It means whatever you want it to mean.

“Liberal” arbitrarily changes meaning depending on who they want to dunk on today.

They are trolls. Ignore them.

“Free market” just means “free to engage in corporate rent seeking”.

It has never been easier to get money in the hands of your favorite performers. But it’s still harder than it should be.

(Fuck the prudes at Mastercard)

Looks like they missed a very important one!

That’s highly dependent on the hardware. My router only has two ports.

Just to make sure you know this, routers are not switches. You might get some of them to sort behave like switches with careful configuration, but most of the time it’s asking for a lot of trouble.

why it’s so important that there be strong independent checks on the government and politicians, minority representation, multi-party rule, etc…

That kind of liberal propaganda is not appreciated here ;)

You have three routers? Why?

Throw 2 of them out and get actual switches.

“Liberal” is a word with many meanings. Not defining is bad enough. Hopping between definitions between sentences and hoping your readers don’t notice is just lame.

That’s fucking disgusting.

In most first world countries this is illegal.

You mean like, with a cable? Eewwwww gross!

Most operating systems these days are just micro-kernels to run the actual operating system, your browser. Most users will be perfectly happy using whatever in most cases as long as you can get one of the major browsers on it.

If they have special requirements, then you need to figure them out first.

If they want to learn how to run their own stuff, go ahead and teach them.

Do you think sister here wants to learn how to run nextcloud?

I definitely think they should help their families out. Helping them select an alternative service is helping out.

Being on the hook for endless tech support while getting blamed for everything is not helping out. It’s also not healthy for your relationship with your sibling, and it’s not a good use of family holiday time.

A partner is different. You already share a lot of infra, and since you presumably spend a lot more time together it’s not likely to impact your relationship as much unless you go full Pat & Mat do IT.

This is my most heartfelt advice: do not do hosting for family members. You will get no end of trouble.

Find her a commercial service she can trust. Or throw up your hands and go “big tech, what can you do”. But do not, under any circumstance, run her IT.

The fish is not the only one here that’s “dumb”.

The “wings clipped” tweet still haunts me.

She is such a remarkable and genuine person, we are all worse off without her contributions.

Wt actual f?