This looks dope! Thanks for sharing.

Edit: I’ve used it and it is freaking good. Really good. Awesome work OP. I’ve tried to find a place to throw a few bucks your way but couldn’t, is there somewhere we can do that?

You can configure it to run as often as you want (well, I’m not sure about cloudflare, but with other services you can, like DuckDNS)

Yeah, a third place doesn’t have to cost money, but it also isn’t a requirement that it’s free.

Apple, with their M silicon, has been tempting recently, but I really can’t bring myself to pull the trigger when I could have a top of the line Framework for the same price as a middle range MacBook pro. Sure, the MacBook is probably more powerful, but the framework would actually be mine.

That said, in the current ram/ssd economies I’m not buying a laptop at all if I can help it. Unfortunately, I want one so I can edit on the go, and uploading TBs of video footage to my home PC and then editing remotely isn’t going to work, so I’ll probably have to cough up some dough eventually.

We’re sort of required to have a home to sleep and such, and a workplace to make money, so third place is the term that makes sense. Somewhere you aren’t required to be, but you enjoy being.

I don’t understand that explanation. Your workplace doesn’t cost money to exist in, it’s quite the opposite. Often a third place is a pub or something, in which you’re expected to buy a drink or something.

I also love when I buy something off of Etsy believe it to be hand made, and it ends up being a dropshipped piece of garbage.

And because you type like that.

I will say it’s weird to actively not like Linux. It’s OK to think it isn’t for your daily driver PC, but disliking it is weird. It’s undeniably useful as a server OS, and you yourself probably interact with it frequently, even if you don’t know it.

How the fuck does that business model work? 10TB is cheaper than Backblaze B2 in 20 months.

turns on VPN

Oh no, anyways.

If they’re ever ignorant enough to ban VPNs we’ll be fucked.

As usual, the solution is education. Parental education needs to be prioritized imo. That said, I have no idea how we would implement such a thing. Most likely better general education would help at least.

That’s an incredibly good point. Bad actors are the worst. Some ideas:

• Maybe you’d need to contribute your storage capacity +10% (or more), to account for your and other’s downtime during disasters.
• A time limit after disasters would be necessary. It’s difficult to think of a proper time limit though, as even a month might not be enough time if your entire house burns down.
• Maybe a payment system could be set up to where, if your server doesn’t ping for a week, your credit card is automatically charged (after pinging you with many emails). Sure, that’d suck, but it’d be better than loosing your data, and cheaper overall than paying for cloud backups. I’m not sure where that money would go. Maybe distributed to those who didn’t experience a disaster, or maybe to the software project, though that would mean people are profiting from a disaster. Maybe it could go to a charity of your choice or something.

Definitely a difficult problem to solve. I’m sure people smarter than me have ideas beyond mine.

That NAS software company Linus (of Linus Tech Tips) funded has a feature for this planned I think.

An open-source standalone implementation would be dope as hell. Sure, it’d mean you’d need to double your NAS capacity (as you’d have to provide enough storage as you use), but that’s way easier than building a second NAS and storing/maintaining it somewhere else or constantly paying for and managing a cloud backup.

Yeah, people have done workarounds and stuff to get their entire NAS backed up but those seemed sketchy and bad when I looked into it.

fdroid Sideloading

Almost everything in fdroid can simply be sideloaded. Due to the inability to backup your app list from fdroid, I’ve completely switched to obtainium.

I’ve also tried Gnome very briefly before going back to KDE. I never went deep enough to try extensions, as I’d also agree that most of that stuff should be built in to the DE, and I was annoyed by it missing these features that KDE just had out of the box. Hearing that extensions exist kinda reminds me of what I’ve heard about MacOS, where features that have existed on Windows for over a decade and Linux for years still require third party applications.

People into Jellyfin use smart TVs? I haven’t connected mine to the internet.

What have you tried to find an instance? Looks like PeerTube.wtf has open registration, and I found that with a quick search.

I used NGINX with Certbot and haven’t had to manually touch anything HTTPS, it’s great.

I’ll add that you can’t just “try” gimp really, you’ll have to learn some new workflows for sure, but yeah, should’ve been top of the list, it’s THE alternative.