Take care. Yeah, some things are really easy. But then at some point it always gets nasty, there’s a million details to learn and you can keep digging down pretty much forever 😆 If you’re at some time in the position to do it as a hobby, there’s ways to make it a bit less time consuming. We have some turnkey solutions. I sometimes recommend https://yunohost.org/ for people who just want to set up a server without dealing with all the low level stuff… But still, it’s an entire hobby.

If you don’t want to install anything, there’s also https://3d.kalidoface.com/ for the browser. And seems they shut it down but there was a 2D version as well: https://2d.kalidoface.com/ (both open source.)

And you might want to cross-check the OBS install instructions. I’m fairly sure it does game capture out of the box these days, so not sure if there’s a need to manually install plugins from source.

Idk. That’s a bit of a treacherous point in itself. I mean first of all life isn’t supposed to be just the bare essentials. But than that argument gets abused a lot, the usual stuff being “a bit of beating didn’t harm me”… but it probably did. At least I’ve rarely seen it been used in a good context. I’d say it depends. Some things used to be better, or simpler back in the days. Some weren’t. I think a lot of things (in society) improved in the 20 years or so since I’ve finished growing up. I don’t think the internet did. All the social media stuff got way worse. But it’s complicated. I don’t see any reason to be on 4chan at 13yo. But at the same time we also don’t want some “clean” dystopian society like in the dark sci-fi movies. Sexuality is part of life. And so is making mistakes, experiences…

Awesome!

Hmmh. Is there good Free Software to do these things with a Linux server at home?

Yeah, I mean they do have to be able to communicate with their friends, listen to audiobooks… Do their homework assignments, look up the bus schedule or text/call mom to pick them up, read/watch stuff if they like… Learn about the world. So there needs to be some sane way to do these things.

But it’s not like anyone needs to send in their ID to Google to accomplish that.

Huh. And how do these age checks work? Is that something you’d call your internet service provider to remove for you? Or is it just the average “Are you over 18? Y/N” popup?

But doesn’t sound too different from what we got. My ISP here in Germany has some secret list of forbidden piracy sites. So I switched to a different DNS server and I’m all good. Is that what they do in the UK as well? Sorry I’m lacking a bit in first hand experience. Haven’t been there in a while. An when on vacation, I rarely try to watch porn or read about automatic rifles 😅

Hmmh, sure. That’s usually 300% of what this is about. Though they have some “genuine” attempts at filtering the internet over in the UK. From what I gather, ISPs are supposed to filter pornography, copyright violations, gambling, weapons and violence and all sorts of stuff (Edit:??) per default. So there seems to be some wish for a “family safe” internet mixed in with the usual exploiting children to manifest some surveillance dystopia… Which definitely is the major reason why this is pushed all around the globe.

Yeah, since it’s the UK, I have a hunch that will include scanning your ID and uploading it to 5 different “international parners” aka American companies. To be tied to all online activity… Why not simply mandate parental controls be implemented in all phones and tablets, and we can do it without all the privacy invasion?

Screw electronics. I’ll finally get time to play my 100 board games, pen and paper roleplay games and all the stuff I currently don’t do, because I’m doomscrolling all day. And I might have to ask the neighbour to bring their accordion and sing some Lady Gaga for me until Spotify comes back online. I think I’d be fine.

Just a word of caution, It’ll be dark in the supermarket at that time. The electronic cash terminals cease to work and half the food is going to spoil within a few hours. So get some cash, rice, noodles, oil, ketchup and canned food. And you’ll need some sort of water supply.

Sure, sorry, you’re in the selfhosted community, so I sent some self hosted options 😆 If you own one of the internet/wifi routers with Wireguard built in (FritzBox, MikroTik, etc…) that might be an option as well. Other than that, I never tried any of the more commercial options, so I don’t know much about it.

Google and/or the Arch Wiki should have you covered. For my Dell laptop I just clicked on Settings->Battery and set it to “Preserver Battery Health”. Done.

I’ll go ahead and remove the battery. At least check on it regularly. I’ve had the spicy pillow syndrome in some of my laptops and phones. Other ones were fine. But better not have that plugged in and trickle charged for half a year.

If Tailscale doesn’t suit you, maybe try one of the alternatives. There’s Pangolin or plain old Wireguard tunnels. I have no clue if authentication is better with Pangolin, though.

Yes, you can. Maybe look up Flatpak and AppImage files, that’s the a bit more clever way to do it. Mind, though, we all, including Windows people try to teach people to avoid installing and running random executables from the internet. As that might mess up the system. And in the Windows world you might catch some viruses. You can do it, though. You can even run random Windows software via Wine/Proton. Or to make it a bit easier, use Lutris or Bottles for Windows .EXEs and downloaded games.

Usually, try to leverage all the tens of thousands of programs packaged with your Linux distribution. Your Linux will come with all the major browsers, printer drivers and all the popular software. If you install that, it’s pretty much guaranteed to work because it’s tested and tied into the system. You’ll get automatic updates. They’ll have a look at security (and sometimes privacy). You’ll forfeit all of that if you run random stuff downloaded from the internet. So keep it to a minimum and do it just in case there’s no better way.

And speaking from own experience, I often had a hard time with things like the tools downloaded from some printer manufacturer’s website. Usually the stuff Linux comes with, works way better. So try that first.

Lmao. First, everyone is right. Go is serious. An Zig as well. And a bit niche.

Furthermore: Yes. Unless you like learning curves as steep as a brick wall… You should probably start with something beginner friendly.

And you should get some kind of book to learn it. That’s easier and faster than poking around and learning things in random order.

As an adult, just skip the programming languages made for children. And skip the crazy ones like PHP. Go for something that is both useful and doesn’t come with 5 bazillion things to learn at once, and as many exceptions to those rules.

Yeah, as I said, they love licenses. Their code is FUTO Source First License 1.kb(?). Their models FUTO Model Weights License 1.0. The dataset MIT and seems the training code is proprietary. That’s 4 differently licensed parts that go into one product.

Thanks, I forgot about that 😟

BTW, there’s other voice input apps. I changed phones since I last tried but there were other good ones which were more responsive than FUTO’s software. My F-Droid shows Sayboard, Outspoke (via IzzyOnDroid’s Repo) and Whisper+

Sure. I just installed the Keyboard. I’ll try it for a few days. But yeah. Usually I try to stick to Free Software, so there’s a good chance I’m gonna remove it from my device again. Unless they manage too get me hooked on swipe typing 😅 But I think Heliboard also uses a closed-source library for swipe typing.

Yeah, it’a been a while, but last time I tried swipe typing with Heliboard, it wasn’t good. I forgot what issue was, but I uninstalled it after a few days.