When your community wants to de-federate everything:

Steps to reproduce: Click the thing

yt-dlp

It supports YouTube playlists also, so you can just give it a massive playlist and let it go

KeePass + Syncthing

Avoid cloud services all together.

The real secret is that a smaller community is generally a better quality experience if you’re looking to interact with other members of the community.

Reddit isn’t trying to foster communities, it is trying to foster content farming so that the masses of casual users can just scroll and look at ads.

I’m so glad to be away from corporate IT and working with small teams of highly technical people where every request isn’t “ok I’ll fill out the paperwork” but "Hmm, we could do it like this: " We just created a small network, gapped from everything else, where you can just use the bandwidth but cannot possibly affect the production network. Since our bandwidth utilization is generally around 5% of maximum it’s not issue to grab things using a 10Gb chunk of a few hundreds of Gb of bandwidth. The traffic is tagged with a low priority QOS packet so even in the worst case it will never affect network operation.

It’s been ages since I did IT. If I had a user who wanted to run Linux then I knew that, on average, they were going to cause me a lot less headaches with random user issues so I wouldn’t mind being flexible. Endpoint security will be different, but a lot of network security is handled through network devices that don’t care what the client is.

Noticing a lot of suspicious activity coming from there…