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  • Since I consider non-free software to be unethical and antisocial, I think it would be wrong for me to recommend it to others.

    OpenBSD does not contain non-free software (though I am not sure whether it contains any non-free firmware blobs). However, its ports system does suggest non-free programs, or at least so I was told when I looked for some BSD variant that I could recommend. I therefore exercise my freedom of speech by not including OpenBSD in the list of systems that I recommend to the public.

    my god. Yeah, he’s technically correct, but he’s so self righteous about it. I think of PopOS, probably the best OS I’ve ever used. However when you open the shop, he would just pass out because they shock recommend discord and others.

    But that’s what people want. If you open the shop and don’t see the discord app, people would be frustrated. It’s there because people use it. Hell I use it. But according to him even the act of just suggesting something closed source, even if people want it, is … “unethical”?

    Like dude, I love OSS a lot, more than the average, but just suggesting a download, (probably because it’s by the most popular), I think is a far cry from “unethical”.


  • What was it I saw recently… There was a FOSS podcast player that is completely open and available, but it was demonized because you could (optionally) add the apples/itunes feed. Like reading an RSS feed from apple made it not “FOSS”

    That’s where I eyeroll hard. Ffs, having the option to use something proprietary does not closed source make. It was one part of one area of the app, that was like, a dropdown selection.



  • I’ll be honest man, just don’t do it. I tried, I really did, to make this exact scenario to work. You can get it to work - but it will be extremely brittle. You’re essentially hacking around LXC to do things it wasn’t built to do, and most of it is disabling security that’s there for a reason. At the end of the day you are essentially running docker directly on the host anyway, the passthrough lxc becomes less and less “there” vs passing stuff through. Then, every update to proxmox became anxiety riddled because every update would change or break something on my setup.

    If you want to continue, more power to you, but I hope you heed my warnings. This is a path you will spend a lot of time on and experience a lot of frustration. Spin up a tiny debian VM and run the containers there, the overhead of the VM has been negligible, and any speedup I might have had has been made up 10x by cutting the amount of time I’ve had to hack proxmox to make it work.








  • While I run my own Lemmy instance, I can say with 100% certainty - do not host a Lemmy instance on your own hardware.

    It’s tempting, and I did, but don’t. The reason? CSAM. Your hosting stuff for other people, and if someone uploads something horrible to another instance, that is federated with you. That means now you are hosting that content.

    The feds then have full rights to kick down your door and seize your hardware. On the cloud however, they’ll seize your VM , but your home stuff is okay.

    Hosting Lemmy is great - but it’s something you really have to think about. Hosting your content is awesome, fun, and rewarding. I’ve learned hosting other people’s content is… Not as fun.