You’re going to use a 10 core 64GB machine as a firewall? Do you mow your lawn with dynamite also? 🤣

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This brings a disturbing thought to mind… if an instance domain name like foo.bar lapses and someone else snaps the domain up (or of it gets stolen) can the new controller plop Lemmy on a server and be instantly federated? If so what kind of damage could they do?

It has the same signature.

I turned it off, it got in the way.

Wired will always be faster with equivalent tech. WiFi is a convenience that you pay for with a little more latency, usually small enough that you don’t care.