This is actually an insane take
Furries at large don’t care about the e2ee or security features
They care that:
their friends are the platform
custom stickers of their fursonas are easy to make and import
That’s basically it. Telegram has become entirely ubiquitous in the fandom. No one group/ideology claims it as their own.
Sincerely,
a progressive leftist furry who uses TG
The furry community is in absolute shambles
“learned some things like Linux, command line, docker, and networking/pfsense” “I don’t consider myself technical”
Don’t sell yourself short, I work in IT and have colleagues on our helpdesk who would struggle endlessly with those concepts.
I hereby dub you a tech person, like it or not, those skills can and do pay the bills.
Hypnotic pattern is good if you know what you’re casting it against isn’t immune or resistant to Charm.
If it isn’t resisted, it can be a combat-ending spell.
Hypnotic Pattern, Haste, and Revivify are all great choices too
But
Fireball, Fireball, and (Fireball for Light clerics) Spirit Guardians is understandable
Syncthing is fantastic. Loving it so far.
Free hardware is the best hardware!
I’m able to get a lot of gear secondhand through my job, so I’ve got:
One 2u Intel server running proxmox in a ‘cluster’ (circa 2013ish. Added RAM and upgraded the CPU/storage.)
One Intel nuc with an i7-7th gen as the other host in the cluster - only one VM is set to fail over between the two if needed.
VMs:
Network:
All acquired over the last couple years for the low low price of “it was going into the trash anyway”
That would imply that Lluis Abadias would play anything not reptilian
And if you know of them, that simply won’t do