There is always something you can do. Come down off the ketamine and pay attention to the controls, Major.

I’m primarily interested in the opinions of people who are not at least one of male/hetero/cis; it’s too easy for the privikeged group to delude themselves about how good they are behaving.

1. Control and privacy. The server does exactly what I choose, not somebody’s business model.
2. Once you have other users, it’s not a hobby anymore. People are not amused by downtime.
3. The w3schools.com tutorials have been good for me.

Apparently its already happened… https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/22/2256891/-Trump-refuses-to-accept-he-s-not-running-against-Biden-anymore

They only wish, that’s why they are so angry.

Starting the pool on how long till TFG forgets who he’s now running against and starts rantng about Biden at a rally.

I used a PineBook 2 as a secondary machine, daily, for a couple of years. I never felt constrained by the CPU architecture, barely noticed it mostly. I stopped using it because it fell apart physically, but it was perfectly stable. I’d get another if I could get a sturdier one.

Usually. You already know the answer to that…

Linux might not do everything you want it to, at least not easily, but it usually doesn’t do things you didn’t ask for, unlike all proprietary OSs these days.

Piracy is increasingly becoming the only reasonable answer.

I got the CD a little later, it’s still in the basement somewhere. All of it ran on a 386 in an XT fold open casse, with a monochrome graphics card and an amber CRT display.
If you needed more grognard nostalgia.

Dry sherry in tomato sauce, soups, or anything with beef in it.

Slackware 1.1, downloaded from s BBS as a large pile of floppy disk images, in late 1993.

Two things, one you care about and one you might not. The one you care about: you can set up a service in isolation. You can then test it, make sure it works, and switch over to it once you are sure, with almost no downtime. This is important for things you actually need to use. Once you do something like breaking your primary email server, you will understand. Also, less important, you can set up a service on, say, a VM at home, and move it to a VPS, without having to transfer the entire image, and it will work the same. The one you don’t care about. That last bit about moving servers around is important for cloud providers who turn these things on and off all the time.

name.com. I don’t remember why I picked them, but they do no BS and the service is fine.

Uncontrollable Urge with a boner

Ooh, thanks, I should have checked that.

Likewise. I have been running it for years, almost no problem that I can think of. My setup is pretty vanilla, Apache, MySQL. It’s running in a container behind a reverse proxy. I keep it as up to date as possible. Only 3 people use mine, and I don’t use very many apps: files, notes, bookmarks, calendar, email.

I was using MyFitnessPal, but now enshittified, which is why I’m asking.

Everything in a corporation exists to benefit the corporation.