It’s funny to me, maybe not to anyone else. If you would take an advice from a random internet stranger: Try to learn a bit of Mandarin, travel to China, maybe your local communist party can even support you with that. Get a some first hand experience with this country your clearly very passionate about.

Not as well supported by sources as you previous replies, such a shame. But you gave me a good laugh 🤣

Alright, you did convince me that the Chinese people report strong support to the CCP and report a strong perception of democracy. What I am still not convinced of however, is that PRC IS democratic.

In my book, for a country to be democratic it needs to have:

• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of press
• Freedom of reunion
• Freedom of protest
• Universal access to education
• Political plurality
• Universal suffrage
• Universal respect of human right

My opinion today is that, I highly doubt PRC qualifies to any of this points, but I don’t know for sure. If you convince me with credible evidence that PRC is better than, let’s say, France, Germany or Norway, on all these points, then I am ready to move to China with you next year.

Edit: I forgot a few important point on my democratic list of requirements:

• Laicity (division of state and religion and tolerance for all religions)
• Division of power (Legislative, Justice, Executive, etc, must be help by different institution regulating each other)

The data from this article is up to 2016. Things have changed quite a bit since the COVID crisis.

Better answer the survey correctly when you live in a country that has laws like “disagreeing with the government is a crime”

Pick up the can.

That raises the question: it is better to do sustainable foresting or hemp farming ?

No doubt that chopping down entire forest is terrible and for sure it’s being done, Amazonian rain-forest comes to mind. I hope this stops.

Another interesting fact I’ve learned from my short time working in the paper industry: biggest growing demands are for 1. Toilet paper, 2. Packaging, while demand for printing paper is steadily decreasing.

Hmmm… I’m by no mean an expert on the matter, but I see how this would have a big negative environmental impact.

You usually don’t cut down all the trees in your forest all at once to make paper. At least this is not how it’s done in Europe and it is illegal to do that. Trees are selected in the forest either for paper or for lumber. Young trees are usually used for paper and to make space for older trees to keep growing until they can be use for lumber, planks and such.

My router (shit one provided by the carrier) is restarting frequently, I think due to overheating

Eau’E Toilette

WTF, they couldn’t even bother to copy it properly from another bottle?

This is why people should actually read 1984. It’s a short book and an easy read.

Who comes first the King, or the Kingdom? 🤔

Not sure this is what you are looking for, but syncthing is for self-hosting and it’s Peer-2-Peer. I use it to synchronize my important documents and photos across my devices, it has options for encryption and file versioning.

Syncthing is the 3 in my 3-2-1 backup strategy. It enables me to maintain 3 copies of my files: desktop, phone, NAS

openmediavault and casas are good noob-friendly OSes for NAS purpose. Much faster and simpler to get it running than some Proxmox and True NAS overkill solution.

You can also just install whatever Linux OS you like, and plug-in some screen, keyboard and mouse and do your setup this way, like any other computer!

For Hardware, I recommend to build a computer out of standard parts. For what you said, a small motherboard with an integrated Intel N100 CPU and a nice looking case like the Jonsbo N2 will sever you well. This is very close to my current setup, using an older j5040 CPU and it runs everything just fine with no effort (Jellyfin w/ light transcoding, *arr stack, Usenet and torrent clients, syncthing, SMB and NFS filesharing, and more)

I second this proposition of DIY build. My current build is an older version of this using an ASRock motherboard with integrated Intel j5040. It’s already very capable! I run Jellyfin with HW transcoding and a dozen other containers and there is still plenty of headroom.

The Jonsbo N2 case is pricey but good quality, nice looking and nice to build with ! Cheaper options are there but not as nice in terms of looks and usability.

You can look into this database: PSU Low Idle Efficiency Database by Wolfgang’s Channel / Google Docs

245% tariff BABYYYY !

Politicians often argue that we need to increase security to protect our liberties, but it’s a scam. Ever-growing security policies quickly turn to suppress all liberty.

200% tariff on Champagne? How is this going to help US ? How is this going to hurt France ? Pretty sure champagne will sell no matter the price. This cannot favor US producers since Champagne can only come from Champagne in France. If you make the same sparkling wine in US it cannot be called Champagne and it will sell at a much much lower price and rich people will not be interested to buy it.