Well, I mean, there is a lack of privacy. That’s kind of how the platform exists architecturally. I just don’t find that to be a problem, per se. It’s a social platform, which makes sense to me for everything on the protocol to be “open” to one degree or another. Not everything has to be securitymaxxed.

You are on the right path. Most stuff people self host requires very little horsepower. Most of your CPU will be idle in the end. Things might get expensive if you want to add a lot of storage, but the good news is that can be added later as you need it. I think you’ll be surprised just how much a modern-ish laptop can host.

• 4 Dell T 7810s
• 4 hard drive cages (14 drives)
• Amcrest NVR
• TV Antenna
• 2 Ubiquiti WiFi APs
• Buttload of switches around the house
• Protectli Vault mini-pc running pfsense for my router
• ProxMox cluster with about 30 virtual machines running everything

I love the Dells I use. They’re wonderful little workhorses, and I got a pretty good deal as they used to mine chia cryptocurrency.

I know it wasn’t your point, but I’d like to add that when some rightoid inevitably tries to give the impression they care about “a black woman being held back” and how racist the Democrats are it’s imperative we ignore them. They’re only trying to use our empathy against us with superficial grievances.

I can believe it for their best developers.

What would worry me is this being true for their middle and low tier developers.

I suspect there will be a new rotating villain to vote for it.

Anyone got the VOD of this dating show stream? I’d be interested in seeing it.

Yes.

About X being a toxic platform. My point was about UK censorship and isolation.

Wild assumption, my dude.

Yeah that’s No Good™. We should let the UK do what it wants.

Who cares, let the UK isolate more. Maybe blocking X is a good thing, I’m not wading into that conversation. But broadly the UK is clamping down on their Internet, so maybe they should just go full Great Chinese Firewall and get it over with. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Yeah, it’ll have to be done eventually. I’m ok with this. I don’t trust his intentions, but the result of getting rid of it will be good for us in the long run, I think.

Gonna take this opportunity to be a corporate shill and praise my Kia EV6. They really nailed the layout of the dash. It’s a good blend of digital and physical. Hope more manufacturers learn from them.

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Sometimes calling someone a big dumb bitch is the only appropriate course of action.

Everyone assumes he means himself, but I think this is more of a veiled threat to her safety.

Just looked at the PCB board and man that guy is such a insufferable, gatekeeping twat.

Entropy reduction. I do a lot of development work and need Visual Studio to work. It’s a complex beast already, and I don’t need to deal with the headache of fighting some activation hack or running the risk that some DLL or feature is gimped and causes weird behavior in an inactivated state.

I finally made the switch to Mint recently. My day to day experience is so much better. I set up a fresh Windows VM so I could keep using a few programs that don’t play well with wine, and even having to purchase a new activation key for it was totally worth it to have it segregated out from my day to day. And I’d guess that not all that many people really need the specialty stuff I do.

Do a little research on what you use daily and/or can’t live without, but I can confirm that it isn’t as complicated as you might think.