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As a guy once told me: “I may be a drug dealer, but I’m not a fuckin liar.”

How I learned the most was building a home server and figuring out all the problems along the way. LAN, WAN, VPN, iptables, DNS…

Avoiding studying for exams in 2007.

Use Ventoy to put a few different distros on a USB drive. Boot them up and try them out! You just want something you vibe with. Most of the suggestions here will be fine.

I do your second suggestion. I have a cheap ($5/mo) vps from digital ocean that proxies all the traffic to/from my home server via wireguard. There’s a few tutorials out there that explain how to configure iptables to forward traffic from one network interface to another on the vps.

And also cited OAS lmao!

After yoloing it for years, I finally deployed an offaite backup this month. I also host on Nextcloud (at my house). While I do have a local disk backing up my Nextcloud install, I didn’t have any backups of the external media hosting my photos.

Finally, I ordered a 10TB external drive and plugged it into a raspberry pi I had sitting around. Using wireguard and restic, I now have an offsite backup at a friend’s house!

I set mine up with Debian and Swizzin community edition.

I’ve got a little NUC-type computer (Beelink or something) that runs Linux Mint. I like the desktop interface for switching between browser, YouTube apps and Jellyfin. We use a full size wireless keyboard with a trackpad.

I’m so happy to be reminded that this dude is dead. He definitely deserved what he got, and the world is better off for it.

It would be cool if we had an app or server option to auto replace that character. As it is, I just ended up blocking the user.

It meets their needs and preferences, simple as that. I tried Arch in like 2008, and thought people were crazy for all the trouble it took back then. Nowadays there’s a lot of nice distros built on it, so you can get the benefits (such as they may be) without all the low-level tinkering.

OpenSSL?

Check out Yunohost. In my experience it is way easier to setup and manage than docker. I’ve been using it for years and it continues to improve and add more supported software.

Drop it on a cop from a high window.

I’m already having trouble accessing it. Shame too, because I was really liking it.

smesh

Womp womp.

Videos testing these glasses show that face-id doesn’t work when wearing them. This demonstrates that (at least for Apple), covering your eye area is enough to defeat IR-based facial recognition.