Proton’s server is closed source so I don’t trust it as much as Bitwarden.

My Epyc 7702 does have onboard TPM, but my supermicro H11DSi-NT doesn’t pass it through to the OS, for some reason

Huh… That’s interesting. At my workplace we have Linux EPYC servers with working TPM (it’s mandated that all computers, both clients and servers, must have TPM 2.0), but I’m not a hardware person and don’t know exactly how they’re configured.

This is good to know. I haven’t had issues with using a USB drive though, since it doesn’t receive many reads or writes - the system is copied to a RAM drive on boot and runs off that rather than the USB.

I assume this means I’d need another drive to boot it from? My current setup is that I have 2 x 22TB drives in a ZFS mirror for data storage, and 2 x 2TB NVMe SSDs in a ZFS mirror for things like VMs, Docker containers, documents, etc.

I had to get a Supermicro AOM-TPM-9665V TPM chip for my motherboard

How old is your CPU that it doesn’t have onboard TPM? It’s been a standard feature for quite a while now

Bitwarden’s the only “cloud-based” password manager I trust, since their entire stack is open-source.

For self-hosting, they recently released Bitwarden Lite, which is a lot simpler to host than their regular server. Different design decisions compared to the regular server which is designed to scale up to handle businesses with tens or hundreds of thousands of employees.

There’s also Vaultwarden, which is an unofficial third-party server implementation.

Interesting… The file sharing is extremely quick for me at home.

I haven’t figured out how to get it working at work though (between my work phone and my work PC, both on the same network). Might not be possible with their firewalls.

Have you tried KDE Connect? It’s cross platform and works on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS. It’s what I use for sharing files from my phone to my computer and vice versa. It supports a lot more than just file sharing though.

Open source is great, but these platforms prove that it is not the only acceptable solution.

Signal is open source, including all their client apps as well as their server. Proton’s client apps are open source too (but not their server).

The brothers have different surnames due to an error made by their parents when registering Lin’s birth certificate

I wonder how long it took them to discover the error… And how long it took them to decide to just live with it instead of fixing it. Interesting.

They’re based in the EU though, so we’ll see how long that stays true.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Chat Control didn’t pass, but we’ll see what happens with Chat Control 2.0 given most member states are in favor of it.

Also, they don’t currently support E2E encryption, so I’m not sure how focused on security they actually are.

What’s the advantages of Osmium? In general I don’t think it’s a good idea to move from one closed-source system (Discord) to another (Osmium) since they’ll eventually enshittify it too.

Since you’re already using one Fediverse platform (Lemmy), have you considered using Matrix?

I didn’t realise Drupal is still around! I remember when they forked from Mambo and I had to convert a few sites across. That was probably 20 years ago now! this was Joomla - I misremembered

I’ve got the old version of the 8BitDo Pro 2 (from before they upgraded it to hall effect sticks) and it’s pretty good! Pretty nice build quality. Gyro control works well in Switch emulators (Ryubing and Eden).

The Pro 3 looks like a decent upgrade, but I’ve also heard the ABXY buttons are louder and can rattle a bit compared to the Pro 2. It does use TMR sticks though, which are supposed to be great.