All of those should be fine, the main caveats w/ Linux are:

• anti-cheat games generally don’t work - there are exceptions, and this is a limitation by the developer, not Linux
• Windows-only software can be iffy - e.g. photoshop and whatnot
• using an NTFS drive on Linux can have surprises - don’t mount your game lib on Linux, just redownload

Blender works perfectly fine, gaming on Steam and Heroic works well, emulators work well, and while I don’t know anything about Linux music production, I know there are software options available.

Anyway, I recommend buying a separate disk and trying Linux out. That way you don’t touch your current Windows install while messing w/ stuff.

Presumably, the “algorithm” is based on whatever is most profitable. So probably some combination of most viewers, best ad engagement (click through rate), and best conversion/appeal to Premium subs.

That’s assuming YouTube’s primary goal is to make money, and which it should be as part of a publicly traded company.

My point is that those thumbnails and titles work, so if we want something different, we need to reward better thumbnails and titles and stop engaging w/ poor ones.

Exactly. Following the flow of traffic is more important than following posted speed limit signs, in both directions.

Been messing around w/ podman, and after hours of slamming my head against the wall, I decided Seafile isn’t worth it. :) It launches a bunch of stuff inside one container, and I just couldn’t figure out how to get that to work w/ quadlet (worked fine w/ podman kube play though).

I got forgejo set up and now I’m looking into setting up runners so I can finally migrate off hosted gitlab onto my own forgejo instance.

Some other things I’m planning on doing this week:

• migrate existing services to podman quadlet from docker compose - will make each existing service into a pod and play w/ pod networking
• set up technitium - tested it locally and it worked well, so just need to move it and configure it; hope to use it as the primary DNS for my house
• set up owncloud ocis - there’s a new POSIX FS option, which was my main hangup when I last looked into a nextcloud alternative (I only need storage + collabora)
• probably some kind of dashboard, because the number of services I host is getting a bit long

If I get time, I want to install openSUSE MicroOS onto my NAS and start migrating everything to it (from openSUSE Leap). I really like the idea of an immutable base OS, and my NAS is already 90% containers (pretty much just Samba left). I need to fix some permission issues anyway (keep having to chown my videos so samba and jellyfin can work together), and this should make things a bit more obvious.

I’ll probably also start a blog about my self-hosting journey, because the info around podman is kinda sparse, especially when it comes to quadlet.

Edit: got OCIS working, but it was a bit of a pain. Starting that blog really sounds like a good idea…

That sounds horrifying. :)

In an ideal world, sure, but all software has bugs (example vulnerabilities here). Proper security design doesn’t ask “how can X happen?” but “what if X happens?” If you break out of a docker container, you have root access to the system because the docker daemon runs as root.

With podman, there is no root docker daemon, so you’d also need privilege escalation in addition to breaking out of the container.

Put them in a pod and it’s just systemctl --user start <name>-pod or sudo systemctl start <name>-pod. A pod is basically a compose file, but split across multiple files instead of chunks of yaml.

based on already getting downvoted

In this case, yes, but in general, downvotes just mean your take is unpopular. The downvotes could be from people who don’t like Tesla and see any defense of Tesla as worthy of downvotes.

So good on you for making the point that you believe in. It’s good to try to understand why something you wrote was downvoted instead of just knee-jerk assuming that it’s because it’s a “bad take.”

algorithm-driven platform

And what is this “algorithm” based on? Actual user behavior. So the way to correct an algorithm is to change actual user behavior, no?

Hey, watch where you’re putting your hands.

neither device was ever built or tested

I know, right?

this post of mine

You have a typo in the title for the section about backups.

In that post you use the compose format. Have you used quadlet? My understanding is that’s the “preferred” way to do things, I’ve also had some issues and am trying to decide if it’s worth it. Any thoughts?

My old, crappy phone that retailed for $250 (got for much cheaper) had 4GB RAM (released 2019 or 2020), and my current one has 8GB RAM. The one before that had 2GB IIRC, and was released around 2017, and it was crappy for the time.

I feel jealous for the hearing impaired. Just think of everyone and they’re dog showing off how dumb it is all the time.

Never have I appreciated not having features so much.

My city library will pull from nearby libraries for a fee (like $2/work I think?), or I can use my card at those same libraries for free (just need to return to the same library), but AFAIK they don’t pull from anything beyond that. We’re a relatively small city (like 30-40k people), so maybe things are different downtown.

University libraries, however, will pull from pretty much everywhere, and they have access to a ton of online academic resources.

Well, except trademark and fraud. But there are plenty of workarounds to that.

The original 14-year duration w/ an optional renewal is pretty fair IMO. That’s long enough that the work has likely lost popularity, but not so long that it’s irrelevant. Renewals should be approved based on need (i.e. I’m currently living off the royalties).

The current copyright term in the US is utterly atrocious.

Oh, we should also consider copyright null and void once it’s no longer available commercially for a “reasonable” price. As in, if I can’t go buy the book or movie today for a similar price to the original launch (or less), then you should lose copyright protections.

What does that even mean though? Like, you would retain the ability to sell and modify it but not a monopoly on free distribution?

I think 10-15 years, i.e. the original copyright act in the US (14 years) is totally fair, and allow a one-time renewal if you can prove it’s still available for purchase and losing copyright would impact your livelihood or something.