That has less to do with customer privacy and more to do with competitors exfiltrating your email lists. They aren’t doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.

Assassin bug. Don’t let yourself get bit by one, they hurt like hell.

Not really. Hasn’t been since the beginning of email addresses. Because email addresses aren’t required to link to a personal identity. They’re just email addresses.

Until the day an email address require personal identification, it’s not something you need to protect as private information.

Oh no, won’t someone think of the email addresses?!

Guys. IP addresses, and email addresses…aren’t really private things.

Why would you even bother trying to run this all through a VM when you can just run it directly? If you’re to the point of using VMs, you don’t need this tutorial anyways.

Are you seriously telling me you’re jumping through all the hoops to spin up a VM on Linux, and then doing all the configuration for GPU passthrough, because you can’t just figure out how to run it locally?

If your “FIRST STEP” is to choose an OS: Fuck that.

You should never have to change your OS just to use this crap. It’s all written in Python. It should work on every OS available. Your first step is installing the prerequisites.

If you’re using something like Continue for local coding tasks, CodeQwen is awesome, and you’ll generally want a context window of 120k or so because for coding, you want all the code context - or else the LLM starts spitting out repetitious stuff, or can’t ingest all of your context so it’ll rewrite stuff that’s already there.

Reverse proxy that handles TLS/HTTPS. Caddy is pretty easy to set up, or you could use a cloudflare tunnel (or other tunnel) to expose the services across a different IP; in case you’re worried about DDoS, or revealing your IP address.

You’ll want a domain for the reverse proxy; I assume you already have one.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/caddy/

This is instructions for domain.tld/jellyfin; but I use a subdomain jellyfin.domain.tld

I use my domain name provider’s own services for updating my semi-dynamic IP address (it basically never changes unless I have a multi-day power outage)

That’s true of a lot of spaces who have been historically discriminated against. They become so hyper-aware of any criticism, that they immediately think anyone who has an experience different than their own is “the enemy”.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-webos

Anyone is welcome to read the instructions. Tell me that doesn’t look like a nightmare for grandma to set up.

Yeah, sideloading it requires getting a development code from the company, jailbreaking your machine, then installing a full development environment…

Not what I’d call user friendly.

Meanwhile, on something like the FireTV stick, if someone gives me the URL to an APK, I can install it.

LG WebOS doesn’t have good support for things like Jellyfin. If you want to ever build a library of media and let them have easy access to it, then WebOS is gonna suck, so will Samsung’s Tizen. But all the Android TVs have access.

Don’t know if you’re interested in that kind of thing, but figured I’d share it in case it was a factor.

The only other alternative is a commercial display.

I don’t use Publisher, I used Affinity photo and it didn’t give me any problems - I assumed it was the same for the rest of their stuff, but maybe I was mistaken.

Just use Krita or the Affinity line of software (works under WINE pretty much flawlessly).

That way, if the VPN goes down, your torrent client isn’t just downloading stuff nakedly.

You always just bind the torrent client to the VPN adapter so this doesn’t happen. Most modern clients have this (qBittorrent certainly does)

Those are some nice legs…

I mean, the mermaid is missing the part I like the most…

How about: Signal is better? Though, they recently were caught with some unencrypted shit on the desktop client.

So maybe like some sort of list of computer instructions – which tells the computer to generate a map, and then tabulates the data and presents it to the user like…

If only we had a term for this…

Like algoism, or arithmos… something to do with calculation or something…

There’s kind of a bell curve of users where their needs are so simple that Linux use is great for them. They’ll never do anything more complex than visit a webpage in Firefox, and that’s great.

Then as your needs get more and more complex, Linux isn’t quite a good fit – You’ll want to use a specific printer, or a specific software (looking at you solidworks!), or you’ll have some sort of organization that requires you use MS Office, etc. – There are ways around all of that stuff, but if you’re not already on the train, it can get frustrating.

Up until your needs get even more complex, where Linux starts becoming the best choice again - You want a tiling window manager, and ipv6 with firewall and ZFS on the network etc.

It’s the middle bell curve where your new user is already kind-of a power user, but not quite a technical-user yet that gets people.

I mean, it was less than 20 years ago that this used to happen to me, but it was usually a matter of going to archlinux.org, and usually right on the front page, they’d have a “You need to run this command to fix it”.

They even have one for July 1st right on the home page. So it absolutely does happen from time to time.