selfhost.eu offers dynamic DNS which works perfectly fine with my router, using their API access as documented by them. It also works perfectly well with Let’s Encrypt integrated in Nginx Proxy Manager.

• can handle .at domains
• is not Cloudflare
• is registrar and name server
• is European (Germany)
• supports Nginx Proxy Manager

They’re in the market since 2001, I use them since ca. 2010 and never had any issues. Their website looks ancient, almost historic. But it’s functional.

You can easily remap it to something useful.

At this point I wonder if the last few months of systematically destructing the rest of Microsoft’s reputation is a false-flag action by Linux users who infiltrated the company.

AI bro’s “won” again.

Wero is a trap

It is also insecure by design and actively supports scamming people.

Well—that is certainly a meticulous observation! 🔍

In my day job I do corporate IT support and I must admit, the fully domain-integrated systems, deployed and maintained using SCCM, configured using GPOs and working with the M365 suite client-side and server-side using Azure, it is actually quite reliable and can be configured to not have any of the bullshit private end-users have to deal with. (Not only the AI crap and the spyware, but also 95% of all default configuration.)

I still wouldn’t touch Windows with a 10ft pole on my personal systems at home.

It will “allow” apps? Those “apps” are an integral part of the operating system without a way for users to turn it off constantly and reliably.

Someone else will continue selling RAM and making money.

… so basically ChatGPT with a specific prompt.

The AI-powered app […] simply uses its language model to generate responses based on a wide corpus of biblical and religious texts.

This is the only valid answer!

The URLs mentioned in their blog article all have a wrong certificate (different host name).

I am sure if they fix it Google’s system would reclassify the sites as safe.

This bit is awesome:

There isn’t enough money to do this without diverting most of the money that exists to doing it, and even if that were to happen, there isn’t enough time to do any of the stuff that has been promised in anything approaching the timelines promised, because OpenAI is making this up as it goes along and somehow everybody is believing it.

It’s called “installing”.

“Sideloading” is a term created by app store owners to frame installing software from outside their walled gardens as shady/illegal/questionable/problematic/whatever.

No-one would say, “I’m sideloading this application” when not using your distribution’s package manager on your desktop or laptop computer. Why call it sideloading when installing software on your pocket computer, then?

If you have money to spend, look for a Microsoft Surface. It’s amazing how good they work with Linux, despite being a Microsoft device designed to run Windows.

Their build quality is really good, too.

• Mail with all the bells and whistles (been there, done that – but I just want this to work and not care about details).
• Dynamic DNS because I just need to tell someone my non-static IP so they can connect that with my domain name.

Getting a burner phone and account and only tun it on when you want to check the messages is a good start. Do not use any of your real information.

When I left FB a decade ago they didn’t force a phone number for the messenger, thy basically just requested all possible permissions.

GTX 1080 + i7 4790K here: I run an Arch Linux Wayland setup (labwc) on my machine. So I use this for gaming, too.

I have a handful of native games running without any issues. Other games I run on Steam (installed via Flatpak to avoid the 32 bits dependency hell). Never had any REAL issues that were not coming from Nvidia not running well on Linux or Valve not getting Linux support right.

If you say so.

Remember, open-source has a specific meaning; merely publishing your code in public view does not make it open-source.

This strengthens my point even more.