“Trah a summersault!!”

(Crashes)

“… You’re becoming more like your father.”

But indeed, planes aren’t supposed to do barrel roll on the runaway.

I tried to barrel roll a commercial plane in a flight sim once…I concluded I don’t think they’re supposed to do it in the air either. 😂

Ooof. That’s heartbreaking, I’m so sorry. :(

Sincerely, thank you for specifying the State religion of evangelical “Supply Side Jesus” as its own evil cult, and not alienating the rest of us who stand with you. I always appreciate that nuance in this kind of discourse.

There’s a lot of Christians here, myself included, horrified by every second of this, watching people calling themselves “christians” give themselves over willingly to corruption and sheer evil and unfiltered hatred at an alarming rate.

Of course we’re silenced on many fronts: Most of the money for churches comes from powerful americultist organizations and donors, who are obviously in the angry orange baby Hitler’s pocket, and they’re seeding such hateful polarization that even leftists are turning on us and discounting us outright.

We’re not as loud, well-funded, or numerous as the cult of hatred and warmongering and greed. But we know that the Jesus of the Gospel who commanded us to “Love thy neighbor as thyself” is not the Jesus of the State, and to throw one’s lot in with these politicians is to deliberately side with the legions of Hell.

I am heartbroken and ashamed at how many people I once thought good and decent, who have fallen for this lie and follow such a disgraceful monster.

This is definitely our punishment for elevating sociopathy to celebrity, rather than chasing it out into the dark woods with pointy sticks.

if you get sent there for computer crimes you might get the worst sentence: Teaching those “tech skills.”

Hehe I think you might have been replying to a different thread. :)

It might be some way, however not easily. My mega-corpo ISP blocks incoming connections on common hosting ports, because they want to keep the network safe sell expensive home-business plans. Lol

I’m also very amateur at this as I go along, and I’m not sure I’m ready to deal with the fallout of missing some security step and getting my server botted or ransomwared lol.

I haven’t done the hardware stuff with setting up my own router/firewall box either, for instance.

So Tailscale works really well for me by seemingly magically bypassing a lot of that nonsense and giving me less to worry about. They allow 3 users for free, but have a relatively inexpensive family plan for like 6 users as well, if that becomes necessary.

I mainly just need to tell them not to try and use my server as an exit node if they’re across the country 😂.

But yeah definitely, I’m using this as a way to test the waters for running service alternatives as the web we knew collapses around us lol. I’m not ready to be running something people really rely on yet, though. :)

Thanks! This is very helpful! I really appreciate it! :D

I have a family member across the country that wants to break from Google and really isn’t the type to self-host themselves, and I connect to my self hosted NextCloud solely through TailScale.

NextCloud permissions seem easy enough, but I’m researching how to add them to my Tailnet safely to avoid potential compromise of my network if something happens to their system.

Presuming this involves ACLs, which look intimidating, but I’m doing some research on that.

I don’t have any backups.

Horror story, stranger. Oh no!

If this is stuff that you can’t afford to lose like family pictures, music library, or 90’s memes or something, I’ve had decent luck with iDrive for my offsite backups. 4TB relatively cheap, works with Linux (using some Perl scripts they made), and you can define your own encryption keys so not even they can see your stuff.

It reliably backs up my NAS.

They’ve usually got a crazy cheap deal to start with on their homepage or if you look around, for the first year. So maybe that could be helpful until you get some other storage. :)

(I think we pay $100 a year now for 4TB)

That’s definitely one of those things I found bizarre and awful yet…entirely unsurprising. I can see how selling that data probably sounds like such a lucrative edge to marketing companies.

how did we as society come to accept this?

By not establishing ethical lines high-voltage containment fences on the advertising industry quickly enough, and letting them convince us “this is just how business works”, when their entire existence is about finding the scummiest ways to hack free will for profit.

This may sound dumb or be helpful so I’ll toss it in just in case:

Depending on when they’re built, a lot of houses’ RJ-11 phone jacks are actually using CAT-5E. If you’re lucky, they’re individual runs and not daisy-chained!

The way they set up the runs here is weird though, they’re cat-5E but we have no fancy junction box. It all runs to some hatch on the side of the house presumably for telecom/satellite TV installers. So you might have secret ethernet cable behind your landline jacks, even if there’s no tidy junction box! :)

It was cool finding out there’s already capable infrastructure in the walls, but you gotta replace the wall jacks with RJ-45 using a tone tool to label which one goes where, and then the next trick is figuring out an affordable switch that can handle a garage that could get to 100ºF + in summer…

But anyway, worth checking before you start getting too deeply sunk into other solutions. :)

Yep, this. Thanks for saying it!

Some of us want to use technology to do all those nice lofty things like send cat memes and connect with our friends with only as much “administration” is necessary to protect it.

I think they’re kinda close nowadays but you’re right, it’s primarily a Linux application, snd I personally find it to be a much smoother experience. :)

It still runs plenty admirably on Windows though.

3D artist here! (And have been paid for it, so grain of salt that I’m not some legend from a AAAA studio but I’m not a poser either)

Blender is practically made for Linux. It’s fantastic. Using Blender Launcher has been a game changer too!

I’ve seen some threads about Affinity working. With strides with Proton and such, it might be getting there. :)

As the other user posted, DaVinci is also Linux friendly.

I’m not techy enough to do Linux either.

Well, you’re already on Lemmy, and if you’re using those programs you listed, you’re more than techy enough. A lot depends on the distro, but there’s plenty of friendly ones!

Currently I’m on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and love it. But Fedora, or maybe Pop!_OS or Mint might also appeal to you, depending on if you need/want the latest updates or a bit more solidly tested apps. (I like my new shiny features hehe)

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is technically a “rolling release” but they do very good package testing, so my experience with NVIDIA on it has gotten WAY better, after some hitches in the past, where I simply rolled back and waited for a better update while I used the current system. Every time that’s been Nvidia’s fault. The system is crazy stable.

If that scares you though, but you like chameleons, there’s OpenSUSE Leap, which hangs back a little for more stability. :)

…Installing Linux can be a little tough for beginners though! But there’s lots of good guides, and YouTube stuff and friendly community folks to help you there. Weekend project! Once you’ve done it once, you’ll have it. :)

My big lifehack for you is this (because I spent way too long geek-diving over this): Install with BTRFS as your file system, and install a program called Timeshift to handle “snapshots” you can roll back to if an update breaks or something. (Like Windows system restore) With BTRFS, snapshots can be made that only store differences, rather than exponentially taking up space with multiple literal copies of your whole system.

An awesome perk of OpenSUSE is that it does this automatically, and you have the option of using an earlier saved snapshot at boot time. :)

All these options have “app stores” but trust me, the command line isn’t as scary as it sounds to just search for software and update stuff! :)

Highly suggest playing with it on a VM or a spare hard drive and trying to do some tasks in it little by little. I like my Linux Blender experience MUCH better, personally.

The KDE desktop environment also feels super familiar and intuitive to Windows users, and has GUI options for tons of customization.

And goes without saying regardless of anything else: back up anything important to you. :p

Linux is really fun to play around with because it feels like it’s your machine, like getting to paint your bedroom walls and put holes in it and hang up shelves as opposed to renting a gray box you’re not allowed to mess with. I think you’d dig it. :)

I’ve finally given up on the few games that need kernel-level anticheats (like LoL and Battlefield)

That part was tough for me too. Same games! Well, it was tough but once they started this kernel-level stuff, I just cold-turkey dropped it. It’s so shady.

I give EasyAntiCheat a narrow-glared cautious pass because it shuts itself off when the game is no longer played, at least.

Riot’s garbage wanted to watch your machine at all times. Yeegh.

No shame in dual booting. I did that for a long time too. :) My Win10 has been getting crazy dusty though…

But the only thing I’m keeping it around for anymore instead of just VMing it is what’s left of WMR VR support that they dropped.

Thankfully Monado is doing really good work on that front. :D

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