Hibernate is even better with a fast SSD.

Panasonic provides the software for free for their cameras. Still only 720p but at least you’re not paying for it.

Generally no with a reputable email host.

Yep, you can register a domain through a company like namecheap or cloudflare. It’s about $10 a year.

Then you just need an email service that supports custom domains, mailbox.org is a good one. Change your DNS records on your domain control panel to point to the servers given to you by your email service, and that’s it.

Yes, but it also makes the experience worse for people that aren’t invested in the ecosystem because of privacy or similar reasons.

If I’m using an app that allows quotes, but my friend isn’t and wants to quote a post, they’re going to be annoyed.

With several comments now showing surprise about this, is sleep mode or hibernation not common knowledge?? Windows and every Linux distro I’ve tried has sleep mode enabled by default.

Most people use sleep or hibernate, still uses very little power (none in hibernate) but you don’t have to open all your stuff every time.

Feedly does a great job of that.

Email is already federated and can be end to end encrypted with various methods.

Yeah I get them confused constantly hah.

At least with your own domain name and IMAP, changing email providers is pretty quick and easy.

I just do what is easy for me, some things are not worth the hassle of switching to a privacy focused alternative.

For example replacing google drive with Syncthing was really easy for my use cases. Gmail was easy with my own domain and a good email service.

Other things like facebook/reddit, banking, telegram, discord, etc… I don’t worry about it because the hassle factor is extreme.

Woops I think I was thinking of mailbox.org who does support domains.

Whatever you choose, remember that ease of migration is important. So for email buy your own domain name and use a service like mailbox.org that allows custom domains and full IMAP access.

Thats a good example of the UX issues, when only 1 specific app supports a feature.

Do you use ZFS? It uses half your RAM for cache by default, which matches with 2GB used by user apps + 16GB = 18GB total.

That is one wall of text.

Wasnt the parallel port also used for serial for awhile? Not quite perfect but better than now I suppose.

It is, I’ve been auto updating it for almost 2 years. Just needs a quick fix every now and then.

Obviously make sure your backups are working properly.

Without the utility how would I connect to a grid to sell to others? Who would pay for that and manage it?

They still use far less, bitcoin manages like 10 transactions per second and consumes a staggering amount of power. A normal database running on something using a few watts could handle 10 database updates per second.