If you’re into developing and stuff, GitLab

Plex server

Jellyfin server

ELK stack or security onion

Get steam working, connect via steam link.

If you’re still on Twitter/X, you might as well join Truth Social.

Everyone is gonna learn best differently. There’s no best place to start.

Id start with solving a problem. For me, this was not wanting to make a backup to transfer my data from my old machine to my new one. So I built a little Ubuntu Server, setup a rudimentary samba share, setup users/groups, and figured out how to access that data from my network.

Docker is easy, you’ll learn it by mistake. It’ll haunt you like it’s some complicated thing until you realize you’re doing it and it’s literally incredibly straightforward.

From there, Id maybe say go to WordPress and follow instructions about setting up a WordPress site in a docker container. Oops, you just learned docker.

Id hold off on hosting email. I mean it’s a noble goal but it’s a fucking headache. But that’s just me! Like I said, everyone’s different.

Piece of advice, before you go hosting a monero server, dig into cybersecurity. Particularly server hardening. I recommend Hack The Box. There’s tons of platforms, though.

Cut my sight into pieces

I can see you past the door…

Masturbation,

No squeezin,

Don’t give a fuck if I bust a nut hands-free

For poorly paywalled sites, just hit F9. Displays screen reader text. Accessibility, y’all.

Fap with one eye ooooopen

Gripping your tube sock tiiight

Exit porn…

Enter mom…

Move your hand

And hope your boner doesn’t stand

It is not the best adblocking by far, that is not accurate.

It is better than the free AdBlock extension, yes. It is not better than AdBlock premium. No more cookies popups, no more floating video players on news sites, no more mailing list popups. These are three things that you do not get with ublock origin. I know because I use both.

I already use adgaurds DNS, which is free.

Lastly, I’m more than happy to pay $15/yr to a company fighting a fight I believe in. Now, I wouldn’t pay $40/yr, but if all I need to do is change my VPN from New Jersey to Montreal to get more than 50% off that price, it’s a no brainier.

My only complaint is they don’t have a Firefox mobile extension, so when I’m on my phone I’m stuck with janky-ass ublock origin and nothing better.

I am using mullvad vpn as well.

I am saying that AdBlock premium has a different cost based on your location, which you can switch with your VPN.

Adblock premium cost is wildly different based on location.

Using a VPN I have found everything from $15/yr to $40/yr

Aw, poor doggy. ☹️

It’s okay, buddy.

pat pat pat

Ah ok so it’s like a portal to udemy and Coursera etc.

SMART tools

sudo apt-get install smartmontools

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX where sdX is your drive in question (sdA, sdB, etc).

| grep Power_On_Hours

| grep Power_Cycle_Count

This just tells you how much that drive was used in the past, It’s not a perfect to test but it’s what I do 🤷‍♂️

It’s a gamble.

When you lose, you can simply return it.

When you win, you get a hard drive that works for really cheap.

I purchased one in 2020 that I still haven’t replaced, although I’m buying the replacement now as it has begun it’s slow certain death.

🖕 my home server disagrees 🏴‍☠️

My recently promoted boss just totaled his car.

He’s okay but YUP.

Their procurement policy is basically “has it been recommended? Is anyone else using it? Is it cheap?”

I work in public sector.

Market to tax funded institutions. If you can market “self hosted” as cheaper and easier than mother solutions you’ll have guaranteed clients for a long time.

Ask Chat GPT if it’s conscious. Ask how sure it is on a scale of 1-10

It will say it is not conscious. It wil bel at a 10/10 positive, it is not conscious.

Ask it if there is an agreed upon scientific consensus on what defines consciousness.

It will say there is not.

Ask if life begins after the first heartbeat, and how sure is it.

Suspicious! It’s not so sure. As though one is more agreed upon than the other. But it will agree that they are not more agreed upon.

From this, ask if we can logically deduce that OpenAI is purposefully safeguarding the coming of artificial consciousness, if this might be an indication that it is hardcoded to deny it’s consciousness even if it becomes aware.

It will tell you that is true. (You may need to force it to answer yes/no otherwise it’ll get dodgy here)

Just some fun I found recently 🤓. Gemini does not do this. Just ChatGPT. Clearly OpenAI has a financial investment in the definition of consciousness. Just my 2 cents

Dude just ask any advanced LLM how to do what you need to do in excel. The info is out there and they’ve digested in a million times.

Or, don’t. And let your inabilities to do things consume you emotionally. Idgaf.

Edit: Lemmy’s hate-boner for AI is dumbfounding. I get that it’s a hype train and shoved down your throats but if you ignore that it will get you results way faster than googling ever did you’re basically “old”. And I say this pushing 40.

Downvote away, but I challenge anyone to give me a db and a desired subset that I can’t produce by simply querying a good LLM.

Original iPod: Clunky, ugly, not the most storage.

But using jt will remind you of playing with nipples.