The guy who originally started this died just recently :(

Same. Thirty years later and I still have it D:

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debian on my server. it’s rock solid. I run a LOT of shit on it, and it rarely cracks about 4-5 GB RAM out of 32GB.

one thing i really really hate is videos/screenshots of instructions. I just want to read text damn it! i can only imagine how much more frustrating it is being visually impaired.

nothing wrong with yunohost. We all started out as noobs at one point in time. My advice though: Don’t think that’s the end point. Branch out when you have motivation/time/etc, and see what happens. The best way to learn is to break shit, then have to fix it. at least IMHO

ah, I thought so. you fooled us all :)

oh, I thought this was a circlejerk post. Sorry haha.

Assuming it’s serious, I’d use perhaps ubuntu or linux mint or something. Just to dip your toes in. An “easy” linux distro. Before you know it, you’ll be doing LFS.

If you have enough space on your drive (or, preferably, a second drive), you can dual boot with windows. I’d probably do that first, then when you reach a point that you hardly ever use windows, blow that shit away. there are some guides online how to install it dualbooted, and there will be (and are) some good instructions here

You need to buy a key from LinuxKeysRUs.com

I use tugtainer for managing updates to containers (not automatic). and aside from that, I just apt upgrade every so often.

I used to use Faecesbook on and off (mostly off) for a few discussion groups, with a fake name. Since my country passed an act requiring ID to use social media, I deleted that shit. No fucking way am I giving my ID to a private company I can do without.

Be wary of oracle free tier. They’re known to just delete your vps for no reason.

there’s Tunarr and DizqueTV. I have not used either, so I don’t know. But I don’t believe Tunarr is as feature rich as Ersatz. The biggest thing stopping me from trying it is the lack of smart collections. I use them a LOT with Ersatz.

i want the 90s internet back, when only nerds were on it. it was way better back then.

You’re asking the right questions.

VPNs aren’t much safer. You’re putting your trust in a vpn company instead of an isp. If the vpn company is compromised (such as with Pia) then you’re no better off than if you’d not used the vpn. Tor isn’t that much safer these days since the nsa runs Tor exit nodes. Best bet is a no logging vpn. Though you’re again putting your trust in them that they actually don’t log. Whether or not they do is only known to them.

While we’re recommending/not recommending vpns, don’t use PIA. they WERE the go to. But they’re owned by an American company now and based there.

I’d love to have internet fast enough that “seconds to minutes” were a reality.

I second homepage. It’s static so it loads blazingly fast. I tried some others, but as a new tab page, they took too long to load. Homepage, however, loads it loads in fractions of a second. Homepage++

I usually stick with ubuntu/debian based distros, because it was the first distro system i used when i first used linux. so I stick with what i know. Though I did support a RH server once when i worked in IT.

I was HEAVILY into the apple ecosystem, so I have a lot of macs. I have a macbook, running MacOS, and i have a desktop computer that i was using for my server, but instead bought a ras pi, and now use my desktop AS a desktop (partly because i want to dump apple because of all the bootlicking that Tim Apple is doing towards drumpf), which runs linux mint. My ras pi runs ubuntu server. Aside from that, that’s the extent of my home computing. I have an iphone too. But my mac mini goes unused now, and thinking of selling it, but not sure. /rambling