"Dear humanity: We regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!" - Avery Johnson
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Copyparty is a fileserver that I'm using for quick sharing of files and folders with others. "Managing multiple devices" is not what I would use it for, whatever you might mean by that. It does have one-way sync, if that's what you're looking for.
selfh.st: improper etiquette by 2010 standards? (trackers, no RSS) Thoughts?
My RSS reader, Akregator, has an option to open every article in an embedded web browser. I use this feature precisely for these kinds of situations. Most artists that I follow have their own websites with proper RSS feeds, but others only post on Bluesky or similar, that also only show the title and body text. If I can't follow them through RSS, I just don't follow them at all. I can't be bothered to have their newsletter clog up my inbox or use some third-party service that will probably shut down when I least expect it to.
I honestly think that payment processors should not be able to dictate what can and can't be paid for with their service. If it's legal in the countries that they and their users are in, it should be allowed. I was never able to vote for them, so why should they have any power over how I spend my own money?
You may self-host your notes or calendar, but you’re forced to either recreate account systems or give up on interoperability.
I literally just finished setting up Radicale on my old laptop, and now I can access my calendar and contacts through CalDav and CardDav from every single client under the sun. Maybe don't use AI to write your entire article. I won't even bother reading the rest of the article if you don't even get this right.
Giant monitor >>> multiple monitors. For my internship of making 3D animations I had a really big monitor on my desk. I could fit every single viewport and UI element I ever needed on that screen!
I thought that Syncthing has its own encryption solution: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html
Otherwise, well done! It always feels great to have your perseverance and technical prowess benefit you directly.