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Further proof that humanity neither deserves nor is capable of having nice things.

Who would set up an AI bot to shit all over the one remaining useful thing on the Internet, and why?

I'm sure the answer is either 'for the lulz' or 'late-stage capitalism', but still: historically humans aren't usually burning down libraries on purpose.

I think you're both over- and under-thinking this.

First: if you go with a cloud provider, your provider is your hypervisor. If they don't directly and clearly offer the features (import, export, Windows, etc.) that you need, they're not the right choice.

On the subject of exporting images from the cloud to use locally, eh, that's not the most common feature. It does exist, but I've never seen a provider that does it in a way that's not a complete pain in the ass and/or is simple to use one you have the image, which sounds like something you might actually want. Someone giving you a qcow image of your disk does not necessarily make importing it and getting it back up on a local KVM system easy, for example.

It sounds like half of what you need is a decent laptop (Windows in the cloud kinda sucks for any application that's got any sort of GPU-accelerated component, still.) and the other half is just a Linux server somewhere running docker, be it VM, real hardware, or some box sitting in your closet at home.

(Edit: clarification: you can get a Windows VM that has a proper GPU passed thru to it, but they're expensive and if you don't get a GPU, then you just have basically software rendering, which limits what kind of software you can reasonably use with reasonable performance.)

Nothing you mentioned about your "future home server environment" can't be run on a VM, but I would comment that you're looking at a pretty expensive route if you go the VM path. Nextcloud, for example, will want ~3-4gb of ram to not utterly suck and be useless. A full *arr stack with something like qbittorrent can happily eat another 4-5gb. Add in Plex/Jellyfin? That's another 2-4gb there, too. And so on.

You might actually end up spending less on a dedicated box than you would on a VM, simply because the pricing for things like RAM are usually substantially better for real, actual, physical hardware once you get past like, 4 or 8gb.

I'd also recommend going with a containerized install for all this stuff: I bounce stuff around between servers and it's just a matter of lifting the data out of the bind mount and moving it to it's new home, and then a docker compose up and we're done.

TLDR: Cloud maybe fine, bare metal maybe fine: it comes down to budget and comfort with what you're willing to deal with.

Cletus from receiving

You don't need Cletus from receiving to do it. You just need to uh, suggest, to a certain portion of their clientele that a Redbox MIGHT have copper in it and boy it'd be a shame if it were to vanish, and I'm sure nature will take care of the rest.

Can you imagine Battle.net beating Steam, then the primary online digital distribution platform ending up being owned by Activision?

I get the icks just thinking about it.

Yeah, I run everything in containers, minus a couple of things like the nginx install that's doing reverse proxy work.

It's not clickable but it might be because I'm not caching/proxying images on my install (single user install, so really, no reason to do so) and that causes some other unexpected interactions.

But yeah, that looks like a dead SD card; the failed to mount the partition and then ext4 complaining it's in read-only mode is... probably not going to result in good things for your data :(

This is one of the main reasons why I've been a boring stick in the mud and stuck to com/net/org domain names for stuff I'm that I intend to use for anything that's going to be around for more than a short period.

Odds are they're not going to end up vanishing due to things utterly outside the control of, well, anyone or get sold to a horrible steward of them that jacks up prices insanely or does other stupid shit.

I will admit to owning a few .us domains, but as a US-ian, if the .us TLD vanished, I'm pretty sure my domain names would be very, very, very far down the list of shit I'm actually concerned about at that moment.

Your image is itty-bitty here in Lemmy-land, at least, but a dead SD card on HA is... unsurprising.

It might be recoverable if you plug it into a linux box and try to extract the data, but as for recovering it, it's the same as a dead hard drive: you might get data back, but the physical media is trash.

You probably want to NOT use a SD card and pick any other option (USB real SSD, NVMe hat, etc.) because, well, SD cards are not very good at this kind of use case. (HA writes a lot of historical data, and is basically always chattering away on the disk.)

Hey, they're fixing that. Soon. Really. Any day now. For reals!

(That's the #1 thing that makes Matrix utterly unusable for me: if there's more than like, 10 messages, it's a game of is-it-broken-or-is-it-just-crap.)

It was, IIRC, 3 separate breaches, plus a situation where the default KDF iterations on the vault was set to low as to actually make said encrypted data crackable.

The last I don't really blame them for necessarily, but rather shows that they weren't paying any attention to what their platform would actually protect against and what the threat landscape was and thus they never increased it and worse, when they did, they didn't force older vaults to increase it because it would be mildly inconvenient to users.

Basically, just a poor showing of data stewardship and if there's ONE thing you want your password manager to be good at, it's that.

Ah that makes a lot more sense: I had just assumed conscription was quite a lot longer than just a year for some reason.

It's certainly a good target if you wanted to criminalize the group of people you want to conscript since the overlap is probably pretty much 100%.

I'm self-hosting a VaultWarden install, and I'm doing it because uh, well, at this point I've basically ended up hosting every service I use online at this point.

Though, for most people, there's probably no real reason to self-host their own password manager, though please stop using Lastpass because they've shown that they're utterly incompetent repeatedly at this point.

Yeah, there is/was like a 1tb archive of various recordings that I used to fish out bits and pieces from.

...I then noticed that the quality was awful on a lot of that because it's almost certainly coming off 20 year old VHS tapes and being recorded in some combination of resolution and bitrate that could at best be considered 'low' and fell down the "AI" upscaling rabbit hole.

In case anyone wasn't aware, you can do a shocking amount of amazing upscaling shit for the low low investment of a GPU and a ton of power. (I used QualityScaler)

criminalize it so they can be forced to enter military service or go to jail

Sorry if I've missed something obvious, but how does Discord being legal or not in any way influence conscription policies which ALREADY carried join-or-go-to-jail, enforced by the people who have the guns?

Like, I'm not seeing the relationship.

ytDownloader, assuming it still works.

You have to find the links by hand, but wasn't really that bad for what I was doing, since I really only needed to snag about 50 videos or so to make the playlist rotation work out right.

I was doing something like this, using FakeTV and Plex/Jellyfin, and uh, sadly, the answer I came up with was that no, there's not.

I ended up combining a number of private torrents, usenet downloads, and a LOT of YouTube downloads into a Fake-MTV stream.

The good news, at least, is that if you're wanting anything remotely interesting to more than 3 people ever, someone has put the music videos on YouTube and thus those are easy to find. The channel announcements and news segments and other stuff that made MTV actually MTV was a lot harder, lol.

doubt it would happen in my lifetime honestly

We're at least 28 years into 'Totally year of the Linux desktop!', so I must say I'm afraid your right.

This has been a shockingly long-tail of inertia, and if people haven't started moving by now I can't see what exactly would suddenly cause people to decide to learn a new OS - which is a huge time investment - and all new software.

Maybe if Nadella starts breaking into people's houses and wrecking up the place?

Listen it's your fault that they're doing this since you didn't stop eating enough meat or recycle enough.

Nobody to blame here but you. Do better next time.

(/s just in case it's not clear.)

You can run some scripts that will update DNS resolution and reconnect if the connection goes inactive, but those aren't going to be something you likely can do on your phone. (Though, IDK, you might could if we're talking rooted android, but eh, I wouldn't want to rely on it).

Do you know WHY your connection fails? Is it JUST wireguard, is it your whole connection, does the IP change, etc? You might want to setup proper monitoring to see what exactly stops working when Wireguard does to see if it's specific to the service, or if your whole link goes down, or if your router is crashing and rebooting or any number of other problems you could be having.

Ubisoft MBA: Why is everyone so mean to us, we're only trying to take your money and provide you sub-par entertainment!