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Boy am I glad trucks are so expensive (and bedless) that I had to get a 2011 GMC Sierra 2500. This old gal doesn’t even have Bluetooth and I have to use an adapter for my jams. I said to myself that this is the last truck I own and now it looks like that’s going to be true.

Invidious exists. While it is still youtube it at the very least respects your privacy.

ITT: people sleeping on the power of portage and think Gentoo is just for optimized software.

LFS eldritch horror here, I just daily Gentoo. Maintaining LFS is just exhausting and kinda unrealistic for any long term use. It’s not really meant as a daily driver but more of a learning thing. But man, it’s freaking awesome to see a system you built from scratch boot up and function. I highly recommend it, and even if you do/when you fail, at the minimum you learn to appreciate all the hard work that goes into a distribution.

As others have mentioned, it makes it easy to switch between services or even host your own. But I originally did it for the cool factor.

I self host a calckey instance (what firefish was called before a week ago and I’m too busy to update atm) and it integrates just fine with everything else in the fediverse. The cool thing about the fediverse is that user numbers don’t matter because it all ties in together.

You can install gentoo from practically any ISO. I used Linux Mint lol. That way I could doomscroll reddit and watch YouTube while GCC worked tirelessly in the background.

I spun up a Calckey instance a week or so ago. It’s leaps and bounds better than Mastodon.

You gotta federate. Try adding some relays to your instance and follow hashtags of things you enjoy so when your people post you can interact with them. As someone who self hosts their own calckey instance (similar to mastodon) the early stages basically require you to interact with peeps.

I have a small and humble set up. Pihole on my old Pi3, OpenMediaVault, Kavita, Qbittorrent on my Pi 4 and my other Pi 4 is running fucked up Lemmy and Mastodon instances because I’m new to this stuff.