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  • Others may have better, or fancier solutions, but I’m a fan VPN -> Home Network -> VNC over SSH/TLS for Linux boxes, and RDP for Windows.

    Again, none of VNC or RDP ports or services are ever exposed externally, and even on the LAN, they require authentication and use secure tunnels.

    Full disclosure, I haven’t used RDP in a while and I don’t know what version of SSL/TLS it comes with anymore.

    I know their are self-hosted AnyDesk style options and maybe they’re better than my approach, but I’ve never used them so I can’t really speak on that.




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    You’re on Android use NewPipe and it’s forks, personally I prefer Tubular and PipePipe.

    Periodically YouTube will break, but both of those forks, as well as new pipe prime, update fairly quickly.

    GrayJay is interesting… It has different feel and feature set than newpipe, but it’s worth using. I will say I get more login errors with GrayJay, but closing the app and reopening it resolves them immediately.

    All the piped apps will be in f-droid/droidify, you can download GrayJay directly, or just scan the QR to add the repo to a FOSS repo manager.


  • You’re on Android use NewPipe and it’s forks, personally I prefer Tubular and PipePipe.

    Periodically YouTube will break, but both of those forks, as well as new pipe prime, update fairly quickly.

    GrayJay it’s interesting. It has different feel and feature set than newpipe, but it’s worth using. I will say I get more login errors with GrayJay, but closing the app and reopening it resolves it.

    All the piped apps will be in f-droid/droidify, you can download GrayJay directly, or just scan the QR to add the repo to a FOSS repo manager.


  • I believe Tails already supports I2P, you just have to enable it in the terminal and reboot.

    I don’t know who this developer is, maybe they are well-known and well regarded.

    I just know that for an OS, better to be safe than sorry and go with and established and well respected project such as Tails IMO.

    Not trying discourage users from trying it, just that they should be mindful of the risks and adjust their behavior accordingly.


  • Unless there’s a way to secure public funding for them, this seems like a reasonable middle road.

    Like Patreon, which while having its own unique set of problems, enables a paid content distribution ecosystem for independent creators unlike anything else available.

    So, absent inserting invasive advertising, and lacking public funds, I can’t see how else they’re supposed to maintain infrastructure and development costs.



  • Your list of semi non-perishable foods does need some caveats about storage, because most of those things can go bad, depending on how they were stored.

    Frozen meat can spoil, as not all bacterial growth stops, some just slows down a whole lot. So if Grandma threw in a store plastic wrapped tray of chicken quarters, after being in the fridge for 3 days, and now it’s 8 years later, those might not be safe for human consumption.

    Stuff that was vacuum sealed, much more likely to last the long haul in the freezer, if done properly.

    Long-term stored grain, when not in vacuum sealed or other airtight containers, can develop molds or other bacterial contaminations.

    Improperly stored vinegar, if you try to use it…it will ruin your salad dressing, and taste like shit. But it’s pretty easy to see if vinegar has gone ick.

    Can’t say I’ve ever seen moldy or spoiled vinegar, but I’ve seen the type of kitchens that would be capable of making it happen in a long enough time frame.

    I’ve also never seen bad dry storage pasta or beans, but I imagine they carry the same long-term storage concerns as grains, even if they’re probably a bit more durable.


  • Aging for whiskey and scotch is done in specialized wood barrels with specific environmental conditions, not in the bottle.

    If the hard booze bottles been opened for a long time, it’s always possible some evaporation, or other slight changes have occurred that may impact taste, but still perfectly safe. Assuming it’s 80 proof and up.

    Throw out open wines if you’re not comfortable determining if they’re still consumable and not spoiled.

    TLDR: Toss opened bottles of wine, but any hard liquor should be safe, even if it taste is degraded.











  • No, I’m living in this thread. I’m talking about very specific issues related to LLMs, that I’ve highlighted ad nauseam.

    Reread if you’re confused.

    If anything, it shows that you believe in the concept of “AI” way more than I do, as you’re conflating LLM and FSD.

    I don’t believe in AI, it doesn’t exist. Just specific advanced machine learning algorithms, some better than others, and some all smoke and mirrors. But here, now, I’m talking about LLMs.