Rule of thumb I learned and never validated:

Two it starts, with three it can become an issue, with four it might affect the underlying permanent teeth - and there is no difference between thumb or pacifier.

It is. They’re solving the problem with threats, money and patience.

Fuckers.

Perhaps reframing it helps: this list is helpful because you can show how short it is.

Treat it more like a communication and transparency offensive instead of a buy-this guide.

As so often in life: there is no line! If you are immersed in the game then it is, really that simple!

“Immersion” itself doesn’t have an absolute clear definition, people sometimes mean “feel like a part of it” and sometimes “getting lost in”. Both is fine :)

For games specifically it’s along the lines of “what does a majority feel”? To give a specific example: Legend of Zelda is often described as an immersive game - and I never saw why, just accepting that for many people it seems to be.

“not enough space in the used server for a standard power unit”

I wanted to put a dedicated graphics card in there for interference experiments - but the server is, well, a server - and those high availability PUs are expensive and a hell to cable manage

But a Dremel I had at hand … And a second PU as well. Now my server has a second power unit which is only powering the graphics card and is short circuited to be always-on.

self-made problems require self-made solutions.

Sounds reasonable. I’d you, like me, need to protect yourself from sabotaging your own system you could even make NAS documents read only to force a manual step in before editing there.

For me the amount of items that should be there are zero following my own concept … But for some (especially shared sheets specifically) I’m too lazy.

Perhaps I should listen to my own advice here zzz

Paperless specifically: yes, shoving everything in it.

But I have honestly no idea what kind of data you have that are suitable for paperless AND have different versions.

I just checked mine, for me it’s… Zero. Not a single item, by definition, is in Paperless that can receive an update.

If it’s updatable personally I have everything version controlled - and I mean EVERYTHING, from CV over tutorials to construction ideas - hosted locally on forgejo.

Hey, Welcome! You’re having a wonderful and sometimes exhausting journey in front of you :)

I’ll just brain dump based on your questions and my associations. Hope something useful is in between!

First the basic setup options because they tie into how to handle your date flow:

basic Most popular I think is docker compose: here I suggest splitting it into one compose file per service though with one file holding your port config. This prevents you yourself getting confused by your port mappings :)

Second in line is a proxmox setup - similar vein and I lack the hands-on experience to talk about the difference.

Then there’s the “everything native” approach where you don’t rely on containers but manage it yourself or via a dedicated OS that makes life easier (after the learning curve) like nixos.

DATA

All this foundational stuff is important because it changes your approach. In general: don’t fear data duplication. Duplicate it until you learn where you want your data to life and only then define your flow.

Specific example: after I got used to paperless I don’t look into my opencloud anymore, at all. I still duplicate them there but as distributed backup, not for consumption.

If a dataset has a clear place ten it’s easy. If not then your options are different depending on your setup: For the *arr stack the official recommendation is to use one shared folder and mount that into each part for example. I personally don’t like that and have hard links for everything - that’s basically a pointer to the file that looks like the file itself everywhere. As long as one pointer exists the file still stays on your drive but when the last pointer is gone, the file is effectively deleted. On Linux, you can think of every file this way but by default only one pointer exists (which often people test as synonymous to “the file”. Drawdown: this only works really well if you manually keep either track of which tool links where or you don’t containerize everything.

Again a specific example: My downloaded torrents never get moved - instead hard links are created into whichever path and naming scheme I defined for each consumer - this way, out of murdrrbot_07.mp3 a new author/series/booktitle.mp3 was created, both pointing to the same data and seeing it as a proper file.

But then there is one more thing: I suggest you split your thinking into data consumption and manipulation - because for the first, data duplication doesn’t matter. Especially for documents you’re talking about a ridiculous small amount of disk space and if it’s only reading/watching/hearing you as manager have no problem that data might exist multiple times.

If you want to keep it clean by design then you’re leaving the starter mode self holster - welcome to system design and infrastructure architecture! Here your approach could be to define lifecycles for each data type that you have. What a “data type” is in this context btw is a user term, NOT the underlying tech stack. You need to understand and document how an invoice should be treated and consumed by you differently than an invitation or a informal letter. Only then do you map file types, incoming channels, transformation steps, etc etc.

In my opinion: huge overkill to this upfront.

In short: spin everything up, observe how you use it and only then decide where things need to stay unique and cleaned up. Don’t break your head over something that’s actually quite easy to repair!

Yeah makes sense! I find it weird personally that I can go “oh yeah 7mio that’s not a lot” but at the same time “2 bucks for an ice cream scoop are you out of your fucking mind?!”

With the author and de facto owner being a translator who says it isn’t enough. He is dependent on engagement more than anything else I suspect.

To be clear: I’m not suspecting him of having been bought to write this - but he clearly has a hate boner for anything AI, isn’t from a software background and wrote an opinion piece with several statements that a re factually incorrect to reinforce a point he’s trying to create to get exactly posts like this.

“AI is a tool for maintainers” says Linus and everyone’s losing their shit it seems.

I wonder whose money is behind this article, redefining some of the biggest overall tech companies in the world, all highly dependent on Linux, as “AI companies”.

Just curious, what makes you think this is a lot?

Red cross, doctors without borders, Firefox are three that jumped into my mind. I don’t know their legal constructs in detail but Médecins Sans Frontières in their finance report 2024 described half a billion in available assets.

The Linux Foundation is quite small compared to the amount of projects they coordinate in my opinion and I’m surprised to read that you perceive this amount as a lot - that’s why I’m curious where your feeling comes from! (Note: im trying to learn,not bias to “it’s not a lot” is quite weird to me as well, talking about millions of dollars after all)

So called root servers are registered with the IANA. They are basically the seeds for the federation. There are rules what these root servers need to do and how they can be queried - and from those few servers it gets spread around the world - but not federated as in “everyone can write back”, there are rules who can add what when.

They also tell who owns top level domains (.com, .net, .de, etc). The other replier is wrong: they do not sell individual domains.

Oi boy!

The very short answer is: yes. Usually it’s called psychological biases and literally everyone has them - even people who are studying them daily, to be very clear. They just become way more self aware.

The reason is simple: our brains are gooey, bad calculators - but awesome pattern recognizers. Even if there are no patterns.

This leads to things we observe to be “clear” to us - but our own behavior needs a lot of mental effort to be observed by one self.

Just think about a normal dialogue and try to think about your body language, tone of voice, body odor, social appearance and all the other micro information you’re sending out - while talking.

It’s less about a double standard and more about what we evaluate about ourselves ehwne not investing additional effort.

Yes and it’s a personal benchmark of mine for a doctor how they talk about pain - because this is by now such well studied that I don’t understand how people like OP described are still allowed to do what they’re doing.

I can just tell you that it’s not universal: several doctors I’ve seen and know are very cautious when it comes to pain - both from own experience (“we will go strong with the pain killers for the best two days to prevent stress reaction from the body”) to others (“we need to get the chronic pain under control fast, otherwise there’s the risk of phantom pain developing even after we’ve tackled the issues”) (not verbatim quotes of course but the gists).

It might not even be US generic but a regional or age thing in the doctors you’ve met - remember that usually everyone one of us has only a very limited insight into the whole medical industry.

I’m similar to you in terms of pain tolerance and I’ve walked away from a doctor who talked shit about pain in patients - but I’ve head way better experiences before so that didn’t feel like I’m being stuck with this one medical “professional”.

Wishing you the best of luck though! It’s absolutely terrible when people don’t take you seriously, especially if it’s their job to help you :(

You miss the consumption pattern behind streaming though: I don’t want (and literally can’t afford to) …

• buy 1000 child song albums but still want to have kids around to enjoy their flavor of the month music
• Explore music on the side: I can’t buy every new album to listen to it on my own terms and I’m not music head enough to hunt and research music, instead I use streaming as a discovery mechanism on the side, sometimes just jumping into stuff ice never even seen.
• Afford the integration time: a single streaming service can easily be used for everyone in my household and customized without any overhead. A five year should be able to choose their music and I can’t so that id they need an app (no phones) or get accustomed to different interfaces.

This is not intended to take away from your core point: (direct) purchase is a better way of giving money to artists, second only to direct donations (i can’t talk about concerts because of the whole venue discussions I’ve heard on the side).

Now comes the tough part:

On paper it’s straight forward for me: just donate like 10 or 20 bucks a month to your personal flavor of the month - but … To whom? I just checked, today alone were 20 artists played.

The shitty thing is, and I’m sharing this to perhaps shame me into acting: this is quite easily solvable, but I just don’t invest the energy needed to figure it out for me.

Sorry for the long rant style, tldr is:

I have no use for owning albums, streaming provide a true value for me and I’m (realizing after writing this) obviously too cheap, stupid and lazy to give bak.

Though this is a severe exploit, note that you need already user access to the machine to use it.

Dor like … Everyone here who learns from it cis this need it’s likely a non issue. Still good practice to fix but if you didn’t share your user space this will not be the attack vector you will fall victim to - most likely.

That’s sich a Mac answer it’s unbelievable.

Describing “A project aimed to be agnostic of it’s environment” as a design mistake and not a inherent flaw of the OS is… Just wow.

Remember in this thread it’s about the pro and con of Macos as interference hardware. This is a major flaw which comes baked into the hardware. I tested it and find it an unacceptable limitation. It’s important for others to know.

To state “containerization is the issue” though… Just wow.

Depends what you want to do… For example I didn’t get python whisper in a container to run on Mac in any way that can be called “performance” and I don’t want my dev workflow to optimize for an OS I despise :D