What I wouldn’t mind is a chest-style fridge.

They’re shockingly efficient (no, really: the cold air won’t fall out, so they use dramatically less power) but, for whatever reason, there’s no such thing, just freezers.

Hey now, the legal services tell you they’re stealing your data. It’s in section 9, subsection 14, paragraph 423 of the terms of service.

I’m not seeing WriteFreely in that list so maybe won’t help you, but it’s a lot more activitypub-native than WP or Ghost is, so might be what you’re after even if the install won’t be one-click in whatever you’re using.

To add more detail to the other reply, it’s only entrapment if they coerce you into doing something you wouldn’t have otherwise done.

A cop comes up to you and goes ‘bro, lets go steal that car!’ would probably be entrapment.

Cops putting a car on a street waiting for someone to steal it wouldn’t be.

FedEx is terrible in my area

FedEx is terrible in everyone’s area.

The big thing is unlike UPS, they use a lot of contractors for delivery, and well, you get what you pay for.

Unity although it was mostly still Gnome with extra Compiz plugins

Don’t forget the added value of the Amazon ads!

No, not value for you, value for Canonical.

That’s a website tool checking? It’s almost certainly only going to check TCP, since most of them don’t do anything with UDP because it’s… more complicated.

You may need to find an alternate way to do that, something like iperf or netcat (nc -u ip port)

So that’s where all my BoTW failures ended up.

Ah, so the AI version of the chewbacca defense.

I have to wonder if intentionally shitting on LLMs with plausible nonsense is effective.

Like, you watch for certain user agents and change what data you actually send the bot vs what a real human might see.

So you want to block port 22? Yet the rule you added allows access, or am I misunderstanding?

You probably need to be DENY instead of ALLOW if that’s what you’re wanting to accomplish.

I guarantee you that if Meta or Twitter/X was investigated similarly we’d find out very very similar things about their products

Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, those “news” pages that show up when you open a new browser tab in Edge, Xitter, Snapchat, and anyone else using an algorithm designed to drive engagement so they can shovel ads at you is 100% the same or worse than TikTok.

The problem is, as you said, is that TikTok is “evil Chinese company stealing our kids’ data” and all of the rest are “brave American captains of industry” and boy, we can’t possibly do anything that could possibly have our captains of industry making even one less cent than they do now. Why, that’d be communism!

So uh, here we are.

The FBI loooooves themselves some honeypots.

Why go catch criminals when you can set up some links/a token/whatever and they’ll come running to you and do the incriminating part themselves AND leave the logs of said activity in your possession?

Much simpler!

Pretty much nobody can help you with the information you provided there.

Minimum required is going to be a ‘ufw status’ output. The whole output, not an edited partial output.

If it makes you feel better, if society collapses to the point that there are no more clothes, ammo, or canned food, you’ll have long since been dead.

Despite what people think, we humans are fragile and pampered and a modern person is going to just end up dead if society collapses to that extent.

I knew a serious prepper dude (by which I mean he hoarded heirloom seeds and composting toilets and not silver and MREs) who, while preparing to survive, pretty much figured if it totally falls apart he and his family would end up dead, and that evening scores was probably a more useful use of his time than fighting for every last minute.

I used to think he was insane (and hell, he probably is) but the older I get the more I can understand his view on getting even, and then anything left is a bonus.

Tech bros: “But what if AI could have a little murder rampage, as a treat?”

For a server? I want it out of date, so long as “out of date” means “older versions with backported security patches”.

I’m boring and don’t care about the new whizzy crap, because if it’s working now and it’s secure, I’m not touching it. There is no feature you can offer me that will make me want to update a stable working server, so don’t screw with what version of software I’m running.

For desktop use? Give me KDE Plasma 6.2 right now, not three years from now. I need that new shit in my veins, so hurry the hell up.

So I mostly use Debian stable on anything server-y, and Fedora on anything desktop-y.

And, I posted this just a few days ago, but I don’t like, at all, going outside of distro repos on Debian for packages.

You end up with dependency chain issues in dpkg/apt, because dpkg is super hyper prone to them anyways, and have installs you can’t easily just update or upgrade because it can’t figure out what in the hell you’ve done to it.

So I just uh, don’t use 3rd party repos for updated versions of things unless it’s utterly critical to do so and/or accept that at some point I’m doing a clean install for a migration because shit will be so broken you can’t pull it to the current stable version because of the 3rd party software.

Further proof that humanity neither deserves nor is capable of having nice things.

Who would set up an AI bot to shit all over the one remaining useful thing on the Internet, and why?

I’m sure the answer is either ‘for the lulz’ or ‘late-stage capitalism’, but still: historically humans aren’t usually burning down libraries on purpose.

I think you’re both over- and under-thinking this.

First: if you go with a cloud provider, your provider is your hypervisor. If they don’t directly and clearly offer the features (import, export, Windows, etc.) that you need, they’re not the right choice.

On the subject of exporting images from the cloud to use locally, eh, that’s not the most common feature. It does exist, but I’ve never seen a provider that does it in a way that’s not a complete pain in the ass and/or is simple to use one you have the image, which sounds like something you might actually want. Someone giving you a qcow image of your disk does not necessarily make importing it and getting it back up on a local KVM system easy, for example.

It sounds like half of what you need is a decent laptop (Windows in the cloud kinda sucks for any application that’s got any sort of GPU-accelerated component, still.) and the other half is just a Linux server somewhere running docker, be it VM, real hardware, or some box sitting in your closet at home.

(Edit: clarification: you can get a Windows VM that has a proper GPU passed thru to it, but they’re expensive and if you don’t get a GPU, then you just have basically software rendering, which limits what kind of software you can reasonably use with reasonable performance.)

Nothing you mentioned about your “future home server environment” can’t be run on a VM, but I would comment that you’re looking at a pretty expensive route if you go the VM path. Nextcloud, for example, will want ~3-4gb of ram to not utterly suck and be useless. A full *arr stack with something like qbittorrent can happily eat another 4-5gb. Add in Plex/Jellyfin? That’s another 2-4gb there, too. And so on.

You might actually end up spending less on a dedicated box than you would on a VM, simply because the pricing for things like RAM are usually substantially better for real, actual, physical hardware once you get past like, 4 or 8gb.

I’d also recommend going with a containerized install for all this stuff: I bounce stuff around between servers and it’s just a matter of lifting the data out of the bind mount and moving it to it’s new home, and then a docker compose up and we’re done.

TLDR: Cloud maybe fine, bare metal maybe fine: it comes down to budget and comfort with what you’re willing to deal with.

Cletus from receiving

You don’t need Cletus from receiving to do it. You just need to uh, suggest, to a certain portion of their clientele that a Redbox MIGHT have copper in it and boy it’d be a shame if it were to vanish, and I’m sure nature will take care of the rest.

Can you imagine Battle.net beating Steam, then the primary online digital distribution platform ending up being owned by Activision?

I get the icks just thinking about it.