Sorry to hear, I hope your day improves or that tomorrow is a better one

On the plus side, if this is the worst part of your day, you had a pretty good day

I don’t see who would be better off in that scenario, except microsoft, and I feel they’re worse for their users and the world than ubuntu

I learnt lots at university, and that has been useful at work, but the degree itself doesn’t seem to matter much. But I’m in tech, and Europe, and university was publicly funded

American universities keep raising the prices and people keep paying. There’s no reason for it to cost that much, beyond profits

You don’t think some people who consider trying linux make a web search or ask a question somewhere only to get turned off by people immediately arguing about distros and calling them brain damaged?

Right now it’s ubuntu that’s the meme target, but there’s always something like this. If everyone stopped using ubuntu tomorrow, the people who somehow get their self esteem from having a better distro will find something else to fuel that. They will never be happy

I’m happy if people use linux. I’m even happy if they use WSL or homebrew rather than plain windows or os x as it’s a gateway drug, even though having windows in particular as a base system seems needlessly painful

This silly infighting serves to perpetuate people staying on windows or mac os

Distro wars are silly. If someone is happy using Ubuntu, I’m happy they’re a linux user.

Tailscale is very popular among people I know who have similar problems. Supposedly it’s pretty transparent and easy to use.

If you want to do it yourself, setting up dyndns and a wireguard node on your network (with the wireguard udp port forwarded to it) is probably the easiest path. The official wireguard vpn app is pretty good at least for android and mac, and for a linux client you can just set up the wireguard thing directly. There are pretty good tutorials for this iirc.

Some dns name pointing to your home IP might in theory be an indication to potential hackers that there’s something there, but just having an alive IP on the internet will already get you malicious scans. Wireguard doesn’t respond unless the incoming packet is properly signed so it doesn’t show up in a regular scan.

Geo-restriction might just give a false sense of security. Fail2ban is probably overkill for a single udp port. Better to invest in having automatic security upgrades on and making your internal network more zero trust

It’s pretty good at starting services. It just keeps adding bundled things people wouldn’t use otherwise, in a fairly microsoft fashion

You know how you start hallucinating in a sensory deprivation situation? I feel a lot of UX people just aren’t talking to users directly and thus we get whatever they hallucinate is a good design, disconnected from any actual user needs. Any user feedback only comes after they’ve made their mind up and is seen as the users being wrong, as the alternative is harder to deal with.

It’s free so I can’t really complain, but I can use KDE instead.

Yeah, I guess there are two ways to view these words…

In one you see the use of the word as a slur as a bad act, in the other you see the word as damaging in itself, like having to watch nsfl gore or something.

If you feel the word itself is damaging to see, censoring it makes sense. If you just care about people not using slurs, seeing the word itself is fine.

It’s pretty silly that using them in a discussion about slurs would upset enough people that it’s better not to.

If you actually use them as slurs, censoring doesn’t really make you a better person. Telling someone “you’re a fucking r-word” isn’t really all that much nicer than writing out the full thing…

People should find a better foundation for self-esteem than hating linux distros. They’re mostly ok, and without debian Linux wouldn’t be what it is today

Preferring a certain distro is fine but why care if others like something else?

Or run the raid 5 or 6 separately, with hardware raid or mdadm

Even for simple mirroring there’s an argument to be made for running it separately from btrfs using mdadm. You do lose the benefit of btrfs being able to automatically pick the valid copy on localised corruption, but the admin tools are easier to use and more proven in a case of full disk failure, and if you run an encrypted block device you need to encrypt half as much stuff.

The value is tecknically the effect of what is called a stock market, and it does vary quite a bit over time as perceptions and economic factors change

Your things didn’t increase in perceived value as much as Amazon then

amazon grows its revenue → amazon stock value increases → amazon share holder richer

Many companies also pay dividends directly to the share holder but iirc Amazon has preferred to reinvest in growth

Amazon has been really successful in several domains and he’s owned a lot of it from the start

Although if you did earn $5k per day and managed to invest at a yearly return of 3% above inflation, you’d have about $41 trillion

At 1% above interest you’d just have $3.6 billion so invest wisely

(edit, corrected the numbers)