Me too. Then they get buried until they’re no longer relevant.

Remain indoors.

“In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move”.

That was a .com moving over to I think EasyDNS. They could expedite the domain transfer around the lock if I could prove I had DNS access. Might have done that moving to NameCheap too on another one.

This was a few years ago too, everything has gotten stupid in the last few years. Maybe they won’t do that without a dispensation from the Pope and a notarized clean bill of health from the STD clinic.

You can usually do a domain transfer from a non-responding registrar if you can prove you have DNS control. It’s a manual process, but I’ve had to do it. It’s proved it’s worth to me to have them separated. Now, you might be down for a while, but you don’t have to go through a lengthy documentation process if you have DNS control.

And you should always separate NS from registrar so if one goes rogue or tits up, you can recover your domain.

An .xyz automatically puts you block lists if you decide to use it for email. Just sayin.

If you’re losing data with zfs you’re doing something very wrong.

If you’re new to it all, this is probably the safest approach. Getting mail isn’t hard, sending it is where the potential gotchas will getcha.

If you want to give it another try, I’ve used Mailcow for about a decade now, after running on Exchange for twenty before that. Mailcow is way easier to set up and maintain than Exchange.

Key to it all is making sure you have your DKIM, dmarc and SPF records set up correctly, as well as a PTR with your internet provider if you can manage it, though that seems optional.

Never had a problem with the big providers bouncing my mails, just a couple little outfits that couldn’t figure their filters out correctly.

Reminds me of the garbage collector bug on Plasma that would take memory usage to several GB that the devs told people they were full of shit when they reported it and took a year to fix?

Oh, wait, that was gnome. KDE devs give a fuck about their users.

Yah, I’m not even being sarcastic. I think it’s over-simplistic interface and disinterest in keeping extensions working over the years has been a major pissoff of people that stuck their nose in and then noped out. Maybe former Mac users could handle it since they’re used to being herded around, but expecting Windows users to come into that bullshit and feel at home was a big mistake.

Gnome being the default in most major distros for the last 30 years is why Linux hasn’t taken over the desktop market.

CMM.

oh, bullshit.

Better than fucking Discord. I won’t even engage with a project that uses Discord as it’s support channel. Fuck that.

I’m calling Child Services.

Except it doesn’t hurt your back as much to fix.

If you’re going to pay Apple prices, you might as well look at Framework.

Yah, the only one that isn’t creepy is the top left.

You might want to consider Premiumize for Usenet (and torrent cache) at that price. Catch it on the Black Friday sale. I think it does NZB as well.