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  • I am not conflating communism with being “a mass murderer fan club”. I am simply stating that that post was upvoted by mass murderer fans. The post made sarcastic statement about Stalin not being a brutal dictator, so there are your “mass murderer fans”. I said nothing about communism.

    In terms of Kenny being an anarchist. That’s not “my definition”. At some point he posted snakes in political context so it’s really his definition, whatever he means with it.




  • I’m reposting a reply to similar comment. Replying to “Mental Outlaw is far right and cryptobro”. But the TLDR of that could be that he has some takes that people here like and some takes that people here don’t like but he is not a National Socialist, otherwise give source. Perhaps Drew has been cooking again?

    Those are just insults people, who cannot gasp that someone could have a slightly different opinion about something, use against him.

    Some political things about him include: He …

    • is an anarchist (or somewhere on that political spectrum)
    • wants to have the right to own a gun
    • is pro free speech
    • thinks using money should not have to earn mega corporations that much money
    • thinks “brother should not kill brother” in the war in Ukraine
    • is not a fan of Elon Musk, Teslas or self driving cars
    • is pro Free Software and for privacy

    Obviously depends on what is meant with “far right nutjob”. If it implies that anarchy (no government) is the opposite of socialism (far left - maximum government) then yeah but usually it just means “massive bigot”, which I don’t think he is, otherwise give source.

    Similar with crypto bro. For me it means the pump and dump scheme scammer or at least someone who is pro crypto because he sees it as a mean to get rich quick. But if “Crypto bro” just means anyone who likes the advantages of crypto, then he indeed is one.

    But regardless of how we name things, he doesn’t have any evil values (as far as I know). He just has different opinions than the average lemmy user. It should not be hard to tolerate him, considering this platform is a mass murderer fanclub (actual evil values, not just “quirky” politics).


  • Those are just insults people, who cannot gasp that someone could have a slightly different opinion about something, use against him.

    Some political things about him include: He …

    • is an anarchist (or somewhere on that political spectrum)
    • wants to have the right to own a gun
    • is pro free speech
    • thinks using money should not have to earn mega corporations that much money
    • thinks “brother should not kill brother” in the war in Ukraine
    • is not a fan of Elon Musk, Teslas or self driving cars
    • is pro Free Software and for privacy

    Obviously depends on what is meant with “far right nutjob”. If it implies that anarchy (no government) is the opposite of socialism (far left - maximum government) then yeah but usually it just means “massive bigot”, which I don’t think he is, otherwise give source.

    Similar with crypto bro. For me it means the pump and dump scheme scammer or at least someone who is pro crypto because he sees it as a mean to get rich quick. But if “Crypto bro” just means anyone who likes the advantages of crypto, then he indeed is one.

    But regardless of how we name things, he doesn’t have any evil values (as far as I know). He just has different opinions than the average lemmy user. It should not be hard to tolerate him, considering this platform is a mass murderer fanclub (actual evil values, not just “quirky” politics).


  • I don’t recommend it unless you just want it for storage or whatever else it does out of the box. It’s basically impossible to tinker with it because it has so many layers of abstraction. At least that was my impression when I tried to edit their nginx config. It had like 2000 lines so I just gave up.

    If you want a server that runs services that you download from the internet, don’t buy it. Look at it as a box that does the thing that it promises to do, not as a computer. If you want it to do a different thing, buy a different box that does that. Kinda like a TV. It’s technically a computer that runs some kind of linux but to the user it’s a monitor that also shows videos from the internet.

    Also it’s perfectly fine to buy a “NAS black box” but maybe not something I’d buy if I wanted to get into selfhosting. I’d buy it if I wanted to have a NAS running at home with the least amount of “self” in “selfhosting” that’s feasable.










  • Yep the problem is that people don’t play enough Age of Empires. Basically the worst thing you can do in that game is to send a knight to the enemy’s base, wait a bit, then send another knight, wait, send next one, … etc. One by one each of the knights dies without achieving anything because he will be massively outnumbered. The correct thing to do is to muster a group of the knights and then send them all at once. That way you will have the advantage and have an actual chance of winning.

    Going back to the real world Ukraine “The West” is almost comically stupid. They are arguing over how much help should be sent to Ukraine and always sending just enough to get by but not enough to give Ukraine an advantage. Instead of spending a lot of money during a short period of time to actually get some results, “The West” decided to slowly throw away money in the infinite pit of frozen conflict.

    The way I, the self proclaimed internet war expert, see it, there are 3 possible solutions for “The West” to the Ukraine problem.

    1. Decide to send a lot of money to flip the tides. (that won’t happen)

    2. Decide that they aren’t stupid to feed an endless war and decide to exchange half of Ukraine’s territory for Ukraine’s membership in NATO. Kinda crap but honestly better than the 3rd option.

    3. A nothing burger. AKA doing what they are doing right now. The optimistic vision is that over the next decade “The West” will get rich enough that even with these small scraps here and there Ukraine will be able to win in the end. The realistic one is that the scraps won’t be enough and Ukraine will slowly but surely lose territory, ending with some kind of crap treaty including Ukraine both losing a lot of territory and not being in NATO. “a lose-lose”