If I’m reading your link right, they are using user agents. Granted there’s a lot. Maybe you could whitelist user agents you approve of? Or one of the commenters had a list that you could block. Nginx would be able to handle that.

we would get food poisoning A LOT more without them too. Them wanting to deregulate the food industry is terrifying to us who know the horrors of hugging a toilet for 4+ days

Okay no one has said this, but feel you. When I was younger I was so happy my family thought I was smart and leaned into it. It’s great, they want something installed, they want advice, it works. Then they get greedy, they stop respecting my time, I get chastised for not answering my phone because they HAVE to get into their email RIGHT NOW.

So, if you’re feeling all of this, it may be time to start setting boundaries. Some helpful things:

Mom, if you want to ask for my help then you can’t just undo my help right after I leave. If you want my help, you will use what I set up, you will use this password manager and you will put in the effort to learn it. I offer these services for free, Geek Squad would charge you $200 for this service alone. If you can’t do it that’s fine, but then you can go to them for help.

I understand that it’s not working right now but I’m not a 24/7 service. I can help you in <reasonable time frame>.

At some point some older people just stop trying to learn anything new. I also worked geek squad, which is where I saw this first hand. Some very very basic problem solving and just the will to learn something new will take them 90% of the way, but most have lost those basic skills. For those, well, politely you have to tell them that they have to rely on others, and that’s why geek squad exists.

A lot of geeks laugh at the $200 price tag. That’s ridiculous! I could do that in 10 minutes! Correct! The fix is usually the easiest part of the job. That’s why there’s only 1 or 2 actual repair techs per best buy, but 10 or more desk agents who just sit and listen to the elderly talk about how much they hate computers and refuse to learn it.

Until you have a bad config as the other commenter pointed out and miss a critical email like an interview or medical item

I’m not surprised, Acer has always struggled to figure out the consumer. I remember their terrible android tablets running Oreo.

Now it seems they forgot the portable part of portable handheld

I was just looking at requirements and all I saw was windows

Stayed in my home town, commute to the small city 30 minutes away working as an insurance agent. Married, appears to have kids. Super for them. It sounds like my nightmare, I moved 2000 miles away and work in tech, but I guess his life sounds fun.

It’s officially piqued my interest and I may spin up a server, but it looks like it HAS to be Windows and it requires a GPU… Which is expensive. Either at home or virtually that’s a costy server

Rule one of self hosting. Do not self host your own email. Only pain will you find.

You of course can, but there are so many additional hoops you have to jump through. I use my main domain for my email, but proton is one of the few subscriptions I happily pay for

Dated a girl who had a boyfriend. I was her “secret boyfriend” and she always told me that she was going to leave him, just need to find the right time, just another week, you’ll see babe. The surprising thing is that it was sexual, it wasn’t a friendzone thing.

She was my first and I stupidly thought it was something special. Nope, she just liked having the attention and had a fair amount of damage. She eventually did leave him, I was elated, and then a month later she cheated on me.

There’s no secret bf/gf folks, if she doesn’t want to tell her friends it’s a massive red flag for you, just move onto someone who respects you

Not to derail this, but I think a lot about our zoning and residential housing now and how it killed these exact things. Your neighborhood is now only people in the same economic bracket as you. New builds only make bland open areas with nothing to do, and they’re built so far out that they’re essentially unwalkable. Then there’s only one exit or entrance so even if there is a city park nearby it’s minimum 20 minutes just to walk to the entrance of the residential zone. Then add on that any teens together are hooligans and Ms Jansen will call the police on them and 40 years of fear mongering has lead us to no kids can be unsupervised

Personally I suggest k3s, setting up a test cluster and playing with it. For volume management I use longhorn. It’s a HUGE learning curve, but it’s officially something companies will shell out big money for too if you’re willing to learn it. Soup to nuts from setting up test cluster and playing with it all the way to all of my services running was about 4 months of tinkering for me- but I’ll never go back

Exactly. Hell 50 bucks you can get a decent SSD. Just grab something, have all of your drives hosted via NFS, but then you aren’t hacking docker to run in ram all the time, and wasting your ram hosting stuff it doesn’t need to

Kind of, but probably not. I started writing this and was like “totally it could be stateless”. Docker runs stateless, and I believe when it starts it is still stateless (or at least could be mounted on a ramdrive) - but then I started thinking, and what about the images? Have to be downloaded and ran somewhere, and that’s going to eat ram quickly. So I amend to you don’t need it to be stateful, you could have an image like you talked about that is loaded every time (that’s essentially what kubernetes does), but you will still need space somewhere as scratch drive. A place docker will places images and temporary file systems while it’s running.

For state, check out docker’s volume backings here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/volumes/. You could use nfs to another server as an example for your volumes. Your volumes would never need to be on your “app server”, but instead could be loaded via nfs from your storage server.

This is all nearing into kubernetes territory though. If you’re thinking about netboot and automatically starting containers, and handling stateless volumes and storing volumes in a way that are synced with a storage server… it might be time for kubernetes.

Wish I was friend, thought it was all single story white stone housing. We were told America is number one, never saw a skyline or how big it was.

I honestly had no idea they had electricity. That’s how bad the propaganda is

So many. For an example, the Star Wars Sequels (and Prequels). I think they were fine. Okay, 8 dropped a bit and had a lot of bad moments, but altogether, they were enjoyable. I had fun watching them.

Are they Oscar worthy? No. Not at all, not by a long shot, but I had fun.

I think we as a society are way too polar, it’s either good or bad, trash or perfect. I think we’ve lost sight that things can simply be good, or fun. I had fun watching those movies. I don’t think Rise of Skywalker wasted my time. Could it have been better? Of course. Was the writing lazy? Definitely at times. Did I enjoy watching it? Yes.

This was a MASSIVE eye opening shock to me. You watch NCIS or any pro military show and they’ll pan to Baghdad or anything middle east and you’ll see crumbling buildings or warzone with a sepia filter. I was got smacked when I saw a real skyline photo of Baghdad, and istanbul, and most cities. Our media is dead set on continuing the thought of these empty deserts

None of us want to host it, and simply federating with it is “hosting it” in the eyes of the government. No interest in being in the cross hairs of the government for hosting fucked up content

That’s not the point I was making. If you’re an instance owner then yes you should abide by the laws, but most are individuals, and I’ll say I had to learn a lot hosting my own. I try to be in full compliance, but I say try because you’re asking one guy who knows how to run a server legal questions. If someone asked me to delete it I would, but you’re dealing with thousands of server owners. I wouldn’t bet that everyone will follow your request.

As for laws, well, no also. Say a 3 letter agency in the US sets up a server listening to you. They’re not in the EU at all. You send a gdpr takedown request. The listening server can legally ignore this. You sent them data, it’s outside of the jurisdiction of the gdpr, they don’t host anything. So no. I get your sentiment, but you’re quite literally blasting comments out to everyone who will listen, this is not a private space, this is as open as it gets.

You have a very “this is the way it should work” thought process, but I’m here telling you that’s in theory only. In practice anyone will be listening to anything, and you should not treat Lemmy or the fediverse as private. If you want private, use matrix.