Well that’s called indecent exposure.

But also, what’s wrong with being horny?

Yes, but I’d still prefer not to have to spend the like ~2h reinstalling and replacing my files.

That said this seems like a pretty low stakes trial which is why I’m looking at it first. Worst case a reboot (or recovery through live booting) should fix most issues, I think, if I understand correctly. I don’t plan to autostart the docker container so if it fucks my system up a reboot should put me back to normal if starting it breaks my sys right?

I do have some old laptops and an unopened router waiting for me to figure out openWRT. I could install some linux OS (deb?) on one of those and use that for docker, get off my ass and install openWRT on the router, and then use that to connect both devices (and I’d have to figure out which to hotspot but that is easy), if that’d be significantly safer for my daily driver. Then I’d have to figure out how to point my browser to that too though.

Thank you! I’ll check out the docker docs before I try spinning this up as my first trial run!

Same here lol, I will for sure!

Awesome, thank you for the help/info! This seems like a good first step, I’ll try it out!

Awesome thanks for all the help and info, I’ll definitely check it out! I think this will be a nice step to help teach me these concepts and get me to the other projects!

So I have an interest in self hosting things in the future (nextcloud, chatmail), but for now I’m scared of opening my network to attacks, and also I don’t have a network right now I just hotspot from my phone when needed and torrent things at my friend’s house.

That said how would I go about using this? I’m guessing something to do with docker or porteus (maybe? The other one that wasn’t vulnerable to that recent thing), then when I want to check out X website I just “spin up the docker container” (still not 100% what that means but I’ve heard the verbiage), hotspot the pc (for now), and run it through the program? Am I understanding that right?

Sorry I’m so green, gotta start somewhere! I feel like a grandma calling an Xbox a “Nintendo” haha.

Especially when the only other answer to the problem is “windows is actively preventing you from doing X/doing Y to you because they hate their users and you are the product.”

I’ll save you the trouble:

“Well linux is maintained by volunteers not a billion dollar multinational corporation that should have the budget to do that”

With a side of:

“That’s because windows got in bed with PC OEMs and contracted to be the ONLY preinstalled OS they can use years ago (when it also sucked less), so it became the standard, and now vendor lock in rears it’s ugly head, so the other multinational corporations cater to windows. Had any other OS done that you’d use that, you don’t like ‘windows’ itself you like vendor lock in.”

Spot on, though I will admit, the gaming working as well as it does is a pretty recent development to be fair, and everyone (especially not people who don’t use linux) may not be up to date on that info.

Also to the CLI, sure you may not need it as much as you used to, it isn’t “doing everything with commands” anymore, but I’ll be honest claims of “never needing it” are often exaggerated on the other end. In reality, most linux users will still need to use it sometimes, varying by usecase and distro. To that end, I will say, before I switched myself this was the largest thing holding me back, but I’d heard it had gotten better, and windows was changing shit on me so often that I figured “if I’m gonna relearn X on windows every month I might as well just bite the bullet and learn linux instead.” I watched a few videos on youtube after searching “bash basics” and “linux terminal basics” and followed along like it was a basic computer class teaching use of Powerpoint, and within a couple hours (maybe three) I was not just “no longer scared” but almost comfortable in the terminal. Doing this has greatly improved my experience over the years of running linux and I recommend it to all newcomers even if you then still avoid it after, if just for a passing familiarity. Basically: “Only use sudo carefully, and always keep a backup of any important files, so if you do break your shit you only lose the time it takes to reinstall. Also you can use timeshift or snapper.” These days I’ll even open up a terminal inside of my GUI file browser sometimes, I love the CLI now.

As to dual booting, I like to recommend either if your laptop has two drives dedicate one to each OS, or if not, linux will run on a potato, if you or anyone you know is going to upgrade PCs because “it runs too slow,” no it doesn’t, that’s just windows’ bloat. Take the old HW for free or cheap and slap an appropriately weighted distro on it, then use it to learn while you still have your main, then when you realize how much better it is just switch your main over too, it’s free!

Tbf, something in a store has to be available before you can steal it, if it is sold out or not yet released it’ll be harder.

And really in this context “theft” is like “piracy is theft,” as much as I also don’t like AI, nobody else was deprived of the banner simply because db0 generated it. Piracy isn’t theft (and the owner of the Pirate instance isn’t likely to be persuaded by that argument at least, even if you disagree…)

And tbf, “well it was trained on actual artist’s work” and so was almost every artist in history, that’s kind of how it works to a degree. The greats separate themselves but a lot of human created art is derivative.

I mean there’s plenty to get mad at AI for, personally I’m not a fan of how people are using it as a brain replacement, how it enables further the ubiquitous spying, how people want it to replace humanity, oh and y’know literal actual murder robots in the form of autonomous loitering drones is probably a bad idea, and coming soon to a town near you. But that said “theft” isn’t super high up on my list, personally.

Though this could arguably fit under brain replacement, but more accurately I’d say it was “talent replacement” which is a little more defendable imo, like everyone should be able to think for the most part, not everyone can draw well. Does it affect how much I can appreciate the art in question? Absolutely. But it’s not necessarily dumbing db0 down just because he can’t draw for shit.

I’ve never heard it either, I thought he was on Food Stamps for a second, until “snap with” came up.

By far. Such a disappointment.

And Fallout 4 was the same, fight me (probably not you “fight me,” I bet you agree based on your TES opinions.)

Honestly I’m inclined to agree with that, and that’s my problem with it. It shouldn’t be the most interesting part but since everything else was so boring it ended up that way.

The major disappointment was that after III and IV had such rich lore and worlds, but by V they must have fired the guy that could write. Having seen what they could do vs what they released was just sad.

Not even just “they don’t adapt,” Skyrim’s side quests might as well not exist they’re so damn boring. “Oohhh a race war” who cares I want to steal cool and varied stuff!

The expansion helped for sure, Shiv Isles.

True though it was for sure smaller (unless you ever tried to “no fast travel” rule yourself then you’ll find out how big it is real quick lmao), but (and I concede Morrowind is just better, it just is there’s no way around it), but while Skyrim was large, effectively “who cares” because it was empty and dull and drab and gray. Cyrodiil is smaller but it’s absolutely gorgeous and vibrant throughout (even in the snow covered regions so that’s no excuse.)

Furthermore, my fundamental issue with Skyrim is the quests are just…dull. The main line is ok (Oblivion’s was better and Morrowind’s better still), but the side quests are abject dogshit, and the side quests historically were my favorite part. I stole a goddamn Elder Scroll, I snuck past every Ancestor Moth, I became the mother fucking Gray Fox, and in skyrim “hey you remember that same dumb silver vase you stole from one dickhead’s house? Steal it again from another dickhead’s house. Gray Fox? Whodat?” I loosened the bolts on a man’s stuffed moose after sneaking through his crawlspace to avoid his paid security, and got a bonus for it, and eventually became The Speaker. In skyrim “go kill that guy. Cool do it again.” The most memorable part of The Brotherhood in skyrim was from oblivion, by Lucian Luchance’s ghost.

I’m gonna be real, I kinda didn’t like skyrim and don’t think I’ll get 6. I’ll replay the oldies. My only real complaint with Morrowind is beast races can’t wear helmets and boots (I understand “human ones wouldn’t fit” but think given their existence in-lore it would make sense for them to have seen humans wearing them and gone “hey let’s do that for our shape.” I do however accept that the Cats and Lizards might still not though, Argonians being newly freed and technologically behind, and the Kitties need their claws but should have helmets, even if only leather.) My only real complaint with Oblivion is I wish they’d have left a bunch of shit from Morrowind like crossbows etc.

So is Oblivion, though in terms of “better” it belongs in the middle spot it happens to occupy numerically as well.

Locks like they make alot of them.

I’m gonna be honest, I don’t think it is being polite to the robots we’ll eventually kill in the coming Butlerian Jihad that is keeping you human, I think it’s your humanity in the first place. Doesn’t hurt that you have years of XP dealing with the receiving end so you know how it feels of course, coincidentally same, and I’m still nice to staff, but not to those fucking clanker spies.