I’m personally team openwrt. You can find used hardware that can easy do what you need while being highly power efficient and compact.

One word of advise though. I would recommend that you get dedicated access points for wireless if you haven’t already

How does Deltachat compare to Simplex Chat?

The flipside of Signal is that it is fairly intuitive and easy to use

Centralization has the upside of simplicity

I would consider just using Signal. It isn’t flawless but it is easy yo use and well

Outside of that Nextcloud talk worked well for me a few years ago

That’s really bad for all sorts of reasons but I’m sure you probably know that now

Source?

https://apnews.com/live/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-resignation-news-updates-11-12-2026

Never mind

Ubuntu 18 is long EOL

That’s more than 2 years. Maybe I’m just being hash but surely you would reboot the device at least once a year

Quality post

XML is really inefficient and sometimes vulnerable to denial of service attacks due to it being hard to parse.

The difference is that Cloudflare has access to everything and exposes your stuff directly on the internet. A VPN would be far more secure with the tradeoff of inconvenience.

You do have open ports as it goes though Cloudflare. If Authelia ever has a CAVE you could be pwded. Cloudflare is nice but it gives a false sense of security and routes everything unencrypted though a large tech company.

Robots.txt is completely ignored these days

Do make sure you switch to something that gets security patches. You can use the LTSC version if necessary

821 days is a stress inducing amount of uptime

If you want high availability build a cluster and then update and reboot individual machines

Not really

Accepting AI generated code doesn’t make Linux vibe coded. It still goes though the same review process.

Please reboot install updates and then reboot

Have you looked at all into Meshtastic? Depending on where you are, it may work quite well for local communications

I have literally never heard anyone mention xmpp outside of Lemmy. Anyways it is a dead technology due to how fragmented it is along with its reliance on XML