+1 to this. I was using Fastmail and it was very good, but since I'm already paying for Apple One, I decided to switch my e-mail (in my own domain) to iCloud+ to.

The only con I see is: there is no way to add separate 'mailboxes' to it. I can register multiple addresses, but it's still one account, thus one mailbox.

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

I'm happy with blocky. I was using pihole before it, but blocky gives me DoH out of the box (without a second service/container for it). It also can bootstrap itself (download blocking rules) via DoH. Thanks to it, my DHCP broadcasts my blocky instance(s) as 'standard' UDP DNS servers for everything at home, but all the DNS traffic going outside my gateway is on DoH.

The next thing on my list is to craft my own set of blocking rules. Currently I'm using the set from a friend, who was using blocky before me.

I don't know enough about it, is DoH better/different from using DNSSEC upstream servers in Pi-hole?

DNSSEC only makes you sure that the DNS response is 'correct' and 'legit', like 'no one has poisoned it during the transfer'. But the traffic is still unencrypted, so someone (like your ISP) can see what names you're trying to resolve and when. This can be a base for some profiling or even making opinions, like 'this guy goes to porn sites every evening' or 'this person likes to browse amazon, maybe they're addicted to online shopping'. Of course I exaggerate a lot here, but it's possible.

With DoH, or DNS-over-HTTPS, your DNS requests are traveling through the network encrypted. The first advantage is: man in the middle can't see what domain names are you trying to resolve. The second: they don't even know if the traffic they see right now is actually resolving a domain, or just browsing a website.

So DoH is a lot more private than DNSSEC. But it's fair to say it's a lot slower than standard DNS taffic (although it's not the difference a human can actually notice in most cases).

Yes, for many reasons, the most important two being that DNSSEC doesn't encrypt traffic, and that DoH works even on the (vast, overwhelming majority of) zones that haven't and won't ever be signed with DNSSEC.

Why should I use AI powered tools daily?

No, really. It's a genuine question. I don't use any of them, I used ChatGPT maybe twice, just to play with it. Are people using it daily for 'normal' questions really out there? I mean, is it a new wikipedia or something?

I am using it almost daily. It's better than Wikipedia.

Its kind of like rubber ducking with a fairly smart duck. Plus the variety of topic one can ask it is infinite (as opposed to Wikipedia)

It also responds in a very humanly way (tell it you are feeling anxiety for example)

In the last 10 or maybe even 20 years it's one of the few new tech that has had me stunned.

Sometimes I make it create poems too, very simple ones on things very contextual.

How do you deal with its lack of factual accuracy?

If you don't know the subject you are asking about, how can you tell if it is just making up facts? Because it does - not always, arguably not often, but it does happen.

I don't ask factual question. Its the wrong tool for factual questions.

OK, but them I'm sincerely confused by your statement that: "It's better than Wikipedia." If you don't want facts, what do you use Wikipedia for?

Try fzf for history management, it's a life changer.

Note: nowadays EPUB is a 'kindle friendly format'. Amazon promised to ditch .mobi support (when sending as e-mail or using Send To Kindle apps) on August. They still work (you will have an e-mail with a warning 'in August 2022 it will be gone', lol), but people are encouraged to use EPUB.

I assume there is some conversion from EPUB to 'new mobi' (azw3 maybe, I forgot the name), but it's on Amazon's side. I've sent 20+ EPUBs via e-mail to my Kindle in the last two months and all of them work like a charm, no problems with formatting and stuff.

Kindle is the no-brainer solution here, if most of your books are in Epub. I don't have any experience with PDFs on it, though. The simplicity of using it and the possibility to send books via e-mail and get them on the reader in no time is great. Of course you can still use the usb cable to do it, if you don't want to have Amazon account/give them any info.

Plenty of older models should be on eBay. Paperwhite 3 and Paperwhite 4 might be a good start for a used (but still supported and receiving software updates!) cheap option.

After 13 years on MacBooks, in 2021 I've switched to ThinkPad T14s AMD (1st gen) and I love it. Don't get me wrong, Macs are still very good and reliable machines, but I missed the possibility to run a very minimalistic and very tailored for me OS (especially in terms of GUI choice). Previously, before 'Mac era', I was using FreeBSD, then Gentoo - but now, after 13 years I decided I will use a binary distribution for a while, so I've chosen Void Linux. Now I'm back on Gentoo, but sometimes I think I would like to return to Void - I'm too old and too impatient to compile everything ;-)