“distrust in capitalism and our pseudo-democratic plutocracies, the profit motive to replace the human workforce, the reckless criminal-incompetence of its implementation, and apparent stupidity of the average hairless primate”
I have hair, thank you very much, but seriously get out of my head. The hubris these days is unbelievable.
A lot of people are making well-reasoned arguments about human nature, the nature of a dangerous tool, defining responsible use, and the challenges inherent in any sort of ban.
The points that look the best to me definitely include tagging, but I haven’t seen suggested any method of gatekeeping as to who has access to the means of dissemination of software. Because the damage by the tool is determined by the one who wields it, only people who have established trustworthiness should be allowed to contribute.
A perfect example of a tool used responsibly vs a tool in the hands of an idiot. There’s nothing that can be done to make idiots stop idioting.
It is just a tool, but human nature makes it a net negative. There are a lot of tools like that, and history shows that once the cat is out of the bag, humanity just has to live with the damage that tool causes. There’s literally nothing that can be done to stop it on a large scale, but small communities can always dictate what they will tolerate.
How’s it compare to Portainer? I hear Portainer is about to be enshitified.
I started with docker desktop on windows for a year. Got tired of resources redlining because windows is greedy. Tried proxmox and just couldn’t get past the setup (don’t remember which part). Anyway, running headless Debian with docker is working really well for about 2 months now. Between cockpit and my codeserver container I can get most anything done through gui. I even installed comai llm on my mint desktop machine to help me with commands.
With unprecedented temps in excess of 106 F, running a couple of old lenovo desktops is nothing compared to my AC bill.
I’m running a simple COMAI instance on my desktop that recommends linux commands and does limited chat. it was easy. It spins the processor up to 50% to give a response and takes a couple of seconds depending on complexity. I run the other stuff on a dedicated server, but with nginx proxy manager, I can send the COMAI instance to a page on my domain even though it is on a different computer on my LAN.
It isn’t nearly as much fun a building a dedicated server, (or what I like to do – repurpose old junk) but the services you mentioned will run just fine on a decent desktop or laptop, especially if you aren’t doing some hungry task while they are running. -1 for Plex. +1 for Jellyfin. You can run them all on your LAN and access them around the house by the machine’s LAN IP and the services’ port number. You can do the same thing if you have tailscale on your phone or other remote computer, just use the tailscale IP and the service’s port. You can use Nginx Proxy Manager to send your services through a cloudflared tunnel to a hostname you buy, and keep access limited to just yourself and a select few (FYI I hear Cloudflared doesn’t like a lot of video streaming, so don’t give access to too many folks).
Jellyfin will run on a windows machine without screwing with docker, and will host your music too, though the UI isn’t great.
You can use a simple fileserver on windows to host other stuff like pics.
Just start somewhere and you’ll be neck-deep before you know it. You can use
I don’t understand the tone of this comment. Family link is voluntary. It is lame, yes, and it is just barely useful, but it offers some handy controls if you want to limit what your kid can access on an android device. It would be preferable for me to have a good kiosk mode, but I haven’t seen anything that met my needs.
Whills would need a wacky voice. you know, for the kids.
or just buy a minipc for $130 from Ebay.
It is frustrating though, I have several old phones that are in good shape. It would be nice to give them a job. There might be one or two that boot without a battery.
it happens to every one of them eventually. Wonder what really causes it?
I think there is a way to fool it by soldering a jumper on the battery contacts. Probably varies from phone-to-phone.
I’m so close to doing this. Cloudflare makes me nervous. Have you heard of Rathole? That was recommended to basically do what my cloudflared tunnel is already doing. The only trouble I could see was I was going to have to keep the cloudflared access controls.
if you wire up some blinky LEDs to the power supply, then yes. I NEEDS THEM BLINKYS
Once you really learn GIMP, its the GOAT. It just looks like the top-of-the-line tools did 20 years ago.
Been getting worse every day since XP was shelved.
I see a lot of the same questions here - primarily people want to stop fooling with Roku. I used Roku devices for years- even had the top model in the living room. I finally got sick of being bombarded with increasingly aggressive ads. I don’t know if they are still in stock, but I bought one of those ONN 4k Pro or whatever tv boxes from Walmart, loaded projectivy and it is great. Got smarttube working (doesn’t always work) and have my servers connected. Not a single ad. EVER. I can even play up to some ps1 games on retroarch from it.