There are lot of synonyms, people just choose some words in different contexts based on how they sound. Why use the word “begin” when the word “start” exists?

Damn, would’ve been obvious from from the username and post history. If I’d bothered to look at that. Thanks for your comment.

Jucky

Much of it might be freely available data, but there’s a huge difference between you accessing a website for data and an LLM doing the same thing. We’ve had bots scraping websites since the 90’s, it’s not a new thing. And since scraping bots have existed we’ve developed a standard on the web to deal with it, called “robots.txt”. A text file telling bots what they are allowed to do on websites and how they should behave.

LLM’s are notorious for disrespecting this, leading to situations where small companies and organisations will have their websites scraped so thoroughly and frequently that they can’t even stay online anymore, as well as skyrocketing their operational costs. In the last few years we’ve had to develop ways just to protect ourselves against this. See the “Anubis” project.

Hence, it’s much more important that LLM’s follow the rules than you and me doing so on an individual level.

It’s the difference between you killing a couple of bees in your home versus an industry specialising in exterminating bees at scale. The efficiency is a big factor.

IDK guys, do you think a web browser should be a “broader ecosystem of trusted software” or a web browser?

It’s absolutely not true either. Just because an authoritarian has the power to act “quickly”, you think that they will always act in the right way to handle a crisis? An authoritarian will act in any way they themselves see fit to “handle” a crisis, without any or much need for approval.

Do you think that the Roman empire always acted in the correct way to handle the problems it faced, even when the imperator had full control over the senate? This is only true if you define “effective” as “authoritarian”, like Russia seems to do here.

My absolute favourite thing about them is that they allow me to play games designed for mouse and keyboard from my bed! Like any old PC games (fallout, wasteland, baldurs gate, etc).

I don’t play enough “first person” games to have any valuable input, but when I’ve played things like Elder Scrolls I’ve honestly preferred using the track pads for controlling the camera.

Indeed. I very much liked the original steam controller in concept, but the execution left a lot to be desired. Like not using the most “plastic” feeling controller I’ve ever touched…

Yeah I love that I can play old PC games from my couch! I recently played through Fallout 1 (partly) on the Steam Deck. Amazing times.

I used to think XBox controllers were the best controllers on the market. I still think they’re very good. That changed when I held the Steam Deck for the first time. The feel is better overall, and in my opinion the track pads are such an obvious and great improvement on the traditional controller design.

Nowadays when I use other controllers, they just feel “bare bones” and like they’re missing something.

Wtf is mayonnaise salad

I’m from the country side and I very much like easy access to nature, but New York is a great city, especially with all the parks! The subway is bomb

Oh, alright! I didn’t know that. Thank you for the info, that’s handy to know.

Maybe because it’s not an obviously wanted feature? But I’m just guessing. You should request it and see what happens, maybe more people want it. I’ve never even thought about it, since in the case of Podman/docker it’s so “obvious” and easy to just mount network shares to the host first. And in the case of Kubernetes you can just mount NFS shares directly into pods.

That sounds amazing! So sad I missed it. Although I doubt they ever played many shows in Sweden, or even Europe.

Damn, wish I’d seen them on stage even once. I remeber hearing “I came around” randomly on some spotify playlist some years ago and immediately sold. Haven’t listed to them in some time, but will definitely listen through and album tonight! Thanks, OP, for this reminder.

Ubuntu doesn’t allow pip to install system wide stuff anymore. You can solve that by installing everything in a pyhton virtual environment.

But for real, use Docker/Podman instead. It’s a lot easier, especially if you’re managing several applications!

The Beeline is definitely powerful enough to run a hypervisor, so I would do that if I were you. Proxmox is a very good product and easy enough to use. Personally I use Harvester (with Rancher) but that might be a bit daunting if you’ve not used Kubernetes before.

I would recommend running Proxmox as your OS, spin up a few Debian virtual machines and run your services (Nextcloud, plex/jellyfin, …) with Docker containers. I would personally use Podman, as I think it’s the simpler one to use, but there might be more documentation online for Docker, I’m not sure. But do definitely use containers! You’ll thank yourself in 6 months.

For reverse proxy I would suggest using Traefik, especially is your using Docker/Podman. But there are other good solutions like Nginx Proxy Manager, which has the advantage of being very easy to use. But I do run Traefik on every Podman server I have or any Kubernetes cluster. That way I can just have a wildcard DNS entry for an IP and then every proxy route will just work, whitout having to touch the DNS further.

Also, just a general tip: look into how you can deploy everything using a GitOps flow. Whether that just be with Ansible or more specialized solutions (Kubernetes with ArgoCD or FluxCD is very well suited for this). Look into Terraform/OpenTofu. This last point is nowhere necessary, but if you ever (like me) get tired of forgetting how you setup your infrastructure (virtual machines, application deployments and configuration, etc) you’ll love GitOps.

Oh, but do definitely look into Ansible for configuring your servers. It will save you a lot of time in the long run.

OpenSUSE MicroOS or Fedora CoreOS. If you’ll be using containers you’ll have a great time. If you don’t want to deal with transactional systems, then there is literally nothing I’d rather use than Debian.

I haven’t used Jellyfin with docker before, just with podman and as a pod in k3s. Both work great and are easy to maintain. If you’re more familiar with podman then docker, then I’d recommend using podman.

Just make sure to mount your volumes with the :z or :Z flags. I have disabled SELinux on servers in the past, but never when I’ve just used podman containers, since “it just works” with SELinux. Literally never had any problems with containers and SELinux.