I like “heat pump”. It’s a very nice ELI5 name. It’s a pump for heat. A water pump takes water and forces it to where it wouldn’t go naturally. A heat pump does the same.

I’m obviously a fan of LE but a simple self-hosted option with a custom CA would be great for local machines:

• I don’t want every Raspberry Pi/laptop/temp VM/whatever published into the cert transparency record
• Configuring the router to forward every local hostname to the machine’s .well-known would be awful (if my ISP even allowed port 80)
• Exposing local machines to the Internet is an unnecessary degradation of security

But you’re not researching, hiring, and scheduling a contractor to fix it. You don’t need to become an expert in long term planning and anticipate problems. You’re not mentally cataloging basic maintenance tasks like when you last painted the siding or mowed the lawn.

Home ownership vs renting goes beyond equity and I know a lot of people who were happy renting because it gave them a huge chunk of free time back for trips, hobbies, etc.

It’s a modern take on the Pidgin concept. Pidgin ran locally on one computer and didn’t sync anything between any of your other Pidgin installs. Also, your login details for every account were usually in plaintext on disk. In practice, it feels

Beeper (really Matrix + bridges) is a network service that you can access with a browser, mobile app, whatever.

Same. I forget how long I’ve had it (primary domain even) and I just got the email today.