I think Ontario has the craziest dichotomy here. You can live right in the middle of the biggest collection of surface freshwater on the planet, and it’s the fires that are most likely to get you.

Networking headaches are the main reason why I’ve done everything I can to get away from docker. I’ve had easier times spinning up an LXC container and building from source than I have had fighting with docker networking.

An optional function of HDMI that allows the device and tv to send/receive commands to each other. All modern TVs have it, and just about no PC hardware does.

If valve themselves aren’t going to do it, they should at least give dbrand or someone a licence to sell a companion cube skin. It’s too obvious not to.

Form factor and CEC are the big ones. There’s no PC you can build that will come anywhere close to the performance:size ratio of the steam machine. And getting CEC to work is possible, but not the easiest.

that complexity could easily be

That phrase has proven to be a source of endless headaches any time someone in charge is stupid enough to believe the person that tries to sell them that.

Single-user setups don’t need server-farm complexity.

True, but Linux devs only have a limited amount of time. It’s far easier to take a system that can handle server-farm complexity and apply it to a single user use case, than it is to take a system meant for single users and try to scale it up to a server farm, or to maintain two separate systems.

Do I have to? I feel like eating the muskrat is likely to cause a ketamine overdose.

It also starts to depend on how you define what a given service actually is. Plex has shifted from being a self hosted media server to essentially a streaming service that you can hook your own library to.

Inflation’s a bitch.

I believe in a society without cars. Or for that matter, any production that would require the structure of the machine. So Id be against asphalt, fertilizers, and sement to mention a few.

Sounds like what you are describing is doing away with modernity altogether. And that’s where you lose me and probably most people on the planet. There’s no way I’m going to endorse reverting back subsistence farmers. We already know that doesn’t solve anything. Pre modern civilizations were far from peaceful utopias.

The role of money is not about trust, it’s about simplifying exchanges. So if I’m a potato farmer in need of a chicken for dinner, I can just buy it from the chicken farmer. Without money, I would have to go to the chicken farmer, find out that he needs lumber, go to the sawmill, find out what he needs, and so-on until I find someone along the chain that actually needs my potatoes. That setup may be doable when we’re just talking about potatoes, but how are you going to scale that up and keep track of it amongst the 1000 or so people directly involved in making your car?

Money in its most basic form, is simply an IOU used to facilitate trade, instead of relying on a fractal of barter arrangements. Strip away all the systems and mechanisms we’ve surrounded it with, and I still don’t see how you are going to replace that core functionality until a star-trek style post-scarcity is actually achieved.

I’m guessing that a good chunk of that usage is coming from the TrueNAS VM.

That’s not blocking the fingerprinting, that obfuscating the data. The fact that you are doing that itself becomes part of the fingerprint being built. Services like Tor or Chameleon don’t stop the fingerprinting process running, they just make it more difficult (but not impossible) to tie the fingerprint to your actual identity.

That’s not the fingerprinting happening client side, that’s just information supply. Fingerprinting is about what the server does with that information.

You can’t really “block” fingerprinting. You can obfuscate it a bit, but the fingerprinting process happens server side, not on your device. So whether or not your system sends whatever age verification signal becomes a part of its fingerprint.

I was expecting civil discourse and a level-headed response.

He may have been hoping for that, but surely he didn’t truely expect it. The FOSS community can barely have a civil discussion about filesystems.

We are talking about legislation. Unless it’s very specifically targeted legislation, the conversation always is about the general public.

Then why would they be relevant to a discussion about legislation that affects the general public?