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Huh, really? I never watched them because it was just aggregation stuff, but I guess I'll have to give them another try.

It wasn't long ago that 5G was the new shiny thing, and I remember that the flood of ads for cell carriers were constantly saying that they had the newest 5G ultra-wideband tech or whatever. Even the vast majority of my relatives know that 5G is the latest *G thing. Very few people would miss 4 G's.

I hate to advocate for Comcast of all companies, but I'm actually on their side for once. They definitely should've had their employees explain what it meant to people if they seemed unsure, which I have serious doubts about, and saying they have a "10G network" when availability for 10G is very limited is rather dubious, but calling 10Gbps internet "10G" is fine with me.

If we're gonna go after ISPs for shady shit, why not go after Spectrum for not listing their upload speed anywhere, not even for their business plans? Comcast at least lets you see what you're actually buying before paying, but with Spectrum you just have to try it out or do some google-fu to find a PDF listing the upload speed for some* of their business plans, and then just hope that ths speeds are the same on the nearly-equivalent consumer plans.

"What do you call it when you're prosecuted for illegally importing cardboard computers?"

"CARDIAC arrest (ba-dum tsss)"

To be fair, it "just works" in 99% of cases, and when it doesn't, it can usually be fixed pretty easily. In the case of Linux Mint, which is exactly what I'd recommend to new users, that's either by selecting to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers in the window that opens after you login, of by running a `sudo apt install linux-firmware -y` and rebooting. If the user can install drivers on Windows, then I they can google for 30 seconds and find the one or two commands to run to install their driver on Linux.

On easy distros like Mint, I have to deal with maybe a tenth of the amount of bullshit that Windows throws at me, the only difference is that most users are used to handling Windows' bullshit. My 12 year old brother, who while fairly competent as a user, isn't particularly tech-inclined, uses Mint exclusively, and he can handle just about everything, except burning the Mint USB and booting off it for the initial installation.

Plus, I often see people arguing against Linux comparing its ease-of-use for users with very low tech literacy, then either acting as though those very same users could solve many problems they might across on Windows, or that they just wouldn't come across any problems. If I installed Mint, I'm sure my grandma could barely use Mint, just like she can barely use Windows, but she would need just as much tech support on Windows, if not more due to Microsoft becoming increasingly user-hostile.

And as for rude Linux users: on the rare occasions that the user actually needs help, rather than just google, in my experience people tend to just mentally facepalm a thousand times over, rather than calling them "afraid of the command line", despite the reputation the Linux world has. It can be a bit frustrating helping noobs, sure, but not any more than helping total noobs on Windows. At worst, people might make some jokes at your expense, but it's pretty rare for me to actually see anything like the stereotypical rude Linux user.

P.S. Saying "to be fair" back at you seems passive-aggressive, and I don't intend it that way; it just seems like the most appropriate phrase to use.

P.P.S. This reply kinda got away from me, it's mostly not directed at you, just general thoughts about people comparing/arguing about Windows and Linux.

Witness the void consume zeroes for all eternity.

I've never seen this, and I've used FF (well, LibreWolf) on everything from a 2003-ish laptop to a 12th gen i5. I assume you've filed a bug report?

Back in my freshman year of high school, I was just starting to get into self-hosting. As it turns out, the school blocked websites, but did absolutely nothing about ports. So of course, I just SSH'd over to my server and carried on as normal.

Later, I was working on making an archive of Windows .iso files, and since I had some free time, I was downloading them on my laptop and then uploading them to my server with scp. As it turns out, using dozens of gigabytes, in both upload and download, on a port besides 80 and 443, is enough to finally get your traffic inspected, so around lunchtime IT finally blocked port 22. But you know what they didn't block? Every other port! So I just moved SSH to port 443 in my port forwarding and carried on as normal.

A long time later, sometime during sophomore year IIRC, the school's IT noticed me SSH-ing over port 443 and put an end to that. They set up some basic traffic analysis to block SSH on ports 80 and 443. But you know what they didn't block? Every other port!

Eventually they just ended up blocking my server at the IP level (the IP of my domain), but of course, but you know what they didnt block? Literally every other IP!

I could get around it by just ProxyJump-ing with a VPS, but being an early college high school student, after sophomore year I rarely go to the high school, so it's not really worth the effort. But next time I do go, I'll do it, just to prove I can.

If they finally block SSH on all ports, then I can just set up SSH over HTTPS on the VPS, of course. There's still more they can do, of course, but I'll come back after I graduate and see what I can do on their guest wifi.

Anyways, thanks, Birdville Independent School District IT team, it's been quite fun, though it really would be nice if you'd unblock my site so that I can provide the services the district won't (computers (VMs) actually useful for tech students).

All software that uses /dev/zero will have to pay India royalties.

Dude, someone joined LM, stole an early design of the F-35's body, and was already back in China before they got caught. I guarantee that some random internet stranger saying public/low-value information is the rather low on the priorities list of both China and LM.

I'm quite a fan of self-hosting, but I can certainly acknowledge that sometimes cloud solutions are better. But it's not fair to only compare to a Synology NAS. If you're fine just running a standard Linux distro, rather than Synology's software, you can do much better in terms of hardware, for much cheaper. An Optiplex is ~$100-150 on eBay, has better hardware, and you can either just save that money or invest it in more storage.

It's worth acknowledging that it uses more power, but still, that's $300 less than the Synology up front. Some extra power draw doesn't add up that fast. Plus, IMO there's a lot of value in being able to control it all yourself. If something breaks (which isn't that common, assuming this simple setup) you can fix it yourself, and you have full control over your data.

I'd like to emphasize that it's worth taking into account the time and stress to run a NAS, it's not a perfect fit for everyone, even technical people, and priorities vary from person to person, but assuming you're just running a basic NAS with Syncthing, especially if it's all in Docker, it's very simple and low-maintenance. Hell, use an RHEL clone and set up watchtower, and you can have automated updates for a decade - that is, until it's not supported anymore.

Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with Synology NASes, I haven't used one myself.

Yes, this goes against my understanding as well. I don't think the laws of physics changed that much in the last few years, but I could be wrong.