Haha well I see you haven’t met C yet.
All jokes aside complexity and chaos isn’t just there for a reason. It has a purpose. Java and C are complex but also powerful. Things that are easy to use are often very limited in what you can do. Not always but often times.
Hmm I guess but DNA is probably the most complex nearly illogical thing that I know of.
It sort of does, it’s just not what people think complete optimization looks like. It turns out that in all possible realities the most optimal path is free will, autonomy, agency, secrecy, and other things that people like to think of as flaws. The real purpose though is long term metastability. Revolutionaries increase adaptability and metastability. Individualism increases metastability and adaptability. A society which is completely united into one power structure with one mind dominating it will always trend towards apathy and death and instability.
The reason animals age and die and become weaker as they age is to give the young a chance to have some of the limited resources and to destroy power. This is a feature not a bug. People just don’t see it that way because they have a very self centered perspective on things and don’t see things in the totality of all things. Nature is old, probably existed before even the earth did. Nature has found mostly the optimal path for all things. People just don’t want to accept it.
DNA is not meant to be stable, it is meant to mutate and evolve, also it wasn’t invented, it manifested itself out of chaos. One reason why understanding it is so hard. It is not made like a machine, it doesn’t have neat parts with clear roles or categories. It’s sort of pure chaos all sort of working together in a giant orchestra without categories or bounds.
Flatpaks are okay for stuff that doesn’t need deep access but they don’t work for many things.
I have them but I use Debian mostly.
User older flash tech can be useful here. You might not always need the highest density storage if you want to maintain files for a long time. Getting stuff built in a much larger process node makes for a much more stable form of storage.
A good way to see what the future of places like the U.S are is to look at places like North Korea, where they do exactly this, move files around on flash media to avoid the state censors.
Some cloud backups offer lifetime deals which can be a good second backup.
As for self hosting. You should buy a domain, use a dynamic DNS service. This doesn’t cost much but is very useful. Get a decent router that isn’t superhackable. Get something like fedora for your servers, the os.tree file system is good because if you break your machine with updates you can just roll back.
Randomize your ports, be careful what you expose behind open ports, be careful what you install on your server, and run stuff in containers. Also block port scanning.
As for learning you are just going to have to research. For servers you need to open ports for whatever you are using, like a webserver, file server, etc. you need to be mindful of security. Keep it updated. You should keep your server separate from your main machines if possible and disable your main machines ability to port scan your server by using a VPN or something on your server.
It’s not all that difficult. Just watch some videos and passively absorb this knowledge.
As for backups, you should invest in one of these lifetime plans from a cloud provider. Maybe create separate accounts that you only use for your server stuff to help keep the details from getting leaked. (Email accounts, passwords, etc) On top of this you should have a second backup which I recommend hosting yourself so you can learn. This way your data should be safe.
In your backup server, you should run mirror raid, this way if you lose a drive, you won’t lose your data. Parity raid is t quite as good because you could lose a second drive while rebuilding. It’s cheaper for the amount of space, but you can just invest in a couple of high density, enterprise level drives from a reputable brand. Run mirror raid, and backup your files. Throw in a small SSD for the OS, and a medium SSD for cache. You can go as cheap or expensive as you want.
Get some remote management software. Since you aren’t super technical, use a remote desktop system. Just make sure it’s a good one that is well maintained because this is a big single point of failure in your security.
If you install a web browser on your server, disable scripts and ads, and only use it to download stuff you need from GitHub or something. Try to avoid exposure to sites which may have vulnerabilities.
As for the server. Using VMs and containers, you can use it relatively safely for many things. You could even use cloudfare if you wanted for additional security so your servers actual IP is not ever in the wild. People will only see an IP for that particular port and server VM. This is a bit overkill maybe.
You can run a backup server, web servers, game servers, you can host your own DNS, you can run media servers, and even your own private VPN or local AI models. There is tons of stuff you can do with a server.
Also don’t forget to set a reminder to reregister your domain name!
The simplest setup would be an old computer with a bunch of hard drives attached, maybe an old desktop, maybe a laptop with a powered USB hub. This is all you really need to get started.
I don’t think this statement is controversial and besides I own sex toys lol.
Bill Gates was actually cool. The only bad thing he ever did as far as I’m aware, was lock direct X into windows. He even spends all of his time now in charity work and funding science. I think he was a great guy.
Bill Gates actually was pretty cool, it’s windows after Bill Gates that’s terrible. I can’t say there was anything Bill Gates did that I didn’t like, he was like the Gabe Newell of operating systems before steamdeck.
Lol strangely believable in these times.
I think Microsoft puts the minimum possible effort into windows. It’s a very small piece of their cloud, investing, data selling, propaganda, and AI company. They just make so much money off of speculation nowadays. Inflation is really high so the stock market grows really fast even if the economy is shrinking. A company like Microsoft is positioned to make so much money just in growth because they hold billions of dollars in the stock market.
They absolutely will ruin windows in every possible way, until people jump ship and start using other operating systems, at which point they will just kill the brand or sell it, and focus on their other sectors that make profits. They like many people know this is the right option. Keeping an operating system going is extremely complex these days and even with all the money in the world, microsoft could never find enough talent to actually pull it off. When you get to that level, most programmers aren’t motivated by money so much as working on projects they like. Most actually intelligent people also would refuse to work for a company that spies on its citizens and sells them out to the worst people on earth, which are politicians. At this point Microsoft probably makes way more money selling servers to the IDF to capture all phones calls from people in Gaza then they make off windows in 10 years.
Even if it were true. Windows security is probably the worst part about windows, and that’s saying alot. If you can manage to somehow disable it you will probably improve your frame rates 15%, your battery life by 30%, double your hard drives life, and increase the actual security of your system significantly, since most of the malware will just crash as it doesn’t know how to deal with not having Windows security installed, breaking it’s install process. You will also greatly increase your privacy, and extend the life of good software, because without the spyware, Microsoft has a harder time figuring out which software people install that they want to break in a future update to benefit their corporate partners in crime. You will also greatly improve the responsiveness of the system anytime there is disk IO. There is literally not a single reason to use windows security. The only time it will benefit you is if your cat is walking on your keyboard at night and installing random software or something because you don’t have a lock screen. You will also somehow get laid more because you don’t look like a boomer.
Cool, I have some ideas as well, like maybe write a script that hashes configuration files that needs a secret password to put into edit mode, if the config changes without being out into edit mode first, disconnect the server. Maybe use a raspberry pi that’s hidden from the network to do this. I know that wouldn’t work for large websites maybe because they can’t afford to go down for hours at a time, but it would give you an additional layer of security for sensitive stuff. I’m more into game programming but I know how exploits work and stuff. I’m pretty sure many types of things like this already exist in the market. One idea I had was pretty neat. Basically in your eula you reserve the right to hack back people that try to hack you, and you have an automated system that uses some known exploits to get a ping or maybe install a rootkit on anyone who is trying to mess around in your system. Later you can just get on and deanonymize them. This requires you actually spend time researching your own zero days. People in defcon hacking competitions do this. They are sort of masters with decompilers and hex editors.
It helps, honestly one of the best defensive strategies is defence in depth.
Also doing basic things like running your webserver in a VM, and you can write some script or something to just block any IP that is port scanning I’m pretty sure. I would do that if I was hosting. Also remember to block port scanning in Firefox. It’s not enabled by default. This helps to keep you safe when you land on a scanning webpage.
This is why I use emby.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?
You probably wouldn’t need to have these incorrect opinions if you just started using Linux already.