I don’t think we should have the situations and lack of regulation that leads to billionaires, especially as it will likely continue to drain/erode the quality-of-life for everyone else to eventually lead to trillionaires…

I’d say it’s less that “things will get better on their own” and more “somebody else will take the steps/sacrifice to fix it”

Yup. I use credit a lot but also pay off my cards every pay period. I get that it sucks for merchants, but you know what sucks worse: getting cheated like this on a debit/cash transaction, or worse having your debit card skimmed.

A relative of mine had the latter and the bank froze her account for weeks while investigating. If it was a credit card they’d just freeze the transaction and maybe send you a replacement card with different #

This does seem like an important step. Like yeah, absolutely report this to the vendor but a theft also occurred so at least get a file going. Providing a police file # might have been enough to get them to refund as well

Or if you’re in Canada: London Drugs actually has decent service in their computer dept

You’re not the only one

I run backups to a USB drive which is way to grab in the event of an emergency. Just make sure you test them every more and again, and possibly only connect it when needed if you’re at all worried about malware (a cryptolocker will happily take out any attached storage if your machine is infected).

A lot of that stack looks similar to mine, though I’m running bigger hardware for various reasons. You might want to go with something with more cores than an i5 depending on how much you find yourself utilizing.

Have you considered Nextcloud for documents and syncing functionality? I went through a few ways of running it before ended up with the Snap package which has been fairly solid for over a year now (Docker was good for setup, but upgrading was problematic if not kept up with religiously)

Vaultwarden is Excellent.

Calibre-Web is good, especially if paired with the application to “extract” books, and an app like Moon+ on mobiles

Audiobookshelf is pretty solid. Pairs well with Libation.

HASS I initially ran on my server in a container but moved to dedicated hardware so updating and reboots didn’t break automatons. Got a HASS Yellow for the PoE and Zigbee.

If you’re looking for audio/video library management, JellyFin is pretty easy to get running and has apps for phones plus many TVs. Finamp is a good mobile app for the music part

I’ve been migrating to Soverin and like it thus far. I’ve only done email and my calendaring though.

https://soverin.com/

It’s not free but it’s also not overly costly.

You can also use a router that can run wireguard/openvpn and have that run the tunnel back to home for you. I’ve got a portable GL-Inet router with OpenWRT that I use for this when I’m on the road

Needs to be on state charges though or he’ll just issue a federal pardon

“maybe my military parade sucked because I haven’t actually started a war yet”

I very much assumed the little girl was dead, either by her mother’s hand or after being abandoned. So glad I’m wrong

They probably just walk around downtown and recruit from whomever has a cut-off shirt and a swastika tattoo

If that’s the case, I’m still hoping for clear skies with a well-placed lightning bolt

Watching their recent coverage of LA and NY I was kinda astounded by the slant on it.

That sounds kinda cool. I’ll have to check it out. It’s kinda hard sometimes to push FOSS stuff in a largercorporate environment but this looks like something I could recommend/build for small-mid private SOHO clients.

We’ve had the same thing with politicians in Canada. It’s gone from “he’s an asshole” to “but he’s OUR asshole”.

I think congratulation politicians - whether you live them or not - when they do good things is well warranted. Keep in mind that while many couldn’t give a shit about you or I, they DO like ego-stroking and attention so positive reinforcement can actually work well.

Honestly I’d rather less of him being f’ed by the bear and more demonstrating how he’s fucking the country while calling it patriotism

Used to run OpenVPN. Tried Wireguard and the performance was much better, although lacking some of the features some might need/want fit credential-based logins etc