Yes most “communist systems” have not been very communist. They are almost entirely conservative, even if they have a few token progressive issues, and tend to be authoritarian instead of democratic and anarchistic. Also it’s hard to call a country communist if they don’t even have the freedom to speak and assemble without the states permission.

What usually happens is the people go communist, and the world powers implement an authoritarian regime that calls itself communist, but isn’t even remotely. Also socialism is better than communism.

You shouldn’t support those sites. They are working to destroy your human rights.

But there are sites that are based outside the U.S that work.

The military and police forces of the world are tiny compared to the armed populations, not to mention the fact that they rely on our labor to function. The people could easily overthrow the U.S military and all the police who protect the corpos and stuff.

That’s just Florida being stupid. I don’t really have a good answer to school shootings other then society is terrible and everyone suffers, and they almost certainly ignore school shooters because it’s convenient to them politically. It’s hard to believe with the mass surveillance they have that they cannot find most of them ahead of time. Pretty much all school shooters turn out to be borderline retards who leave months of evidence leading up to the attack. I’m not saying it’s good and you can ban guns in school, that’s completely acceptable, maybe having metal detectors with armed security is a good mitigation, but the way things are going right now, school shootings will be the least of your worries Inca few years from now.

It amazes me that people advocate for disarming the working class, as America slides into fascism and a total state with total surveillance. There is no easy way out. They are coming for all of us. You can’t bury your head and the sand and hope they won’t come for you as well. At this point the only thing that can save America is a revolution, and for that we need to be armed, or it’s going to be much more painful. In one years hundreds of thousands or millions die in a war. Don’t forget that. Indo think some common sense restrictions are acceptable like I mentioned in public spaces outside of protest and things like this, unless the crime rate is high or something.

Drugs are not a good solution to any problem. Life does suck sometimes, but drugs just make it so much worse.

Might as well reinstall at this point and for future reference. You shouldn’t just delete your network connection and firewall and throw stuff at the wall to fix it. A lot of this stuff is set up by a script during install and it only runs once so if you break it, you are going to need much deeper knowledge to fix it without a reinstall. You likely made new problems which makes finding your actual issue nearly impossible now. If you have a single issue it’s easier to find. If you have two issues there is no way to know if anything you did actually fixed it unless you get lucky and fix both issues at once.

This sounds obvious but I recently didn’t realize that you had to click on the network connections and actually click, connect, to get it to connect on Ethernet in my distro. This is a quirk that I didn’t realize that Linux had. Windows just automatically connects to Ethernet, Linux probably doesn’t do this because it’s a security risk.

This seems like the type of issue that chatGPT could really help with. With a few console commands you could verify that the system is seeing the network adapter and is communicating with it properly and try to list the networks directly, giving you a better clue as to where the chain is broken.

Either way might as well reinstall at this point.

The main issue is that for the potential harm of having some gun violence, the downsides are significant. Guns by the selves being banned doesn’t stop murder or anything. There are many ways to murder someone. You can do it with a rock. Guns in many ways make society more peaceful because it equalizes people. Women in particular can be every bit as dangerous as men if they need too.

The real issue with banning them, besides the people who will die because they cannot defend themselves, is that governments are extremely evil and always have been. Just in the past century governments have deliberately murdered in excess of 100 million people. Guns won’t necessarily stop authoritarian regimes from taking power, but they do make it very difficult to oppress people, as every cop who has to arrest people have to worry about how they are perceived by the community. With an armed population, the state at least has to keep a venere of morality and legitmency to the people. America is a country that has more cops and prisons thay almost any nation in the world. They try to work around this by eroding away residence a little at a time, but this causes the economy to fail since our society creates so many losers and corruption runs wild.

Anyways I’m generally progun, maybe they shouldn’t be allowed in some areas like in populated areas or public spaces, outside of security for peaceful protests, but banning them entirely seems like a bad idea to me. Most of the world’s countries have already fallen to extreme orwellian authoritarianism and they are working on the U.S right now. Once the rich have robot police, 100 people will be able to control the entire human species with massive violence and terrorism. We are going to need guns at that point anyways, and hopefully before then if people wise up and stop hating each other and realize the state and the corporations are the ones doing everything possible to enslave and brainwash us, and destroy our freedom.

Ah nice, sometimes different versions work well.

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Don’t forget to grab protonup-qt so you can easily install proton GE which has better .net support so more games work.

What why? Just trying to contribute something so lemmy doesn’t die.

Incredibly stupid even if he could, they hold the straight of gebalter which is one of the most important if not the most important military location in the world. Stupidity is the reason authoritarians destroy their own countries more so than even corruption.

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Some cloud backups offer lifetime deals which can be a good second backup.

As for self hosting. You should buy a domain, use a dynamic DNS service. This doesn’t cost much but is very useful. Get a decent router that isn’t superhackable. Get something like fedora for your servers, the os.tree file system is good because if you break your machine with updates you can just roll back.

Randomize your ports, be careful what you expose behind open ports, be careful what you install on your server, and run stuff in containers. Also block port scanning.

As for learning you are just going to have to research. For servers you need to open ports for whatever you are using, like a webserver, file server, etc. you need to be mindful of security. Keep it updated. You should keep your server separate from your main machines if possible and disable your main machines ability to port scan your server by using a VPN or something on your server.

It’s not all that difficult. Just watch some videos and passively absorb this knowledge.

As for backups, you should invest in one of these lifetime plans from a cloud provider. Maybe create separate accounts that you only use for your server stuff to help keep the details from getting leaked. (Email accounts, passwords, etc) On top of this you should have a second backup which I recommend hosting yourself so you can learn. This way your data should be safe.

In your backup server, you should run mirror raid, this way if you lose a drive, you won’t lose your data. Parity raid is t quite as good because you could lose a second drive while rebuilding. It’s cheaper for the amount of space, but you can just invest in a couple of high density, enterprise level drives from a reputable brand. Run mirror raid, and backup your files. Throw in a small SSD for the OS, and a medium SSD for cache. You can go as cheap or expensive as you want.

Get some remote management software. Since you aren’t super technical, use a remote desktop system. Just make sure it’s a good one that is well maintained because this is a big single point of failure in your security.

If you install a web browser on your server, disable scripts and ads, and only use it to download stuff you need from GitHub or something. Try to avoid exposure to sites which may have vulnerabilities.

As for the server. Using VMs and containers, you can use it relatively safely for many things. You could even use cloudfare if you wanted for additional security so your servers actual IP is not ever in the wild. People will only see an IP for that particular port and server VM. This is a bit overkill maybe.

You can run a backup server, web servers, game servers, you can host your own DNS, you can run media servers, and even your own private VPN or local AI models. There is tons of stuff you can do with a server.

Also don’t forget to set a reminder to reregister your domain name!

The simplest setup would be an old computer with a bunch of hard drives attached, maybe an old desktop, maybe a laptop with a powered USB hub. This is all you really need to get started.

Never owned one of their products, not even once. When I realized the iPod didn’t support USB file transfer and they forced you to use iTunes, I knew that they were a bad company and I vowed to never use their products.

A better solution would just be to limit connections per client.

Religion is cancer.

On Nvidia it doesn’t support game mode, so it just boots into the desktop, and also you can download a version that boots directly into the desktop or just tweak the files to make it the default.

No you can pretty much do everything the same. The biggest difference is the distro it’s based on, bazzite is based on fedora, you use “sudo rpm-ostree install” to install packages. Fedora has a system where it layers packages onto an ostree so if you have an issue you can boot from an old one.

Rpm is only needed for system packages, most packages can just be installed via a flatpack in the package store, which is all free and open source software.

Bazzite is a great starting point. It is pretty much turn key, while having the best performance and proprietary drivers. It already has everything installed to get emulating windows apps working easily out of the box. Wine, proton, steam, the proprietary drivers. These are all things you are going to want probably and this will save you a headache and several days of trying to get the system setup.

Make sure you disable UEFI and choose legacy boot in your bios if it’s available and also disable the TPM in the bios if available. It will work with those enabled, but it’s buggier and the TPM causes performance issues. Linux doesn’t need these and they are artificially imposed by Microsoft and the big corporate OSes, but they suck compared to the original simple standards for bootstrapping. I’m not 100% sure how well this works on everything. It’s possible some newer cards might require UEFI boot, but you can just turn it back on before you install.

I recommend KDE as the desktop environment, especially if you are used to windows. It will feel the most natural and familiar to you. I also recommend asking chatGPT to help you with basic tasks like installing system level software. Make sure you specify that you are using bazzite. Once you learn to use Linux its so much better than Windows. The performance is much better in nearly every regard. You can do anything you want with Linux, where windows is extremely locked down nowadays. It also prolongs the life of your hardware, especially drives, since windows spyware isn’t constantly scanning your files and stuff. With proton you will likely see a 5-15% performance jump over gaming on windows natively. The downside is that many popular games won’t work in multiplayer because of the anti heat, and also some trash software like Photoshop won’t work, but the vast majority of windows apps will work just fine, even multiplayer. The developers have to go out of their way to make multiplayer games not work on Linux, so it’s pretty rare, even if many of the bigger studios do it. You can dual boot windows for this if you really want to, but windows will constantly try to screw up your boot and stuff so you have to be careful. I would say just not support those companies which go out of their way to not support Linux. They are anticompetitive and anti consumer.

The learning curve for Linux isn’t quite a cliff now, it’s still steep, but with bazzite it’s much easier then it ever has been. It mostly just works from a simple gui install, and there isn’t really anything you need outside of this base install. Perhaps you want to install, protonup-qt so you can install proton GE, which has better support for some games that rely heavily on .net code, like space engineers.

Don’t use the open Nvidia drivers they are not as good. Most people’s problems with Nvidia probably come from this. I recommend bazzite for a Linux newbie, because it installs the best driver automatically and is very easy to use. Just get the distro that’s made for Nvidia with KDE.