Everything works except Thunderbolt/USB4 and Video output via USB-C

I wouldn’t use it as a NAS if you plan to use NVMe SSDs for fast storage (since you can’t connect them via USB4), but if you only plan on using SATA SSDs or mechanical drives, USB 3 should be fine. Other than that, everything you would need in a server is there and works flawlessly.

You can install Linux on ARM-based Macs too:
https://asahilinux.org/
!asahilinux@lemmy.world

That’s awesome

Sure, but you did you download them, listen to them and then delete them, or did you keep them around for archival purposes? Because it’s rather untypical to re-listen to a podcast episode many times, which you might do with music.

I don’t know, I also use DDG because I can’t find a better alternative. I thought you had a better recommendation 😂

The only thing that comes to my mind is 4get, a proxy for DDG which is a little better for your privacy, since you don’t have to trust DDG as much. But it lacks some features like DDG’s Bangs.

There’s also LibreY, a fork of LibreX, which acts as a proxy for Google. Still not great though. The one thing I really like about it, it that it also has a built-in torrent search feature.

I think the best option is SearXNG, you can configure which search engines you want to use, and you can access DDG bangs by using two exclamation marks (e.g. !!yt for YouTube)

Unfortunately there’s no good self-hostable search engine with a good web crawler

What do you use?

Gone?

Why did you download podcasts?

When I finally got a seedbox and started downloading massive amounts of movies, TV shows, games and music (first to the seedbox, then archived everything on my home NAS, deleted everything with lots of seeders from the seedbox to save space, and now I only use it for either new stuff I want to download, or seeding content with very few or no seeders)

Are people sending $5 every now and then

That’s still better than nothing I guess

Does it also work with Mastodon? Because it is possible to reply to Lemmy posts from Mastodon, right?

Absolutely

Either use secure, encrypted VoIP calls (e.g. over Signal or another secure messenger with an end-to-end encrypted call feature)

Or you use a secure messenger that only runs on smartphones and doesn’t have a desktop client

LibreWolf (which doesn’t store any cookies or other website data by default, unless you allow it) + I still don’t care about cookies or Consent-O-Matic

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

Hell yeah

Use LibreX or a fork called LibreY, it’s a JS-free proxy for Google search

There’s a list of instances at https://librey.org/instances.php

Something similar exists for DuckDuckGo btw, it’s called 4get

Or you can just use SearXNG, a meta search engine that aggregates results from multiple sources

I wonder how many of them will actually continue using it after a few weeks/months

Couldn’t you just use an adblocker extension in Safari?

That doesn’t work with a VPN (unless you have root)