LoL, blue shirt has no persistence. Anger and giving up gets you nowhere.

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Anyone can now provide that service. Why pay OpenAI when you can pay a different service who is cheaper or provides a service more aligned with your needs or ethics or legal requirements?

• For incoming mail, on your server run a mail retrieval agent like fetchmail to fetch mail from the externally hosted mailbox into a maildir on your server.
• To serve that maildir to your clients, on your server run a mail delivery agent like the IMAP server Dovecot.
• To accept outgoing mail from your clients, on your server run something like Postfix with a relayhost configured with the details of your externally hosted SMTP server.

There’s nothing unusual or tricky about any of this arrangement.

Could go old school and build your own:

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Munin feels a little old and crusty, but just works. Over 20 years old now.

Yeah, X11 forwarding is only fine on a campus wide network, maybe city-wide at most, if the wan is fast enough.

Sshfs would also be painful for operations processing a lot of data (grepping gigs of log files or even creating thumbnails of images to browse).

remote access

To be fair, X11 forwarding is a straightforward thing, bearing in mind any security/performance/administrative restrictions which may apply to your situation.

Alternatively, SSHFS can be used to mount a remote directory locally.

Need some kind of fake power-down mode baked into the OS, which locks encrypted storage and switches on an unresponsive black screen tracking mode.

ffs, every time someone from a community group asks me “Can you have a quick look at our basic website, we just need to change <reallySimpleThing>”, and I’m like “sure, i used to do web development, let’s have a look […] FFFFFFUUUUUC…”

No worries. The situation I was describing is indeed absurd and defies reasonable expectations.

Ah, that’s good then.

In Australia you really only need a name and date of birth and ID such as a passport or driving license number of the owner. No physical or even photographic proof. Some phone companies send the original sim a notification before moving it, but no response is required and moving the number often only takes 10~30mins.

Banks in Australia commonly use sms codes as 2fa.

A large percentage (20~30%?) of adult Australians have had their ID details leaked in recent years because there are no adequately enforced security requirements or data-retention limits. One of the largest breaches was the second largest mobile phone provider…

As in “Hi PhoneCompany, I’d like a mobile plan with you. Yes, I’d like to bring my old phone number over to the new account.”

Or “Hi PhoneCompanySupport, I’m @thingsiplay and i lost my sim, plz send me a new one. BTW my new address is …”

Ideally it shouldn’t happen, but phone company security is pretty slack sometimes,

Swapping the sim associated with your phone number – from your sim to their sim.

AUR has just as much ability to fuck you over as piping curl to sh as an installation method.

Check your PKGBUILDs every single time and make sure you (still!) trust whatever repos it’s pulling the source/binaries from.