You either have

• Easy to use
• Will eventually lose support
• May remain unpatched

or

• Require more maintenance
• You can run the OS of your choice
• It’s your responsibility to ensure it remains patched

I decided I wanted something long-term, and bought a NAS appliance I can boot my own OS onto it, so I went with the Ugreen DXP2800.

I’m running Ubuntu LTS, with Cockpit as the webUI to manage parts of it, and my web services are all running through podman containers (aka quadlets).

There’s a bit of a learning curve, which is the price I was willing to accept.

You may want to have a dead man’s switch so that the server shuts down without your intervention, or there’s the possibility that a forensic team could retrieve the encryption key in RAM through some physical attacks.

I host a couple of encrypted snapshots in the cloud (stuff that I can’t afford to lose), but it’s still vastly cheaper to host a massive amount of data locally.

The stuff I have locally is mostly stuff I can recover elsewhere (yarr), so redundancy without backup is good enough cost-wise.

Good thing the fediverse is decentralized :)

Up yours, fascists!

Look at me owning an Xbox even less.

Thank you :)

Age-gate

And for Linux handhelds there’s PortMaster to easily use some of them on the go.

Handling payments like this puts the responsibility of dealing with fraud at Valve’s level and significantly increase their workload, instead of being the payment processor’s responsibility.

I don’t blame Valve not wanting to deal with this.

Leaving a shopping cart in a parking space instead of bringing it back to the cart shelter.

IMO it should be tied to the age you’re allowed to enroll in the army. If you’re old enough to fight, you’re old enough to have your say in politics.

If 16 is too young, then raise the age to join the army to 18.

“If I had shown up with purple hair and a dress, claiming to be a woman, the government wouldn’t have said a word.”

Maaaaybe it’s just me, but I believe the issue here is not about the messenger and how they dress or which gender they relate to. It’s more about the content of the message.

It’s the same guys behind PrimeCables and I never had any issues with them, so I’d trust it by proxy.

No thank you.

More forest fire smoke down south then.

I have the following, which I didn’t make myself

DontF-withPaste

javascript:forceBrowserDefault=(e=>{e.stopImmediatePropagation();return true;});['copy','cut','paste'].forEach(e=>document.addEventListener(e,forceBrowserDefault,true));

Purpose: Restore the ability to paste stuff anywhere, some websites will do this in their password field

kill-sticky

(avascript:(function(){document.querySelectorAll("body *").forEach(function(node){if(["fixed","sticky"].includes(getComputedStyle(node).position)){node.parentNode.removeChild(node)}});document.querySelectorAll("html *").forEach(function(node){var s=getComputedStyle(node);if("hidden"===s["overflow"]){node.style["overflow"]="visible"}if("hidden"===s["overflow-x"]){node.style["overflow-x"]="visible"}if("hidden"===s["overflow-y"]){node.style["overflow-y"]="visible"}});var htmlNode=document.querySelector("html");htmlNode.style["overflow"]="visible";htmlNode.style["overflow-x"]="visible";htmlNode.style["overflow-y"]="visible"})();

Purpose: Un-stick anything that remain static when you scroll, ex: website header

They believe that by attacking perceived woes (immigration, social safety nets, women’s rights, and the education system) that all will magivally become better for the average citizen.

They’re addicted to the fallacy of the American Dream™ to the point that they don’t see the larger picture, and again the oligarchy strengten its grip on a divided population, consequences be damned.

Keeping that elbow up with the fantastic Canadian wines and beers we have.