nymnympseudonym

I was being a bit loose. You can video record people in public – just not audio. Any audio on your video recording device makes it illegal.

There are 13 US states like this

https://recordinglaw.com/party-two-party-consent-states/

Where I live, recording someone without their consent – even in public – is a crime.

I have personally argued both sides on this. Over time I have come to favor it.

EDIT: some background

For anyone that hasn’t played with this yet

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4679/burn-my-windows/

TBH I chose Funkwhale for my solution because it looked easy and out of the box, I just add a single Docker and subdomain to my existing site.

It wound up being more or less what you describe.

I may well follow OP’s guide and nuke my Funkwhale despite the work I put into it and the fact that it does basically work for its intended purpose

Question: did you consider Funkwhale , and if so why did you choose this other stack instead?

EDIT: fix link sry

maybe our averages are different

As a person who has been managing software development teams for 30+ years, I have an observation.
Invariably, some employees are “average”. Not super geniuses, not workaholics, but people who (say) have been doing a good job with customer support. Generally they can code simple things and know the OS versions we support as a power user – but not as well as a sysadmin.

I do find that if I tell them to use ChatGPT to help debug issues, they do almost as well as if a sysadmin or more experienced programmer had picked up the ticket. It gets better troubleshooting, they maybe fix an actual root cause bug in our product code.