“If you can’t configure Docker, reverse proxies, and Yaml files, you shouldn’t be self-hosting.”

uh, if you can’t figure those things out then you absolutely should not be self-hosting until you can. those are the basic first steps a self-hoster takes, and if you somehow get them wrong you can expose yourself to some serious bad actors out there that will definitely exploit your setup and steal whatever data they can.

you see it as gatekeeping, and it is, but everyone here recognizes that if you fuck this up, you will get pwned. this isn’t a hobby you can just jump into without learning anything first. there are real consequences to messing up, and depending on what data you have accessed by a malicious actor, it could have lasting damage on your life.

Congrats on your nuptials!

Seriously, though, I don’t think you’re necessarily being taken advantage of. If they didn’t ask you for anything you’ve given them, then I don’t think you need to worry. Just don’t do anything you wouldn’t do for any other girlfriend and you’ll be fine.

Asian countries are pretty conservative. If she’s introduced you to her family, and isn’t hiding you, then that probably means she’s happy and sees a future with you. Maybe it’s because she sees you as a good catch. Maybe it’s because she’s head over heels in love with you. Whatever the reason, whether or not that future comes about is up to you guys, but if it does and you end up together on a long term basis, this will make a fun story to tell people. Just take it day by day and enjoy yourself. Don’t think too much about the future. Don’t let anxiety or doubts cloud your feelings for her.

Cause at the end of the day, while this could turn out to be a cautionary tale, it could just as easily turn out to be the rest of your life.

what’s it called anyway when not on Windows?

on KDE it’s just called the Application Launcher.

Do you have any ideas apart from completely re-installing?

like the other person suggested, I would check the logs. there’s probably something in there to give you a hint, because in general KDE is very stable and you shouldn’t be experiencing this if everything was nominal.

wut the fuck. I use Jellyfin because I don’t want to have to do shit by hand. I fucking click the grab button in Jellyseer and then press play. if I wanted harder than that, I wouldn’t bother setting up a media server in the first place.

The Steam Deck works really well for retro gaming, with the added benefit that your friend can also play modern games easily enough as well.

I’m just shocked any publisher is still doing QA at all, with the state AAA games release in these days.

well they didn’t do a very good job of keeping it secret, did they?

I almost wish this was not a practical impossibility just so we could get to see the headlines when some misalignment fries an island of billionaires like bacon.

How long have you used the internet?

as long as I’ve been old enough to be on it, I suppose. I couldn’t give you an exact date, but not as long as you’ve had access to it since I’m not much older than 32.

totally unrelated to your comment, but did you know you can still buy bullets in bulk? nothing to do with the conversation at hand, of course, just idle chatter.

I don’t really see the inevitable passing of this internet as a sad thing, really. each time the internet has died, it has been replaced by something a little better. with how bad this one has gotten, with a whole laundry list of enshitification from constant tracking to intrusive and malicious advertisements, I think it’s far past time for the internet to die again and give us something fresh.

Thanks, I will continue to call you out.

is that what you think you’re doing. you are just adorable. we’re taking bets on how long I can continue stringing you along before you get bored. I bet that you would turn into another .worlder that follows me around everywhere, because I’ve obviously got some power over you, so keep up the good work.

nonsense, that your cat was missed by millions of drivers every day that drive down your streets, to think it would be hit by a human boggles the mind. and you don’t even seem to be broken up about the slaughter!

Sure, go ahead and show up all you want. You’re not hurting me when you get yourself downvoted into oblivion. What you are doing, however, is working on getting your posts hidden on Piefed instances, since they automatically hide low quality posts from people with low reputation and who downvote a lot of posts like you do. So the more you follow me to try to accomplish whatever it is you think you’re doing here, the less everyone who uses Piefed sees of you.

Everyone but you wins.

Nobody is forcing you to keep responding to me, either. You’re just a liberal who got butthurt I fucked up your argument and called the US a shitty third-world country. You just lack the self control to move on because you’re a testosterone riddled dude who can’t stand being made a fool of.

Honestly it’s fucking hilarious, and we had a good laugh about you in the /0 matrix chat.

The internet, in its various forms, has died several times now, and it will die and be replaced with something else probably uncountable times in the future.

Proton’s CEO does not support trump. And they didn’t help the French police, they were obligated to follow a legal order to turn over data to their own government.

Those are both gross misrepresentations of the truth, and you know good and well how dishonest you’re being. And before you get angry, I’m not writing this for you, I’m writing it for the people who don’t know that you’re knowingly spreading misinformation.

lol says the .worlder. you fit right into that instance. now go hide in the corner and obsess about me some more, you weirdo.

cats, the animal most notorious for being contrary and doing dangerous things often enough that they were given the mythos of having “nine lives”, never dart under quiet electric moving vehicles?

maybe, but I’m also thinking about myself here. if it were me, would I have noticed the cat?

I don’t like admitting it, but the answer is almost certainly no, unless I happened to catch a glimpse of it in my mirror, which is what I would be looking at while pulling away from the curb. I think a robot-driven car should be able to watch all of its surroundings constantly, but I’m just a human and I can only watch one direction at a time.