I like Qubes OS and ran it daily, for years. While it’s not completely bullet-proof (there are ways to break out of VMs and x86 hardware is probably riddled with exploitable bugs and deliberate backdoors) it’s the best publicly available usable thing we have.

You don’t have to break encryption if you compromise the endpoint.

If you’re specifically targeted by the NSA or even a national security service there is not much you can do. However, assuming that the network is always hostile is a sensible position. Because it is.

There is not much value added in Latvia. At least some of their hardware is supported by OpenWRT https://openwrt.org/toh/mikrotik/start though.

Mikrotik is proprietary, and has a bad security track.

With multi-layered defense you should protect your network, but not trust that you always succeed.

You can run a router VM but I run my opnsense on a thin client directly.

Debian is a community distro. Ubuntu is downstream of it.

IPv6 is really widespread.

It’s not going to, though. As soon as the tariffs disapper they’ll be impersonating Dory, again.

The problem is reliably hitting keys on glass tty with my thumbs. I noticed I need minimum 6.7" devices for that.

You people seem to have tiny hands.

It’s in the article.

I’m only on it for half a year and mostly through. What’s AT?

Time to complete my watching spree and cancel the service.

Poor people (who still can afford the end devices and an Internet plan) can of course share the costs in a community, or use one of the many free servers, as long as they are aware of the tradeoffs. Beigers not being choosers, and all that.

Federated protocols are not centralized in principle. It might not scale to one user-one server (which probably even Lemmy can’t handle) but if you’re signing up for a central server, you’re doing it wrong™. Don’t do that. The nice thing about Matrix client is that it allows end to end encryption, including groups. So that greatly limits what Mallory can do in principle. As to servers being costly to run, given what documented Synapse requirements are, you’re looking at less than 5 EUR/month for a single server. Which can be shared among several users, obviously. This is in the same range as costs for a monthly VPN.

Self-hosted Matrix is obviously unaffected.

I use Firefox everywhere but lately I’ve been also using Vanadium on GrapheneOS.

You could roll your own cloud storage.