Yes. Start one. The biggest benefit of having different subs back over at u/fuckspez dumpsterland was the independence to create whatever you or anyone wanted. We are here because we believed even more different and have the right to choose whatever we want. Since politics and ai are not welcome here, doesn’t mean there isn’t a crowd for it. Go for it.

Debian + XFCE

Debian + Budgie

In a twisted way, Trump is inadvertently trying hard to prove that more guns in the hands of untrained people with no background checks are a bad idea, something NRA was hoping to keep down. The cat is out of the bag now.

Anyway, fight girls.

Yes. I run Debian with a bunch of Gnome and KDE applications on XFCE4. UI looks weird sometimes, but it works as well as I expect.

PMing you.

I do. PMing you the details.

I host Nextcloud with various options on terms of storage and CPU.

Works great.

I sell managed services and this is one of the things I offer. Its a fire and forget sort of system. However, your experience with managing the back end stuff, updates etc will really matter cause if it goes sideways, you have to know how to debug. That is pretty much what I do.

The Tswana (people from Botswana) rarely travel. When I lived there, the government used to have massive drives to get people to apply for passports. It rarely worked. So this is a non-issue and arbitrary or either a badly scripted effort to do work on behalf of some diamond dealer. Nonetheless, the Tswana, more interested in partying than visiting USA will be unbothered. Also, there is a base involved and the EFF (volatile South African political party) have been pushing for it to be removed. This is just giving it impetus.

Hopefully MarathonOS runs on this. Definitely my next phone nonetheless.

Freedom. 24 years ago, I figured that there had to be something different that I could customize. I had experimented with BeOS but then I came across Gentoo, and Linux in general. I crushed and burned many times experimenting with Slackware, SuSE (and later OpenSuSE), as well as Mandrake, but Debian became my thing. I did some time with Solus, but I’m a Debian guy. Netboot, put it together as I want, and what not.

Right. That. Thanks.

Eyeballing here. I’m a learner and have hardly used this.

Would a checkpoint model (right term?) achieve consistency, built from a specific set of pictures?

Give shit, take shit, have a laugh about it.

Legit.

Interest groups. Hobbies. Travel. Volunteers. Book clubs. That sort of thing. Cast your net wide enough and you are sure to get someone.

I had to tell ChatGPT to stop kissing my ass. It was ridiculous. ChatGPT can inflate ones ego if you are not careful.

I run a “self hosting” business. My job is to solve said problems. What I am learning from my developing customer base is this, they would rather I be on the hook than them, they would rather I press the buttons that them, and so on. You get the gist of it. Where I host said services is up to me, provided it does not fail, is secure and they have root access when they need it.

If I get tired of this business, I will find a buyer and sell it and move on. Yes, it is a worthwhile venture. Horror stories though, it seemed easy to get into, till I had to get my first customer.

For many years, yes, but, to see that person reach out, apologize, amends and even support me in difficulty changed that perspective. Forgiveness played a major role in healing.

It took me 6 deploys to finally understand all the mechanisms. What I like about self-hosting and the open source mantra in general is that every failure is a lesson with field experience. So skills development and acquisition is fairly easy if you push for it and once you get it, its wash, rinse, repeat.