Should we own the free stuff we pay for?

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Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers
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  1. free-email-forwarding

    Discontinued Repository archived and moved to monorepo

    (huge shout-out to niftylettuce's https://forwardemail.net/)

    That said, I'm planning to migrate to either self hosted or a paid service which is not run by algorithms and where customer supports exist (in that regards big tech is terrible: facebook, google, paypal = worthless customer support).

    I completely agree with your premise though:

  2. Nutrient

    Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers. Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.

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  3. docker-mailserver

    Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.

    There are some others, as well as each platform for automation has a separate account as well (e.g. GitLab, Zabbix, Nextcloud, ...), though most of those are on the same self-hosted mail server. Of course, deciding how to structure everything is one's own choice, in my case it's just historical cruft and loosely defined boundaries of how much i care about any particular item.

    That said, mail servers that are easy to set up are a godsend (for example: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver), as long as you also have one of the larger walled garden alternatives for public communications, should there ever be delivery problems.

    It's not like Google deciding to ban all of my accounts at once (though fingerprinting, or based on IP because i don't care to set up some sort of an advanced proxy to access all of them from different VPNs) wouldn't be problematic, but this way at least the impact would be minimized.

    Plus, with software like Thunderbird and something like KeePass for strong randomly generated passwords, managing everything is really low effort. Of course, this also lends itself nicely to avoiding social logins and creating a separate e-mail based account wherever applicable, for a bit more control, rather than keeping all of your eggs in the same basket.

    As for those who will inevitably say that this is too hard or complicated to be practical: i invite you to try setting up your own mail server with the help of the provided link on a 5$/month VPS, things have really improved in the last few years! Of course, creating new Google accounts (or for other platforms) might be a bit more cumbersome with modern verification steps etc., but it's not like it's impossible either.

  4. ens

    Discontinued Implementations for ENS core functionality: The registry, registrars, and public resolvers.

    > But what if I get reported on my domain name? What if that gets suspended or blacklisted too?

    Forget about all NFTs-as-scam-overpriced-jpegs, but this is exactly what web3/blockchain-based domains are for. Take a look at https://ens.domains or https://unstoppabledomains.com/

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