Exactly. I use nano because it’s always there, and if it’s not somehow? It’s in a preloaded repo. It’s just so simple and easy.

And I’ve used it to write code before, only several dozen lines at a time. And that’s BEFORE I knew about the option to use modern key commands. (Learned that today).

Now nano is unstoppable in my mind.

If I learned vim or whatever, then on top of learning it, I’d have to stop and install it every single time. Bleh. No thanks.

Restaurant opened up in town, we went in the first week, service was horrible, like unbelievably so, and not just to me. It’s a long story.

I get it, new business has growing pains. But it was bad enough I needed to leave a bad review. My plan was to update it if/when we came back and it was better. Or if the business commented on it apologizing for the way we were treated.

Instead, I watched that place get like 30 5 star reviews in an hour flat. And I don’t mean several good reviews, with a mix of stars and praise. I mean 30 solid 5 stars, with ALL the subcategories lit up with solid 5 stars as well, and glowing, wordy reviews.

No way. Absolutely no way could that be the case. I talked to other friends who went on different days, they had better experiences than me, but they all had different issues, nobody was giving a glowing review. One other buddy also got snubbed the same way I did and left a 1 star as well.

Funny thing? All the one star reviews had hearts on them, almost like people were trying to boost them up in the sea of 5 star reviews.

It was the craziest thing I’d ever seen. That company saw the 1 stars rolling in, and instead of replying to them, or training their staff, they just… Bought reviews, to keep their ratio high and weather the storm.

Just insane.

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.

Life sucks, we’re all screwed up in some way or another. But just saying “well that’s how I am now” is the standard approach these days, and it only perpetuates the problem.

Since when has apt had ads? That’s horrendous. How have I never heard of this?!

I didn’t realize WHAT the problem was, assumed it was just Linux in general. But that’s my experience with Ubuntu, too.

Been with it since the beginning, it was one of my earlier introductions to Linux. But I could NEVER upgrade cleanly. I was always reinstalling. And yeah there are easier ways to do that too but for a noob I struggled.

That kept me dual booting Windows, or for a good number of years running mainly Windows.

But last year I went atomic fedora bluefin on my new laptop, and I love it. Slightly more restricted, and a couple issues with flatpaks, but the stability is top tier.

I still run Debian on my prox VMs, and I keep a win 10 ltsc VM on there too for the rare program that doesn’t play nice, but otherwise I’m all Linux now.

Same. But I went atomic, bluefin.

For a stable every day driver? It’s gonna take a lot to get me to switch away.

Still Debian for my proxmox VMs though

That’s fair. I had 24.04 installed because I needed a Linux de for something, and it eventually became the base of my Plex install for awhile.

I purposely did very little to it, besides periodically update it.

Almost immediately I had display issues where the monitor would shimmy back and forth about 10 pixels, rapidly. No rhyme or reason. I figured it was a Wayland thing.

Then the updater started hanging. That’s when I started learning proxmox to properly replace the whole setup.

By the time I got it moved over, you couldn’t restart the machine unattended, because it would kernel panic unless you used grub to revert to an older kernel.

I swear I didn’t tinker with this thing, it just… Died.

Of course that’s just my experience 🤷‍♂️ Glad things have been solid for you. I still recommend poking at atomic distros, I think they’re the future for a lot of less experienced users. It’ll be good to have knowledge of how they work.

I’ve got my very non-techy buddy running it right now. There are a couple of issues with flatpaks not having extended permissions, but otherwise, smooth sailing.

I went with fedora bluefin.

It’s an atomic/immutable type OS, based on silverblue, but with a bunch of drivers and software bundled in.

Atomic is not for everyone, but I love it. I tried it on a whim when I got my framework 13 over a year ago, and it’s been on there ever since.

I’ve been using Linux on and off for a couple of decades now, mostly Ubuntu, but some others (OG DSL anyone?).

Really though I’ve never been able to ditch windows until bluefin. My problem has always been that after a year or two, my system starts to get unstable. And you can forget about complete version upgrades. Out of the question. They never fail to always fail. I just can’t stop tinkering with things.

But bluefin? It has everything I want and need in a daily driver. And it’s very nature FORCES me to not tinker with the inner gubbins. Thusly, it just works. Every day. Every update. Solid.

I use distrobox for tinkering. Or I spin up a Windows VM in proxmox if I need to get crazy. And I’ve still got a Windows computer gathering dust in the corner for when Windows on metal is required, but that’s only happened once since I started this party.

So yeah, if you haven’t given it a try, I highly recommend it.

This was happening to me last night! Firefox on Debian LXDE.

Thought I was going crazy, really messed with my workflow.

I just checked this morning, about 9 hours later, and it’s working again.

Stupid AI scrapers ruining it for everyone. Bot detection never used to be so… Twitchy.

Also I hate that cloudflare is the backbone for so many services. When will people learn?

Touching your own pp is gay, apparently

I have my fw13 plugged in almost all the time. So I set the battery max charge to 60%.

If I really need more juice, I can set it back to 100, but I basically never need that.

Samsies. I also got the amd version that came out before the AI 300 stuff, so it was discounted, which was nice

Speed Queen

All jokes aside, movement is healthy, even if just walking around the block, down the sidewalk, or down the street (I don’t know where you live).

Our bodies are made to move. And while I enjoy vegging out as much as the next person, and I definitely don’t go to the gym, I try to go for a short walk at least once a week, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Also not getting any sunshine at all can give you SAD.

I highly recommend getting out of the house occasionally, for your long term health. You’ll feel better too.

So basically if I slap emby on an open port, and point my domain to my IP, it’ll work just the same. Connect is just for people without static IP addresses?

I ask because most people say you can’t put JF on an open port and call it good. Not safe.

Emby is based on jf from years ago. Is it safe?

Doesn’t emby have some kind of “connect” feature? I wish jf would do something like that

Wait, does emby do remote access similar to Plex? And without VPN like JF? That’s literally the only thing keeping me on Plex.

Most people are not gonna go that route unfortunately. I want to love JF, but the remote access is a big sticking point, especially for non tech relatives.

It bugs me when people just say tailscale like that solves it all. It’s very useful and solves a lot of problems, but not all. Unfortunately.

Doesn’t that mean your jellyfin server is directly exposed to the Internet? The very thing everyone constantly warns against?

I’m still on Plex, one of my biggest hangups with JF is that the remote access is kludgy