I don't get IRC - it seems to be antiquated unencrypted live group chats, with no usable clients. Group chats are useless for finding information and for communicating in between 10 ongoing conversations.

Web forums make sense and are searchable.

IRC gives quick reply to whatever your queries are. In my extremely limited time on IRC, I have found very helpful and very prompt people.

I wish there were some of the Metal Gear or Monster Hunter maps.

I've been experimenting with Syncthing on Kindle (https://github.com/Darthagnon/syncthing-kindle), but have had no luck seemingly because the Linux kernel included is too old and doesn't support network connections, or because the CPU is too weak.

Is there a project other than the one I forked?

I switched over to an Onyx Boox reader, so I don't have a Kindle anymore. But I definitely used the same project as you. I used a Kindle Paperwhite 11th gen. The linked project says it works with Kindle Touch, which is VERY old, so I don't think you're having network issues.

It's been a while, but I think I enabled SSH on my Kindle and set it up that way. I started Syncthing via KUAL, then used an SSH reverse proxy to configure Syncthing on my laptop.

It -was- kind of a pain, but once it was good, it was good!

Frontmatter CMS is a VSCodium plugin that works as a somewhat user-friendly CMS for the likes of Hugo. https://frontmatter.codes/

I set it up for my brother to run his static blog, and it's quite good if you like that kind of thing. There are some quirks where it gets confused if you rename mycoolarticle.md, so I still prefer using notepad++ and git and CLI for mine.

> Can install any version of Python

Does "any" version include custom homebrew builds of Python, e.g. backports of Python 3.12 to Windows Vista/7?

No, uv installs pythons available from https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone by default, which are quite good and have a wide variety of versions available, even on unusual platforms. If those don’t suit your needs, uv can be configured to use (and in some cases install or download, though that gets hairy) other versions you have installed yourself: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/python-versions/#managed-...

Signal is not an alternative to Telegram. It is an alternative to other mobile-phone-only instant messaging platforms like Whatsapp or Briar. All of these lack desktop clients, while claiming security and maintaining exclusivity to the backdoored platforms of Android and iOS.

Telegram has functional standalone desktop clients.

> Telegram has functional standalone desktop clients.

So does Signal? You need a phone number to initially register an account on either service last I checked. The Signal desktop app used to be awful, but now it's fine. I use both and have for many years; it used to be the case that Telegram had a much nicer user experience, but nowadays I feel like it's near parity between the two.

Regarding peer to peer VPNs:

I want to access homeservers and LAN videogames.

I was testing zrok [1] until they went paid, then I went to ongoing experiments with Lanemu [2] (a bittorrent-based P2P VPN) and Anywhere Lan (AWL) [3].

So far, the best is AWL - it actually works, peer discovery is fast, and it gives you mDNS-style domains for connected machines; using it is very similar to Syncthing. I wish the peer discovery in Lanemu worked better, as it works all the way back to WinXP. I made a custom build of AWL that works on Win7 (https://github.com/anywherelan/awl/issues/174)

[1]: https://zrok.io/ [2]: https://gitlab.com/Monsterovich/lanemu [3]: https://github.com/anywherelan/awl