I wasn’t trying to be short or condescending either. Just relaying what I know.

It is another layer of privacy in some cases. Could protect against poisoning of I’m not mistaken, but don’t quote me.

I know for me, I prefer to self host things where I can so I can own as much of my own data as possible.

Do you know what DNS does?

If you don’t, essentially is what translates IP addresses to hostnames.

So what having unbound would do is allow you to do DNS lookup locally.

I have used Tempo but I self host Navidrome

You can use both. Unbound is a validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver.

You can setup Unbound to be a self hosted DNS solution, and point PiHole to use your Unbound.

Source: Unbound

Singling out a problem that exists in a country I am very familiar with is a non problem. I didn’t state it was special to America. I didn’t speak on any other nation and their hatred of minorities. I didn’t even state anything about it being part of “human nature.”

I spoke on being familiar with the fact that it is a problem in America.

When I say America I mean the people of America. There are large numbers of folks, regardless of why they do, hate minorities.

I didn’t say the wealthy “elite” weren’t the cause of a lot of the divide. They absolutely are. No such thing as an ethical billionaire.

I’m not disagreeing with you on the fact that your financial status isn’t what really separates us. What I am saying is there is still too much hate towards minorities. That doesn’t change that the wealthy are a problem.

You’re taking two separate ideas and merging them into one “truth.”

They ate two separate topics. Just because the wealthy are guilty of the bad they are doing doesn’t take away the fact that there is too much hate towards minorities in America from the people that live here.

I didn’t imply that. Stating that there is too much hatred of minorities doesn’t mean that America fails at everything. That is a stretch. Me pointing out that America has a lot of hatred towards minorities isn’t a reflection of everything America does as a whole is inherently bad.

I didn’t say that America can’t have a good influence on another country. America isn’t one to look to especially now for how minorities are treated.

I didn’t compare to any place. I just stated America is filled with hatred towards minorities.

I didn’t say there were no positives from America did I? I didn’t rank where America stands in how progressive or conservative America is.

I said America is full of hatred towards Minorities with no comparison to another place.

I am not wrong. There is too much of it.

So “come off” what exactly?

Not from America. America is full of hatred towards minorities.

Email!

VPN I am sticking with Mullvad.

I had it for a few months. Luckily it was easy to swap out this early on.

Time to find a new option.

Cancelled my subscription today. I will be finding an alternative.

I am running Arch with KDE and Wayland on my system with an i7-12700KF and an EVGA 3090 FTW and I can’t say it has been “flawless”

Once I setup Arch on it with the proper configuration, and using the Proprietary drivers, I can game on it and everything else I need to do.

If I had a do over, I would have gone all AMD but when I built this PC I was on Windows. But never again.

I kept saying once upon a time"I’ll make the switch to Linux but X doesn’t work, so not yet. "

I dual booted for a while. That “a while” ended when Windows ate GRUB.

I had enough. I decided enough was enough. I kept windows on one SSD, just in case I wanted to go back. That didn’t last long, I wiped that drive, and formatted it to BTRFS. Now none of my drives are NTFS.

For the one case I “need” Windows, I spun up a VM (and configured USB passthrough) for Windows. That is for a guitar pedal and amp that I need Windows for updates. But I don’t remember the last time I booted up that VM.

For music recording and production I installed Reaper for Linux natively, but that was an easy transition considering Reaper was what i used in Windows. Sure VSTs were a big concern for me, so I investigated VST bridge type software. And I can’t recall the ones I investigated. But this is where I am at on my journey.

I don’t care how “easy” it is to just stay the same and keep using Windows, it isn’t for me. I don’t agree with their data collection policies. I don’t agree with the “black box” mentality. I want to know what is happening on my system. I want to understand what I am using. And at a certain point with Windows, I just don’t have the ability, tools, or inside scoop to fully learn that.

With Linux, the journey may have taken time, effort, and willingness to troubleshoot and learn but it ultimately is a better experience.

There have been very few games I couldn’t get working on my system, but those games aren’t enough to sell out my ideals. I will never go back.

I would rather be a farmer.

This is just what’s new. Their documentation and dedicated pages about linkwarden have more info.

Did you read what features linkwarden has?

One feature your browser wouldn’t do without some sort of add-in is create archived snapshots of pages in various formats. Helpful if pages go down.

That’s just one feature. I’d guarantee there are more…

If you read a bit about it I’m sure you’ll learn more.

I am not sure if there is a good way to do it without scripting, and a router that would allow for taking variable input from an external script. But theoretically if the router would support it, you could script a port change at times there are no one on the server.

Essentially the server port is in a text file, you could use some command line utilities, and write a script leveraging something like sed to change the port in place.

But I am overcomplicating it. lol

I tried using Bazzite since I didn’t want to fuss with Wayland on Nvidia with Arch.

I had more gripes and more issues with an immutable distro than I ever did with my Arch install.

Stuck it out with Arch. It has taught me a lot.

The problem many folks have with Arch is the fact they don’t want to read or learn; well, newsflash, if you read and learn Arch isn’t exactly all that hard to use, setup, or maintain. It has better documentation than Bazzite and other newer distros. In fact, Arch Wiki has saved me hassle for other distros.

Your mileage may vary. However, I wouldn’t recommend an immutable distribution nec3ssarily to someone coming from Windows unless they want to shift from one paradigm to another.

Switching from Windows to something with such a vastly different approach in many cases will turn users away from using Linux. Their experience can dictate they switch away because of lack of knowledge and then proced to conflate every distro as just one “Linux” experience and not want to look back at it.

I still stand by one thing you will always hear me say: use the right tool for the job.

I will always recommend people to research their choice of distro. Use the right tool for the job.

What one person needs may differ from what another person needs. Take into account what the use case is for the machine you are using.

I use Arch BTW but I don’t run Arch for any of my servers. I use Arch where it makes sense for me.

I wouldn’t tell someone switching from Windows to just go balls to the wall and go for something blerding edge and arguably more maintenance or manual intervention needed.

I will give my suggestions but always implore them to research what theyt3 looking for.