I mostly use it to keep track of what I read as opposed to a social media platform. I do follow some people that are on the same instance but mostly on the off chance anything looks interesting.

I’m more or less happy with weather here in the PNW. Not that cold and wet in winter, not that hot and dry in summer. Of course with climate change, ACs are now needed and it actually snows in winter, but traditional weather patterns agreed with me.

I remember that! But yeah, it didn’t make any sense back then either.

Saw an article the other day about how Texas is the most disaster prone state, while simultaneously being the most against any sort of disaster preparedness.

Dumbfucks.

We all got to learn somewhere!

Lot of good advice here, but sometimes people forget what it’s like to be a beginner. Since you don’t know what you’re doing, I would recommend not trying to host things on your home server and access it from the outside world. That usually involves port forwarding on your router, and that comes with a lot of risks, especially if you don’t know what you’re doing. Others have mentioned it, but a better option when you’re starting off is to rent a vps and host your software there.

Squarespace might work, but my guess is it’ll be easier to transfer your domain elsewhere. You can follow guides for that online and it’s pretty straightforward.

Having a vps, a domain name, you’re most of the way there. On your vps, you’ll want to install a reverse proxy, which is what routes incoming urls to the right place (nextcloud.domain.tld goes here, calendar.domain.tld goes there).

Docker is another thing I’d recommend learning as a lot of what you’ll self host will likely be in a Docker container. I’d watch a few YouTube videos to see how it’s done. This channel has some great videos, and there are others out there.

It seems like a lot, but learn a little here and there and don’t expect to have this all working overnight. You’ll get there!

Yeah, I just don’t know how we come back from this. It’s not like the sane among us are suddenly going to decide to go along with fascism, nor is that 30+% that somehow control the narrative going to stop being the literal worst all of a sudden (see: post-Reconstruction).

So we… Balkanize? Hold US Nuremberg trials and actually do something about the priblem, assuming we can get to that point?

Same with the Misskey clones. There have been some very dramatic opinions on both sides.

It’s been on my list, and I like cozy games… I just never got around to it. And I’m cheap, so unless I noticed it on super sale, I’d put it off until later™️

No, I’m one of the special ones he won’t turn on! The leopard won’t eat my face!

Do they all have main character syndrome and think plot armor will save them?

Nextcloud got too bulky for me, and in my search I tried a number of different options before installing OpenCloud without realizing it isn’t fully finished yet. That said, it still works well enough for my use case.

Tailscale is great for not opening your ports to the internet. Having it playable on a friend’s appletv adds some extra complexity. Reverse proxy on a subdomain with something like fail2ban would work, but it does leave you more vulnerable.

Wait, for real? Gen Alpha doesn’t know what a file type is??

No, as an expert on not knowing what the fuck he’s doing, he’s just confirming.

No! It worked in the 90s! It’ll work again any day now!!

Also, we make too much money, so no.

I haven’t stopped to verify, but in the battle at the end, they apparently all attack in initiative order each lasting about six seconds. It’s those little attention to detail bits that make it fun for players, on top of being enjoyable for non-players as a fantasy action movie.

Can’t help with saved game data, but Bazzite is a solid choice, not just because it’s a gaming based distro. It’s one of the immutable distros, so all the important stuff that keeps it running, you can’t mess with (easily). And all your personal stuff that doesn’t keep the computer running, it doesn’t touch. So your computer is always up to date ( faster than steamOS, and if something goes wrong, just reboot into the previous) and you can’t screw it up without trying.

You’re not. If you’re happy with what you’ve got, don’t worry about it. Or join the great Linux tradition of distro hopping. But Mint gets a lot of praise for noobs, but much like Ubuntu there are much better distros out there. It just has name recognition at this point.

They’re waiting to see if we can get past this stage on our own.

Wasn’t it also Fall of Rome playbook too? No, that can’t be right, they would have learnt that lesson.

Agreed. New users often either go Ubuntu or Linux Mint because they’re well known, but really aren’t the best options out there anymore.