Ricaz

I would just have Postgres running statically on some solid hardware. It's easy to configure permissions and connections, too.

Not too hard to set up streaming replication for a hot standby if you wanna be sure (or offload some reads).

I use Postgres btw

Virtually all database solutions support limiting users to specific databases/schemas/tables/whatever you need.

Persistence to NFS is also generally bad advice for most databases for performance reasons.

Actually I just made up my own written language that happens to consist of 64 case-sensitive characters in one string. This is how I communicate

Passwords and 2FA won't stop you from being tracked when web browsing or using apps on your phone

Those are security guards, not privacy guards..

This is a problem for any web application. There are many solutions, none are perfect.

On some sites (like 4chan) you're required to solve a captcha every single time you post, unless you pay a yearly fee not to.

To avoid it, you would need people actively monitoring, banning, and setting up bot detection patterns.

Then again, there are cheap services online where real people are hired to create human accounts and spam you anyway, so..

I didn't use the wiki until 50+ hours in. You need to make your own goals. I started by making a thief and just stealing my way to the top.

You can fairly easily make money and skill up by just running around carrying and selling shit. Specialize your first characters, make the next companions workers.

It's very much a sandbox where you make your own story.

I'm forced to use Windows at work and would quit if WSL2 wasn't available. Windows is just for the Outlook/Teams ecosystem and occasional IDE, but I mostly work out of my WSL terminal.