In practice, who do you know that’s using it and doesn’t run Arch, by the way?

Well I mostly run Debian, but I do have arch on a machine so maybe I don’t count.

It’s that they’re not designed for non-technical users.

Have to agree there, it takes some effort if you’re setting it up for friends and family.

Xmpp supports group chat, 1:1 messaging, you’ve got webtrc support for voice/video, and its extensible.

Jingle even has screen sharing (and I think a WIP remote control function).

What is missing from xmpp?

They are the aliens from They Live trying to normalize their appearance before removing the masks?

Only windows devices (laptop I use for work stuff). The other laptops are Linux (NFS) or Chromebooks (for the kids, no access).

Devices don’t really leave often (aside from mine), so not much of an issue. If the NAS is offline, not much else would be going on either.

I’m at the same age - just to mention, samba is nowhere near the horror show it used to be. That said, I use NFS for my Debian boxes and mac mini build box to hit my NAS, samba for the windows laptop.

Absolutely sums up the USA currently.

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Pretty easy to be a straight, cisgendered, white male without being a fan of the SS.

Its perfectly viable to run your support software on your own hardware (whether local or VPS).

I do this for myself, as well as for companies sized from 50-5000 (roughly). Larger ones deploy off my specs. The question to me is what is the plan around it. How will backups be handled? What if it goes offline due to a hardware failure? Do you have backups in place? A cold or hot spare? Multiple machines in an HA configuration? Do you need to go to that level if there is an outage?

I also prefer to make use of solutions with a support model that allows for locally hosted, but has a phone number that can be called. Part of this is because I don’t want to field all these calls, part of it is for the comfort of the client that they have a number they can call (or a dedicated email, whatever, the point is a support contact not how they are contacted), and part of it is to support the project.

My wife has a (small) business, I have a small business, and I work for a consulting firm (design and engineering). All three make use of on-prem f/loss, all three pay support fees to those projects who do that (and random annual contributions where possible to those that don’t).

So the short answer is: Figure out your requirements and your disaster recovery scenarios, then figure out what option works best for your needs from there. Cloud, VPS, or internally hosted are all viable, and all come with their own pluses and minuses.

Personally I just run both.

Navidrome is what I would call the daily driver, but since its just a share that JF can also see, for TV playback its JF just like you.

But I’m also a stickler for metadata so I don’t often run into issues. When I do see something come up thats not right, I correct manually. Which wasn’t happening very often until lidarr had the metadata issue with musicbrainz, though the past few months its been a manual effort.

Filter by genre tag to make the finding part easier?

Navidrome

A recent comment along similar lines was complaining about liberals saying primary them and then vote blue, which this is the exact case of.

So unless they want to clarify their position, I’m going to go ahead and take it as read with zero expectation of sarcasm being present. Too many are posting comments along the same lines with absolutely zero sarcasm for me to safely assume that to be the case here.

Thats wildly cool… I’m checking it out tomorrow!

… He’s running independent.

Mamdani is on the democratic ticket.

shrug or they want to use it as a private server, couldn’t tell you.

Just pointing to the server source as you can run the server self hosted.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

Just used it to import a recipe, tweak it, and then I made it. Big fan of mealie.

I bet it would do a decent job of parsing those text files.

Nothing.

Before DHS is was handled by the treasury, labor, and justice Dept’s (moved around in various ways over the past ~130ish years), the most significant change being immigration under the DOJ in 1940 (for… Somewhat obvious security reasons for the time).

DHS just absorbed all the different groups under one shitty lead. The excuse at the time being terrorism.

There is zero reason customs shouldn’t be under the treasury, immigration under labor, and enforcement (as in managing the deportation of those convicted of violent acts, or pursuing smugglers identified by customs, so on) under justice.

The reformation under DHS was specifically designed to militarize.

Immigration and customs are federal issues, not state issues, no matter how you slice it.

The problem isn’t that there exists an organization to enforce, but the entirety of its approach (“find people to kick out / take to concentration camps”). Within the framework we have today, something like a non-citizen being convicted of a crime (handled by local/state) being handed off to ice to deport to the appropriate country of their residence? Sure.

But also borders are pretty stupid if a lot of the other stupid stuff around it goes away too.