Never delved deep so I’m not sure. For me its general weather, sun shine, rain or snow and that’s it.

Would Breezy work for you?

I’m sure the make fantastic products and my brother in law swears by this, but somehow it’s never felt right for me. I should take the bias out and try this some day. Thanks.

Nice. Thanks.

I appreciate this and thank you for your solid advice.

Weirdly, I stopped shaving for the last 2 months to see if my beard will finally grow. Its working.

That being said, yeah, Native Deo was ok, but did not last. I am concerned about BO, so yeah, this will take some doing.

Not quite close to a Farmers Market, but I need to actually look through. I did however see bars of soap from Australia in Goodwill, but those seemed sketchy.

Nice. These look interesting. I do samples all the time, for colognes, but did not know about the ones you shared. Thanks.

Looks good. How do you feel about the ingredients? I’ve become very conscious lately.

Debian + XFCE

Debian + Budgie

Yes. I run Debian with a bunch of Gnome and KDE applications on XFCE4. UI looks weird sometimes, but it works as well as I expect.

PMing you.

I do. PMing you the details.

I host Nextcloud with various options on terms of storage and CPU.

Works great.

I sell managed services and this is one of the things I offer. Its a fire and forget sort of system. However, your experience with managing the back end stuff, updates etc will really matter cause if it goes sideways, you have to know how to debug. That is pretty much what I do.

Hopefully MarathonOS runs on this. Definitely my next phone nonetheless.

Freedom. 24 years ago, I figured that there had to be something different that I could customize. I had experimented with BeOS but then I came across Gentoo, and Linux in general. I crushed and burned many times experimenting with Slackware, SuSE (and later OpenSuSE), as well as Mandrake, but Debian became my thing. I did some time with Solus, but I’m a Debian guy. Netboot, put it together as I want, and what not.

Interest groups. Hobbies. Travel. Volunteers. Book clubs. That sort of thing. Cast your net wide enough and you are sure to get someone.

It took me 6 deploys to finally understand all the mechanisms. What I like about self-hosting and the open source mantra in general is that every failure is a lesson with field experience. So skills development and acquisition is fairly easy if you push for it and once you get it, its wash, rinse, repeat.

Self hosting is not always about hosting at home. A private VPS/VDS, co-located server that you own/lease and operate is essentially that. I take self hosting as not turning to big tech for the very same solutions I can spin up myself on a private server.

That being said, self hosting also involves servers at home that run personal services.

My line of work is mostly in business. Getting people to operate their businesses with open source tools on private servers, local, in the country and abroad, as they wish.

So there is a bit of work you need to do, but if you manage your server well, do DMARC, DKIM, SPF etc and then nip it in the bud when you get warnings, its very easy to manage. Its about responsibility. Bad actors exist, but careful operators prevail.