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Ordinarily I use apt. Sometimes a flatpak if I trust the source. Otherwise it's from source or usually something i'm running in docker, where I'll check what it's actually doing if i'm at all suspicious.

I don't want to make too big a deal of the aur. When I was using arch and I needed something from the aur it was easy enough to see that it was a legitimately packaged piece of software. The only big deal is that it's a real pain in the ass, and I know most people aren't doing that, and I never see anyone mention it so I doubt people even consider that it could be an issue.

It comes down to what you trust. I trust the stuff I can get from Debian's repos. I trust some other sources, and everything else I look at. I don't trust the aur, and I sincerely doubt most people look at the software they're installing from it to make sure it's legit.

It's really none of my business what others are comfortable with. The trustworthiness of where you get your software is a decision you have to make for yourself, and with the way people go on about the aur I get the feeling they don't bother to decide. I don't ever hear anyone acknowledge that there's any sort of difference between the aur and Debian's repos, but that's just frankly an utterly absurd idea.

Restaurants already offer happy hour and off day incentives. That's nothing new. The problem here is the attitude. Raising prices will decrease demand, but they know they have excess demand, so they're making up for that by increasing the prices to eat up that excess demand. Restaurants used to deal with that by hiring more employees to increase supply to meet the unmet demand. There is obviously a complete lack of desire to do that. You can walk into any chain restaurant these fays and you're likely to see a wait for a table, even though the restaurant is less than half full. It's not that they can't meet the demand. They've decided it's more profitable and easier to eat up the excess demand by increasing the prices instead of increasing the supply.

Do you look at the stuff in the aur? Because any of that stuff you install from there could be messed with because it's a user repository. I specifically left arch because I had to look into all the packages I installed from the aur, and the stuff from the official repos was pretty limited compared to something like Debian. That took a lot of time. Or, you could always just install whatever you find with zero concern about security.

I've been running Debian for decades with maybe 2 problems I had to manually resolve with apt. I ran arch and manjaro for maybe a year, and had a handful. I'm certainly not going to say not to run arch, but it's in no way easier to keep running than Debian. That's literally Debian's whole gig.

Julian has a relationship with garak, and while he's obviously a bit confused about what it is it's pretty evident garak is not.

If you've not noticed garak and Bashir.... well, it's worth a rewatch just for that.

I can see how he'd be upset by it, and I don't think it's about lack of control. It's like the people writing the character said Takei is just SO damn gay that they have to make everything he's ever touched gay. Like the gay's contagious. He's contaminating characters with his gayness. Some people actually think that's the way it works. Given his age i'm sure he's seen enough of that to be upset by the implication. He's an individual who's lived a long and interesting life, not just some big gay caricature. Though he's definitely that too.

George takei aside, i'm all for making more characters gay. Dial it all the way up. Sure worked for the she ra reboot.

Not too sure what's debatable about Jadzia. Julian on the other hand... pretty debatable.

Everyone else is telling you to stay local, which is great advice, as far as it goes. But you said you want to host your website publicly available, so i'd recommend getting a cheap vps and starting there. It's not on your network, so if you screw up with security, worst case is you start again from scratch. I'd recommend the cheapest virmach VM you can get, with Debian or Ubuntu, if you like snaps.

First things first, set up ssh with key based logins, with a passphrase on a non standard port (doesn't provide security, but it will keep your logs from getting innundated immediately). Install UFW, and block all incoming traffic, allow all outgoing traffic, and limit traffic to your ssh port. Install docker and add your user to the docker group. Start learning how to use docker, compose, and as your first container, set up duplicati to back up your docker directory (including all your volumes, which I would store as folders inside your docker directory) somewhere else. I'd set it up to run every evening after you go to bed, and i'd also set a cron script to bring down all your containers before you back up, then bring them back up. Just in case.

That's what the back button's for. But if you're interested in audiobooks at all, I'd suggest starting with a book you've already read that's pretty low stakes. Stephen Fry's narration of Harry Potter is excelent.

Brave new world is definitely a book you get different things from as an adult. It's also a pretty quick read. I'd definitely recommend taking another look.

I bought a cellphone sized e reader, called the moaan inkpalm. It being so small has really helped me get more reading in. There are better ones available now, but it's pretty cheap for what it is. I can pull it out whever i'm waiting for my family somewhere, and pick a book that i'm in the right mood/mental state for.

Sometimes a book just isn't for you, or you need something with more fun and less substance because of all the other demands on your time and attention. I used to plow through difficult books when I had the time. Now that I generally read in 15 minute stretches that's not nearly as easy. It's not a black and white thing.

I've previously had a problem with my server becoming unresponsive when running immich. It's been a while, but I remember there being some kind of memory leak having to do with immich. It was in their GitHub issues and everything. On my system it would take about a day and a half and then ssh, along with everything else, would become unresponsive. Rebooting would fix it for a day and a half. I stopped running immich and it hasn't happened since. I suppose you could try using a cron job to restart immich periodically and see if that resolves your problem.

Similarly, koofr has cheaper options for lifetime options, an open source client with encryption available, and compatibility with rclone and WebDAV.

I'd also recommend hetzner's hosted nextcloud instances. They're reliable, and relatively cheap for the file size offered. Nextcloud is great to self host till the first time it goes down and a family member can't get a file, then you won't ever be able to convince them to use another service you host.

It's also really tasty, and egg production is extremely well regulated in Japan, so there really isn't a risk of raw eggs being dangerous to eat there. For people with their own chickens, this also isn't a problem, as you'd likely know if your bird was sick.

Is there a specific benefit to that over something like a security key with a keypad, or even just a passphrase?

I've read that best practice is to do a database dump, in addition to backing up all the data files. It's my understanding that there's a slight chance of corrupting something in the database if you don't stop the service first, since something could be changed while you're doing your backup.

The easiest solution for me, as well as for being able to just restore my files and start the service again somewhere else, is to stop, backup, and restart. It's down for less than 5 minutes while i'm asleep. If I expected better uptime than that I wouldn't be trying to self host.

Try pop. It's basically Ubuntu without canonical's nonsense.

FYI, if you run vaultwarden using docker compose with your data volume as a folder, all you have to do is bring it down for like 1minute, make a backup of the folders, and bring it back up. I use a cron script to do this nightly. When my vps host went out of business, I restored my docker folder to a new vps and was up and running again in a couple minutes. Also, you could easily restore it to a virtual machine, if you like. Docker with compose is extremely portable.

I interpret her interactions with Picard a little differently. He might think she's a real pain in the ass, but I don't think she's actually being a sex pest, because they both know she knows there's nothing there. He's not going to be pressured into doing anything he's not interested in, which is something she also knows, and they live in a world where that's not OK anyway. It's a game, and honestly, an extremely gifted and perceptive telepath could cause him any number of problems. This is a man whose experience with people being in his mind was from the Borg. She's certainly found a way to come off as extremely harmless.

Sorry, I've not used a redhat based distro in at least 20 years, so you're going to have to get that info from someone else. I'd assume that's the one though, and I doubt you need to go looking for something better. It is what it is.