should've been clearer. Those military devices - while more advanced - were used in a targeted maner. This one sounds like it's one order of magnitude in pricing away from a nation-wide deployment.
That's not really the case. Have a look at AUR or GURU repo - most proprietary software is installed by simply applying the same steps an apt, dnf, whathaveyou package manager would.
I don't know the size in bytes, haven't cared much about it for some time now. It also very much depends on the definition of minimal. My minimal != your minimal.
I'm referring to use flags, which allow me to not have a bunch of features I don't use compiled to begin with. Less code - fewer headaches.
It's a fairly common thing when it comes to abbreviations. B2B, B2C immediately come to mind.
And, to top it off - don't beat yourself too hard. You're one of today's lucky ten thousand!