Bizarre fixation too. You’d think it would be something vaguely -phobic or -ist but it’s about chavs falling in canals of all things.

They need everyone to embrace it because they need to justify the insane amounts of money they’ve sunk into this stupid bullshit.

That probably depends on your VPS provider. Some providers have bandwidth or application limits. Hetzner for example doesn’t allow people to host or forward traffic from media (Plex, Jellyfin) servers (iirc). You’ll just have to log in to your dashboard or browse their rules for that info.

Mostly unrelated to your question and post but you could also deploy Pangolin on your VPS and hole-punch through your CGNAT using one of their Newt tunnels. This is what I do to forward my Plex server to my friends and family outside my home, among other things.

How are you installing them? I believe you can use something like Gear Lever to quickly “install” AppImage files. AppImages are standalone applications, kind of like flatpaks, but using Gear Lever you can integrate them into your distro’s app menu as if it were an installed application.

Lemme get this straight

foster a website that encourages engagement instead of real human interaction bots flood the website to farm engagement with months and years-old reposts obliterate your API support, causing an exodus of users that use 3rd party apps slowly hemorrhage users while going IPO with your bot site now mandate id checks so we can weed out the bots that made your IPO look so good

Genius play by Spez. (/s)

Frankly if Christians are following anything in the OT, they aren’t real Christians anyway.

What file manager are you using? KDE’s Dolphin? GNOME’s Nautilus? You may want to give us your system details so someone might guide you on how to find these things. Dolphin, from my experience, is highly customizable and you might find some of these in there.

I think it’s time to stop taking tips from this guy.

Microsoft believes the issue may be related to the Samsung Share application, although the exact cause has not yet been confirmed.

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If the creator of the video is willing to use AI for narration, what other shortcuts are they willing to take?

I saw the moon move in the sky!

I was maybe 10 or 11ish? Standing outside on the driveway with friends. I was looking up at the big full moon. From my point of view, the moon was a few feet (relatively speaking) from the top of this big tree in my neighborhood. While staring up at the moon, suddenly its position shifted a few more feet away from the tree, towards the opposite horizon. I sort of had the feeling of vertigo for a moment, and no one else saw it. But the moon was still in the new position…

Look, I really only like Pacman because they make the little yellow guy go across the terminal as the download bar. It’s just 😘🤌

Not sure about Ubuntu, but for your CachyOS attempts, I probably would have avoided the DEs you tried. COSMIC is still under heavy development, and might work better on its “home OS” (being Pop!_OS, but this is complete speculation on my part). Hyprland and Niri seem like advanced DEs to me every time I see them mentioned, so I would have avoided them for a new user.

I’ve been using Cachy for the better part of a year now with KDE Plasma and it’s barely given me any problems. I’d suggest something with KDE, or maybe even GNOME. If you like the Ubuntu environment (apt, flatpaks, etc) you might try Linux Mint. From my experience it’s a very easy and hands-off setup. I did not need to use the terminal at all when I set it up on my wife’s laptop and MIL’s laptop.

ETA: Just read your final paragraph and wanted to add about KDE:

Easy access to the launcher

KDE is reminiscent of Windows. The Launcher is always visible (unless you tell it not to be).

See all background apps at once (next to the network and audio icon)(important for VPN, steam, discord)

Yup.

see date and time in a convenient place (top of the screen)

Yup. Can be placed wherever you want.

working file manager

Dolphin.

good package manager

CachyOS is based on Arch, so it used Pacman and ships with the Arch User Repo helper Paru (and a graphical installer, Octopi). You can easily install Flatpak if that’s your thing too. I don’t know a lot about package managers but Pacman has been good to me.

Based on not knowing what your system looks like (OS, DE, how you’re moving files, where you’re moving them, etc), the first place I’d try is getting Flat Seal from the flatpak app store. It’s a permissions manager for flatpaks that might help you out. If you’re trying to move files into a folder that has escalated permissions, it may give you some problems. Try fiddling with the settings in Flat Seal.

I don’t really use flatpaks, so I couldn’t tell you exactly the setting to look at, sorry. Never had an issue with drag/drop myself.

I use it between PCs (binary, flatpak) and NAS (Docker), but i believe the android fork is still potentially compromised. Haven’t updated the android version since the repo was taken over.

I guess I’d describe myself as agnostic, but I find them to be annoying, generally. This includes my grandmother who must bring up God in every conversation. Weather? God. Politics? God. What people are up to? God. Her particular flavor of “Christianity” involves judging others, so the shit she spews isn’t taken very seriously in our house. If I were in your friend’s shoes, I’d probably just distance myself from this friend of his, since she doesn’t really seem to respect him.

I like to discuss religion and people’s particular beliefs, mostly because it’s fascinating how different groups and cultures have decided how to get through life with ultimately the same conclusion. But it’s hard to do that when someone’s view of the subject is voluntarily one-sided. I think it’s ignorant to claim your religion as the way to believe, and the only way to get to some so-called heaven or afterlife.

Mint. It’s so easy my mother in law can use it! Very easy to maintain, virtually no terminal use if you dont want to. Cinnamon (Mint’s desktop environment) is fairly customizable too iirc.

I could very easily, I’ve just only use rsync a handful of times for one-off files or small directories. Thinking of using it for several Tbs scares me 😅

Would you recommend nnn for transfering ~5Tb of media between two local servers? Seems like a weird question but it’s something I’ll have to do soon.

Synology has walked back their HDD decision (for now…), but as a DS224+ owner I actually just bought a new system, because I find the Synology software ecosystem to be kind of clunky and limiting.