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  • I’ve been eyeing FastMail.

    Self hosting is almost impossible with email these days. Places like Gmail and Outlook are going to consider you automatically suspicious until you’ve proven otherwise. Can’t prove otherwise until you have a lot of legit email going through. The only way to do that is to attach the domain to a service that’s already proven.

    This isn’t even getting into the configuration issues of running an email server without it becoming a spam relay as soon as it’s turned on.




  • frezik@midwest.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldVI is love, VI is life
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    15 days ago

    I think there’s a good reason for that. If you’re not as concerned about resource consumption (Emacs used to be called “Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping”, back when 8MB was a lot), then there’s no reason to avoid even more complex and resource intensive IDEs. People who wanted a complex editor, but in a relatively small footprint, stuck with some variant of vi.

    Thus, vi found a stable evolutionary niche. It’s a tardigrade.








  • A few actual problems:

    • Because they don’t provide any breaks in traffic, high flow times can make it difficult for people living downstream to get out of their driveway
    • People with eyesight disabilities can have problems navigating them. Advocacy organizations would like them to use stop signs rather than yield signs, but this reduces the throughput of the roundabout.



  • I recently saw an infographic that showed the risk of death for getting out of bed at 90 years old is the same as the risk of hang gliding. To me, this means you should take up hang gliding when you’re 90.

    More seriously, you should take risks to have a full and rewarding life. Those risks can be mitigated. I’ve ridden motorcycles, but I also wear a helmet and safety gear while doing it.