I agree with what you’ve said. I’m very comfortably self sustaining now with a wife and kids and house, and still my parents want to give me stuff. I’ve recently bought a car and my parents jumped in asking that they would like to contribute. I save everything I can because I’ll be spending it on my kids. But then again I also try to spend on my parents whenever I can, although they’re pretty well off so there isn’t much opportunity there.

Your post is indirectly asking how much extra money people make and have saved up. Unfortunately, with how things are now, people will not have enough to ever buy their own house; much less buy their kids a house, car, etc. On top of that people have strong opinions about not “spoiling” children and wanting to spend on themselves. Look at how much holidays cost and how badly people want to go on holiday. It’s very easy to spend what could have been a house deposit for your child on your own holidays and luxuries instead.

I’m really shocked by the lack of family and community cohesion in England as well. Most young adults rant about how annoying and dislikeable their parents are and how badly they want to escape to a university on the other side of the country. Professional adults I work with will openly and unashamedly say that they can’t wait for their kid to leave home for university so they can be rid of the burden and then say how much more they love their dog than their kid. I remember a bank ad that used to be on TV that showed how annoying it was for a young adult to live in his parent’s house, but their rules and unable to get a moment of intimacy at home with his girlfriend…so he should get a mortgage to get a flat. The idea of co-support and co-dependence you describe is unusual here.

It takes a bit of learning and help, but you can get good at doing a gradient.

I’ve been doing a #1 or #0 all over for ages. Clippers work out great for me. No skill required.

I don’t know much about Home Assistant, but you could keep that separate on an R.Pi of its own. Or install it as a native app on Debian if you use a desktop OS on your server.

Tinkering is fun. Home server is one of the few projects that have gone through to full completion. Silksong will take up my time for now till I find a new project. Might just make a new macropad for work.

Let me know if you want any details of my setup. I basically used 2 weeks off in July to set this whole thing up. There are lots of great Docker apps once you learn to set it up. AI has made this much easier to get into now.

I’ve heard of Docker Desktop, but sounds like it was not well received.

Don’t know what this means. Docker is universally loved and works perfectly on desktop OSs.

I’m running Debian on my server mini PC. Docker will work on any installation of Windows, Linux, etc and work perfectly well. I played around with it initially by setting up a virtual machine with Debian on my gaming computer and seeing if I could get Docker apps working.

Fast forward to now, and I’m kinda sad that my server is all set up and stable and I have nothing to tinker with.

Don’t do it on a machine that holds valuable data or one that you need the machine to stay functional for work. I repeatedly fucked up my installation trying to get dual boot setup initially. Bootloader are easy to mess up. Even on a working installation, a Windows update would sometimes break the dual boot.

Its not difficult to set up a virtual machine inside your Linux installation. That way you don’t have to reboot and lose your other workflow to access your windows apps.

I started with a 2 bay Synology NAS (still have this as storage only and no computing) and added a 12the gen i5 mini PC I got on eBay for £230. That’s worked out great and I would highly recommend it. If you’re on a budget then look for some older hardware.

Docker is also not that difficult to get started with and worth messing around with to learn. I started on with Docker on my Synology and out grew that quickly and have been really happy with my mini PC.

Low level individual crimes wouldn’t be practical. Probably more worthwhile to try to follow more reliable organised crime or repeat offending criminals or something. Although even that wouldn’t practical as an individual without serious investigative resources and you’d still probably end up dead pretty quickly.

The only successful vigilantism is probably the online entrapment of paedophiles or something of that sort. Even that is highly questionable.

This looks a lot more complicated that Watchtower. Is this something different or add other functionality?

The secret ingredient…is crime.

I understand having a dislike for a medium that encourages shallow, gimmicky, reactive content. I would put short form video and micro blogging (Twitter, etc) in the same category. I wouldn’t say “its all shit, why does it exist”, etc. But I know I’m not going to find much of my interest so I avoid it.

But then Reddit (and even Lemmy) get flooded by people just copying over that shit comment from other platforms. I understand the frustration of not really having any good way to avoid the trash.

Is this meant to be rage bait? Are you just finding dark/strange corners of the internet? How old are you yourself?

I’ll take this at face valuein good faith:

We’ve decided as a society that after a certain age people are allowed to take their own decisions as long as they aren’t hurting anyone. What you’re suggesting would be a level of oversight and control that we enforce on <18 year old children, for their protection. There’s some point at which people are given the responsibility to do that for themselves. After 18 years age, you’re allowed to make these decisions for yourself.

There are far more harmful behaviours that people actually need protection from (self-destructive drug/alcohol use, gambling, etc). I’m really curious to heat how you’ve arrived at your conclusion. Your account comment history is quite odd.

Poor social skills/social circle: It’s never too late to start working to fix that.

YouTube addiction: I love YouTube…but I only watch through NewPipe and only my subscribed channels which are all long form content of substance. You don’t have to ditch YouTube, you can just use the good bits. Never look at algorithm recommendations (main page or suggested videos).

Offline life: pick something new you like. I’ve been building things (DIY, handmade mechanical keyboard, woodworking). If you find something you like then you can find a club or group and that makes you socialise too. Some people join hiking groups, or weekend park run. Or even if you’re starting solo, you can walk through a city and practice photography (this can be on your phone, don’t need any fancy equipment). There are literally a near infinite number of cheap/free options to consider, the difficult part is deciding what’s of interest to you and finding ways to make it happen.

As far as Americans are concerned, there are only 2 British accents:

Villain or wise mentor: Queen’s English

Henchman or comic relief: Cockney

I would really like to see a movie about a team up between detectives with Yorkshire, Brummie and Scouse accents; working cross regionally to bring down a gang of criminals. Hardcoded subtitles for the Americans please.

I learnt and set it all up a month ago. Don’t remember off the top of my head while on my phone while at work now. You should be able to find documentation online about setting it up in the Arr’s

Does this undermine Googles plans to block side loading?

Its recent in being a month old now, but:

• set up a dedicated server mini PC that really let me expand my self hosting beyond my Synology
• switched from Plex to Jellyfin (including for music)
• found out I can hard link files with my Arr’s setup so I can seed without having to keep duplicate copies of files, so that’s a win for the network. The privacy aspect is that I’m happy to get rid of data mining services I was using before my Arr’s setup.
• started using Immich for photos. So far so good
• Self hosted notes (Joplin)
• got remote desktop working on my home server, so if I’m at work and need to do a personal task, then I can do it on my own PC rather than the work browser.
• I use a chat app to make groups in which I’m the only participant. This is for sharing things across devices (links, files, notes, etc). Even on locked down work PCs I can open the web chat app and access my self-shared content. I used Telegram for this before. Now I’m self hosting an Element server.
• I’ve got syncthing running on my Retroid Pocket 5 + PC with Switch emulation. So Now I can ditch my Nintendo Switch completely and keep control of my save files. Fuck you Nintendo.

Boost app for Android helped by keeping a familiar interface and functionality. Use Alexandrite frontend on PC.

Other than that,you’ve got to accept that Lemmy is not a direct replacement for Reddit. The population here is way way smaller. Niche interests are non-existant. Subscribing is even pointless to an extent, as there really isn’t all that much content posted in total. You’re best browsing “all”. For content, you get what you get, rather than being able to pick from a wide variety.

It has pros and cons for what it is. But Lemmy certainly isn’t a direct replacement for Reddit.

A sudden ban would be madness. This would have to be phased in with some system of selling landlord permits which are phased out over time.

Or beat them at their own game by investing in massive amounts of good quality of social housing to flood the market.

One way or another, property prices will go down and people can’t stand the thought of negative equity.

Security from the evil villains who want to block ads. Jesus would have wanted everyone to watch ads as god intended, and these degenerates need to be taken down.

E-ink is easier on the eyes, especially for extended reading. Same for the lack of backlight.

The screen is bigger than a phone.

The battery lasts much much longer. Reading doesn’t need to kill the phone battery when it is on it’s own device.

Reading can be done in places where phones are not permitted (I take my Kindle with me when I take my kids to the pool).

Readers can be cheap enough that it isn’t really a problem having both devices.