I mean it’s true here.

and FF16! I have owned and 100%'d most FF’s and still I refuse to buy a PS5 for the exclusives.

Wow, this success is truly something to be proud of. I extend the most unreserved compliments to the whole group involved. Nintendo’s most well known title is thoroughly deconstructed now. I, for one, find myself delighted by the outcome.

you know commerce and trade, including money, exists under other forms of monetary governance?

if you love capitalism so much, how many means of production do you own?

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hey, the uk has taught the world other things too

like how to make concentration camps

I played games before there were consoles. I am fucking dust, man.

it’s not just one thing though. For a non technical user, it’s nerve-wracking to worry that if you screw up the install, or download the wrong package, or configure the YAML wrong, or open the wrong port, or there’s a port conflict, or you forgot to update the software… now you’re potentially unprotected (even if that’s not the case - many will still worry).

Not to mention even if you - as I did - had to skill up to understand it, three months passes and you’re terrified to touch it because you’ve forgotten all the stuff you learned to set it up.

Same as how the majority of people don’t even change their own oil on their cars - even though it’s fairly easy.

It’s not even just girls in bikinis.

They put a camera underneath a clear chair, or kneel over it, zoomed in on their butt crack and gooch, with a tiny bikini barely obscuring the naughty bits. Perhaps another one focused entirely on their feet, and the third camera, from the front, adjusted in such as way as to clip off the bottom of their clothing at the edge of their bust so they appear topless, and then lick an ear-shaped microphone while a vibrating pad makes them jiggle.

It is as close to porn as you can get. Which, also, they have links in their bio to their “list of social media” - the top one of which is usually actual porn of them…

I’m not saying it’s wrong, but it is unsuitable for children and most people would consider it a form of porn or erotica, especially as it’s a forward bastion for their actual literal porn.

that is so my wife can find the games she likes and I am trying to make it as easy as possible for her without my nonsense

they’d be under God 'Em Ups (currently Command and Conquer, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Civilization games, Worms, Theme Hospital etc)

I think you’ll find my naming scheme perfectly cromulent.

what? no.

not the biggest fan but doesn’t TNG suggest that all (most?) biped races in trek share a common ancestor?

hey Op - I went through the same journey as you recently.

I found the exact same guide you linked - but here’s what I found on my journey from knowing literally nothing to having it work.

firstly that guide is a bit outdated and very terse, in fact most of the guides have at least one thing that’s outdated and several things not explained

Here were my learning steps:

• getting confident with the Linux command line enough that “chmod” and “chown”, user:group, rm, nano, and other basic commands weren’t foreign to me

• getting confident enough with docker and docker compose that I understand what a container, image, compose file are and how to both manipulate them and exec commands inside them

• understanding the basics of what a VPN is and does so the terms proxy, reverse proxy, port forwarding, DNS aren’t alien to me

• understanding the basics of Linux file management including dotfiles, fstab, mounting, blkid, and as mentioned chmod and chown

none of this is particularly hard to grasp once you’ve grasped it but most guides you see and people you meet along the way will assume all of the above is second nature to you. at first I would pull my hair out seeing suggestions like “have you shelled into the container to curl your public IP?” like what the fuck does that even mean

I started with VPN as thats the important protective part. I paid for Mullvad because its fairly cheap and stuck with it all the way. First I used their GUI app and then later I switched to Tailscale and ran it as an exit node.

I also found guides like YAMS (Yet Another Media Server), dockSTARTer, Trash Guides and the Servarr wiki and would jump between them, Uninstalling, reinstalling, going down paths that didn’t work and formatting my raspberry pi and starting from scratch several times. It took me about 6 weeks to skill up to the point where I’m confident knowing about all the parts of my setup.

I’m happy to answer all the questions I can (bear in mind I knew nothing about this a few months ago, but my newbie perspective could help because I know what it’s like to not really know what half these terms mean)

PS:to specifically answer “what do these tools do”

• Ombi (optional) – allows other people (or yourself if you like) to select requests for things to download (tv shows and movies)
• qBittorrent - the torrent download client, takes a torrent from Prowlarr (see next point) and downloads it to your storage
• Unpackerr (optional) - if it happens to download as a rar or zip file, unzips it for you
• Prowlarr (replaces Jackett) – takes requests from Ombi (optional part) or Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr (usually de rigeur) and uses trackers to find torrents. Trackers are services that take “I am looking for this movie” and turn it into “here is the torrent”. Prowlarr is where you manage the Trackers
• Radarr (movies), Sonarr (tv), Lidarr (music), Whisparr (porn), Mylar (comic books), and Readarr (books) are part Ombi (find me this movie) but when qBittorrent has finished downloading and Unpackerr has unzipped it, puts tv shows together into series/seasons, handles the meta data, organizes everything for you and talks to the other apps so your library isn’t just a /downloads/ folder full of random crap, also sometimes you’ll download episodes 1 and 2 from one source, 3 and 4 from another, Sonarr gives you a UI to group them all together.
• Jellyfin then let’s you watch these on your TV

Good morning, that’s a nurple tnetennba.

thank you that’s very kind - I have done so

how did you get started moving from public to private and what does your average workflow look like?

I just started with a handful of Public trackers and they do okay, but I’d like to do a bit better.

On the other hand I don’t want to have to invest a huge amount of effort buddying up to complete strangers just to get the latest episode of University Challenge.

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