@Tamtam
What exactly do you mean by "private"?
And, service needs to run *somewhere*. And "just buy servers and rent datacenter space" leads do "and who goes in to replace disks and RAM when they fail? And who pays those people?"
And, depending on your needs etc, I'm quite intrigued by Zulip, though it's a specific niche. And yes, they can host it for you. But then they have access to servers.
@davidgerard

@catsalad de-crypt? You mean exhume? ️

@yosh
As a healthy teenager I got flu. I had high fever, but nothing remotely requiring hospitalisation. End of story? Nope. It gave me type 1 diabetes. I'll spare you bitching about how much effort and care and *money* goes into managing that. What I will say is that you can catch COVID much more easily, much more often, and each time has a much higher chance of leaving you with something even more interesting than diabetes.
@mattjhodgkinson @unchartedworlds

@0xabad1dea
It took me a while on Linux to figure out that I could disable outputs in pulseaudio, and thus stop my USB microphone from insisting every time it was plugged in that it should be the audio *output* device used by the system.