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There is an unfortunate lack of female authors in this thread so I will post two recommendations:

• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

I despise Pournelle, his shitty conservatism always shines through his writing. But I will admit that The Mote in God’s Eye is a good novel, no doubt in large part thanks to Niven.

Another decent first contact novel is Learning the World: a Scientific Romance by Ken MacLeod.

The thing I need to use Mastodon is a proper search. Their opt-in design using hashtags just isn’t usable enough.

Worm by Wildbow, 10/10 all the way through, which is incredible given it’s 7000 pages and written by an indie author.

Invidious is developed really poorly. The documentation even recommends restarting the service hourly for what I assume has to do with memory leakage (they don’t actually mention the reason, but memory leaks are significant either way). I’d stay away from that project.

I’m just not a fan of mesh VPN solutions that I have no direct control over (i.e. cloud based), and self-hosting them on my own means I have the responsibility of properly securing and hardening the server on which it runs, which I’m not a fan of either haha.

But it might be the best solution, we’ll see. If that’s the case though I’ll probably go for Tailscale despite the fact that I prefer the open source nature of Netbird, and that’s because Tailscale is just more reliable and mature in my experience. It feels like Netbird might be pushing too many new features (like the reverse proxy) before their core features are finished.

I noped the fuck out of that course. I’m sure it’s super interesting and rewarding, but I just couldn’t take it mentally at the time.

I’m warming up to the idea of using some sort of RDP software. I saw that Anydesk is proprietary, do you have any experience with Rustdesk? I’ll do some research.

Thank you (and everyone else who has responded)!

Sorry.

Where are you installing it for her, PC or router?

Her client will be on her laptop.

What OS is she running?

Windows.

What other remote tools do you have available?

More or less none. Any tools I’d need would have to be set up remotely on her device.

Frankly I’d just use Tailscale.

Yeah, I’m starting to lean towards Tailscale or Netbird.

Thanks.

I also came in here to choose the Culture, although I’d be a human. Drug glands FTW.

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Pretty sure that’s how it is in Sweden too, though I’m not sure if grocery stores have a right to ban you like that. I have a tendency to put stuff in my pocket if I forget to take a basket.

Ah, that’s a shame. Thanks.

That’s really cool!

Interestingly enough, the Scientology church is the source of a lot of anti-drug propaganda provided in and by public schools in Sweden.

Source in Swedish: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/skolor-koper-droginformation-fran-scientologirorelsen

Syncing is a problem without a seamless solution. The official syncthing app for Android is abandoned and syncthing-fork isn’t trustworthy and feels vibe coded. Nextcloud is way too bloated for simple vault syncing.

I’m personally warming up to the idea of using pass.

Out of curiosity, what services do you use for sharing?

men att smyghöja med 100% känns inte så nice.

Smyghöja vet jag inte, du fick ju mail om det. 200 kr för ett helt år är inte heller så mycket.

Edit: jag satte upp Vaultwarden på min server.

Tänkte precis föreslå det, jag kör själv Vaultwarden. Exposa den dock inte mot internet.

Ett annat alternativ är KeePassXC/KeePassDX. Det enda problemet jag har är att det inte finns några bra sätt att synca mellan enheterna.

Are you implying that gaming on a 120 Hz 4k OLED TV is somehow bad?