Pervasive surveillance is a hostile act. Abetting genocide and other crimes against humanity is a hostile act. Serving the rich at the expense of the poor is a hostile act.

How I learned the most was building a home server and figuring out all the problems along the way. LAN, WAN, VPN, iptables, DNS…

Avoiding studying for exams in 2007.

For sure. I was in a dying industry, and now I have the makings of a career. I would say: have a goal, map out the steps it will take to achieve it, then take the first steps!

The problem is organization. If we actually had strong, pervasive unions, we could have less-telegraphed strikes. I’m not suggesting this Mayday one is going to amount to anything, but just explaining that it takes time to organize millions of people that aren’t already in some sort of union.

I went back to school in my 40s and changed careers.

Use Ventoy to put a few different distros on a USB drive. Boot them up and try them out! You just want something you vibe with. Most of the suggestions here will be fine.

From my experience in IT, even those people use up all their RAM on browser tabs. Any user I support that has 8GB is complaining of poor performance.

States are killing people all the time, as are billionaires and corporations. I’ve got problems with the death penalty in practice too, but I’m not giving a single fuck about something like this.

I do your second suggestion. I have a cheap ($5/mo) vps from digital ocean that proxies all the traffic to/from my home server via wireguard. There’s a few tutorials out there that explain how to configure iptables to forward traffic from one network interface to another on the vps.

Spoiler: they won’t.

After yoloing it for years, I finally deployed an offaite backup this month. I also host on Nextcloud (at my house). While I do have a local disk backing up my Nextcloud install, I didn’t have any backups of the external media hosting my photos.

Finally, I ordered a 10TB external drive and plugged it into a raspberry pi I had sitting around. Using wireguard and restic, I now have an offsite backup at a friend’s house!

Is there any serious analysis that anticipates that? I mean, a flurry of meteor strikes could also do it, I suppose.

I left when they fucked over 3rd party apps.

There is no scenario in which Russia gives up control of Crimea. It is simply too strategically important.

For me, I find it sad. There is so much pressure on people (especially women) to look a certain way. I find beauty in uniqueness. When a certain “look” becomes fashionable, you see a lot of people get the same face. Then, you see people get “addicted” to the surgeries, and end up looking totally alien.

I set mine up with Debian and Swizzin community edition.

I’ve got a little NUC-type computer (Beelink or something) that runs Linux Mint. I like the desktop interface for switching between browser, YouTube apps and Jellyfin. We use a full size wireless keyboard with a trackpad.

They’re unlikely to act contrary to US imperial interests. As ever.

TrueAnon podcast goes pretty in depth on this particular cringe-fest.