Rclone does provide a docker image, too: https://rclone.org/install/#docker

I’m probably going to set this up soon myself, as I am in the process of building a little home server for my family.

I meant on your own system, running the backup software, since it sounds like Duplicati isn’t the best choice. Borg is a great backup program but it’s made for Linux. Kopia is cross-platform.

Sorry, I don’t have a go-to recommendation for the receiving end. In theory anything that can host WebDAV, SSH/SFTP, or an S3 endpoint would do the job.

What platforms are you working with? Borg might serve you better than Duplicati, but last I checked there’s no official Windows version.

There’s also Kopia. I haven’t used it much personally but I’ve heard good things. It supports a range of upload protocols: https://kopia.io/docs/features/#save-snapshots-to-cloud-network-or-local-storage

No. Absolutely not.

The year-to-year advancements of the Pixel series are minimal. I upgraded from a 7 to a 10 and it was really more of a sidegrade thanks to the P10’s shitty GPU.

I’ll consider upgrading when the base model gets 16GB of RAM or if they ever make a SOC that’s a significant upgrade.

I can’t say if it’s difficult to revert because I’ve never wanted to

Same.

If you never do anything advanced, it’s as easy as any stock UI.

If you do want to do advanced things, it’s probably your only option because most stock firmware is ass on consumer-grade devices.

Most things should work just fine. There’s not all that much that requires x86.

So the real question is, what does your mom need/want? NextCloud? Jellyfin media server? Ente photos?

Maybe just a media center? Basically an Apple TV on crack?

Hypothetically speaking, of course. Like O. J. Simpson’s book “If I Did It”.

There have been many studies showing that money changes people, specifically affecting empathy and pro-social behavior. I’m having trouble finding non-paywalled papers atm but this article seems like a decent overview: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_money_changes_the_way_you_think_and_feel

Jeff Bezos did at one time run a small business (Amazon started as an online bookshop operated from home). I’ve never heard of him doing evil shit like that back then.

I don’t believe anyone is born evil. Jeff Bezos became evil. And that probably could have been prevented if we just, like, had better tax laws.

Evil is largely circumstantial. If you somehow became a billionaire, you’d probably be evil too.

That said, yes, there are plenty of small business owners who are raging shitbags, too.

Mods don’t have access to the backend database, and I don’t think Lemmy exposes that information directly by default. It’s not a “feature” so much as a natural consequence of the architecture.

Technically, any Lemmy admin can see every user’s upvotes and downvotes — even users on different servers, because that information is federated.

I think there are some sites that expose this publicly as well. So you could probably sort it out.

Well crud. Thanks for the heads-up. First I’ve heard.

Sounds like Quad9 doesn’t actually do ad blocking, so that’s not much of a replacement.

It’s free for a limited number of queries per month. Generally enough for one device (depending on personal usage, obviously). Edit: It’ll still function as DNS after that limit, you just won’t get ad blocking and whatnot.

Mullvad has a free ad-blocking DNS you can use, too. I recommend the “base” version: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

Homebrew is the first go-to for software. Distrobox for more heavy-duty things.

There’s also ujust which has a handful of things made specifically for Bazzite. And AppImages work just like on any other distro.

The only thing that’s really discouraged is rpm-ostree. That’s a last resort, and almost never necessary.

Yes, using “male” or “female” as a noun (rather than an adjective) is bad form when referring to people. At least, it’s non-standard.

That said, language is constantly evolving, and when there is a need, it will be filled. Convention be damned. And there is a need for a noun that means “girl or woman” that isn’t clunky. There’s no good “standard” word to use. I think that’s one of the reasons this usage is becoming more common. (Personally, it gives me the ick, probably because I heard it used mostly in misogynistic contexts c. 2010 and it’s hard to shed that connotation. But I see it more and more without that subtext more recently. I suspect in 50 years it will be “standard”.)

Similar deal with the singular “they”. Some people still complain about that, even though it’s been in use for a very long time (centuries, I think).

I, for one, am a strong proponent of…well, my username. After all, “bro” can be short for Broseph or Brosephina.

I guess I’ll look into XFS and see if it’s suitable for my use cases (I know almost nothing about it), but this supports my opinion that BTRFS is an easy choice over EXT4 at least.

Edit: No snapshot support in XFS, so I’ll stick with BTRFS. My performance requirements are not that high on desktop. If I set up a high-performance server that would be another matter.

I was surprised to learn that F2FS has rather small maximum volume sizes. 16TB with 4K block sizes, 64TB with 16K block sizes. But your whole kernel needs to use 16K pages to use 16K F2FS blocks, which seems like more trouble than it’s worth. Either way, it’s so non-future-proof I’m not even going to think about it.