It's not E2E encrypted unless you're using PGP or emailing another Proton user, which is basically nobody for most people. They do encrypt your email when it arrives in a way that is supposed to make them inaccessible to them (which is more than what most email providers do), so you'd need to trust that they're not intercepting your emails and storing them somewhere unencrypted. Stuff like SimpleX/Cwtch/Signal is E2E encrypted though by default so their security is a lot better

I was on a trip for a few weeks to visit family, and just a few days after I got there my server went down and I lost access to all my stuff (I'm about to fix it when I return tomorrow). Stuff like that is why I will never self-host something as critical as email

If you self host it, do it on a VPS so if you're out of town and it goes down, you don't lose a month's worth of emails

On Telegram, MyInsta is "instasmash", Instaflow is "instaflowupdates"

uh no they're not? Anarchists are about as anti-government as it gets

Edit: unless you mean liberals can't tell the difference between different leftists

Sometimes the data is cached and it still works but sometimes it tries to refresh or something and then it breaks. It's kind of unreliable, although maybe the new betas do a better job at it.

Do you live in a city with sane transit? (Also I put more effort into avoiding cars than basically everyone I know where I live, nobody else I know uses a bike.)

I use lemmyverse.net for finding communities

Same here on Kagi and DDG except it wasn't at the top

I unironically talk to AIs a lot because it's easier than talking to actual people

I'm confused by the last paragraph in terms of why a pro-Palestine organization would want to work with a party that is actively genociding them. Democrats working with those groups would have been a great strategy, meaning they wouldn't have funded the genocide in the first place. Right now a lot of Muslims who would otherwise be somewhat apolitical are voting green because of this, and SJP is outwardly condemning Democratic candidates like Biden and Kamala. If it was only the Republicans that were causing the genocide those people would probably be promoting Democrats.

I have not maintained any packages before but I am very interested in learning how, I shall look into this.

The easiest way to learn this is to download the Guix source code and look in the gnu/packages directory to see how other programs are packaged and look at the official packaging guides/build system options/guix import options/guix refresh (updates package definitions)/contributor guides (if you want to set up the local Guix repo copy more correctly) in the documentation - gnu/packages also has certain files for running guix import in if a program you're contributing needs dependencies that can be guix-imported. Simple things are easy to package, so are binaries if you're just doing it for yourself and need something quickly (I think nonguix has a binary build system specifically for that as well), it's programs that have a ton of libraries (especially with Python and Node.js) that are the problem since there's no internet during the build process so running the project package manager won't work.

I vaguely remember this was the originally used in Hurd? if so that is cool.

Yes, Guix System works with Hurd as well although I don't see any reason to use it since it's in an incomplete state and there are more interesting OS projects being developed like RedoxOS or Genode.

I have been wanting to set up upasfs this may be the push I need to finally get around to doing that.

Guix Home (and Guix System) has a services section in the documentation that has configuration options for certain things including email so I would suggest looking at that. (The Guix Home services also work on foreign distros.)

I will try installing it as a package manager

That's the best approach to learning Guix IMO, especially using Guix Home. Once you have it fully set up on your current distro with Guix Home, you can copy your configuration to a Guix System install later on and replicate your current user setup really quickly. You can also return to your distro package manager quickly if you decide you don't like it.

One other thing I forgot to mention is that Guix works weirdly with non-POSIX shells like fish and nushell so you might need to modify the configuration to automatically add the necessary environment variables or it will end up being stuck on an outdated Guix version randomly which will cause weird issues when you install/search packages or run guix pull.