scans for open ports ran continuously since the 1990s, it was never a big deal. Also they only run on lower ports (not that it matters)

what are you talking about killing your internet performance? You can have hundreds of thousands of scans per day (which isn’t gonna happen, you won’t even get 100) and it still won’t bog down jank cable internet from early 2000s

flatpak does indeed deduplicate. The stuff is updated to whatever is required as a dependency to whatever programs are installed. And versions are shared between applications when versions match as well…

So I am guessing it is just like flatpak

We’re talking about rust, not corroding. Rust is only iron, nothing else.

Do it.

There’s really not much that can end badly, someone gets in your network (unlikely anyone even knows it exists)? reformat all your shit. Just by knowing what a DMZ is you are already more qualified than half the people I’ve met self hosting

do you run a business out of your house? do you run a bunch of peoples personal info? does anyone else? If you answered no to all of these then there really isn’t much that can “go wrong” you can just unplug your shit.

hosting email also isn’t that big of a deal but your home ISP will block port 25, you need to have a “business” one for them to unblock it and even then sometimes have to directly request it. Things like mailcow docker make it dead easy.

and yea as the other guy said always update your stuff

I agree. Just run it. that’s how I learned decades ago. Don’t ignore it either if you wanna get better.

The risks are just as bad as owning some amazon IoT device

yea they’ll plug in the drive and windows will popup “this drive needs to be formatted” and the rest is history

That’s in a quote I mean you just reply that to them lol

can also just do flatpak install steam I know there are plenty of ways to get it done

installing the easier linux distros has been easier than windows since like 2004. I never understood the “it’s hard to install” out of everything else that may be legit to complain about

the only thing I can guess is the people that say that are the people that can’t get into their bios and do not know how to reformat windows either.

can you?

damn, of all the people you’d think those guys would actually have used the .local or .config =[

I have 73 dot files in my home directory lmao

oh you can run the https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim and then just install MPV

the software he is installing in his pic is a snap wrapper over a proprietary, closed source torrent thing. So don’t even bother.

that’s why you just compile your .flatpak file and say “gl suckas, works 4 me :^)”

oh wow that’s way worse than the crappy one he said in his actual post… He said a totally different software. He’s trying to run several things on this machine lol

whoa look at mr rich boy here with a drive that costs more than $2 on ebay

he said it’s a thin client so it is likely soldered on but almost all of them do have m.2 support. But many of them are actual sata m.2 so don’t accidentally buy a nvme m.2. easy enough to check which yours supports

don’t wanna be mean to any demographic but it’s literally the windows gamer converts. Not all of them though. At the same time that kills the other linux elites of “you don’t compile gentoo from scratch on every system?” so…

this? https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Shortwave

I think on a system like that you shouldn’t even run a GUI or a window manager at most. What is the service that is actually using though, it links to this https://www.radio-browser.info/ I guess I see you can play stations directly from that. It seems it makes more sense to use like lynx browser or something to just browse that website directly.

I’ve clicked like 10 of them they are all mp3 or aac. mpv or vlc can decode those on the command line and play it with using like 15-100mb of space on your storage. Like this random station for example https://stream-uk1.radioparadise.com/aac-320

all in all your total install should be like 400mb

damn you got ubuntuwashed, not sure if that is worse than windowashed or not

or statically compiling literally everything then you got 50 copies of the same thing like windows & macos!