This is why so many people are misinformed. Good journalism is paywalled while things like Fox News, Newsmax and Sky News aren’t.

Journalists do need to get paid though, and not everyone is okay with ads. People expect too much for free.

make them pay for the cost of adding the additional capacity that they require

Isn’t this what they’re attempting to do, at least partially? Most of the big tech companies are funding development of nuclear power plants.

https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/google-to-fund-elementl-to-prepare-three-nuclear-power-sites

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/meta-signs-nuclear-power-deal-with-constellation-energy-.html

What I’m unsure about is if it’s just IOUs (Investor Owned Utilities) that are increasing electricity prices, or if municipal providers are doing it too. IOUs use every excuse to increase their prices, including in cases where their costs don’t increase that much.

Your ps output doesn’t show systemd as running. The only output is the grep command itself.

If you want to play files over SMB, you can just open the SMB mount in the file explorer and double click it. On Windows you can mount it as a network drive (like V: for videos) so even non-technical users understand it. I don’t understand how mpv is easier for that use case.

With systems like Jellyfin and Plex, you can (and should!) turn off transcoding when streaming at home. The only times you should enable transcoding are when:

1. You’re away from home on a slow internet connection (or your home internet has slow upload speed); or
2. You’re streaming to a less powerful device that can’t handle the full bitrate of the video.

Transcoding is very useful, because otherwise you’d need multiple copies of the same movie to handle different environments. Transcoding can dynamically adjust the bitrate based on the connection speed.

If they want to try new distros, maybe try Fedora with KDE? Installing the Nvidia drivers isn’t too difficult.

For RTX 20 series and above, it’s recommended to use Nvidia’s open-source drivers. The instructions for how to switch on Fedora are here: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Kernel_Open. Note that this is not Nouveau, which is a different open-source Nvidia driver not made by Nvidia themselves.

you can not properly control dependencies per project otherwise.

Says who? Use proto for your tooling (which lets you lock the version per project), and a lockfile for your app’s dependencies.

Devcontainers work fine without an immutable distro, too.

I always use wireless charging, and have a silicone plug in my phone’s USB port to stop dirt getting in there. Very similar to these: https://a.co/d/aFWuSI3 (just standalone plugs with no adhesive). I see some in the photo with adhesive to stick them to the phone, but that seems like it’d look ugly.

In the rare case that I need to plug something into it, the port is completely clean.

My guess would be that you’ve logged into all of the accounts in the same browser, and thus they all shared a common cookie or something similar (like LocalStorage) at some point. It’s a common tactic sites use to mark multiple accounts as being operated by the same person.

I’ve never used Arch yet still use their wiki quite a lot.

It was a feature built in to the web browser, providing a website, file sharing, a music player, a photo sharing tool, chat, a whiteboard, a guestbook, and some other features.

All you needed to do was open the browser and forward a port, or let UPnP do it (since everyone still had UPnP enabled back then), and you’d get a .operaunite.com subdomain that anyone could access, which would hit the web server built into the browser.

This was back in 2008ish, when Opera was still good (before it was converted to be Chromium-powered). A lot of people still used independent blogs back then, rather than everything being on social media, so maybe it was ahead of its time a bit.

I’m sad that Opera Unite failed. It was the closest thing to self-hosting for regular non-technical people.

Dual-booting works fine. You can even have more than two OSes - for a while I was running Windows 10, Fedora, and Debian. Ended up sticking with Fedora.

base RAM usage down super low (50MB to 100MB range)

A base Debian system (minimal netinstall with nothing selected in the tasksel step) doesn’t use much more than this, or at least it didn’t in the last stable release. For https://dnstools.ws/ I have a few VPSes with 256MB RAM that run Debian and the DNSTools worker. They run fine.

Ah, yes, the WallStreetBets approach.

Pika is a GUI for Borg.

Rsync is doable, but it’s not great since you essentially only have one backup set. If a file gets corrupted and you don’t notice before the next backup is done, you won’t be able to restore it. Borg’s deduping is good enough to keep lots of history - I do daily backups and keep every day for the past two weeks, every week for the past three months, and every month indefinitely (until I run out of space and need to prune it). Borgmatic handles pruning the backups that are out of retention.

I’m using Fedora KDE and haven’t set up backups on my desktop PC yet, but on Linux servers (both at home and “in the cloud”) I usually use Borgbackup with Borgmatic. All my systems have two backup destinations: My home server and a storage VPS, both via SSH.

Looks like Pika Backup is a GUI for Borgbackup, so it should be a good choice. Vorta is also popular. GNOME apps tend to focus on simple, easy to use GUIs with minimal customization, so it’s possible Vorta is more configurable. I haven’t tried either.

Don’t forget the 3-2-1 policy: you should have at least three copies of your data, in at least two different mediums (hard drives, “cloud”, Blu-rays, tape, etc), one of which is off-site (cloud, a NAS at a friend’s or family member’s house, etc). If you’re looking for cloud storage, Hetzner storage boxes are great value. Some VPS providers have good sales (less than $3/TB/month) during Black Friday.

Definitely going to fill this out once I get some free time. What will the data be used for?

This is exactly what a Yubikey is for. They’re phishing-resistant too, as opposed to TOTP codes.

Make sure you’ve got a good mattress. You spend around 1/3 of your life in bed so it’s worth getting a good one. I recently got a Tempur-pedic from Costco and it’s a lot better than my old one.

That was just an example. There’s all sorts of automated traffic that shouldn’t count as a view. A human loading the page but not actually playing the video (like if they disable auto playing of videos) shouldn’t count as a view either.