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  • Dude... If ONLY we had that kind of accountability in the US!!

    Edit: now I have an idea crazy enough it might just work. We get a pact of users together who all vow to run for respective offices and have an agreement (legally binding or not) to be true to our fellow citizens. We shuffle around enough of the cabinet/seats and leaders, we can catch them off-guard and hit them where it hurts!

  • That doesn't sound the least bit fun lol

  • I will check that out even though, yes is homework lol.

    And +1 for the contribution to help a stranger out!

  • Never heard of that, definitely checking it out!

  • Once you understand them, I suppose its easier. I've got a mix of win10, Linux VMs, RPis, and docker.

    Having grown up on Windows, it's second nature now and I do it for work too. I stated on Linux only around 2010 or so but kept flipping between the2 . anymore, trying to cut the power bill and went RPi but also trying to cut others and so docker is still relatively new in the last few years. Understand that I also do it few and far between at times on projects so is hard to dedicate time to learn enough to be comfortable. It also didn't help I started on Docker Desktop and apparently everyone hates that and may have been a part of my problem adopting it.

  • Why did I never think of that?! That would make sense lol. Thank you!

  • Nextcloud is on my list lol, but I need to run a separate box for it I think vs visualizing. It would be easier/cleaner and more reliable.

  • Well, I'll share an example. Choosing between Traccar and OwnTracks. I've run a lot of stuff on Raspberry Pis, I like it, but, do I keep setting up new devices just to continue more devices or do I dump some for a Linux desktop and move a lot to containers? But that's more work lol. Aren't there different versions of docker, too? I recall fucking a service up one time using the wrong documentation once.

    I think part of my problem is I've pieced stuff together slowly and it feels like a fragile balance, but at work I've got more access to resources... And budget lol

  • Good point. I think I've got so caught up between projects at home and work I need a break from both.

  • I agree with that 3rd paragraph lol. That's probably some of my issue at times. As far IT goes, does it not get overwhelming of you had a 9 hour workday just to hear someone at home complain this other thing you run doesn't work and you have to troubleshoot that now too?

    Without going into too much detail, I'm a solo operation guy for about 200 end users. We're a Win11 and Office shop like most, and I've upgraded pretty much every system since my time starting. I've utilized some self-host options too, to help in the day to day which is nice as it offloads some work.

    It's just, especially after a long day, to play IT at home can be a bit much. I don't normally mind, but I think I just know the Windows stuff well enough through and through, so taking on new Docker or self host tools stuff is Apple's and oranges sometimes. Maybe I'm getting spoiled with all the turn key stuff at work, too.

  • Vimeo?

  • No doubt!

  • Well, yeah maybe in theory the US supposedly has privacy.

    The NSA over 20 years ago began to surveil all citizens post 9/11

    https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/nsa-surveillance

    Police, specifically federal ICE agents, use Stingrays aka IMSI simulators to hijack cell signals to spy on users nearby and track them down.

    https://sls.eff.org/technologies/cell-site-simulators-imsi-catchers

    Maybe the US is worse for misleading its citizens into thinking they're safe and have privacy, but it is far from the truth. Is not about whether or not you have anything to hide, it's about having peace of mind of actual security in data. Or hell just your day to day.

    It's like a cheater in a relationship. They accuse you of all these nasty things because they do it themselves and think if they do it so must everyone else be doing it too. Every accusation is an admission of guilt..

  • If the US has a right to privacy, it's basically nonexistent.

    Almost every piece of technology is tracked through identifiers, tracking cookies, location services, cellular data transmission, nearby devices/services, facial recognition or license plate recognition, and more.

    Data brokers buy, sell, and trade data in the PBs, and a lot of AI is useful on is training on our data to adjust wages, pricing of goods and services, or premiums like insurance rates, etc. Pair that with the media, they feed you only enough to be a distraction or just enough to mislead. They track how much you watch and what times so they can keep you in an echo chamber or keep you supressed if you go against the grain.

    They know all about you, height, weight, age, sex, who you hang out with, where you've lived, your income, your spending habits, driving patterns and habits, where you've visited and how often, where you get groceries, where you shop online. They figure out what ads to display for you, what times it works best, what might be controversial enough to get you to click a link. They use algorithms to share upsetting or conflicting into to get people sucked into the content they want you to consume.

    There is so much subliminal and subconscious control, it's hardly noticeable. It probably sounds super "tinfoil hat", but when you have enough information on how its gathered and executed, you realize with how much you know and have learned, there probably so much more you don't know or haven't learned.

  • Then you for your insight!

  • I don't necessarily think China is as bad as we make it out to be. What major country doesn't have their gov spying on them?! I would almost argue that the US has more surveillance tech on its citizens than any other developed country. Based on how much tech we know exists and can assume exists that we don't know about, plus, with how much the US involves itself in other countries business, it'd be no surprise how much they know about everyone else domestically.

  • Could you explain? Why would that set us back? You mean if Paramount wins?

  • I'm sorry, why are these people still running the country??? Dude, my worst fellow employee or customer I've ever had, to run this country over these idiots!! JTFC!