I recommend using Kiwix, https://kiwix.org/en/

They already have a monthly archive of ifixit available: https://library.kiwix.org/viewer#ifixit_en_all_2023-10/home/home

There are tons of other offline resources available for Kiwix as well https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng

If you want to use transmission as your torrent client I recommend checking out https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn . There are some additional configuration changes needed for mullvad but it should be straightforward.

Yep, I’ve been using it daily for a few years now to keep my personal, social, research and work lives separate and compartmentalized. It’s the most user friendly way I’ve been able to keep things straight with the different color schemes and ability to run whonix/Debian/fedora/windows and switch between them with ease.

If you want the security/privacy of whonix capabilities with the flexibility of fedora you should checkout Qubes OS. As long as you have the correct hardware to run Qubes it can make for a secure and unique experience.

This is definitely my favorite Lemmy client so far!

Here’s my docker-compose.yml for nextcloud (with minor privacy changes) that includes onlyoffice and drawio containers. SSL is not included and should be handled by NPM and you’ll need a proxy host for both drawio and onlyoffice. I use NPM in docker so I just add it to the docs network instead of exposing any additional ports. For onlyoffice the secret key gets regenerated each time the container starts so you’ll need to update onlyoffice setting in nextcloud each time (unless someone has a better solution). You can get the secret key by logging into the onlyoffice container and running

cat /etc/onlyoffice/documentserver-example/local.json

I’ve been running this solution for a few years without any major issues.

docker-compose.yml

version: '3.5'

networks:
 docs:
  name: docs 
  driver: bridge

services:
 nextcloud:
  image: linuxserver/nextcloud
  container_name: nextcloud
  environment:
   - PUID=1000
   - PGID=1000
   - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
   - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud
   - MYSQL_PASSWORD=P@ssWord321!
   - MYSQL_HOST=nextcloud_db
   - TZ="America/Chicago"
  volumes:
   - /home/user/docker/configs/nextcloud:/config
   - /home/user/docker/configs/nextcloud_data:/data
  restart: unless-stopped
  depends_on:
   - nextcloud_db
  networks:
   - docs 

 nextcloud_db:
  image: linuxserver/mariadb:110.4.21mariabionic-ls31
  container_name: nextcloud_db
  restart: always
  environment:
   - PUID=1000
   - PGID=1000
   - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=P@ssWord123!
   - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
   - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud
   - MYSQL_PASSWORD=P@ssWord321!
  volumes:
   - /home/user/docker/configs/nextcloud_db/mysql:/config
  restart: unless-stopped
  networks:
   - docs 

 onlyoffice:
  image: onlyoffice/documentserver
  container_name: onlyoffice
  restart: always
  depends_on:
   - nextcloud
  networks:
   - docs 

 image-export:
  image: jgraph/export-server
  container_name: nextcloud-drawio-export
  networks:
   - docs 
  volumes:
   - ./fonts:/usr/share/fonts/drawio
  restart: unless-stopped

 drawio:
  image: jgraph/drawio
  container_name: nextcloud-drawio
  networks:
   - docs 
  depends_on:
   - image-export
  environment:
   - VIRTUAL_HOST=drawio.example.com
   - VIRTUAL_PORT=8080
   - EXPORT_URL=http://image-export:8000/
  restart: unless-stopped

I use Aegis for important apps and store all non-critical ones in vaultwarden. It’s a good trade-off in my opinion of having the convenience for less important things but still be secure and not having a single point of compromise for my critical, sensitive apps.

These are some great suggestions, I use several of these already but I hadn’t heard of Coffee, Droid-ify or Geometric Weather and all three have been added to my phone. I really appreciate Coffee because I’ve been manually updating the screen timeout each time I cook and it’s a pain to switch it each time, this quick toggle is a definite quality of life improvement. Droid-ify and Geometric weather are slick and I really like their look. Thanks!

A DDL (direct download) implies you are downloading it from a hosting site and storing it on your personal computer. A DMCA notice is sent when you are hosting the file and providing it to others.

Per https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/i-got-a-dmca-notice-now-what

“Copyright infringement has become so prevalent that sometimes you are not even aware that you are infringing on another person’s rights. Most of the time, copyright infringement is an innocent mistake—such as reposting an image on Instagram that you like and want to share. Other times, the infringement is intentional. Either way, if you infringe on someone else’s copyright, you will very likely receive a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice.”

Further down the site

"Your next steps

Once you receive a DMCA notice—either directly or through your ISP—review and confirm the alleged copyright infringement listed on the takedown notice. If you can confirm that there is a copyright infringement, you should proceed with taking down the identified material."

This is the same reason you aren’t at risk to DMCA when using Usenet/IRC because other people are providing you the files or downloading (not uploading) from google drive shared files.

If you use torrenting (which implies you are seeding back to other people) or upload to google drive you can be at risk to receiving a DMCA takedown notice and then you’ll have to decide whether to fight it or delete it.

I never used the command line with Kopia besides starting it up in server mode and used the web based GUI to configure, it was pretty simple to get everything setup that way. You may want to give it another try using Kopia in that mode.

Spot on, federation and decentralization is the right path forward. Users create the content and should own it, the output of our time and typing has value and shouldn’t be siloed away in corporate money making machines run by sociopaths. It should belong to the people to help us connect to each other.

Home is where the heart is and for now, my heart is with lemmy! 🏴‍☠️

Kopia has been working great for me as well. It’s simple, versatile and reliable. I previously used Duplicati but kept running into jobs failing for no reason, backup configurations missing randomly and simple restores taking hours. It was a hot mess and I’m happy I switched.