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That's the way I discovered Linux in 2004. I wanted a VoIP system and so installed asterisk@home into a VM on Windows 2000 server.
Once I discovered how good it is, the W2000 was replaced by Debian.
This is the right answer.
Fedora (workstation): search 'inst.sdboot' to install without grub (leaving systemd-boot).
I still love aptitude TUI even though I don't use Debian anymore.
Next is dnf because it's clear with obvious subcommands.
Been using Zoho with multiple domains for many years. I have a business account and a personal account (and an admin account) in Zoho fed from maybe ten domains. DNS on Google cloud.
Zoho is almost never down - can't remember the last time - but they do tend to tinker stupidly occasionally. Logging in to the web is page after page of stupid questions - ok it's three but they're pushing their authentication app I don't ever want. There's PassKey but it doesn't understand Linux/Bitwarden AFAICT. I use 2fa with Bitwarden. Documentation is good but there can be multiple pages on the same subject sometimes.
Client mobile app is great. Admin mobile app is crap. Costs c. £60 a year which I think is good value given the ability to white page, (excessive) filters and automation*, mailing lists etc. Finding where you set an email address up is a bastard so take notes but they are eager to help if you can't find it.
I usually get pissed off with suppliers after a couple years of being jerked around. I've been with Zoho email for an easy decade maybe one and a half. It was definitely this century .. but .. !
I'm very privacy minded, at least one of the domains is a addy.io proxy, but never seen any indication that my/client data is being sold. Spam malware is very tight and you can admin that to within an inch of its life in miriad of ways.
Comes with all the bells and whistles you'd expect on the client end and on the server end. IMAP POP3 sure but I use the Zoho mobile client and web for all the features (tagging, priority etc) that Thunderbird won't grok.
Zoho had a deserved poor rep many years ago for going up and down like a tart's drawers but it's been nothing but up that I've noticed in the last 5 years.
I have no affiliation with any company mentioned.
I hosted my first email server in c.1996 on 14kbps before email admin became a full time job. I feel your pain.
- I have the usual delay (real) send on my business account and a couple of delete after X days triggered by my addy.io . Logic can mix AND and OR with parentheses without a limit I have hit.
If you're using Obsidian for free then maybe try the built-in link which you'll find in the built-in options I think. It's a cost option but cheap. I think it eliminates the problems I'm having (below). I'm stubborn.
I'm not having problem with Syncthing, bar dealing with the stupid attempts to deal with deleted files that Android leaves laying around. I have .stignore files with .trashed-* and .trash/ entries on the Linux machine. Still having problems with _ed directories though and Syncthing conflict files when the sync isn't fast enough when I switch between the two.
Sometimes it takes Syncthing a while to work out the best route between the two nodes. Sometimes days. It used to send my packets to the internet before letting them back into the local network. Eventually it found a more direct route between them. I'm not sure but I think it has something to do with local IPv6; I'm talking out of my ass though.
I'm not affiliated to Syncthing or Obsidian besides being a happy user.
I have decent battery life on my Pixel 7 Pro. I have the respect battery save setting on so syncing stops at 20% or so I think.
Thank you for thinking forward. That's much appreciated.
I'm surprised to find there isn't much of a delay to loading the data from Oz. I'm sure I remember it being horrific not so long ago.
I don't know, I'm not familiar with kbin at all. Good to know I'm not alone in that thinking, though.
It would have helped me. My instance isn't in the same hemisphere as me!
Make it look like a centralised system initially. Provide a portal to a pre vetted/chosen instance that is accepting new members in their locale/country, that is the same for everyone.
Update: This (above) is badly written. I'm trying to say every potential new member gets presented with the same (pretend centralised) portal that is in fact an (valid long-lived) instance local to the individual potential for them to sign up with. So two local users in Oz get given a proxy to the instance local to them, and a user in Blighty an instance local to that person. The decentralised Lemmy looks centralised, but isn't. The proxy front end should explain that they're joining their local instance and it's like a network of little affiliated clubs that can see each others posts globally. they log in for the first time it will become clear.
It's late, I'm tired, sorry everyone. Is that any better?
I think it's confusing (the reverse of what they're used to) for a newbie who have been bought up in a centralised internet with single front ends of all the big players to be presented with little instances to join to access the whole.
Not heard of this.
Thank-you.