I wouldn’t say setting up a reverse proxy (to your home LAN) is painful. Its just generally Ill advised. Its painful if compromised.

Oh that’s gonna be a lot of sensitive info.

It does work for this use case.

You don’t need to, you can use wire guard.

Mullvad is the only VPN you can pay for with cash and actually remain untraced.

I didn’t say you need it. I strongly recommend the as a provider.

No I am talking about creating a secure tunnel.

Secure tunneling.

1. Mullvad

2. Mullvad

3. Mullvad.

Broadcom fucked themselves.

I have never seen competitors to VMware do so well in my long career in IT.

Overnight, everyone wants Nutanix and Red Hat.

This tendency for people, particularly in tech, to downplay the successes and up-play the failures of AI will never cease to amaze me. Let’s keep pushing those goalposts!

It’s such a hard to articulate naivete. Like, yeah if you ask basic-ass in-browser Gemini or Chatgpt to fix your broken Arduino project without giving it proper context to tear through everything, you’ll have bad results. No one who is telling you AI is a force to be reckoned with doesn’t realize that.

When you set a project up correctly, anyone who knows how AI works is not surprised to see it patch binaries, in BIOS or anywhere else.

Asking it to do something stateful and context heavy (your Arduino project) without proper context is a fools errand.

I digress.

D’oh.

Yep. My b. WordPress or bust, really. You can mess around with drupal or Joomla, but WordPress will be the lowest barrier to entry for self hosting.

I agree, I only include it as a “woah this WordPress stuff is confusing!” lower barrier to entry.

Try WordPress first. If they’re absolutely stuck, wix is a lot more beginner friendly. But yes, beware of the downsides to having your hand held.

Use WordPress. It’s by far the most used content management platform, so if you’re a beginner, you’ll find the most resources. It’s also free and open source.

Then you can, if you want to make it even easier, use a page builder like Elementor or Divi or something. Or not.

There’s also Wix for very simple page builds.

Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?

The whole anti Google holier than thou is annoying at these levels.

Ok fine, don’t use Google. But telling your friends and loved ones to switch email providers over your crusade is worse than vegans telling you about their diet.

I’m all for kicking Google to the curb. I’m not for shoving my beliefs down other people’s throats.

Man, I don’t know. I wanna know too.

I got a refurb drive in 2019 that has been clicking and rumbling a little to moderately for 6 years now. Great value at this point, but it’s replacement is gathering dust…

Yesterday:

<nav script="dropdown.js" style="dropdown.css">
  <button onclick="toggleDropdown()">Menu</button>
</nav>

Today:

// index.js
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import './global.css';
import App from './App';

ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')).render(<App />);

// App.jsx
import Dropdown from './components/Dropdown';
import './App.css';

export default function App() {
  return (
    <main>
      <Dropdown />
      <p>Hello, world!</p>
    </main>
  );
}

// components/Dropdown.jsx
import { useState } from 'react';
import styles from './Dropdown.module.css';
import ArrowIcon from '../assets/icons/ArrowIcon.jsx';

export default function Dropdown() {
  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
  return (
   <div className={styles.dropdown}>
      <button onClick={() => setOpen(!open)}>Menu <ArrowIcon /></button>
      {open && (
        <ul>
          <li>Option 1</li>
          <li>Option 2</li>
        </ul>
      )}
    </div>
  );
}

Having 0 documentation doesn’t mean you have no DLP strategy. That’s amateur hour.

And again, NB: this does not scale.

I operate on the philosophy that it is better for me to relearn things than lean on old documentation that may no longer be accurate/relevant.

The best way to implement a safe connection to my home lab today might not be the safest way tomorrow.

Old dog, new tricks, etc.

Also! Your documentation is an attackers wet dream.

NB: this philosophy doesn’t scale.

It is ok to admit you are wrong.

Jesus Christ, your obnoxious.

Blocked.

I’m done arguing. Not gonna respond to whatever fedora fanboy nonsense to follow.

Ubuntu holds around 30 percent of the Linux desktop market. Fedora sits around 1 to 2 percent. Ubuntu focuses on Long Term Support stability, massive community documentation, seamless hardware driver support, and minimizing breakage for new users. Fedora deliberately pushes bleeding-edge kernels, experimental libraries, and rapid changes that regularly introduce breakage. Beginners do not need the newest kernel version or experimental features. They need stability, predictability, easy troubleshooting, and access to a massive community when things go wrong. Fedora is excellent for intermediate users who know how to fix their own problems. It is irresponsible to recommend a testing ground distro to someone who is still learning how to use the terminal.

If Fedora were actually a good beginner distro, it would dominate beginner spaces like r/linux4noobs, It does not. Fedora is respected, but it is not designed for beginners. Even Fedora’s own documentation assumes technical competence that a first-time Linux user will not have.

It is objectively not a good distro for beginners. Not even Fedora thinks it’s a good distro for beginners. Your arguments make no sense. I certainly don’t care to hear anymore of them.

Good day.