I mostly found it funny they felt the neet to upgrade from mint on a family members computer to anything else, because I can’t imagine mint not already working fine for them.

I fail to see the benefit in “Upgrading” to kubuntu (or anything else) in this case.

But yes u right hehe arch btw but also mby mint btw 🤔

Upgrade Mint to Kubuntu 💀

As long as your jellyfin server is properly configured behind a reverse proxy, letting it be accessible publicly on the internet is fine.

Obviously everyone has their own threat model, but it’s not that big of a threat in this case (personally I don’t care).

They want an Open Source app…

FlorisBoard is a good option, very customizable too https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard

The money from Google was surely what killed their browser. I’m not saying there was a behind the scenes deal. They just got lazy and spent Google’s money is stupid ways instead of improving their product so that they could gain a real userbase.

Imagine if they spent that money towards just the browser (not possible, but imagine anyways), we could be in a very different place where Chrome doesn’t have 99% (or whatever it is) market share.

Firefox is a good browser, but where could they have been today if it was prioritised over paying the CEO millions for nothing? They have recently been sorta catching up, i’ve seen a lot of updates that actually include features I use, but I think it’s too late.

Time for one of the new built from the ground up browsers to shine when complete. I still stand by Firefox and recommend it, but as soon as their is an open competitor that is production ready, I’m outta here.

They have undoubtly done amazing things for the web, but their idiocy is astounding sometimes and I don’t wanna stay on a sinking ship. I’d rather use a new browser that helps keep the web secure, safe a pleasant for us all without annoyances or dumb beurocracy.

They think my boss is gonna switch to session just to send me messages.

They also think NOT about the privacy implications behind using cellular services in general, even just for data (which using a different messaging app doesn’t help).

True, forgot about that. They are the best free option that forces you to use webmail if you don’t want to pay (and their app).

I’m not sure if there are any other free mail providers that i’d trust to be honest (if I absolutely can’t pay for one, I’d just live with protons webmail).

Posteo should work for you and it’s very cheap (1 eur).

Hehe idk.

posteo for 1 eur/month? (Heard good stuff)

ProtonMail is a good free option (if I were paying and didn’t care about using my own custom domain posteo seems a lot better & cheaper)

There are tools for that, no?

You can install NAS software that turns self hosting stuff into one click installs.

Correcto X11 just works for me, never had any issues, there is literally zero benefit for me swapping over.

Every time I am booted into a Wayland session, something doesn’t feel, look or work right which causes me pain and suffering through my OCD which i don’t have.

I’m planning on trying hyprland soon though because it can look very pretty so if I swap over to that then yes I’ll be a wayland pleb, but in that case there’s a real reason to me swapping… not just for zero benefit.

If it works for you, there’s no reason not to keep using it.

If it looks like an upgrade in performance and simplicity and you think it’s worth swapping, then you could consider it, though personally I’d wait until it’s a bit more mature/proven (maybe it is already idk).

They mentioned the early days when it comes to licensing games to us.

But dont mention that in the early days of multiplayer games it was us moderating our own online communities, not the company selling the game.

I’m unconvinced anyone will really legislate this,

The Eurpean Union sort of has it’s head on when it comes to addressing consumer rights, if they legislate this, then the entirety of europe will likely benefit (even those outside the european union like the UK, examples of this have happened before if im correct, see windows 10 1 year extension for eu).

and if it is, it’ll just lead to that country being scratched off the list of where the game is officially supported.

No it won’t. Maybe if it’s a country with no internet and doesn’t have a population interested in gaming, but any major country like UK, Germany, etc enforcing this would force the hands of game publishers bevause these markets are just too big.

No publisher is going to pull out of the UK for example.

Realistically, we need to stop buying online only games where the servers will eventually go offline, and support those that release open servers.

I agree. Unfortunately most people are unaware or have no backbone so they keep on buying the next “big” game, nevertheless I agree, we need to stop supporting anti-consumer behavior instead of defending it.

I’m gonna stuff that unlimited budget between the fabric layers of mine and take it home with me.

Akamai isnt small hehe

Sounds good, I mean you can use literally anything to host servers.

It’s (debian) a great choice especially when you plan to only use docker though, for sure, as you won’t really run into those old package issues (+ if u like to upgrade and feel very safe doing so each time without looking at news first, might be survivorship bias, but debian has never broken for me through multiple major version upgrades and I’ve been blindly upgrading each time).

https://github.com/alexta69/metube does this very well already!

Any backup location is secure as long as you encrypt your data securely before you back it up there.

For something as important as a backup that you don’t want to lose, I’d stick with something tried and true like Backblaze B2.

Backblaze is also very cheap for what it is (a great storage solution). You can pay monthly or use more of the regular pay as you go model.

Monthly and pay as you go have ups and downs, but the benefit of pay as you go for me is the ridiculously cheap deal (if you download your backups a lot it may be less so, but I don’t so it works out very cheap for me).

You have arch and debian experience, so I think Debian would be great for your server.

You don’t want rolling releases (eg arch) on your server really because you don’t want stuff to break. Debian will be a rock solid choice.

I don’t feel confident with the hardware questions because I have never streamed higher than 1080p, but I would imagine it’d be easy for most systems. A used computer would probably be my choice, mostly for upgradeability, but that’d use more power than a mini-pc for example.

A normal used tower pc could be good if you plan on getting a cheap GPU down the line for transcoding (maybe you’re out and don’t want to use as much data, etc). CPUs can probably do a lot for one user though.