That wasn’t luck - it was best practice backup strategy.

That’s because “Dual License” means there are two licenses. Anyone can use it under the terms of the LGPL. If a company doesn’t want to abide by those terms, they can pay them not to by buying one of the commercial licenses

Nope - it was Unix not Linux. The minus makes the command invalid on many Unix versions of tar (though most modern BSD versions allow it)

Sorry, it was Solaris - you just blew it up (the minus is invalid on many Unix versions of tar)

(Assuming US jurisdiction) Because you don’t want to be the first test case under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act where the prosecutor argues that circumventing restrictions on a company’s AI assistant constitutes

ntentionally … Exceed[ing] authorized access, and thereby … obtain[ing] information from any protected computer

Granted, the odds are low YOU will be the test case, but that case is coming.

Definitely beatable as of last week.

For a privacy friendly OS, surprised nobody has mentioned Freedombox

It’s designed explicitly for your use case, along with an easy path to other self hosted services. When you’re ready for more than it offers through the web interface, it’s a full Debian install under the hood - so you can install whatever you need to. Privacy friendly and super stable, with smooth upgrades to new releases and security updates for old versions several years after the new one is available.

As far as hardware, your old computer is probably more powerful than a Pi and can support more drives, but the Pi will be more power efficient. As others have mentioned, if you care about your data long term then backups are a must, so a separate NAS or a Pi with a large drive for backup storage is a good idea as well, whatever OS you choose.

True enough for database or dictionary storage, but a lot of times things get implemented in arrays where you still wind up with two copies of the same uint32.

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And dupe check. 0.0.0.0 and 000.000.000.000 may both be valid, but they resolve the same

Better hope the goon hasn’t heard of IPv6 either, or you’re toast

As a professional sysadmin for a (not just web) hosting provider, any time I’ve run into Fedora on a server it has been an indication that:

1. The client was running something obsolete and unmaintained that would not survive an update. This would generally be a version of Fedora 2-12 versions behind current
2. Overtime was in my future as rolling updates broke their business a critical application
3. The system was set up by a client’s family, friend, or other nonprofessional sysadmin who would (or could) no longer support the rickety framework they had built on top of it, or
4. Some combination of the above

I could imagine it working in a devops environment at a company with a real development team that also happens to understand what sysadmins are for, but haven’t run into that in practice.

Seriously though, for a server you need something where security updates don’t end the day a newer version is released. LTS releases and security backports matter for stability, and you don’t get that with Fedora.

Edit: To be clear, I saw all of those things on other distros as well. I just can’t remember a single Fedora instance where I didn’t see one or more of them.

Not true. Free cellular connections exist in some places. And there are non-cellular solutions like LoRA trackers.

I can’t take credit for writing it, but here you go!

https://workaround.org/