Oh wow, I’d forgotten all about geek code.

Are you being human trafficked?

Short stories is the answer. They do seem to mainly the province of horror and sci-fi but even if that’s not a favoured genre(s) it’s a way back in. Try Night Shift or Skeleton Crew by Stephen King (give The Mist a miss though, it’s not really a ‘short’ short story). Take it a page at a time, stop reading the minute you start to lose interest, try again 15mins later. Remember it’s fun activity not a competitive sport, take all the time you need, the books you want to read are going nowhere :)

You really need to re-read that book, but without the preconceived rightwing slant.

Are you trying to compare OP with Galileo?

If I’m referring people to a book I always use a link to its OpenLibrary entry. If I’m discussing a book, I do it on the Bookwyrm instance I’m on.

In short - use both :)

Thank you, I’ll look into that.

That’s a good point. My thinking was to try and avoid high VPS costs. Anything more than €10 is out of my price range really and this seemed a way of running via a high spec machine without a high price.

Except I don’t browse via my server, I browse behind a VPN client on my PC/phone etc. The server on the other hand is not behind a VPN client as most providers don’t offer a fixed IP or allow port forwarding. Therefore if anyone knows my domain name, they can get my ISP provided IP which resolves my location far too accurately for my liking.

A VPN service isn’t for illegal stuff. It can be used that way but for me its usefulness is in providing a layer of privacy between me, my ISP and online services I use.