I’ll cast a vote for checking the local Facebook marketplace or craigslist for a deal on a good laser printer.

My username has a space and a newline in it.

Random things break at random times.

Exactly the same boat. But man Cloudflare is better in every way. Having an API to update/fetch records for a zone does wonders.

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The answers here are all well and good, but show how using Linux isn’t as user friendly. Regular folks could care less about what filesystem they have. Heck even having a specific window manager vs another can seem farfetched.

I wouldn’t do this since I don’t want to be even more tech support for people I know.

My mom has used windows for as long as she has had a computer and still doesn’t know what the start button or the windows key are.

I’ve explained it millions of times.

I’m not signing up for more of that than we need.

Reminds me of the US swapping to the metric system.

Short to mid term would be miserable and confusing for people. Long term would probably work out better. Will it happen: never.

+1 there is something nice about just downloading and double clicking an exe.

Maybe they should have a common file format for all distro that extracts, etc. for the current distro. I thought that was flatpak, but idk.

LinkedIn has over a billion users. I got a t-shirt for it.

I don’t think every distro comes with this. How is it a positive in that case? I could install VLC on just about everything (including Windows) and have a similar experience.

Try something like this: https://github.com/leecher1337/ntvdmx64

This lets me run some old 16 bit games on the latest Win 10x64.

In theory you could generate a wildcard to a domain then use it.

Self hosted. Though hey someone may wind up here via all and scroll and wonder what else there is.

If you have Prime and aren’t insisting on self hosting: Amazon Photos gives you unlimited full quality photo backups.

Terrible idea of the day: You could use something like NFS and map the drive on all clients. On that drive you can have the latest keys then use symlinking to update, etc.

Something like puppet, chef, ansible are likely better choices.

I’ll put a recommendation out for if you’re going to open ports: use abnormal ports. Someone is likely to try to hit your port 22 for ssh, but not your port 49231.

Edit: It’s definitely some security by obscurity. Still use a strong password or keys.

For people who don’t mind it not being self hosted: Authy is good for this. You can also set a backup password (to encrypt your tokens on their servers) and optionally use it cross device.

You can allow multi device temporarily to setup, then disable to not allow new devices, etc.

(I get you didn’t ask this specifically, but figure it could be useful to someone else).

Yeah… but I think its overkill. The root cert would be on the same box somewhere nearby. Compromising the host has the same issue as plaintext.

This is likely a too late, but reasonable moment to say this server happens to be Windows based.

… for backup reasons.

(The tool used for online backup only allows home versions of Windows and local drives)

One day if I build a new one, I might start with a Linux base, though that kind of requires this one to be on its last leg before I get to that point. It’s running a processor/mobo that are 14ish years old… so maybe I should think more about it.

I think you hit the nail on the head with the true security being black box. The moment I need access, I’m making a hole.