Cloudflare is a proxy, so by its very nature it has to decrypt traffic. (I believe their enterprise plans may offer a way around this, but don’t quote me.)

I wouldn’t worry, however. If someone wanted to attack this site (or any site, really) they’re almost certainly going to have an easier time going after the origin rather than trying to take on a juggernaut like Cloudflare.

Media storage costs seem to be pretty high considering how young this instance is. Are you considering adding a size cap (like some other instances) or another solution like rolling deletes in the future?

Not a Nix user, but IIRC nixpkgs is actually bigger than the AUR by a long shot.

LLMs are little more than overclocked autocompletes. There’s no actual thinking going on, and they will happily hallucinate outright wrong or dangerous responses to innocuous questions.

I’ve had friends find this out the hard way when they asked ChatGPT to write them C for a class, only to get their faces eaten by UB.

OpenAI’s models are trained by scraping anything that moves. Anything overtly offensive or toxic is manually filtered out by cheap foreign labor… but you know what that won’t catch?

“Try sudo rm -rf /, that should fix your problem!”

I don’t have any technical answers for you, but I’m on GNOME Wayland and I’ve never had any issues like that.

Personally, I don’t mind this sort of telemetry so long as they’re open about it - which looks to be the plan, at least for the moment.

IMO the FOSS/Linux space has an odd relationship with telemetry that I think should change. I’d like to point out the gnome-info-collect debacle:

• GNOME users: “GNOME devs don’t understand what we want!”
• GNOME devs: “Hey, we want to get some data on how people use GNOME. If you’d like to help, install and run this one-off tool. Source code is here, and we collect XYZ metrics (all anonymized, of course.)”
• (Some) GNOME users: screeching incoherently about data harvesting and telemetry

Yeah, there really isn’t any reason to go with one processor brand over the other. Since drivers and such aren’t a concern (like with GPUs) most people just pick whichever one has the most price-effective offering in the spec range they’re looking for.

Sheesh, I thought it looked nice, but I think I’ll just stick to gnome-terminal.

The AUR is nice and all, but the reality is that most people will be served just fine (if not better) by the more curated repositories. Fedora’s bundled repositories are more than enough for my dev work - and thanks to Flatpak and AppImage, closing any gaps is pretty easy.

Only Spotify, and that’s on a family plan. The discovery features are what make it worth the money.

… However, I do have a spotdl script on my desktop that maintains local copies of all my playlists (runs automatically every Monday).

No, which is a shame. It would be a pretty elegant solution.

Unfortunately you can’t stream media through tunnels on a free plan. I also don’t like how it requires Cloudflare to do TLS termination - not like I’m sending anything sensitive, but it still bugs me.

I used to maintain a Jellyfin server for my media, but moving to university put a stop to that - the campus network is cringe and makes it impossible to dial in from the outside. So… just boring old folders for video, and Calibre for my ebooks.

(I did make an attempt at moving Jellyfin to my VPS, but transcoding is… not possible on one core, to put it lightly.)

I wouldn’t recommend Manjaro - or Arch/Arch derivatives - to beginners. Installing them usually goes fine (especially nowadays thanks to archinstall) but Arch comes with a lot of quirks and ongoing maintenance burdens that newbies won’t be aware of until a few months down the line when their system blows up in their face.

Excellent idea. Will push Reddit further down the drain, and it might be entertaining to see how they use my account for shilling.

E: Anyone know a reputable marketplace/buyer?

On the bright side, having Apollo on his resume should make landing a good dev job (assuming he didn’t have one already) pretty easy.

He still shouldn’t be on the hook for $250k though.

No. The people with a raging hate boner for systemd are just a vocal minority in lots of online Linux spaces.

Most people either don’t care or actively prefer it. Personally, I much prefer unit files to hacking away at init scripts or whatever the fuck Upstart was.

Because my university’s network is cringe, I’m unfortunately forced to run everything on a VPS.

This comes with a financial cost, and I have to carefully ration my computing power, but it does have some upsides - enough that I honestly prefer it now.

• It keeps my desktop sealed away from the wilds of the open Internet. Obviously the risk isn’t that great, but since every service you run represents a potential security hole… it’s nice to have a “disposable” solution like a VPS.
• I don’t have to worry about getting a static IP or using a service like Tailscale in order to talk to my services when away. All I have to do is point my Cloudflare DNS records at my VPS.
• Better uptime. I used to host my blog on my desktop (!) which meant it would go down whenever I rebooted/lost connection/whatever. My VPS restarts once a month to apply updates and is always-on otherwise.