Some of my favorites were Star Trek Armada II and Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force.

That would be the most important question.

(I usually don’t advertise for using Linux in a VM on Windows. There are use-cases for that. But it combines the downsides of Windows with the limitations of your VM software and issues on Linux (for example the proprietary NVidia drivers and whatever they do to pass through parts of the hardware, or weird stuff VirtualBox does). And it can make it slow(er) to unusable in some cases. None of that has anything to do with Linux, but people try it that way and blame issues on Linux, when it’s really the VM software’s fault. (Or you ticked the wrong config checkbox.)

A better way to do it would be trying a live image on an USB stick, testing performance and then looking for performance issues within your whole virtualization stack if you absolutely have to use Linux within a VM. This is certainly possible. I usually dual-boot. Or do it the other way around, Windows inside a VM on a Linux host. But I don’t really use Windows, so I’m not a good example.)

Maybe you want one of the turnkey solutions. There are several solutions that offer you a NAS box with everything pre-configured and a management web-interface. Assembling a RAID and creating a network share is just a few clicks with those. And they should come with documentation.

I don’t really know which one is best. There is openmediavault, unraid, EasyNAS, TrueNAS, …

I agree. Configuring everything yourself, Learning about RAID, filesystems, networking and file servers on an operating system you’re not familiar with is some work. And although Linux has adapted quite some Windows-workflows, setting up Samba isn’t necessarily the right-click - properties - share you learned from using windows.

For security cameras there are solutions like Frigate which can be installed in a container.

100% agree. Software RAID is the thing you want as a consumer. Doesn’t need to be ZFS. mdraid is another good and well tested option for the traditional way of using RAID.

Ah, okay. Different continent, ~500k people here. More if you count the neighboring cities. I’ve programmed in a few house numbers like 10 years ago. But generally speaking, OSM knows most hiking routes and illegal mountainbike trails in the woods. And it rarely does silly mistakes while routing me in the car. Something it used to do regularly when I started using it. Guess the experience heavily depends on where you live, then.

Alright. I wouldn’t worry too much, then. If you set it up correctly and you keep it up to date so there aren’t any security vulnerabilities, you should be okay.

Of course there are arbitrary, more strict approaches. You could do monitoring. Or restrict the IP addresses the server answers to. Or put everything behind a VPN and not have it exposed in the first place. But I also have my NAS and a few internet services like Nextcloud and it’s been fine, similar to this, for years.

Open street map data is created by volunteers. Where I live, you can practically put in any address into OsmAnd and it’ll know it. Maybe you live too far out. Or there aren’t enough people contributing in your area. Putting in the house numbers is a tedious task.

Make your services password protected and have some software like fail2ban that blocks people from brute-forcing passwords.

Keep your software up to date.

Yeah. I think they partnered with the makers of Signal and took the encryption from Signal back in 2014 or 2015. I still remember the first of my friends adopting WA and it had zero encryption or protection against impersonating people. I used XMPP (Jabber) back then and just shook my head.

But it’s different now.

I also like OsmAnd+ and use it regularly. I’m just not happy with the user-interface. That could be easier to operate and more intuitive.

Depends on what you mean by “localhost”. Localhost is just the computer you’re currently logged in / sitting in front of… But I don’t know what kind of computer that is and how it is connected to the internet.

You’d need a webserver that is reachable from the internet to be able to have a Lemmy instance that can interact with other parts of the network. The webserver itself can run on any machine. You just need to make it accessible from the internet. So you either have a connection to the internet that allows hosting stuff… Use port forwarding in your router (at home) or if that’s all not available use a tunnel or VPN.

I really don’t know were you’re trying to get… If your question is: Can I selfhost stuff from a domestic internet connection: The answer is: Probably. Depends a bit on the provider and setup.

If your question is: Do I need a domain name? The answer is: Probably yes if your (external) IP address changes frequently.

Mmh. They do so much silly stuff nowadays with the ad-blocker detection, handling browsers differently and people from different countries and all the magic that chooses your data rate and quality… I’m not surprised that it’s a different experience for everyone. Hope they don’t take third party frontends away from us for good. (I’d be also happy if every creator switches to a better alternative. But I don’t see that happen any time soon.)

Thx for the additional links!

I’m curious what Meta is going to unveil. Usually big tech companies get ahead of legislation, in order to set a standard they like, or to prevent possible more strict regulation from happening. We see the same thing with AI and practically everything the big tech companies lobby for. I’m a bit wary.

I don’t think it matters if you target hobbyists. But maybe for commercial use. Or if it’s a library. Or if you’re within a specific ecosystem like Android where people mostly have agreed on one specific license.

I don’t want to sound overly negative here. But that idea is more a hypothetical proposal “we should do something about it” at this point. There is a working group mimi. But not even a draft or technical proposal, yet. And interoperability is hard, and they also want to come up with a solution that makes it secure, the messages confidential and maybe grant anonymous access. These problems aren’t solved at all as of today. On top you have to deal with spam, malicious servers, users, lawful interception and all kinds of things in a distributed platform. Then they need to come up with a text for the regulation. Write it, discuss and do several revisions, debate it. And there will be lobbyism against it and court cases because it cuts into the business model of large companies. Then it has to be adopted into national legislation and it will get a grace period.

So if you want to wait 'til 2029 (or so) to reply to your mom, go ahead and wait for the EU. I don’t have a crystal ball to be sure, but I highly doubt that this will happen in the next few years.

And on top, there is no guarantee that it turns out good or usable in the first place. There is a lot of lobbyism happening in the EU. Especially by big tech. They’ll find a way to make it a thing that just connects Apple, Meta and Google and exclude independant or secure services.

That’s not correct. WA claims to use end-to-end encryption. I have no reason to doubt that. It probably arrives encrypted at the servers, not as clear-text.

That’d also align with the business-model of big tech. They do lots of things with meta-data. And algorithms can infer lots of important things just by looking at that. I wouldn’t be surprised if they really don’t care about the exact content of WA messages.

I case they’re set on WhatsApp:

You could use something like:

https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp

and bridge WA to a secure Matrix server of your choice. That way you can have a secure environment and they can use whatever they like.

Here is an overview table about messengers, in case you want to compare them and have more arguments in the discussion:

https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

I wouldn’t consider WA secure. They do tracking, they have your phone numbers and those of all of your friends and know exactly who you talk to, when, and how often. Even if they don’t know the content of the message because it’s encrypted, that’s a lot of information for the algorithm to feed on. Apart from that, I’m not sure if they have access to the encryption keys. They might be able to decrypt everything if they want.

I’m sure someone wrote a lengthy blog article about WA. But unless someone does a proper security audit including where the encryption keys are stored and the implications of that and how extra features like breaking encryption in case someone flags an inappropriate post turns out… The ‘it’s safe’ is just a claim by your brother or Meta. You’re free to believe in anything you want. But it’s not necessarily true.

I think you can mount network shares with the Kerberos token you got from AD. Sometimes just the user credentials suffice. At least that’s how it used to be when I last tried something like that years ago.

Interesting. For me it has been working fine the last months. Loads and plays now, tested 30 seconds ago.

Yeah, that’s why I asked in the first place. I’m zero interested in the credibility of that person. Just somebody check if it’s factual. I’m not a Javascript-person but I bet there are debugging-tools and de-minifiers available. Or just someone press Ctrl+Shift+I and look at the inspector.

Edit: Nevermind. Maybe the credibility of an account sometimes is enough.