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Somewhat disagreed: the lack (or lousiness) of physical security doesn't somehow magically make self-hosting work worse. Given I live in the middle of nowhere in an average house for the area, I can pretty much live the doors unlocked when I go out. Alternatively, if I live in some fancy neighborhood in a fancy house, I likely need some security system.

As for self-hosting, it's more convenient in the long term, I think. "We change our terms of service, and now require the soul of your firstborn" -- idgaf; "unavailable due to legal reasons" (tnx, tailscale, much appreciated you giving 0 notice, not that I'm salty about it or anything) -- idgaf; internet outage -- idgaf; and so on. Well, you may need to invest into duplicating critical infrastructure like password managers or the VPN host, but that's a relatively small price to pay, IMO.

And for loosing the contact, a couple of those I care about agreed to move the communication to matrix... So, it feels like friends who don't consider talking to you on platforms other than snoopbook despite them requiring little to no PII (signal is a bit of an exception here, but that have a relatively good track record) aren't too much interested in talking to you as a whole. And, well, should you be interested in talking to them in return? Although, I'm admittedly quite comfortable alone, and more extraverted (or less schizoid) folks may still feel uncomfortable with that course of action.

Meanwhile the alarm clock

It's all fun and games until some manjaro user starts asking about manjaro-specific f-ups in an arch chat and telling users there that apparently it's the same when told such f-ups are discussed in a chat next-door

Soo, I've been daily-driving Linux for 6 / 7 yrs, and occasionally using it since 2013... How much time do I have before I have to choose? Although, given my lack of self-organization, I probably should've already chosen but missed the message notifying me of an upcoming / missed deadline

Heliboard maybe?

Instructions unclear, driving at mach 30

Me in the past 2 years: choosing a Linux distro based on whether it's nixos

Given those options, you may want to try vim :) It's a bit different in how you interact with it (pressing stuff on the keyboard instead of clicking stuff in menus, plus it's more of an imperative vs declarative approach, i.e. you tell vim how to do stuff instead of what you need to be done; the good part is being independent of what sb thought you may need to do, the bad -- having to learn editing primitives and stuff), but it can certainly do stuff you've mentioned, sometimes with some help from external programs:

• dupcicate current line - yyp [(yy)ank_curren and (p)aste];
• join lines depends on how you want to join them, in the simplest case it's J or gJ to join current line with the one below with or without space as a separator respectively. You can also combine it with :g or :v and norm or macros to make this edit on lines matching (g) or not (v) a specific regex (e.g. :g/join me/norm J will join all lines containing "join me" with that below). Splitting also depends;
• reverse, randomize and sorting can be done via calling external stuff: v10j:.!tac will reverse 11 lines, including the one with the cursor, via calling (!) tac on the selection (v) of the current line and 10 below (10j) and pasting its output in the file you're editing (.) (it'll replace stuff you've selected). Replace tac with shuf or sort for the other options mentioned. Removing duplicates without sorting - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11532157/remove-duplicate-lines-without-sorting#11532197

Bonus: neovim integrates with vscode quite well, and on itself it handles reasonably huge files without an issue.

Depends on your definition of "what", and the server you're talking to, and what DNS you're using, and your VPN provider, and maybe the phase of the moon.

So, pretty much the best-case scenario is when the site works via https, and the server supports "encrypted client hello" (ech), and your browser has ech enabled. In this case your VPN provider can see that you've sent something to the IP (one IP can host multiple websites with different domains).

Https and no ech = can see IP, can see the domain.

Http = can see everything (thankfully, quite rare now).

Some VPN providers may as well use their own DNS, then they can see what domains you've talked to regardless of ech (afaik, since domain lookup should happen before client hello, since you're basically looking up whom to "greet")

Some providers are Facebook with fake mustache and will shamelessly try to mitm you

Makes sense now, thank you

instead of in an encrypted format on its internal systems.

Riiight, like that's any better. Jokes aside, it's hard to imagine what kind of "mistake" results in storing plain text instead of hashing, unless the mistake was in choosing whoever made the security assessment