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What are some good hobbies/interests for someone in their mid thirties to pick up?
  • Okay, so you've got a load of ideas from other comments, but what I'm asking you is:

    What does anything of that have to do with you being in your mid thirties?

    I'm sorry, but I didn't get the memo about age or gender related hobbies.

    You don't need to be an 83y old hag to crotchet tea warmers, you don't need to be Tyler Durden to pick up boxing.

    Just do whatever you fucking want to do, okay? You're okay. And if anyone tells you you're not okay, kindly tell them to fuck off.

    Edit: Also, do not compare yourself to others. Ever. It's a hobby, not a career, you're not gonna get paid, so don't bother. Nobody says you need to be good at it.

    Edit 2: Remind me again why I’m being downvoted for saying this, lol? 🤡

  • Why are Americans so obsessed with dentistry?
  • Lol, nobody is forcing you to click on whatever links I post, IDGAF.

    I’m not your fucking research assistant, stop being an entitled %#$, do your own fucking research and…

    Stop spamming people’s inboxes just because you’re too fucking lazy to do a 2 min search.

    Edit: Alternatively, you can pay me 80€/h and I‘ll write an extensive paper about the dental health situation in the UK, happy to help.

  • Why are Americans so obsessed with dentistry?
  • What part of „it was the first link“ don’t you understand?

    Stop spamming people’s inboxes just because you’re too fucking lazy to do a 2 min search.

  • Why are Americans so obsessed with dentistry?
  • I’m old enough to have grandchildren and I know exactly zero people with veneers (in Germany – I do know people from the US with). Is this a contest?

  • Why are Americans so obsessed with dentistry?
  • Uh, yeah. Of course you can get private stuff. You can get that anywhere, lol. That was not the question.

  • Why are Americans so obsessed with dentistry?
  • You get orthodontics under German public health care, still US American teeth are something else entirely. It feels like basically everybody has veneers over there.

    And yes, the UK is something else, too, when it comes to dental health care. Not in a good way, mind you.

  • Why are Americans so obsessed with dentistry?
  • It’s not a secret (literally front page material) that over 10 million Brits cannot get dental healthcare they need. They’re pulling their own teeth at home, it’s completely unreal.

    Edit: source (yes i know, it’s the mirror, it was just the first link that popped up): https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/desperate-patients-extract-teeth-11million-29379748.amp

  • Current state of Reddit - No more free speech
  • What a great sub and mod team

    Until the day you write an extensive answer to a question, which is not released, and upon requesting an explanation why, you get a really weird response with criticism that doesn’t actually make sense, only to then find that the mod who responds to you (and who did not have any expertise at all on that topic) just took your comment, rewrote it, and posted it himself.

    Really great sub, that one.

  • Call out post for a particular karma farmer on kbin.social
  • I think the solution reddit had was quite reasonable. It didn’t go towards your karma, so mathematically it was 0. But psychologically, 0 has a negative connotation. Losing a match „to zero“ is bad, being called „a zero“ means you’re a loser. I remember when people signed up to facebook (yes, I’m that old, ask me about the browser war!) a friend came back with tears in their eyes: „I just registered and it told me I have zero friends! I know, facebook, thanks for nothing!“. So just awarding 1 karma just makes you feel better – even if it does nothing.

  • ELI5 resources for publishing self hosted services
  • sure thing.

    one more thing you might want to look into would be a VPN. setting up a wireguard VPN docker is not that difficult as well: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-wireguard

    there are some pros and cons about this:

    • pro: much more secure than having a nextcloud directly exposed to the internet! especially if you don't have an intrusion prevention system (e.g. fail2ban).
    • pro: saves you the hassle of DNS records, routing ports, SSL certificates. You only need to forward one port (usually UDP 51820) from your router to your local machine, and the wireguard client on your remote computer connects directly to your static IP.
    • pro: once you're connected to the VPN you can access your nexctloud directly at 192.168.1.127:8080
    • con: a bit less comfortable, since you cannot just open a browser and go to mybeautiful.homeserver.com, you need to connect to the VPN first
    • con: not as easy for sharing stuff, you cannot just say "here mamma, go to mybeautiful.homeserver.com, log in with user/password and then you can see my holiday pictures".

    depends on your use case. if you're all alone on the nextcloud or have technical people accessing it, I would definitely suggest the wireguard VPN

  • For those in the know about privacy laws and the such. What is a proper response to reddit's claim that they cannot remove all the information associated to an account without first the user removing
  • Doesn’t have to be your real name, the scope of Art 4 GDPR is quite broad. An Email address, e.g. fuckspez69@provider.com is personal data if it’s, even just theoretically, possible to identify you…

  • For those in the know about privacy laws and the such. What is a proper response to reddit's claim that they cannot remove all the information associated to an account without first the user removing
  • No, that's not true.

    The GDPR doesn't care how the personal data was obtained, that's why Art 4 GDPR specifically calls it "processing", not "collecting". However, it does protect only personal data: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/

    If you sent an Email to a company you could argue the same, that they were not "collecting" it, you handed the data in yourself. It doesn't work that way.

    That's why Art 15 GDPR allows you to demand a data takeout of everything they know about you, in case of Reddit that includes all your posts and comments.

    And of course the "right to be forgotten" (Art 17 GDPR) covers any of that data as well, but again only if it is personal data.

    Reddit now just says that with deleting your username they de-personalised the data, so it isn't covered by GDPR anymore. That's technically correct. But if you wrote a comment with personal data in the comment, e.g., "Hey, my name is Patrick Smithereens, I live on High Street 666 in 1312 Arblfarg" they would absolutely need to delete that.

  • ELI5 resources for publishing self hosted services
  • For "routing" your IP to your domain URL, you need to set up an A record in the DNS settings of your registrar: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/dns/dns-records/dns-a-record/

    (Provided you really do have a static IP, with DSL or cable connections you get a dynamic IP (either every day or with a reconnect). Then you'd need to look up something called "Dynamic DNS".)

    Then you need to forward some ports to your local machine, that is done in your router. Usually you can map any external port to any internal port, so you would just route all traffic that comes in on e.g. port 8000 to your local machine on port 80. (On a sidenote: what ISP blocks ports 80 and 443, lol? I'd switch ISP if possible).

    But your choice of internal ports don't really matter, because that's job is better left to the reverse proxy. I'd suggest "Nginx Proxy Manager", which is a nginx proxy with a very nice GUI that comes as a docker. It makes routing ports and especially obtaining SSL certificates a breeze. I find that way more accessible than traefic or caddy or basic nginx. You'll find lots of tutorials for this.

    So to recap: connect IP to URL with a DNS record at the domain registrar, forward some ports in your router, which ones doesn't really matter because you can just "bend" them anyway you like with the reverse proxy.

  • I love me some grassy trams
  • What does any of that have to do with trams that run every 5 minutes 🙄

    Edit: oh, I see, you're just a troll trying to stir up shit. Please get banned soon, thx.

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