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Actual Budget is an open-source envelope-style budgeting tool similar to YNAB. It has a self-hostable syncing service so that you can manage your budget across multiple devices.

The reason you might want to do this is that it’s probably easier to do full account review sitting at your computer, but you might want to track expenses/receipts on your smartphone while you’re away from home.

The logo, the UI, or the code?

Yes, but as long as there was public and political drive in that direction - even just the appearance of it - then the companies had to make some effort to look good.

Without the external pressure, then the pledge becomes worthless to the company, so they dispose of the expense.

To put it another way… the pledges become worthless if public sentiment does not force companies to maintain them.

Would this mini pc be a good homeserver

For what purpose?

Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish…

It’s an embellishment on the above monkey’s paw comment, not actual technical information.

It doesn’t check dependencies.

You have 356 different copies of libcurl installed on your system.

Nginx, Apache and Lighttpd are all running in the background and collectively using the same port, somehow.

Wayland and X are both running with multiple sessions but none of them are on the default TTY.

I’ve been using JShelter which provides a few different options for handling page load failures. It also works on Firefox mobile.

A couple notes:

• You can be fingerprinted by the extensions you have installed in your browser. This is really difficult to circumvent, because if certain pieces of a website’s code never load on your system and never send expected responses to the server then the server definitely knows that. The more uncommon extensions you have installed, the more identifiable you are - and you’re already in a minority as a Firefox user.
• More and more websites are behind Cloudflare (mostly because of DDoS attacks) and JShelter will typically break Cloudflare’s filter which attempts to block bots. I’ve found that disabling just the fingerprint detector usually allows access to sites that have this protection.

Those are Klingons?

If you’re just doing a quick config edit, nano is significantly easier to use and is also present in most distros.

Vi/Vim is useful as a customizable dev environment, but in the present there are better, more feature-rich development tools - unless you are specifically doing a lot of development in a GUI-free system, for some reason.

They can’t stop the signal, Jim… they can never stop… the signal…

Encrypting the connection is good, it means that no one should be able capture the data and read it - but my concern is more about the holes in the network boundary you have to create to establish the connection.

My point of view is, that’s not something you want happening automatically, unless you manually configured it to do that yourself and you know exactly how it works, what it connects to and how it authenticates (and preferably have some kind of inbound/outbound traffic monitoring for that connection).

Ah, just one question - is your current Syncthing use internal to your home network, or does it sync remotely?

Because if you’re just having your mobile devices sync files when they get on your home wifi, it’s reasonably safe for that to be fire-and-forget, but if you’re syncing from public networks into private that really should require some more specific configuration and active control.

“Option” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this headline.

A microwave oven is also an “option” for cooking chicken. Pineapple is also an “option” for topping a pizza.

There are lots of bad “options” for preparing food.

My main reasons are sailing the high seas

If this is the goal, then you need to concern yourself with your network first and the computer/server second. You need as much operational control over your home network as you can manage, you need to put this traffic in a separate tunnel from all of your normal network traffic and have it pop up on the public network from a different location. You need to own the modem that links you to your provider’s network, and the router that is the entry/exit point for your network. You need to segregate the thing doing the sailing on its own network segment that doesn’t have direct access to any of your other devices. You can not use the combo modem/router gateway device provided by your ISP. You need to plan your internal network intentionally and understand how, when, and why each device transmits on the network. You should understand your firewall configuration (on your network boundary, not on your PC). You should also get PiHole up and running and start dropping unwanted inbound and outbound traffic.

OpSec first.

That is putting a lot of faith in a computer system that can’t tell the difference between crew members and unauthorized visitors, and regularly gives access to critical functions to anyone who asks.

no shit son

I think the term “homeless” is really a euphemism that makes it easier for wealthy people to talk about poor people (if you have shelter, food, and are not living paycheck to paycheck you count as wealthy), and it results in misunderstandings about what the real problems are.

Giving a house to someone who lives on the streets is a nice gesture but it doesn’t address the underlying problems - unemployment, unemployability, health problems, psychological problems, lack of social support structure, lack of supportive relationships (e.g. friends and family) - you can’t just fix someone’s life with a building.

It’s like a grade-school-level understanding of the problem (“just give the homeless people homes! then they’re not homeless anymore! problem solved!”). Without putting in a real effort to support these individuals’ lives, to understand and address what put them in that situation in the first place, this is a temporary patch that will end in relapse.

Oh one one eight nine nine nine…

On the idle batteries part specifically, if you had a station with racks of pre-charged batteries waiting for cars to swap with, you could also have that station be part of the local power grid, so the batteries are not really idle and not a waste of space, and you now have a second reason to keep them constantly at like 80% charge.