Stop worrying about the country of origin. It’s a FOSS project. The vast majority of Pop’s components are developed independently of the company, and by citizens of various nations. Applying the “USA bad, so product bad” rhetoric is a seriously shortsighted approach. Consider instead the amount of influence exerted by the company. Does Ubuntu still seem like the better choice just because the company is headquartered in the UK?

Besides, if you really want to cut American software out of your life, start with Linux and GNU. Torvalds was born in Finland, but he is a naturalized US citizen, and Linux is developed on American infrastructure and includes significant amount of work from American developers.

You mean hotboxing weed in a tiny car?

The VHS was a bastard on an entirely different level. My cousin lost his The Empire Strikes Back tape because a roller got stuck and the tape got twisted around the reader head.

Should’ve used a Betamax. /s

I grew up with analog audio, and still have most of my dad’s late 70s “high tech” equipment, about a hundred vinyl records (mostly 33s with a few 45s), and several boxes of audio cassettes. Given the chance… I wouldn’t go back. That era had some severe issues that we just had to deal with because it was the best that contemporary technology could offer.

• Magnetic tapes have a finite shelf life. If not stored in a dry and cool place, the polyurethane tape absorbs moisture, which ruins the binder and the ferromagnetic coating falls off. Eventually the tape itself disintegrates.
• Magnetic tapes are susceptible to mechanical damage, they naturally stretch, and they can scratch if the rollers are dirty.
• They are also obviously vulnerable to electromagnetic fields.
• Playback quality is strongly dependent on the recording equipment, the magnetic medium’s quality, and the playback device.
• Even though the compact cassette is the icon of media sharing, copying is never 1:1 and always incurs a loss in quality.
• The best achievable audio quality can’t physically reach the quality of most digital recordings because of the granularity/resolution of the medium and the noise introduced by the pickup and amplifier circuits. The same is true for vinyl records: the superior audio quality is just a myth.

I loved analog audio recordings when they were relevant, but there are good reasons why magnetic tapes are obsolete, and why we largely skipped the CED and LaserDisc and moved on to CDs and digital audio with their own unique issues.

I miss cassettes and vinyl records only for nostalgia’s sake. Realistically, they were a BITCH to handle and store with questionable lifetimes and middling audio quality.

Rabbits, beavers, and hippos are fish, you see.

I’ve never used the AIO image. I’ve heard it’s weird. This is my compose file for the community image:

volumes:
  db:

services:
  db:
    image: mariadb:10.6
    restart: always
    command: --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --log-bin=binlog --binlog-format=ROW
    volumes:
      - db:/var/lib/mysql
    secrets:
      - mysql_root_password
      - mysql_nextcloud_password
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE=/run/secrets/mysql_root_password
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD_FILE=/run/secrets/mysql_nextcloud_password
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud

  nextcloud:
    image: nextcloud
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    depends_on:
      - db
    links:
      - db
    volumes:
      - /var/www/html:/var/www/html
      - /srv/data:/srv/data
    secrets:
      - mysql_nextcloud_password
    environment:
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD_FILE=/run/secrets/mysql_nextcloud_password
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_HOST=db

secrets:
  mysql_root_password:
    file: ./secrets/mysql_root_password.txt
  mysql_nextcloud_password:
    file: ./secrets/mysql_nextcloud_password.txt

You can access it on port 8080 and perform the initial setup manually. For the database server address, use the db hostname. You’ll have to use a reverse proxy for HTTPS.

You could also try OpenCloud, which is a Go rewrite of ownCloud.

He didn’t get called “man of steel”, good old Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili called himself that just to massage his ego. Kind of like certified Most Fuckable Twink Nick Adams proclaiming himself to be an “alpha male”.

Smog is just the developers’ workaround for overpopulation because the universe machine can’t handle that many animated entities without distance culling.

wax or pine sap

How the hell do you huff those though?

This is just the setup. The funny begins when the moderates and centrists arrive.

I’m a Centrist^TM!

• Conservative and progressive viewpoints should be given the same weight and consideration
• Both sides have merits and flaws
• Just Hear Them Out
• Only stating facts, not opinions
• Meet me in the middle
• Quotes pseudo-intellectual shit like “only a sith deals in absolutes”
• I’m not a transphobe, I just think–
• Stop arguing and let The System work it out!

(this is a joke, I’m not a centrist)

Into another environment?

“Live and let live” obviously doesn’t work. 4chan has done so much damage to the world that I wouldn’t mind seeing their big players in gallows in the town square.

For dramatization, when some event is so stupidly, unexpectedly bizarre that you have to check your figurative notes to make sure you’re not just remembering a fever dream. Example:

America is rolling back renewable energy development to promote the use of beautiful, clean… (checks notes…) coal, of all fucking things.

Those are two different measurements.

He’s six feet tall.

And he’s three inches.

Fascism in America, threats to annex Canada, government being run by an AI, we are speedrunning the Fallout timeline.

I know. I’ve played it many times. I thought the sarcasm was obvious enough.

Why not just go through Sloan? Seems so much easier.

(I know why you don’t go through Sloan. Feel the sarcasm, people.)

It’s another slice of Swiss cheese. If the user has a strong enough password or other authentication method through PAM, it might stop or hinder an attacker who might only have a compromised private key, for example. If multiple users have access to the same server and one of them is compromised, the account can be disabled without completely crippling the system.

Using sudo can also help you avoid mistakes (like accidentally rebooting a production server) by restricting which commands are available to the user.