It’s great for your mental state.

Just be aware of any filter bubble you might create. If you block every person that has an opposite perspective, you’ll fall into your own echo chamber.

You seem to imply you also want to selfhost some email service. But that’s sadly one of the few things that will always be better at a trusted third party email provider.

Besides that it seems the most important thing you want is pure data storage, and that kind of selfhosting is not hard. In many cases one would not even consider it as part of “selfhosting” as it can be as simple as a local NAS or external HDD.

So my question is what do you actually want to accomplish? Because I think for a lot of your concerns you don’t even need to go and host something.

Pretty decent, but there’s a few things I think should be improved:

• Logos !!!
• Instead of having a chain of distros as an answer, make a nice group and don’t point towards any one of them. I’m still trying to figure out if you have some sort of ranking going on.
• The split after “Windows or Mac? -> Mac -> <similar> or <similar and user friendly>” is weird and should probably be a question and differently phrased.
• Immutability is misspelled and not explained. The gradient also makes it looks more special than the others (while it’s just a difference). Maybe an asterisk with an explanation at the bottom would be better for this.
• At one point you use “Please” instead of “Yes”. I understand the joke, but people who could actually use this flowchart might not.
• SteamOS is not a viable distro choice. (For now at least) I would suggest removing it until it actually becomes one.
• “Are you a developer” has 4 answers but could be split into “Yes” and “No” with their own GPU questions.
• White on yellow/orange is hard to read.
• White on pink is readable but could be made easier to read.
• Maybe a better font would great too
• You could also add some Lemmy/Reddit/forum URLs where users could get Linux help.
• You could also add some information like “Just looking for a Linux laptop? Buy System76” or something (I’m not up to date with decent Linux laptop vendors)

You are open to critique so I hope you don’t mind this many points.

I was looking into both of these and it really looked like the fork was supposed to be the continuation of the original one. So this news doesn’t come as a surprise.

If UAC bypasses weren’t left unpatched I would have kept my own one so I could reign chaos as soon as Microsoft drops it.

You know what, I’m keeping it anyways, so I can prove an argument by telling you about it.

I’m sure many malware developers have tons of exploits ready for when support is dropped.

But Rust is super safe and protects against bugs and exploits!!!

You can probably get it working with some outside help.

Maybe !linux4noobs@programming.dev

I’ll get that info as soon as something breaks, I guess.

I guess this looks like WSL on Windows, except the other way around?

For developers in similar situations, where the corporate overlords make your life miserable; use dead man’s triggers Instead of a simple killswitch: manually start handling certificates, introduce memory leaks that you can easily clear, have excessive disk filling logs that you can daily clear, and all kinds of other stuff that is a perpetual dumpster fire that you extinguish as part of your job. Oh, and don’t forget to forget commenting and documenting. The next developer should instantly learn the pressure they have been putting on you.

In many cases you get hired for having the knowledge and experience instead of just having skills.

I have all variations of quit and exit in CS2 aliased.

I’m sure there’s drama within any sort of closed source software company too. Although most of that drama will instead be project managers (the evil of this world) forcing their bullshit into the face of developers, until those developers burn out and start a potato farm.

The point is not about the app not working, the point is that many free VPN apps rent out your own IP address, often malicious.

Look for “residential proxy providers” and somehow these providers can offer you millions of IP addresses.

I use a Hetzner Storage Box as extra storage to my Hetzner VPS. It almost feels like the storage is directly attached. We serve thousands of archives and binaries and have absolutely no problems. It’s fast and decently reliable (except some downtime I once experienced). The initial file access time might not be the best but the bandwidth is great.

Because they know it’s not accurate and explicitly mention it so you know where this information comes from.

This.

They also have a form to submit AI crawlers.

CloudFlare can also easily maintain an anti AI crawler service completely by itself if it takes a fee on top of their pay per crawl functionality. However, considering CloudFlare already has all the tools and infrastructure to do this cheaply, providing a good service wouldn’t be too hard.

I think that’s a very big stretch and I don’t think we’ll see that any time soon. Microsoft is already losing market share and they can’t do much more of this type of stuff because more and more people are getting annoyed. (Including ones with a following such as PewDiePie)

Anyways, Linux is great.

You realize this’ll occur at the expense of Microsoft treating the user as an untrustworthy enemy.

What do you mean? Take away your ability to create drivers? Because it’s already extremely limited and you need to get signed. I guess this “change” would just mean not signing any new antivirus drivers.

This means modding (even for offline play) will not be allowed. Heck, even modify ini files might be viewed as “hacking”.

That’s a completely wrong take. Whether or not an anticheat runs in the kernel or not does not mean people can just go and edit their files. Even with a kernel level anticheat people can already do that if the driver is not running. The correct way is to do purity checks during connection to an online server, and only allow serverside code to update the gamestate. Any texture file hacks and local purity bypasses for those would need to be caught by the userland anticheat, like it has been done for ages. Not the best solution, but far more privacy friendly.

I agree removing the need for anti-cheat in principal sounds nice, but this means archiving games or porting them to “unsupported platforms” will be relics of the past.

Another weird take. Are you talking about the anticheat not being installable anymore? Because even if a game comes with a kernel level anticheat it would need a valid certificate, so any dead game would eventually have this problem regardless of it being allowed to install the driver. Porting games would in almost all cases get rid of the anticheat or somehow null it, disable any custom servers from forcing a valid anticheat, stuff like that. And archiving would be much easier without any anticheat at all, again regardless of kernel anticheat or userland anticheat.

MUCH better solutions against hacker are to use all this amazing machine learning stuff on the server side, put more power back into the hands of admins and their selfhosted servers, and handle reports about hackers better and faster.

I guess the trick is to not look for stuff to host because you’ll end up with all kinds of things you weren’t doing in the first place.