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Telling people how much the Trump Tax costs them is now considered “hostility”. Got it.

It’s been a long time since I learned, so I don’t remember exactly what I used, but at a cursory glance, this one looks good:

https://www.terminaltutor.com/

Also, learning to read man pages will help a lot. Here’s an article on that:

https://itsfoss.com/linux-man-page-guide/

I do remember using “terminal cheat sheets” like this:

https://phoenixnap.com/kb/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/linux-commands-cheat-sheet-pdf.pdf

So yeah, even though I specifically said you’d probably accuse me of saying something and specifically told you I wasn’t saying that, you still accused me of it. You should work on your reading comprehension.

Now, you said that a desktop edition is virtually the same as a server edition + a prepackaged GUI. I gave you plenty of reasons they’re not.

As an IT professional, you absolutely should know this. So far, the only skill you’ve shown any true mastery of is misguided condescension. So instead of arguing against a point I didn’t make, if you’d like to argue against my actual point, feel free. Otherwise, maybe realize you’re not as educated as you thought, and learn.

I mean if that’s what you think, I can tell you don’t work in the industry. Desktop editions generally have more than just a “prepackaged GUI” on top of a server edition.

• Server editions generally have text based installers. This might not seem like a big deal, until you’re installing on a system that doesn’t have any graphics, just a serial console.
• They almost always have an easy way to do headless and network installations.
• They sometimes have additional security modules, like SELinux, different kernel boot parameters, or even different kernel versions. (Although this is less common nowadays.)
• They’re also missing an audio server (different than a GUI), and usually a print server.
• They can often be GBs lighter, which makes a difference when you’re installing on virtual machines with limited disk space.
• They sometimes use different file systems by default (like Fedora used to).
• They might create different swap setups.
• They usually have very different network defaults. Like, desktop editions usually have a firewall, whereas server editions usually don’t (or it’s not enabled by default).
• Server editions often include terminal tools that desktop editions don’t.
• They’ll sometimes have a different network manager (Ubuntu Server uses systemd-networkd while Ubuntu Desktop uses Network-Manager).
• Server editions almost never come with userland file mounting tools like gvfs.
• Sometimes (like in Fedora) a server edition will come with remote management solutions like Cockpit.
• The home directory skeletons will be vastly different on a server vs a desktop.

That’s just off the top of my head. I’m sure there are plenty more I could find.

Now, since you seem like you might accuse me of it, note that I did not say that a server edition and a desktop edition can’t be swapped back and forth by installing and removing packages and changing a bunch of config. They can. But, it’s not “just” some GUI stuff that makes a desktop edition, and it’s not “just” the lack of a GUI that makes a server edition. They are usually quite different.

Source: I’ve been a professional Linux server administrator for 16 years. But don’t take my word for it. Try it yourself. Install Ubuntu server, then run sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop and see if it’s exactly the same as installing Ubuntu Desktop.

I’m sick of you democrats and your *checks notes* due process under the law.

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Full self driving itself isn’t a lie, just Tesla’s full self driving with only cameras and a ridiculous time scale is a lie.

With lidar, full self driving will probably be usable in the next 10ish years, for at least most simple driving tasks. But every single Tesla only uses regular cameras, and that’s probably never gonna happen. Cameras are just not good enough. Elmo says things like “humans only use vision to drive, so cars can too”, but he’s not taking into account how bad cameras are compared to our eyes. The best cameras in the world don’t even come close to our eyes’ dynamic range, and Tesla is using cheap consumer cameras. Not to mention how quickly our eyes focus compared to consumer cameras (which is why Tesla cameras use a super narrow aperture, so they don’t really need to focus, at the expense of losing a lot of depth information and adding a lot of noise in low-light).

Our eyes are also powered by our brains, another thing Elmo tends to forget. We can adapt to situations we’ve never been trained on, and we can make incredibly accurate predictions in near real time. Computers will eventually get there, but they’re not there yet, hence why Teslas have a tendency to drive full speed into obstacles they’ve never seen before (like an overturned truck).

Computers need mountains more information than we do to make even close to the predictions that we can, and that’s just not something a Tesla with a few cameras can do.

We’re talking about servers here. Linux is the market leader in server software by an absolutely enormous margin.

There’s a reason that’s not very popular outside of corporate intranets.

If you want to ride a bike, you need to learn to balance on a bike. That will never change. You don’t need to be a professional cyclist.

If you want to self host, you need to learn some basic administration, and that includes the terminal. That will never change. You don’t need to be a professional server administrator.

You might be able to get by with some hand holdy solution that offers a few things you can do, but just like riding a scooter is much more limited than riding a bike, using a turnkey solution is much more limited than setting up your own server.

Imagine wanting to self host but refusing to learn how to forward a port. There are just some things you need to learn. Like I said in my original comment, the terminal is not as scary as people make it sound. Right now, you are the person making it sound scary.

No. You really don’t want to self host unless you are pretty familiar with how these services work. Otherwise, you’re just setting yourself up to get hacked.

If you’re afraid of the terminal, you won’t get far in self hosting. You should learn to use the terminal. It’s not as scary as people make it sound.

You mentioned having issues with SSH into your old server. You can install a desktop environment if it makes things easier for you, but you should still learn how to be proficient in the terminal. Proxmox might help. It lets you create and manage VMs through a web interface. It can be annoying if you’re not super familiar with networking though.