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  • Just for clarity, I followed the links they wanted me to follow.

    The sketchy tone and vagueness while they "do stuff" after getting your email seem to have no connection to self-hosting at all.

    If my intention was not to self-host, they lost me before I could even trust them enough to provide an email address 😟

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    Provide your email address and agree to let us do stuff, and we'll send you a verification email to create your account and get started.

    Guys, if we're already paranoid enough to be interested in a product like this, don't make us paranoid to even want to "get started" using a product like this.

    Sounds like a scam, even if they are totally legit.

  • And to add to that, even with vanilla Gnome, you have the option to do what you like via extensions. If you want it to look like a Mac or Windows UI, you can!

    My wife doesn't care, as long as it works. If I can set up favorites/shortcuts to the stuff she needs access to, she's golden.

  • I'm curious about your choice of Gnome for your wife, though. If she's hopeless with computers, why give her a less (imho) intuitive DE to play with?

    It's like using a chromebook, and the less there is to click on, the better.

    Any software she already uses would be available as a flatpak, so even updating is easier vs windows.

  • When it's done once in a while, sure.

    But I think Trump set the stage for normalizing this, and it's maddening to think that someone can hear what PP just said, and believe that he did a great job with that answer.

  • Are you going to talk down to me because I'm not using Arch? LOL 😆

    At my age, I just want something that works. Long gone are the days when I enjoyed staying up through the night to fix shit on my computer. 🤭

  • I really don't know what the problem was with Ubuntu. I had issues every time I tried... but funny enough, these problems seemed to only happen if I was running a live USB or an installed copy. Ubuntu or Mint on a VM seems to work just fine! LOL

    Oh well, I'm quite happy with where I'm at now, but I'm glad that my past issues don't seem common or "normal".

  • it’s not user-hostile by design like windows

    Truth!

    You install Linux, and you start using Linux.

    With Windows, you go through a painfully long installation process, then spend another hour debloating all the shortcuts and shit it installs. Then more time closing out boxes for offers. Then you have to harden it before your data is stolen...

    Don't get me wrong, Windows has been stable and reliable for me, but this is likely due to the fact that my installation has been tweaked over the years. Using it fresh is a horrible experience. Reminds me of using the internet without an adblocker! LOL

  • Yes! As much as I wanted to love Mint and Ubuntu, they just didn't work well for me. Aurora has been amazing.

    I am trying to stay with Flatpak apps (for convenience and probably stability, too), but I feel pretty safe installing apps outside of Discover, if needed. Fortunately, most of the stuff I use is already supported as a Flatpak, so it hasn't been a big shock.

    I feel like if people started on Linux first, moving to Windows would seem like a massive PITA and a huge backwards! I'll be moving my wife to Bluefin in the near future. She's unbelievably hopeless with computers, but I honestly think it would be easier for her to use Gnome on Bluefin than Windows!

  • I mean, even just the fact that everything seems to simply work (i.e. drivers) without messing around is mind-blowing. Huge kudos to anyone who's helped to build Linux into what it is today.

    It'll be interesting to see how my desktop handles it. It's like 15 years old, and I remember always having to mess around to get things working right, especially wifi.

  • also to be extra safe you can just mount your external images folder as read only by adding :ro to the docker volume mount so that the container won’t be able to modify anything as a precaution.

    This is what I was thinking, too.

    Alright, looks like I'll be setting it up soon! LOL

  • Is it easy to self-host immich so that it operates on a READ-ONLY basis with my images? I really only want to use it for the local-AI indexing/search, but not as a backup or photo management solution (Synology Photos works just fine for that).

  • Holy hell. "One group is not like the others", but in a bad way! Are Cons just ignorant, or do they choose to be this way?

    Quite literally, the headline: "Nature Tops List of Most Resonant Sources of National Identity"

    Yet, Conservatives seem to overwhelmingly believe that we should not be funding the protection of nature and biodiversity (per the same article).

    And nearly half are “not concerned” about Trump annexing Canada. What boulder are these people living under?

  • Reminder: "Woke is a slang adjective that can mean being aware of social issues, especially racial justice."

    Conservatives wanting to "end woke ideology" is exactly why Canada should never vote for a Conservative government. We are so much better than PP and the Cons.