Dare I say . . . .

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Strange, I use self-checkout daily in Canada, and its great, for just a handful of items usually, I don’t have to hold up anyone needing to checkout an entire households worth of groceries.

I mean, I just bought two used systems for under $500 CAD combined, both capable of being used as servers, if I wanted to. I’m more worried about HDD prices, nevermind flash storage. I have no idea when I will be able to afford a 10+ TB HDD in the next couple years, at least.

Cisco’s CCNA exam, I think, covers a lot of ground. Although, homelab specific knowlegde, is best gained by building stuff and getting your hands dirty, so to speak, in my opinion.

I mean, there’s literal full step by step guides on youtube on how to start hosting and exposing services locally on a home server to the world, just look for “how to self host” or “home server guide” and you can learn alot of the basics that way. You don’t really need to learn all of networking, unless you want to.

Anyone looking for a lightweight self hosted alternative to discord might want to check out sharkord. Its less about large communities and more about a private space to chat with friends, that you have complete privacy and control with.

yeah, my kid has already figured out that live commenting on powerpoint slides with their classmates is basically instant messaging

Thanks for this, I forget things like this exist

am linux user, will one day own a bidet (when I can afford my own damn place, that is)

yo hold up, wetware is an actual thing? Since fucking when?

ummm, the only times I ever used deepseek was fully offline on my hardware, I call bullshit

Already have sharkord hosted via a VPS via linode, so no worries about uptime. Fuck discord, open source for the win.

minimal arch install

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my bank app works well within a containerized user with google play services installed

I mean, I’m finalizing that data I need to preserve before I delete my google accounts completely, but it is imminent

rutracker, I guess, or any other public tracker. The more niche the music though, the less likely torrents will be alive.

The spotify daily mix thing, I get you on that, I miss it too! I honestly just browse rateyourmusic, acquire them via soulseek, and hope for the best. As I said, I have more than enough music to last a lifetime, but for those who don’t have a great library already, I think some of the fun of music comes from the process of discovery too!

But as to making my music externally accessible, I mean, it is at least secured by a basic auth page, and I mean, what would a bad actor want, to sabotage my music collection? It would suck, but I mean, wouldn’t be the end of the world. I have it routed behind caddy and a cloudflare tunnel, so the only threat in this circumstance is someone who has access to my home.

the ultra rich are evil by default, they couldn’t get to that level of wealth by caring about humanity.

navidrome, self-hosted is what I use. Personally, the less I have to contact google’s servers for the media I enjoy, the better.

Sorry I don’t have better advice, but alongside soulseek, lucida.to, and torrents, I have way more music than I think I’ll ever be able to listen to in my lifetime.

lmfao, they really don’t know how to stop failing, i see