I need to have access to the Internet anyway. In fact, having it makes me a decent amount of money. You could say it costs me negative several thousand euros a month. Piracy or scrolling Lemmy is a bonus.

Getting Usenet means additional cost, but the only benefit is piracy. Therefore, it’s paying to pirate.

Oh there’s the other person who remembers the original Azureus!

Okay I’m kidding, it was fairly popular before it became Vomit… I mean Vuze. After it went to shit I bounced around till I found utorrent and then a bit later Transmission, Deluge and now Qbittorrent in a container.

I mean it’s completely valid if you find that to be a better deal than torrenting, but I can use my full 500 mbps bandwidth for free.

Certainly, but it’s not like that’ll get him in trouble or anything

!selfhosted@lemmy.world and find yourself so many projects at home you’ll never find time for anything but computers again :)

Just wait for snap 2.0 which actually runs everything inside docker containers /s

Well it IS pretty nice to be able to tell people to go to jellyfin.example.com instead of example.com:8096, but you also get security benefits for using a properly set up reverse proxy. You don’t need to keep your ports open to the whole internet, only the reverse proxy accesses them. As far as the rest of the internet is concerned, you have :443 open.

Edit: Forgot to add, Caddy and NPM and such can also automatically renew your certificates!

Ooh I found the only other person who still prefers a mouse and keyboard it seems, going by the current trends and how much I hate them anyway

Yes, this happrned in France.

I was under the assumption that it’s not important to specify the country in online headlines because I can think of some countries whose citizens never do.

Even buying albums never netted the artist more than 20 or 30 percent unless they also owned the record label.

Buying their merch is the only real way to support an artist. They’ll make way more out of it than any other way.

YouTrack is less horrible than jira and can be on prem.

I hope you compile all your own software from verified sources then rather than downloading a ready-built Linux distro with binary packages.

Exactly my point. Most of us customize our setup one way or another, usually. Few of us are ricers in the traditional sense.

Oooh so I’m not the only one who uses (used) refind with Gentoo!

And extra ambiguity for people talking about polishing their deck while also pronouncing it as dick>

Ricing isn’t exactly the same as personalized though.

Ricing when it comes to cars is putting on a giant wing and a huge muffler on a Honda Civic.

Ricing in the Gentoo community is turning on every compiler optimization flag for the main portage config file without knowing what they’re doing, potentially actually de-optimizing your setup.

There’s an element of “overdone” involved usually whenever someone is called a ricer.

I think you missed a B

Sometimes people build things just because they want to. Some people will take a look and say “hey that’s cool” and use it. Some others will take a look and say “this does nothing for me” and both are valid opinions to have. IMO nobody should have to justify an open source project unless asking for funding.

Wine already exists and can run pretty new Windows software. A fork also exists for MacOS and the other BSDs can also run Wine.

Running Windows apps on Linux natively seems impractical to me, the OSes are structured very differently and I’m fairly sure this would introduce many hard to fix CVEs.

ReactOS does actually submit patches to wine sometimes because they use parts of wine! But they have their own windows-like kernel so they only need wine for userland, not the whole thing

I do believe that some companies look at certs for sysadmin roles. As a requirement not a boost and you’d likely need more than just Linux certs then. Probably also some Cisco and stuff.