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Obligatory reference because you’re on startrek.website:

Why would you want one small, multi-purpose device when you can have a PADD for each book/instruction manual/hourly report? 🙂

Some of them were just holes in the ground outside Jerusalem where hermits would contemplate juniper bushes, if I remember “Life of Brian” correctly.

The holy one. The one with holes in it, I suppose.

Thirded!

That’s the key point, isn’t it? OP’s question isn’t really as hypothetical as it’s phrased; you definitely can go on Amazon or eBay and find cheaper, Chinese knockoff parts.

But will they perform to the same standards as top name brands? Very unlikely.

Why a vote to switch up an existing community? The admins have proposed the [AI] tag to mitigate slop projects.

You said you wanted a community to post vibe coded projects, go ahead and set it up. I don’t see why it needs to be foisted onto c/self hosted, unless you have some vested interest in boosting sloppy mcslopface projects.

I want a community where people can use AI to help build a tool

Sure, that’s github

and be able to post about it here

Fine, but others including myself want that slop as far away from here as possible. Maybe start another community? I suggest calling it c/vibehosted.

Did you expect to be blocked for posting a wall of tedious slop?

CLI is better than GUI

Keyboard is better than mouse (and don’t even mention touch interfaces)

Run your main computer headless and SSH in from a thin client

(Not my actual opinions, don’t SWAT me)

Yeah, “Ubuntu wants you to use their new feature” is… unsurprising. Explaining the benefits and purpose of that feature? Now you’re talking.

I installed another but similar Brother model on Arch recently, so not exactly what you’re asking. But it took 5-10 minutes between finding drivers and printing a test page. I doubt it will be much different in Mint 👍

So, according to points 1 and 2, the better way to use Linux is just the generally recommended way?

Using a WM rather than a DE follows the same principle, I guess. But tiling? That sounds like a YMMV option.

The better alternative would be if all sites just had RSS feeds… but yeah, since we can’t have nice things, this is the way to keep tabs on site updates!

a custom distro

…or just a pre-exsting one. Heck, they should just make it a point to support open source development.

You said it yourself — you’re new to self hosting, and CasaOS fits what you want to host. As a starting point for getting rid of hosted services, go with that for a start.

Sure, you won’t immediately be getting your hands dirty mucking about with dockers and stuff, but you will have your working home server. For learning and experimentation, I second @Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s plan B — use another machine to test building the same setup on a base Linux system.

If you’re like me you probably have an old laptop lying around that wouldn’t be great as an always up, day to day server, but as a testing environment to mess around with docker containers it should be fine?

I use Baïkal on a no-frills webhost. It’s been running for years without problems.

I’ve been looking at Vosk, but haven’t found a good client for their API yet. Anyone else?

Ah yes, the anglocentrism of software development. I gave up on Google translate years ago because it clearly only catered to English speakers. The other way around was such ham fisted mistranslations with English syntax, it was basically useless.

I understand the ease from an admin POV, but besides locking users into a third party, corporate suite, everything UX about Office365 sucks balls.

Yeah, I’m not invested in either online opinion-haver, but have read the occasional tech post by both that made sense… in isolation from their idiosyncratic ickinesses.

I’m sure this “DeVault Report” may have truth to it, I was just turned off by the first, retaliatory paragraphs. Like, “we could’ve let you perv on minors, but then you went after our guy” vibes.