Ah, the Arch forum/stack experience. Along with

“Problem still exists like 2 years later.”

“DON’T NECRO. CLOSED.”

Thanks, that worked like a charm! I was looking everywhere for an answer! :D

Wow, I really appreciate you taking the time. I’m bookmarking this. Thanks, Dan!

As I look to upgrade or re-factor the server a bit, I’m gonna take a closer look at Podman. Not running as root by default sounds extremely sensible!

I tried that with a few of my Docker containers with results ranging from “Did it actually do it?” to “Nice job breaking it, hero.” Lol

OMV has a really nice Docker GUI built in, but I’d much rather be ready to understand the open-for-all solution if I could. :)

Hope you have a great one!

Meme gave me a laugh. XD

I see people not happy with Docker as a company, and, I get that, tech co. Lol

But I gotta admit, it’s definitely been awesome for self hosting. My home server would probably just be OpenMediaVault and a Samba share if I couldn’t just spin up compose files and had to worry about every app wanting its own database and stuff!

Are there better alternatives for newbs who just wanna self host stuff?

Awesome! Thunar is legit. 😁

That’s the part that makes everybody nervous though. Everything from the global dragnet surveillance network to the marketing company behind your grocery store app is most interested in “metadata.”

Companies like Microsoft will loudly say they don’t want your cat pictures and memes and college papers, they’re not tying your usage to an explicit file with your name and favorite pasta varieties…

…BUT that forced transmission of “anonymous user data”, could potentially be super effective in identifying and manipulating you. With enough of it, you can easily put together a profile of an individual.

Heck, for a while, TOR would advise against resizing your brower window because the window size in pixels could potentially help fingerprint you on the web. How nuts is that?!

Most people actually worried about a spook digging through "\videos\Homework\" are indeed paranoid.

But there’s been a lot of research at what can be done even if you’re just “userID 1284hdkfuw724bfiueb”

Hint for KDE folks: Ctrl + h toggles hidden visibility. Makes navigating lots easier. :D

SO MUCH. Now my standard procedure is to just make a “_My_Documents” folder within Documents, so I can know where the files are that I put there myself.

(Leading underscore pops it to the top of the list alphabetically)

I remember some Windows versions had a Games folder for all that, saved games, etc…but it seems very few games actually decided to use it lol.

Yeah search is pretty useless now. I’m so over it. Trying to fix problems always has the top 15 results be like:

“You might ask yourself, how is Error-13 on a Maytag Washer? Well first, let’s start with What Is a Maytag Washer. You would be right to assume washing clothes has been a task for thousands of years. The first washing machine was invented…” (Yes I wrote that by hand, how’d I do? Lol)

It’s the same as how I really stopped caring if crypto was gonna “revolutionize money” once it became a gold rush to horde GPUs and subsequently any other component you could store a hash on.

R&D and open source for the advancement of humanity is cool.

Building enormous farms and burning out powerful components that could’ve been used for art and science, to instead prove-that-you-own-a-receipt-for-an-ugly-monkey-jpeg hoping it explodes in value, is apalling.

I’m sure there was an ethical application way back there somewhere, but it just becomes a pump-and-dump scheme and ruins things for a lot of good people.

CEOs: Give that baby a job!

Make that baby a CEO!

Oh no. Boss baby.

Throwing AI at problems is sort of a “spray and pray” approach that often goes about as badly as you can expect.

I can see the headlines now: “New social media trend where people are asking traffic light Ai to solve the traveling salesman problem is causing massive traffic jams and record electricity costs for the city.”

It’s funny because this is what I was afraid of with “AI” threatening humanity.

Not that we’d get super-intelligences running Terminators, but that we’d be using black-box “I dunno how it does it, we just trained it and let it go.” Tech in civilization-critical applications because it sounded cool to people with more dollars than brain cells.

Totally! And I loved those neat little animated web badges that became really popular, especially on forums.

This is exactly why I always tell myself it’ll be super fun and easy to replace a Linux distro on one of my machines, and I do the fun part of balancing release style, desktop environment, all the shiny stuff…know what stops me dead in my tracks upon install?

Deciding a file system. Because it feels like such a weighty decision with far-reaching effects.

According to internet research, they’re all the right one, they’re all the wrong one, they’re all just fine, and don’t use any of them because they’ll wipe all your data. Lol

Your documentation on file system choice is either anecdotal or engineering-masters-thesis, seemingly no in-between.

I’ve just decided BTRFS with snapshots is great, and keep good enough backups that I shouldn’t have to fiddle with the fanciest deep-knowledge features to save my system.

Might be my ADHD as well. XD

I forgot how this worked until I discovered NeoCities. I suddenly remenbered when so many personal websites would have some page that’s like “links” or “sites I love” or “other cool people”, etc. And it was just a curated list of sites the author thought were neat.

And your bookmark function was actually really helpful, because “web surfing” was literally jumping from link to link to link, following rabbitholes and breadcrumb trails across the web.

Nowadays, I bookmark things but I never go back through them. I know Firefox sometimes automatically helps you remember stuff in your bookmarks though.

But there was a time when it felt like finding some niche site was a sort of secret club or cool treasure, and you had to make sure you could find your way back. :)

Sheesh, FOSS licenses really are the only force in the universe that can stop this nonsense.

I remember shelling out for Substance indie licenses thinking it would be a good investment. Shortly after they’re:

• part of the “adobe family” (yaaay! /s)
• Not gonna make it subscription only, c’mon guys. It’s ok.
• No seriously, we hear you, you’ll have options! Definitely!
• Newsletter: Ok we’re subscription only, “Get your keys for the super out of date version because we’re just deleting it from human history now.”
• SaaS cloud only and you’re gonna like it, peasant.

Never trusting private software like that ever again.

Dunno, I’ve never touched an Adobe subscription because I’ve heard they’re like getting out of gym memberships to quit. 😬

Lol I was legit surprised to find it’s an actually written (satirical) article! The other ones had me rolling too, like John Cena coding “Banjo Threeie” LOL.

is the 100% science lady involved in this?

Not gonna lie I also have the burning curiosity to find this out, but it’s after midnight and could initiate a hyperfocus rabbithole time warp…

… But I think that’d be pretty wholesome as heck if that turned out to be true!

FACTS.

Some days it’s harder to remind yourself of this than others. Thank you.