Buxton The Red (Matt)

BuxtonTheRed@tech.lgbt

aka Matt Fowler. British human cis male, gay & married, thoroughly nerdy. I'm not very tolerant of intolerance. Husband of <a href="https://tech.lgbt/@duncaned" class="u-url mention">@duncaned</a> - my job is doing code and data stuff to help him do smart stuff quicker.

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Post #2268477
The Helical Encabulator - my new favourite youtube video about technical advances in the field of encabulation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9167LCbBnk
Post #2268476
@RVLara23 Mailbox.org is worth looking at. Not free, but that can be a positive. Full &quot;use your own domain&quot; support.
Post #2268475
My husband @duncaned wrote &quot;War Plan UK&quot;, back in 1982, about UK Cold War stuff. Today, it went on sale as an ebook. Not just on Amazon, it&#39;s available on loads of other ebook platforms too. The only &quot;media&quot; he has &quot;done&quot; for this is a Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T83N3Y4gkA I spent a bunch of my own time to do the filming and editing that video. So we would both be quite happy if people watched the video.
Post #2268473
@TheZeldaZone Depending on your tolerance for sketchiness, https://lowendbox.com/ is a good place to find out about cheap VPS offerings. I have a $20/year, super-low-budget VPS that I found through there (on a server in .NL). But performance is flakey and support is poor for the one I chose, so evaluate your price-to-misery threshold carefully. For EU, the &quot;name brand&quot; places I can think of immediately are Hetzner and OVHCould. They&#39;re probably comparable in price to...
Post #2268472
@nuintari My day-to-day browsing is in Firefox (with uBlock Origin and probably some other privacy / QoL plugins I&#39;ve forgotten). Using Multi-Account Containers to keep some things in their own bubble. I have Chrome installed and left &quot;natural&quot; for both 2nd-monitor video-watching (Youtube, etc.) and backup use if an important site fails to work in Firefox.