Lettuce eat lettuce @ Lettuceeatlettuce @lemmy.ml

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Good job, hackers! ✊

Ikr. I've got two 12 year old towers that have Debian on them. One is a Docker box and the other is just a raw Debian server.

I installed KDE on both because I like my servers looking a little sexy lol. They run smoother and more stable than any of the Windows machines I support.

They'll probably be fine for another 10 years, maybe even longer.

So accurate, I have 5 towers right now set up for re-purposing as servers, with a half dozen more coming in a few days saved from e-waste. That doesn't count my homelab rack server, networking gear, main gaming tower, and 4 laptops...

Naw sorry, I tried that this last election and got embarrassed. Went hardcore Democrat, Coconut-pilled, blah blah blah.

I genuinely tried to believe in it, voted early, got friends and family to show up and vote too. Not only did the dems lose, they lost worse than they have in decades.

And to make matters worse, the Democratic party largely has completely missed why they lost so badly to the most pathetic excuse for a president in American history.

It's too late for large scale positive structural change with the current political parties in the USA. The Dems must be torn apart and re-shaped into a populist left-wing party to have any chance of meaningful change. Until that happens, voting with your dollar is the only kind of vote that will be taken seriously.

Extremely local elections, sure, vote for a leftist candidate that might actually win some small office. But unless it's that, vote with your dollar and engage in direct action to serve your community and build genuine solidarity.

Hey ICE, go sit on a fire hydrant and make it disappear.

Use Timeshift! Saved me several times after experimenting a little too much with Debian.

The company doesn't care about you.

The company doesn't care about you.

The company doesn't care about you.

Are you fully conscious but trapped in the body of a guinea pig?

The difference is putting them on because you actually understand the problem you're trying to treat lol.

Love it! What board did you use? Or is it a pre-built?

So amazing, the amount of incredible science we've been able to do with the Voyager program.

4,000 years ago, we were doing trigonometry, but just 200 years ago we were still putting leeches on people and not washing our hands before doing surgery.

Also, we sent people to the moon and got them back using less computing power than a smart watch.

I bought my Steam Deck simply to support Linux gaming and Valve's contribution to more open hardware and software. I wasn't actually interested in handheld gaming.

Roughly a year later, I game about 75% on my Steam Deck vs my very expensive Linux gaming desktop. I love it so much, the convenience of pausing a game, going from my couch to my bed and resuming flawlessly is awesome.

My spouse wanted one too, so now we both can game together easily anywhere.

Had no idea this was a thing, very cool!

If you're very comfortable with containerization, networking, and security practices, plus you are a pretty decent full stack web dev, sure.

It's pretty trivial to set up a separate business internet line from your local ISP. Depending on the volume of traffic, a basic load manager and reverse proxy, combined with strong firewalls and container safety would be sufficient for most SMB needs.

You don't need much power to host a basic website. Setting up a local box with a low-impact distro, Docker, and some solid control-plane MGMT software should be plenty to host several dozen SMB websites.

There are a lot of technical and even legal considerations though. Do these small businesses need a web app on their site? Do they need a storefront? What about member-only content locked securely behind an authentication layer? Does your local ISP have rate limitations? Does your city/state/country have restrictions on offering business services like that? What is your liability if your setup gets hacked and your client's data is stolen/exposed?

Ultimately, you have to answer the question: Why shouldn't those businesses just go with an easy pre-made hosting solution like Squarespace, Wix, etc? Not saying there aren't good answers to that, but from a business perspective, the businesses will want to know that.

As with anything in business, ask yourself, what are you able to offer that they can't get easily somewhere else? I used to work for a tiny MSP that offered in-house data backups. Our clients paid a good chunk of money to have us backup their data to our own servers. I didn't say anything at the time, but our clients could have gotten much more secure and faster backup services for cheaper using something like Backblaze or Synology's S2 cloud backups.

Don't find yourself unable to clearly and concisely explain to your clients what you can give them that they cannot easily get somewhere else. If it's purely the principle of the thing, that's totally valid, but make sure that's what you're selling to them, and also what they are looking for.

Well yeah, gotta be open to those sweet defense offense contracts. All those brown people on the other side of the world ain't gunna kill themselves!

There shouldn't be any place on earth where it is safe to be absurdly rich.

If the government collapses, you're gunna have much worse things to worry about than taxes.

IMO, there are three "levels" of economic hardship:

1. Severe recession: Where the economy shrinks, many small/medium businesses go bankrupt, unemployment hits around 7-10%
2. Legit depression: Numerous core institutions in most or all sectors of the economy go bankrupt. Even highly skilled people cannot find work and are reduced to charity, begging, or stealing. Unemployment hits 15-25%
3. Total economic collapse: All major institutions in all sectors fail, or cease having any legitimacy. The country's currency becomes worthless due to either hyperinflation or governmental collapse. All people except the super wealthy elite, become destitute.

The last time the US experienced the second level was the Great Depression, where during the depths of the dust bowl and the depression, unemployment hit about 25%

If you genuinely think we are in for anything worse than level 2, you should flee the country now, or buy a gun and stockpile ammunition, food, and medicine.

Realistically, level 3 isn't going to happen. Level 1 very likely will, level 2 I would give a 5% chance personally, but that is based only on vibes.

Have some savings in cash, a few hundred bucks mostly in small denominations should be alright. Don't do more than that.

Buy cheap bulk foods. Beans, chickpeas, lentils, raw oats, rice, four, potatoes. Buy several of those big 24 packs of bottled water. Most large retailers have them for 4-6 bucks a pack. You need A least 5-6 bottles a day to stay minimally hydrated. That's roughly 4 days of water per 24-pack. You should have at least a week of water per person.

Other folks here have good advice. Connect with a local community. If not your direct neighbors, then a group that meets nearby. You need other people for support. If you're in a really bad place, they will be the last line of dependable aid.

Quit your vices. Cigs, alcohol, excessive caffeine, and junk food all cost a lot of money, aren't healthy, and will make you much more vulnerable to economic upsets. It also allows others to take easier advantage of you, because of your desperation to get a fix.