https://www.slax.org/ It’s easy, is a full featured desktop, and has persistence on your USB stick.

I have one of their all-in-one colour toner machines for my GF’s business, it’s awesome. Scanning to an SFTP share means she can just feet a stack of paper into it and get a PDF in her Documents/Scans directory.

AND fun fact, there are no lasers in “laser printers” they all use 1D LED arrays to transfer the image data to the drum. Only the early toner based printers used a real laser and they were operating almost like a CRT, scanning a raster onto the drum.

Having just jumped over I might be bottom of the priority list for company communications.

Guess I’m a low-value client.

I might do so as well to avoid the next decade of shopping around.

I know there are other factors it just feels like the only people getting screwed are the little guys. In Canada the rates that third party ISPs pay and charge are dictated by the giant telcos. Our regulating body even allowed the telcos to raise prices to the point where reselling is no longer viable. Fucking the little guys again.

Docker kinda does it by being like an app store but for servers. It’s not very flexible but everyone using a particular image gets the same experience.

Ubuntu has a bigger market share in the support department. Makes it easier to find advice that applies specifically to your setup.

This is the way. I run stock Debian with LXC, you get what you ask for and that’s it.

I was with Google Domains but switched to Namecheap. They are easy enough to work with and not the most expensive.

I find most laptops are well supported about a year after their release.

Who needs fuses anyway.

KeePassXC/KeeWeb + WebDAV is a kick-ass combo that covers every device while also being as simple as possible.

Lazy users is why Reddit blotted out individual forums.

Super impressed with Sharry, I love the QR codes for sharing with mobile users.

Only search result is a post you made 10 years ago asking the same question.

I had one of those recently with MicroPython. Turns out I am the only person to ever run out of memory on an ESP8266.

I set my 403 to just return “I don’t know you.”

Hey, this isn’t where I parked my car.

If you use strong passwords and keep an eye on your logs you are no less safe than any other public facing entity. I’ve had a bunch of services exposed since 2020 so far no one has even bothered to brute the basic auth on Apache (though bot nets take a run at SSH a few times a year).

I map them every day.

Yes! I have been running Zoneminder since 2020 with no complaints.

For first time/new users I would suggest one thing, try it in a VM first and take notes. Some of the settings take a little tweaking and when you have it all hammered out you can just follow your notes to set up your production machine. When I upgraded my server I was able to set up a brand new ZM instance with 8 cameras in about a half hour because I had my notes.

Yup, laptop for testing, old gaming PC for production.