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Are there good (more ethical? cheaper?) OF alternatives? That’s not my world at all…

I think most people who win the lottery for example, make bad choices and end up losing that money anyways.

I’d say it’s possible to a degree. But it’s certainly not easy. If you own a bigger house, you need someone to clean it. Same for other nice things like a big pool. A large, well-maintained lawn etc. There will be people envying your wealth and you got to deal with them. You need someone to manage your money and assets, or have lots of spare time to deal with all of that. And it’ll be at the cost of your hobbies. If you have too may people doing stuff for you, you need people to manage those people…

Looks like a Swedish harlequin to me.

The axis don’t make sense.

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That’s correct. I think it’s very similar here in some European countries. And in my opinion it also means the terms of service of lot of those AI generators are meaningless. Since they also don’t own any copyright on the content you generate on their platforms, you can just sell it anyways. Even if they prohibit that.

And to add on the whole issue: All the AI stuff isn’t yet settled ultimately (in court.) You’d need to wait a few years to be absolutely sure. But despite being trained on copyrighted material, these tools don’t reproduce it one to one. I mean theoretically they probably might be capable, but usually that’s not what’s happening. So most things should be safe for the user. BUT: It’s not all about copyright. There is trademark law and other things. And AI might very well draw a Mickey Mouse or other things and it might not be okay to sell those.

I think 30% is a fairly common number. That’s also the exact share Google, Apple take if you’re a programmer and sell Apps on their platform. And probably also what you’re facing when selling online courses or other things. I’d be surprised if a platform that also offers some infrastructure, takes less than say 20 or 30%.

Authentik, Authelia, Keycloak, KaniDM come to mind.

That’d be identity providers / authentication servers or SSO solutions. But with most (/all?) of them, you’d have to program the payment logic yourself.

I think there are webshops, platforms to sell online courses and ERP or eCommerce software that can do both payment and authentication. I’m not a expert on that.

I think most solutions are either custom solutions that have been programmed by the people themselves (at least to some degree) or some of the big, commercial (and proprietary) platforms to sell online courses and memberships.

But don’t search for “userbase […]” that’s a term I’ve never heard of. Search for “membership”, “identity management”, “single sign-on”, “eCommerce” and “Stripe” (because it’s one of the largest payment providers. And I’d have a look at the eCommerce world. Usually it’s difficult to find something good. Most of them want a share of your revenue and aren’t entirely open source. Maybe something to sell online courses with, is more likely to have the things you need.

That’s a bit more elaborate then ‘usual’. But not unheard of. I spoke to some people here on Lemmy who have put their cheap IoT devices on a separate Wifi. And guest networks are fairly common. IMHO those should be easier to set up on OpenWRT.

Regarding the cheap ‘chinesium’ smart devices: I hope you’re aware of projects like Tasmota, ESPHome and OpenBeken… I’m not that much into making everything smart, but I also have some smart sockets, LED strips and stuff. I had some luck with the first devices I bought and after that I payed attention to just buy things where I could replace the firmware. So for me they all communicate with my own MQTT broker and Home Assistant directly, and there isn’t any firmware on them any more that’d talk to the china cloud.

It’s not that easy though. Some require opening and flashing via an USB to serial adapter. And lots of devices aren’t supported by aftermarket firmwares at all. Especially the more elaborate ones.

Thx for the description. I’ll try it.

Whatever floats your boat. If you don’t need it, you don’t need it. I have some services exposed to the outside on the standard port and I need a reverse proxy to make that possible. It also does the https with letsencrypt certificates. It’s a bit more comfortable managing them all in the reverse proxy. But I also have some webinterfaces of other less important software that is fine running on some IP on port 5102 and I don’t worry configuring something to change that. I don’t think there is a “should” unless you need to encrypt the traffic or expose that service to somewhere. And it’s also not wrong to do it.

I think I’d like to go with your answer. I’m pretty sure I had cognac and didn’t like it. In the context of this post I’m afraid I can only accept answers from black dudes, though.

So French Cognac from the actual city of Cognac…

How does it taste? I mean stereotypes aside… Is it good? Maybe they can turn a blind eye if it’s really nice booze.

To add a bit: With VLANs you can have several ‘virtual’ cables inside of a real (physical) cable. You probably don’t need it in a home setup, I’m not sure. It’s for use cases like you just have one ethernet port or one cable running through the wall, but you need two (or more) entirely separate networks on the other side. Like the telephone network or the seperate server network along with the normal network, all over one cable. It works by tagging all the network packets. In the end it’s just a number that gets attached to the packets and the other side knows how to handle the packets with those additional numbers attached to them. And it can send them out through different ports again.

At home, most people just have one network, so that kind of functionality isn’t needed. Some people put their TV set, NAS or the smart home devices or their home office and/or guests in different networks so the devices can’t mess with each other. A VLAN might be handy for those kind of things. And OpenWRT has VLANs, too, since there are two separate networks attached (as with every router). In this case the WAN side, going to your ISP, and your LAN. If you have a router with like 5 ports on the back, you can map those to either port if you change the VLAN settings. The labeling (WAN/LAN) from the manufacturer is just the default with OpenWRT.

Hmm. I had another look on my laptop. I might have to revise my answer: I have all the 5 uBlock lists, EasyList plus EasyList Germany and EasyPrivacy… And a few smaller ones are enabled, too. BUT I don’t think those unmaintained lists I mentioned show up in uBlock anyways. So you might be fine enabling all of them.

I still think it doesn’t helps after some point… But it’s definitely not as bad as I said earlier… At some point I’ll have to brush up my knowledge.

Not necessarily. That depends on personal preference. And IMHO you should enable some language specific filter if you visit sites in other languages than English. And the third party tracking and annoyance filters. Other than that I think the default settings are pretty good as is. But I just see no reason why someone should configure their Android uBlock differnetly than on the desktop… Just use the same settings?!

I didn’t even try. As far as I know there are a few well maintained lists that also are fairly complete. They’re even split into sub-categories so you can choose to visit facebook or have mildly annoying things, or not.
Those happen to be the lists that are enabled per default in most adblockers.

And there are lists that haven’t been maintained in months or years. And lists that are known to break websites because the filtering rules aren’t that well programmed.

I don’t see any reason for me to enable those. I mean your mileage may vary and they might not do you any harm or break the specific sites you like to frequent.

I trust my computer and operating system. And there are several other keys and credentials stored on that laptop. I think it’s better for me to have a file that I can backup and understand how the encryption works, than to do some trickery to hide it mostly from me and maybe a bit from malware, or tie it to some hardware TPM device or something. I’m always not sure if I should rely on those too much.

I don’t think enabling every filter is how it’s supposed to be configured. That’s just going to make your experience browsing worse. The defaults are pretty sane. I think that’s like 2 of the big (and good) lists. You’re supposed to enable your language specific list (with the same base name as the already activated one) along with that. And maybe the speficic ones like “Annoyances” etc. But that’s it. If you also go ahead and enable all the not so good lists, that’s not making it better.

I bet they could have made like three more seasons. There is no shortage of nerd topics, stories from IT admins… I used to read those stories. And there are a lot of them that’d make it for a nice story arc for a 25min episode. And I mean there are also some american series depicting silicon valley programmers and stuff. I feel finding good content isn’t an issue. But things also get lame for other reasons. And British TV series always end a few seasons too soon. They seem to do it differently than the Americans. Bediedict Cumberbatch also didn’t return as Sherlock. And I would have definitely liked more The IT Crowd, Dirk Gently’s, …