I don’t particularly agree with this.

Having different interfaces does mean multiple accounts across services is better, but I don’t see “one account for everything” as something important for the Fediverse per se.

In fact, I really like that they’re interoperable at all. I can post something on my PieFed account then boost it on my Mastodon account. I can upvote a post I think is cool, and if I think it’s really cool, I can boost it directly on Mastodon.

I love being able to comment on PeerTube videos or Lemmy threads with my Mastodon account, or to reply to my friends on my PieFed account.

PieFed also lets you follow Mastodon accounts, so I can comment on the posts of people I follow on PieFed if I want to.

Xeovo appears to use WireGuard and OpenVPN. They don’t even seem to have their own client.

KeePass is made with Windows in mind, so it might not have come across OP’s radar if they don’t use Windows.

I do love Posteo, but they explicitly do not support custom domains, as said in their FAQ. However, it is very strongly anti-AI, and has strong ethics that I think anyone in your situation would agree with.

For VPNs, I love AirVPN a lot, though I hear it can be rather slow. For me, I personally use it for downloading Linux ISOs as well as getting past wonky internet connections and it works really well for those use cases. From what I could see, Xeovo also seems to be torrent-friendly as well.

I’ve recommended Aegis to close family and have used KeePass (as well as XC and ChiPass, which is an AI-free fork of XC) in both a personal and professional capacity. I will have a look at AliasVault though, as I would like to move away from BitWarden myself.

I dunno, I remember learning about the SNES vs Genesis when I was in middle school.

It does.

A quick look at the sidebar and hovering over, one of the moderators of this community appears to be a lemmy.world admin if that’s what you mean.

Considering how big lemmy.world is, I’d guess it’s more a bit of overlap than it being the same people.

I definitely tend to think short term. If I enjoy the process, then I can go long term, but I am prone to short term thinking.

I’m trying to think more long term though. 😓

For VPN I do like AirVPN a lot.

I do currently use Bitwarden for my 2FA as well as my passwords, though I should look into Ente Auth.

I’ll be honest, I forget that NodeBB has become federated. Despite having run into an actual incompatibility problem between Piefed and NodeBB. 😅

I personally use Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/etc. for social news rather than bolted on forum-like features. That’s where I think this software shines.

If you want a decentralized forum, I’d seriously recommend you look at Usenet and NNTP. Then again, I promote the usage of network protocols for what they are good at over forcing everything through the web. 😂

Definitely a very good post.

It reminds me of Chimera Linux’s stance on systemd, which I found to be the best explanation on systemd before these blog posts.

Yeah, I describe OpenBSD as very easy… for those already who are already quite familiar with Unix.

Very nice for setting up quick servers.

Getting more into the BSDs.

I have OpenBSD as a desktop on a laptop I have and it’s great.

Also wanting to get back into retrocomputing.

Not my instance (I’m posting from PieFed lol), but I noticed that lemmy.blahaj.zone has five UIs, including mlmym, set up.

I can second AirVPN. I’ve never had an issue with it, at least one that wasn’t ultimately user error.

Wow! I guess AI was worth all that water!

…seriously, what’s the point of making it an image aside from posting a (probably unpaid!) ad on Twitter?

Makes sense to me. As I said, I’d find this a mild annoyance (at worst even!) if this weren’t a Linux distribution. Could (theoretically anyways) be fine enough for OP though.

The policy doesn’t seem to be a full ban on AI within the distribution’s infrastructure, permitting some usage such as for translation and for research.

For anything else, this would be a mild annoyance to me.

For a Linux distribution, not fully banning AI is a dealbreaker for me due to the direction that the Linux kernel is going. Thus the resistance that a Linux distribution does against AI must be stronger for me to consider it, especially when there are other Unix-like OSes that have less AI-generated code due to not using the Linux kernel.

This line of thinking also helps me narrow down Linux distributions to recommend.

Regrettably, I don’t think there’s a good middle ground distribution that’s anti-AI. It’s either very technical distributions like Chimera and Gentoo or opinionated distributions geared towards newcomers like elementary OS or more specialized distributions like Nura (formerly postmarketOS) that are explicitly anti-AI.

I think your best bet would be to go with elementary OS, honestly. It uses its own DE, Pantheon, rather than KDE, but I think it’s easily your least worst option. I’ve never used it extensively myself, however.

Of course, I also am obligated to mention that the Linux kernel is extremely pro-AI. However, an anti-AI Linux distribution is leagues better than using, say, Windows when it comes to AI.

That being said, here’s a list of distributions known to be affected by AI as well as those that are anti-AI.