And this is…safe? I know we do things now different on immutable distros, but I’m used to the old repo-thing where I had at least a little bit of control over the supply chain. Now it’s just “hey we download something from somewhere, it’s cool ,trust us”?

My problem at the moment is: where does all that come from? It downloads some stuff from somewhere and I have zero control?

I know this is a little bit silly, but I’m old and I was used to have at least a little bit of influence onn my repos and package managers. Now it looks like there is so much going on in the background that I feel uncomfortable again (actually why I switched from Windows).

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Lots of things, hardware and software, broke in my hands

Some of us call it a talent and made a career out of it…

I tried wireless and the connected docking station with same results. The download speed is abysmal, it sits idle for minutes before showing something like 50-100KiB/s.

There’s another PC with Bazzite in the same network that works fine, but as I remember the update scripts are different between deck and desktop images. (Desktop runs silent in the background, Deck is manual).

This will run the whole night…new install would have been 15 min.

Not cool #Bazzite

No need to go down the conspiracy road, I just don’t want to give money to that evil company. As soon as Graphene runs on Fairphone I’m switching from e/OS.

I didn’t say I never met someone with these traits, in fact we had a major nutcase in our family. Fully diagnosed. That’s why I refuse to let these people ruin my life, took me long enough to get over the initial damage. I know how hard it is for survivors.

“Don’t know, don’t care” was my answer to the question what I think about “an entire planet populated ONLY with narcissists, sociopaths, & psychopaths.”

You need a bank that supports it, we use it in the family for money gifts to the kids. Haven’t seen a commercial application so far.

Here is another readme about the state: https://www.taler.net/en/ngi-taler.html

Some banks, mainly cooperative banks, already work with it. But it’s again one of those systems that doesn’t make them money, so I suspect it will die a slow death.

It exists, it is called GNU Taler

I actually don’t have questions, because we are almost in the same boat. But I never went to a doctor to get a proper diagnosis. I have that endless empathy, even towards the worst people. I can always see and understand both sides of an argument. Very strong sense for justice and euqality, like you, but on a extremely unhealthy level (I had 2 burnouts). And I don’t have filters like normal people (light, sound, emotions, etc.), but that is probably just high-functioning autism or something like that. I will give my last shirt to you, even if you don’t need it. That’s why we are so prone to be exploited by “normal” people.

Narcisists and sociopaths are no real danger for me, because I can smell them from 3 miles away. I will bounce as soon as my spider-senses tingle and they will never see or hear from me again.

And here’s the real burden for me: while most people and psychopaths/sociopaths in particular can’t make an emotional connection to another person, I can almost “feel” every emotion, even in high crowded areas. It is really hard to explain, especially in another language than my own.

And that’s why I think we are on the other side of a spektrum, but without a label. Maybe HSP (highly sensitiv person), but there’s not much research in that field.

What do you think an entire planet populated ONLY with narcissists, sociopaths, & psychopaths

Don’t know, don’t care. The obsession with these traits in modern days is bonkers. There are countless books, films, podcast, insert mass produced media here. Because that stuff sells.

I want to hear and talk about the other end of the spektrum! You have your psychopaths, but what would you call people with exact opposite characteristics? People who can’t hurt anybody, even if they are in harms way themselves. People that do everything for others, nothing for themselves. There’s not even a scientific name for that. Unconditional empathy? Empathists?

Aw man, that 10/10 thing reminds me of my Reddit-days, mainly trees and microgrowery. I know it was silly, because your 10/10 is my 4/10. Haven’t seen this in a long time.

The Russian Playbook? I think that’s what it’s called. Or “Russian Presidential Roulette”.

Edit: I think I have to explain, not everyone is old enough to remember who Medvedev is and what kind of a tool he was for Putins domination.

Sorry you went through that.

Me? Who said that was me? I never said that. How rude. Nothing like that could ever happen to a brilliant guy like me. No, you shut up!

I still haven’t put anything of consequence on the VPS

Maybe keep it that way? It’s just not worth it in the end. If you just want to play with new tech on a VPS, have at it. But maybe without important data, and make sure to tell every user of your services about the risks. Because in the end, you are responsible. You are not Microsoft, a company that was never held accountable for billions in corporate damages through cyber-securitty bullshit.

I like what you are doing, but I want to tell a little story for educational purposes:

Once there was an IT pro (like in “it’s their job to do stuff like that for money, but with a team and funds”) who thought he’s smarter than the internet and started selfhosting on a VPS for the family. Nothing dramatic, just some nextcloud stuff and games for the kids. Everything was secure and always up-to-date, backups to multiple locations, the works.

This worked for years, but one night Mr. Smartypants made a tiny config change that needed to be reversed for full security. But he forgot about it. And it took only 3 hours for a bad actor to exfil all data and burn the VPS to the ground. And that was before AI started to roam the web…

You get the idea: you can do everything right, but then you will make that one tiny mistake or forget an update. With the internet at its actual state you can asume all your data will be compromised or gone at some point. Just make sure that’s ok for you.