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Here’s a good catch-all guide, written by Louis Rossman (divisive but respected Right-to-Repair activist):

wiki.futo.org/…/Introduction_to_a_Self_Managed_Li…

Because it makes the process harder for app developers who don’t fall in line with Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto, while big corpos can ship the worst possible data harvesting/gambling/crypto scam/etc apps with nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

Also why they’re cracking down on non-play store apps.

Proxmox is a hypervisor, while docker is containerization.

Comparing them is like comparing an apple to a glass of milk. They have different use cases.

Android has app-pinning, iOS has guided access. They are functionally the same thing, in that they lock the phone to a single app. Basically a sort of kiosk mode.

Barring that, if you really want some form of parental controls for the kids, I would recommend just getting a phone from the likes of Pinwheel, Gabb, Bark, etc. They are purpose-built for kids.

I dropped Portainer in favor of Dockge a few years ago. Absolutely worth it.

I’d also recommend Dockge. Made by the same dude who does Uptime Kuma. Super simple, works along existing stacks.

My router (unifi dream machine) offers regional blocking, so I block Russia, China, and a few others that I’ve gotten hits from. So far so good.

You are intentionally dodging the point.

If I select a top row app, that application can “advertise” what’s new on the top half of the screen.

Yes. They are advertising to you. That’s what “ad” is short for: “advertisement”.

Apple TV units have ads.

Because they decided to go with Fedora.

You are very wrong. We have two Apple TV units. They absolutely have ads now.

Launcher, home screen, app screen, whateveryouwannacallit of an Apple TV unit.

Apple TV’s launcher was recently “updated” to showcase whatever latest content is being pushed through Apple’s own services. Which is advertisement.

I get it as well, which is what my own frustration stems from 😂

Until those same people refuse to believe anything except Google because “big company = more trustworthy” or some bullshit.

retoot

lmao

Oof. Dump that router and get yourself something nice, like a Unifi router. Or go the DIY route and build an OPNsense box.

OPNsense is the way I’m gonna go after my OG UDM shits the bed. But it’s almost 7 years old and still kicking…

I have an HP Proliant G2 tower server case from the early 2000s. Its got 9 drive bays (if you include the floppy drive bay).

Hilariously, it’s ATX compatible, so I stuffed it with an older Asus motherboard (7th gen Intel + i7-7700T, w/NVME slot), 16GB DDR4 RAM, ~650W ATX PSU, and an LSI SAS card. Now I just need to migrate everything over to it from my older Mac Mini that’s currently serving as the NAS…

I’ve never run a full blown Debian OS

Ubuntu is literally just Debian with Canonical’s bullshit on top.

I tend towards ubuntu lts pro with automatic upgrades and reboots.

This can be done easily on Debian, too. Without an artificial limitation.

Don’t use Ubuntu as a server. Pretty much every server application will run happily on Debian, meanwhile Canonical keeps adding shit that is Ubuntu-specific.

Ubuntu used to be the go-to, but Canonical is quickly becoming the poster child for Linux enshittification.

The linked post is fairly positive. I’m not too worried - we’re probably gonna see an uptick in user friendliness.

It’s a salute. o is the head, 7 is the arm and hand.

Fair enough. I’d like a web client as well, honestly, but Signal does ship desktop clients for Windows, Mac, and even Linux.

I’m actually using the Linux desktop client to chat with my wife right now.

My wife and I tried Signal a while back and didn’t care for it.

What about it didn’t you like? I have no investment in Signal, my curiosity is just piqued since my wife and I use it.

My wife and I use Signal. It works well.

Tailscale. It’s free.

Something about Tailscale rubs me the wrong way. That “free” aspect, specifically. No company ever runs a free service without some sort of compromise somewhere.

Porkbun master race!

Did you just go for 3.0, or did you do “baby steps” in between? (e.g. 1.138 > 2.0 > 3.0)

Pretty much that. Downloaded the latest compose.yml, copied all the relevant bits from my existing compose file to the fresh one (volumes, database/db credentials, etc), set the version to v2.0.0, and let 'er rip. Made sure it was playing nice, then checked all the changelogs up to 2.7.x (whatever patch was the newest last week), set the version to v2, and updated it again.

Fast forward to this week, all I did was set the version to ‘v3’ and the update took without a problem.

Just find an old office PC. It’ll do just as much as (if not more than) an Xbox One X, which runs even older hardware.