We all know teachers are the laziest people known to man…

I don’t no. But as they keep removing features from the free account, and here in the UK you at least need an account now to play anything people do

They age verify in the UK already…
For most people though they won’t be hacking things to use Spotify. I agree £2 a month is OK but for me the issue is they charge a fortune yet pay artists a pittance

Whilst I do like Nextcloud it is getting a super bloated thing these days and performance is struggling as a result. Still the best for me right now, but I might change in the future if they continue to fatten it up for slaughter!

Cloudflare tunnels so yes it does, as long as you do it right.

snake oil made me sssssssick (yes the dad jokes are weak today)

loads of self hosted alternatives if you so require it

nah rusty and a blade that is serrated… make way more mess. As an aside the guillotine was designed for theatre, the mechanism actually makes that loud noise on purpose! Pointless to kill someone without a bit of theatre don’t ya think

Using Cloudflare so they aren’t

I run several different ones, Debian is the most, Ubuntu server runs a few and I have a couple of truenas scale instances simply because they have run truenas for years and work well. One is local network only, another is available but is used for storage and storage alone via s3/minio and sftp and duplicati

indeed - run a searxng instance now and it is my default search engine. Includes google in the search but no AI and adds DDG and others. Works well enough

https://search.relayeasy.com/

Hahahahahahahahahahaha…
But on a serious note I am starting to get questions asked how to avoid AI completely. Nuke Google seems to make people very angry!

tailscale will tunnel through and you can set it to pass through https. Lots of different ways to achieve this, as long as you have control over the dns and are able to set https up it will work. This is why for me I still use cloudflare, you can even setup a subdomain through their tunnels and they act as a cdn. For example, I run a linkstack instance, send instance and much more

https://linkstack.relayeasy.com/@3dcadmin

oh yeah - but I don’t recommend anyone really self host an smtp server… many many issues right there especially as most isps block the ports required and the IP addresses are often blocked as well. Just use a service and don’t spam and all should be well (so don’t get sending newsletter emails all the time)

chance you take with pretty much everything you don’t control. I do use as much as I can to protect emails (not that much really)

I get that… fo me though as I have been using Cloudflare for many years I can’t see any reason to change yet. That of course may change

For a cloud service, as such, I’d go for Nextcloud - though it is getting to be a huge behemoth again. Others exist though, and self host your nextcloud is even better!

It sure is… stops the less technical, of course

I run an smtp relay exactly for that kind of stuff with emails. Clients still like wordpress and this is easy to use, many other will accept an smtp relay/service like say gmail (the first one I could think of)

FREE THE WAFFLES!