I’m always backing up with SyncThing in realtime, but every week I do an off-site type of tarball backup that isn’t within the SyncThing setup.

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Yea, if you are not willing to be meticulous about learning/understanding all the DNS stuff (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), and plan to host this at home, don’t.

I ran this same system for a very long time on a VPS and had no problems with blacklists, but I’m also a career systems engineer that maintained enterprise systems and exchange servers.

Also note how I am speaking of MIAB in the past tense…

I think the better option is to try and avoid email as much as you can, just like SMS. Outdated tech and not secure. At that point, any ol’ existing email service is good enough.

They fired the devs, not marketing /s

I’ve never used it, but curious myself what the benefits are.

Seems too easy to just hop on tor, login, and download.

IMO, err on the side of caution and just don’t use it.

Interesting site. I already snagged a Kobo, but I’ll definitely keep this in mind for other stuff!

DDG partnered with Microsoft which allows Microsoft to ignore the tracking protections in the iOS and Android browsers, all in the name of serving you “relevant ads” like that’s something I want. They can make all the soothing claims they want, I won’t use them ever again.

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ads-by-microsoft-on-duckduckgo-private-search/

Try SearXNG, It aggregates from several search engines into one result list with no tracking. Also FOSS.

https://github.com/searxng/searxng

https://docs.searxng.org/user/about.html

Ahh, looks like Canada native company started by Indigo, bought by Rakuten in 2011. At least their HQ and all is still in Toronto, didn’t get gutted by the buyout.

I’d never heard of these, thanks! I been trying to find old Kindles for sale, but this looks like a much better choice.

ETA: they’re also a Canadian company, win-win

I was ruined by What.CD, haven’t been able to find a satisfactory one since.

But also, with streaming services and smaller file sizes, torrenting isn’t as necessary. I haven’t seen these two listed, so here you go. Each site has a few options and server locations, so you just need to try the different ones until you know which one works. Some offer FLAC, some MP3 320.

For me, Lucida.to searching Amazon seems to be the most reliable.

https://lucida.to/ https://squid.wtf/