MonkeMischief

Well it's artificially upscaled, so it's like the original but appears to be superficially aping its qualities with no actual understanding of the source material.

You're totally right. Without that inner life we'd just be forced into being exactly like our parents because we wouldn't grow as individuals.

I think the problem is when, hypothetically, that inner life that finds you first is a profit-driven hate-brewing death cult brought to you by an algorithm. Then these people "totally get you" and gives you a "community."

I miss when those unsupervised inner life communities were mostly around hobbies or games or whatever to escape life drudgery and make real friends. MySpace wasn't about viral brainwashing campaigns, YouTube was mostly creation for fun's sake, and even with online games and such, we all knew there was a separation between "the Internet" and "Real Life(TM)".

Everybody knew not to take the Internet seriously, because it was a place you went to escape everything else. Nothing really mattered on the internet.

I think now people don't really see a separation. The Internet is real life, in the worst way.

Now so much of it is a minefield of recruitment and manipulation to enlist in culture wars for clicks. There's labels and lifestyles that act as "funnels" and "pipelines" to increasingly toxic extreme identities that find "belonging" in being captive mindslaves and profit-cattle to any number of "influencers."

Sure, let's not try to help them and just fuck them instead.

How society collectively decided to design the Millennial experience lol.

No joke. We went from getting yelled at by old people for problems they caused, to being called old and getting shoved aside by the generation ahead of us, really freaking fast.

I feel like we've already been forgotten after we were robbed of opportunity and respect at every turn.

I try to focus my energy towards the good ones. There's still good people out there. I've met many kids that would put the majority of adults to shame with their level of intelligence, maturity, and respect. The odds are so against them though.

How complex is making a roll-your-own NAS?

It really depends on what you want out of it. I personally installed ProxMox on an old gaming machine (DDR3 RAM old lol) and have an Open Media Vault virtual machine running on it with access to my ZFS mirrored pair of storage drives.

Enabling Samba support in Open Media Vault gives you a nice little NAS. I believe it's okay to install bare metal if you really want to also.

It also has a nice Docker interface, so although I should probably not bundle services together so tightly, it runs things like Jellyfin for media, Paperless NGX for document storage, and NextCloud AIO for a convenient (if slightly resource-hungry) interface.

ProxMox lets me do fun things though, like back up the VMs, spin up virtual machines for PiHole ad blocking and Klipper for controlling my 3D printer.

My most important data gets synced to a subscription to a service called iDrive as my offsite. Pretty affordable for 5TB and my own encryption keys. :)

I want to stress that I'm not an IT professional or anything either. If you're reasonably comfortable with Linux and understand some basic networking, I'd say at least getting Proxmox and/or Open Media Vault up and running so you can access it on your home network isn't too hard.

Outside of that, and if you want HTTPS and stuff? There's lots of guides but I would recommend using TailScale instead of opening any ports to the web.

Sorry if this post was meandering but hope it gave you a little bit to go on! :)

Maybe the murder/crime rate has technically gone down, but the prospect of getting thrown in a literal dungeon without trial for having a tattoo, being mistaken for someone else, or doing some thing the government decided they didn't like that week, doesn't sound safe, even if statistically so.

By that definition, the DPRK is "safe" because you're unlikely to get randomly mugged or something while you're there. But God have mercy on a tourist who tries to bring home a piece of paper from a hotel room.

Oh 110% agreed. Big time.

I can even understand if it were a bit of debate, for the very worst offenses or something. (Not that I'd agree, but I can understand people debating it.)

I think I was more aghast at how people were frivolously suggesting gulag camps without the slightest moral ponderance over....

(Flips pages)

....Keying off some car paint...

Suburbanites can be a special kind of evil.

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I totally get it. I love the idea of building systems and resilient infrastructure for communities and.... Hate realizing nobody would really bother using it. :(

You know what's freaking terrifying?

I use Nextdoor on occasion (a social media app specifically for localized neighborhoods), because it helps with safety or lost pets or something occasionally...

...but lately there's been some tesla vandalism going on, and there's SO MANY comments like "Give them 20 years" and "Send them straight to El Salvador." and "Domestic terrorism!"

I used to resent isolation and lack of community...but now I really don't wanna meet my neighbors anymore...

I want to believe a quieter majority of us aren't cool with shirking due process and shipping U.S citizens to foreign prison camps, if that wasn't bad enough, for property damage of all justifications...but geeze.

Same. I just wanna work towards requiring less of it and enjoying real plants that aren't masquerading as something else.

Black bean burger patty? Let's go!

Molded soy isolate thing engineered to seem like beef or shrimp or cheese or whatever? Gut rebellion.

As always, the misery is the point!