bizarroland

I don’t know, the only thing stopping me from getting 150 billion is the threat of having to pay an 800 million fine on it.

If it weren’t for that

I was going to say, it’s starting to sound more like the EU is just taking kickbacks in a circuitous legal manner rather than via a shady under the table deal with men and trench coats exchanging packages of unmarked bills.

I mean, in the last 5 months how many times has the EU fined meta or google?

If you really want to make a message that sticks, you ban the danger sites from operating in your collective and then fine them for their past misdeeds.

If you want to be seen as lenient, you then set down a list of objectives that the site must adhere to in order to be reinstated in the collective.

Anything short of that is just lining your pockets. I mean, what is the money being used for?

Remember, the rule is “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”.

Threads is doing this. Kicking them to the curb regardless of the cost is the only solution.

What I would do is get a lot of experience with a lot of different systems.

If you’re enjoying self hosting and setting stuff up, go to something like TurnKey Linux and download a handful of applications that you’re interested in using.

Spin up virtual servers on a proxmox server, install the turnkey Linux systems, and then learn how they work. Get ldap running on your home network. Set up an nginx reverse proxy and get a certificate so that you can go to a duckdns internal name spaces instead of IP addresses.

Find use cases for your home network system and then find how to make the systems you have available work for those use cases.

And for the love of god, find yourself a cheap Windows server license and virtualize one of those and integrate it into the mix.

Host a WordPress or Joomla on IIS, set up a pihole for your home DNS on Ubuntu server.

Run a jellyfin server and download a bunch of public domain movies to it.

Hello, find yourself some Kiwix images that you like and figure out how to get https and nginx names running on them.

The more you play around with the technology, the more you’ll find out what you like doing and what you don’t like doing and what you’re good at and what you’re not good at and that will help you understand where you fit and wear your talents lie.

Once you know that I’m sure you can put those talents to use for gainful employment.

I used it for a while. It honestly was a really good browser for a long time but since everything started going this shit it quickly fell from my good graces.

The only time I even think of missing it is when I have to open a page that is optimized against Firefox on purpose because the developers decided to use some janky Javascript plugin and didn’t test.

I miss my games being on solid media that I can trade with my friends or sell at a game store.

But I would not give up the seven seas to have that back again.