There’s copyright infringement on one click hosters… And a loy of them offer slow, but free downloads. Some newcomers ask a friend to copy a movie from their harddisk or DVD collection… I mean piracy in general is a bit tricky for newcomers. There’s some good resources linked in the sidebar… But a lot of piracy isn’t exactly legal to do. And it’s not really ethical to advise someone to do something that might get them in trouble… And openly recommending things is illegal in some jurisdictions. But yes. Don’t do random torrents unless you know what you’re doing.

HA isn’t the only option. I think there’s two other open source smarthome solutions out there(?) And you could probably do with just an MQTT broker and a Python script, or something like that…

But HA isn’t a bad choice. They’re doing a phenomenal job. And related projects like ESPHome make it really easy to integrate microcontrollers. And if you want to do more smarthome stuff, it has a plethora of features, integrations, an app…

Extra hardware isn’t absolutely necessary. I have one server at home which does NAS, and I use 4GB of it’s RAM to run a virtual machine with Home Assistant. That’s enough for it, including a bunch of Addons.

Yes, that will be an issue. I guess not a technical one, Linux is perfectly able to fetch a token and connect to network shares etc. Not sure how that works with Email and the modern cloud office stuff. But likely, the IT department will have to enforce that policy as well. That’s why I asked if OP has to use software on Windows (11)… Otherwise, if it worked 4 years without issues… maybe there is no issue with Active Directory…

Uh. My condolences. Do they also force you to use the software installed on Windows? Otherwise you could just image Fedora and run it in a virtual machine inside of Windows 11. Technically, I guess that’d fulfill the requirement with Windows 11 on the computer… Just that you don’t use it for more than log in, start the Linux VM and expand it full-screen.

You could try to debug the permission issue… Like take a note of the current permissions, chmod the certificates to 666 and the parent directories to 777 and see if that works. Then progressively cut them down again and see when it fails. And/or give caddy all the group permissions ssl, acme, certwarden… and then check which one makes it fail or work.

Kind of the reason why I quit Netflix. For once it got more expensive each year. And at some point there was less and less of my favorite shows on there, so I’d need to subscribe to a second service for Star Trek… then a third one for all the good stuff that’s Disney… And I don’t even watch that much TV. So instead, I just quit. Maybe one day I’m gonna read a book on a Friday evening 😆 Or the stuff the government forces me to pay for.

Puh, ziemlich fokussiert auf Video. Ich ersetze damit mehr meinen Chat, Cloud-Office, Social Media… Aber der Return of Investment ist da weniger die Abo-Gebühr 😅

Sure. I’m not entirely sure how PCIE works these days. But in it good old days we had methods to read pretty much arbitrary memory regions via PCIE or early Thunderbolt(?).

I just figured it’d be massively complicated to wait for the user to pull something on the screen, do computationally expensive OCR, some AI image detection to puzzle documents back together, and then you’d only get a fraction of what’s really stored on the computer and you’d still need a way to send that information home… When you could just pick a plethora of easy options like read all the files from the harddisk and send just them somewhere. I think it’s far more likely they do some easy and straightforward solution. And it’d be more effective as well.

Open-weight AND Open-Source??

And why the Chinese ones? Are the Americans losing the AI race?

Yes. I wouldn’t focus too much on someone being able to tell which map you’re playing, and which color your car has in Need For Speed. It’s way more unsettling what’s in networking equipment. Or inside an Intel Management Engine, and the firmware blobs of all the computer chips. Or the software running on it.

Sure. You write numbers with the most significant digit to the left, and least significant one to the right. That’s kind of how we all write all numbers, so it should be the same with dates 😉 Though we have all kinds of crazy people and they’ll say it’s “dreiviertel fünf” and nobody has any clue what time that’s supposed to be… I’d argue it should not be that weird, though 😅

Sorry, not an answer to the question, but 2024-08-30 is an ISO 8601 date format. Endorsed in Europe (part of our norms) and everyone should write dates like that because it’s the most clever way. US would be something like 08/30/2024 or Aug 30, 2024.

Aren’t the rules fixed since 2022? As far as I know the way it works is, legislation / the EU comes up with rules. It’s the companies job to make their products abide by law. And then it’s down to lawyers / jurists to determine if they comply by law? I don’t see how they as a company need to wait for the European Commission to do something… Seems the commission sent them a notice a year ago, how their lawyers don’t think the fee models conforms to law. But that’d be Apple’s job to fix. Or have their legal team come up with something?!

Hmm, sorry. I’d guess your internet connection doesn’t work any more. So apt can’t fetch the packages. That’s kind of hard to debug, though. You’d somehow need to fix networking before you can proceed. But we don’t really know what broke. And if that’s really the only issue at play.

Maybe a Live-USB stick and a rescue mode can help here?! Other than that I’m out of options.

Clear up some space first and then try something like this:

dpkg --force-all --configure -a  
apt --fix-broken install  
apt-get -f install  

I’ve had issues like that before and oftentimes it’s recoverable. A bit unfortunately if the wrong packages got damaged. Can be quite an effort to get it going again and it depends on the exact situation.

You could plug in some USB fan, light, … and see if there’s power on there. Maybe prepare a harddisk on another computer, boot Linux and look at the debug logs. See if the USB chip gets recognized. And maybe learn something about the topology… If it’s just a single controller or multiple ones in there.

First thing I’d do is reset the BIOS. Maybe the previous owner disabled all USB ports for security reasons. That’d be an easy “fix”. Or they threw it out because they don’t work.

Probably not allowed to transmit in most places of the world, except America.

Yes. I’m not very educated on the Worpress side of things… Kinda necessary, though, to keep compatibility with the Fediverse AND the No-AI people in my opinion. I mean the Fediverse is kind of the place for people to go if they don’t want algorithms and bots to dominate the place?!

I mean if no single software fits your bill, maybe go for a combination of them? Post your blog posts in a Ghost installation, your podcasts in Castopod and have your community on a NodeBB forum? The Fediverse kinda includes the idea it’s all one big network anyway. So you don’t have to squeeze everything on a single server and one CMS.

Other than that: Wordpress is open-source. You could also wait for the enshittification to happen. We’re fairly sure someone is going to fork it and maybe they’ll provide a seemless migration. So if you’re patient enough, you might be able to stick with your current setup. Just that you Wordpress will some day have a different name and developer community. These things happen all the time. I’ll just switch from Firefox to LibreWolf once I’m unhappy with Mozilla’s decisions. Solves the user-facing part of the issues, and there’s almost no effort involved.

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