Never used cake wallet, but the official monero binaries do not offer a public node. Other software I’ve used to interact with monero also expects you to run your own node.
At most, monero-wallet-gui has settings to auto-start the node daemon for you, so it’s not that hard to get started. If you’ve never used any cryptocurrency before, it can seem overwhelming, but it’s really not too hard.
The big thing to learn about monero is that to transact, you need to run a node. Technically you could find a public node that accepts external transactions, but those don’t really get advertised and if your goal is anonymity then you don’t want to depend on someone else’s machine.
So before you set up a wallet or anything, start downloading the monero blockchain. You can either find someone (you trust them?) to export their blockchain for you to download, or you sync the entire blockchain yourself. This can take many days depending on your computer specs and the settings you enable during sync. If you’re not planning to mine monero, you can save storage space (and time) by enabling settings that prune blocks.
Then you point your wallet software at the locally running node to transact. If your node isn’t running or isn’t synced, you’ll have to wait until it’s caught up before you can do anything.
Settings -> Indexers -> Pick one -> Fail Downloads -> Select “Executables” and “Potentially dangerous”
You still have to remove the malware from your torrent client, but at least sonarr will give up importing it and try a different torrent.
Defederation is weird and I don’t fully understand it. For example, the community will still exist on a server after defederation, and people can still post to it (albeit now there’s no moderation, and that’s a separate problem). Maybe feddit is pulling in posts from users outside of dbzer0, linking it to the orphaned comm, and populating the posts that way.
Feddit and dbzer0 have (mutually?) defederated, so you’ll only see posts there from your own instance users.
I’m not going to say that all things created by people aren’t slop, but it’s also true that our context for understanding art can change over time. What we’re getting now, with certain art styles being associated with slop is a kind of Seinfeld effect.
To give a specific example: When the movie Annihilation came out, it quickly became a favorite of mine. I loved its visual style, and the narrative theme about broken people. A few months ago I re-watched it and realized that its visuals have been so coopted by endless slop recreations that I couldn’t disassociate it from AI output. Even though the themes were still there and no less resonant than when I first watched it, my brain couldn’t enjoy the film because I kept thinking about slop. The movie hadn’t changed and all the artistic intentionality behind its creation was still there, but my ability to enjoy it was destroyed.
What I get out of self hosting services: Full control of my data and something to tinker with when the fancy strikes.
Graphs? Monitors? Failover? I get enough of that shit at work. If it’s down then whatever: I’ll fix it when the inconvenience is too great to ignore. External users? I only invite people who understand that this is my hobby, not my job.
Calibre is an ebook library manager with a reader built-in. Koreader is purely reader software, and it works particularly well on touch and eink screens.
A monero wallet can generate as many transaction addresses as you want. It is not possible for an outside party to know if two addresses are owned by the same wallet. Even if you did reuse the same receive address, an exchange will only know about the transactions going into that address from their end and cannot discover what happens after that.