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  • Yeah kind of totally agree. Trying to self host without using the terminal would be like trying to drive a car without touching the steering wheel with your hands. It’s possible but dangerous and cumbersome.

    Don’t let it scare you. Get something installed to let you build some VMs to play around without worries (Virtualbox, VM Workstation, parallels), and install a distribution like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and start to play. To self host all you really need is learning some basic file manipulation (move,copy,remove), how to edit text files (vi,emacs,nano), and the basic directory structure. That will get you 90% of the way there. When you see things like awk, sed, grep ask an AI to explain it, they are actually useful for that. These sort of commands start getting into advanced things like output redirection and regex which can be EXTREMELY confusing. Heck I have a CS degree, been in IT for almost 30 years, and I’ve been using Linux since the mid 90s and some of that still confuses me. So basically don’t fret if it’s too confusing, you are totally not alone. Play, screw up, try to fix it, curse, read a lot, try again, realize it’s toast, start over. Honestly I think I just described my job 😂

  • I remember Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” plan, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a sweeping missile defense program announced in 1983. The SDI aimed to protect the United States from nuclear attack by intercepting and destroying incoming Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) before they could reach American soil. Sound familiar??

    It was a boondoggle then and it’s a boondoggle now.

  • So very cute!!!

    I miss my beagles. It’s been over 15 years since they passed but they were such sweet dogs. Stinky, noisy, and shed a lot but so very sweet.

    Here’s an old pic of the first one, Babbage. My son is 23 now.

  • Weird.

  • Apparently you aren’t aloud to piss in public.

    As I cis dude I would pay you no attention going into a Men’s restroom. Well for that matter I wouldn’t give a shit if a person in a gorilla costume came in to use the urinal. Well I might be curious how the fly worked in the costume, but I digress.

    You going into a women restroom would likely make me do a double take, but I still wouldn’t care much.

    Fuck, just make all the toilets separate stalls with some goddamn privacy and who gives a fuck. It’s not like I wanna have a conversation while I’m taking a shit. Now if I could just get my wife and dog to realize that.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
    billwashere @lemmy.world

    I started power washing my house

    I inherited an electric one from my FIL. This is very satisfying.

    Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
    billwashere @lemmy.world

    I cleaned the microwave today

    It was splattered with tomato sauce. I even put the glass tray in the dishwasher

    Today I Learned @lemmy.world
    billwashere @lemmy.world

    TIL there is a notable correlation between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and gender dysphoria (GD).

    Research indicates that individuals with ASD are more likely to experience gender dysphoria, and vice versa.

    Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
    billwashere @lemmy.world

    What’s the difference between the 1990s supergroup that sang “High Enough” and some moldy sweet potatoes?

    One is Damn Yankees and the other is danky yams.