There’s a lesson here…

If you’re not careful, the beans will blow out your bottom.

The first true leaves are one of my favorite parts of growing anything.

I bought a protectli awhile back. Mines 4 port 2.5 gbps nics, and it runs opnsense out the box.

You should take a look at their sfp+ model, if I were in your shoes that’s what I’d be looking at. It’s all in one, works nicely, is incredibly customizable, and is lower power usage than basically anything you’ll build yourself.

I use that for my router/firewall, then I use an off lease dell thin client to run my home assistant server, and a standard off the shelf buffalo nas. If you’re into immich, I’ll recommend jellyfin over Plex. I used it for years but they started collecting more data, sticking their own junk in etc. Jellyfin is open source and works great.

No.

We get around 48" per year. I love this shit.

I grew up poor and I still sweat every time I swipe my debit card.

It’s hard to understate the long term psychological damage it does.

I see these kinds of things as similar to the “Paradox of Tolerance.”

If your position is that you will tolerate everything all the time, you will be destroyed by the first thing that you allow into your space that does not tolerate you. Tolerating intolerance inevitably leads to the destruction of tolerant society.

If you instead view tolerance as a social contract, an agreement between us, any intolerance becomes a breach of that contract. Meaning that tolerance, should not, and cannot be extended to the intolerant.

With regard to off-color (or sometimes even violent) memes it’s the same type of thing. I’ve certainly seen violent memes directed at violent groups, groups that advocate for the destruction of whole classes of people, either directly or indirectly.

You could have an academic discussion about what constitutes violence. Though insisting upon civility always upholds the status quo, and if the status quo of death and destruction through capital acquisition and paperwork results in as much death and destruction as more direct alternatives, is the social contract any less broken?

Now, to the point of rules enforcement etc. on individual instances. I can’t defend nebulous examples of people being upset about one thing or another and claiming “anarchy” other than to point out that most people educated in the western world don’t have a good understanding of what anarchy means other than the pop culture definition intentionally cultivated to denigrate moderately successful anti-oligarchic movements in the 19th century.

But in practice what is to be done about those kinds of things? Lemmy is a federation of fiefdoms, the admins being absolute monarchs of their instances should they so choose. If you don’t want to see something, you don’t have to interact with them. There are user, community, and instance level tools to clean things up for yourself individually, or there’s the nuclear option of de-federation entirely for an instance that you don’t want your instance to interact with. If you don’t want to, or don’t have the ability to construct and curate your own instance you are at the whim of whoever runs your fiefdom.

It is the same as browsing r/All 10 years ago. You will see everything, even stuff you don’t want to see, unless you just stick to your subs or local instance only.

I wouldn’t have recommended reddit to everyone I knew 10 years ago, just like I don’t recommend Lemmy to everyone I know now, only those who understand all the asterisks that come along with it.

I generally don’t engage this much with posts of these types, but you seem to be a person who is making statements in good faith. As such, I want to encourage you to look a bit more into those you might label the “alt-left” because I’m quite certain I fall into that category and there’s a lot more than “anyone can do anything they want at anytime” to what we (in the US) were taught in school about things like historical Anarchist movements.

Namely: “Anarchy means no rules and no one is in charge! Burn everything!!!”

If I were to sum things up as succinctly as possible I would say that the primary idea behind “anarchy” as a philosophy isn’t a “return to tribalism” but a flattening of hierarchies. (Not to be confused with anarcho-capitalism, which is in practice very different with regard to hierarchy)

Boiled down to key concepts:

• No one person is inherently better or more intrinsically valuable than another person.
• Every person should be allowed their own agency, to associate with whom they please, and have access to the necessities of life.
• Any decisions made should be made with the consent of everyone they affect.

There’s a lot of actual theory and what not you can get into, it’s all available freely online, because that’s another thing anarchists are big on, free access to education. The first read that springs to mind is “The Conquest of Bread” which lays out how and why an anarchy based society would work in practice. (Tl;Dr: technology has made it so that we can produce far more than we actually need, so we are capable of supporting everyone without starvation, homelessness, and man-made oppression)

I wasn’t gonna, but since you asked:

“You’re a bootlicker.”

Honestly, I think we’re more likely to continue the current system of one CEO a year getting the Scrooge treatment.

We have the Christmas Ghosts on the payroll already! LET THEM DO THEIR JOBS! ENFORCE THE GHOSTS ON THE BOOKS!

This is great! But is it means tested?

I just don’t want any rich kids getting free school. Those damn rich kids and their student loan schemes.

This. But shamefully I’m happy about it.

Ok, ok, is this a joke?

Like the whole thing was a prank?

It would have been less ridiculous for them to put him in a Hannibal Lecter getup and wheeled him in.

Maybe it was all the lead in the air?

Let’s get back to leaded gasoline!!!

Here’s a controversial opinion: this also applies to the “tankie” instances.

If your “strongly held belief” can’t survive scrutiny or contact with intelligent argumentation it doesn’t deserve to be a “strongly held belief.”

Regularly examining your own assumptions and attacking your own point of view will not only help you better solve real problems, it will allow you to better recognize and answer specious arguments as they arise.

I love Christmas time and Christmas movies. I’m an atheist, but since we don’t celebrate saturnalia this is the closest I’ll ever get. I like giving people gifts and when someone gets me something thoughtful it makes me feel special.

Also, I enjoy that the ostensibly religious holiday has been eaten by capitalism. Because when someone complains you can just go “tsk, yeah, capitalism man.” And even the hardcore hogs are forced to agree.

Mashing the gas and breaking the tires loose is just… Fun.

It’s bad in so many ways, but damn if it isn’t a good ass time. Something primal about it.

The postal service is a service it does not “lose money” as its purpose is not to make money but to do something for people.

“Choosing bonds of identity over familial obligations” has judgemental connotations.

The thing about “bonds of identity” is that those people respect your right to exist and your personal agency. The family that deserves to be cut off does not.

If you’ve had it explained to you multiple times why the decisions you make are harming the people you claim to love, and you don’t change your behavior, don’t be surprised when that person you say you care about tells you to piss up a rope.

I’m not sure how to feel about front liners at these death factories.

On the one hand, worker solidarity, they’re clearly not capitalists.

On the other hand, it’s a damn death factory.