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  • Yep, that's exactly what is happening; I've seen the same and just kept reminding everyone not to click on ads. Took a while but they actually got it.

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  • I run Pihole on physical Pi's and once configured to my liking has been quite nice. I've even had family compliment that they miss the ad blocking when they leave the home :)

  • Any reason NOT to switch to ProtonVPN from Mullvad?

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  • I've been using ProtonVPN with port forwarding for quite a while now specifically on Linux by downloading Wireguard config and running it via terminal. Works great for my purposes.

  • what open source messaging app do YOU use?

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  • Ditto though ended up dropping Bluesky

  • What's your favorite assignment you made while in school?

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  • Manual drill using a large dowel, flat bit of wood with a hole for the dowel and string to attach the ends to one end of the dowel with a drill bit in the other end.

    Wind it up and then press down on the bar forcing the dowel to spin. Press hard enough and excess force winds it back up again so you can keep pumping it to drill.

    We did cheat by using a modern drill bit but was fun demonstrating it at my elementary science fair.

  • Parents of Lemmy, how much do you spend on Christmas presents for your kids each year?

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  • I'm trying NOT to think about that right now... We have 10 kids and 1 grandson so we're just trying to stay in the green while having a fun time

  • What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?

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  • Polarity

    You're essentially just trying to make less mistakes then your opponent but the semi-hovering magnets have an awesome table presence

  • Have you ever met a truly evil person? What happened?

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  • One of the boys we fostered over the years: he was ~10 at the time and pretty sure was bipolar or schizophrenic or something as his eyes / face would change suddenly and attitude would become extremely defiant, destructive and sometimes physically violent. Thankfully he never hurt his baby sister we also had. We managed to capture one of these episodes over phone with our social worker and was able to move him to a therapeutic home where he was the only child and able to get the help he needed. Kiddo was a chill, happy boy normally but "evil" is pretty accurate to how we felt during those episodes.

  • How do you catch up being out of the loop in politics and wars?

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  • Is it normal to feel intense fear when in the presense of any sort of yelling / loud arguments?

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  • Yep, same

  • How do you build your snow forts?

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  • This is the way. I grew up farther north (compared to now) with decent mounds from snow plows so it was just a matter of waiting for those and then tunneling into them.

    These days I shovel the snow from a larger area to build my mound before tunneling. Kids love it regardless ☺️

  • What's your dream domain name?

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  • I would like to do this with .com but has been held for several years so went with a newer TLD. It's mostly been fine aside from occasional person whose mail provider sends me to spam or the very few who block me outright.

  • Alternative to Spotify - Linux client?

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  • +1 for TIDAL Hi-Fi

    I switched to that from the web client today in order to enable their "Max" quality streams and enable keyboard media key support; has worked out great so far.

  • What software tools do you use that are gaming related?

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  • Proxmox for self-hosting game servers and pfSense for my firewall

  • When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick?

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    Linux users, what are you doing on your laptop?

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  • For CLI specifically mostly managing my home lab, yt-dlp and updates

  • How Many Of You Privacy Pioneers Self Host

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  • DNS, Jellyfin and game servers mostly; occasionally will tinker with other stuff but those are the ones that have lasted

  • How can I make a desktop launcher for a specific Firefox profile?

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  • We share a single PC account and do exactly this to easily separate our profiles; here's what I have for my launcher for example:

     
        
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=David-Firefox
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
GenericName=Web Browser
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer
Exec=firefox %u -P David --class Davidfox
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/david/Launchers/Firefox/Firefox-David.png
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=
StartupNotify=true
Actions=NewWindow;NewPrivateWindow;ProfileManager;

[Desktop Action NewWindow]
Name=Open a New Window
Exec=firefox -P David --class Davidfox -new-window

[Desktop Action NewPrivateWindow]
Name=Open a New Private Window
Exec=firefox -P David --class Davidfox -private-window

[Desktop Action ProfileManager]
Name=Open the Profile Manager
Exec=firefox -ProfileManager --class Davidfox

    Here I'm using a custom icon to help tell our profiles apart on our dock and use a custom window class so each profile's windows will group with each other as well.

  • What do you use for photo/video backups?

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  • No, I physically connect the drive, backup my files, then disconnect and swap out for the off-site drive.

  • What do you use for photo/video backups?

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  • I have 2 external SSDs that I rotate keeping them offline and one offsite.

    I backup weekly though my most used files are synced online so is sufficient for my use case.

    Edit: I use Syncthing to backup photos/videos from phones to my laptop so they're included in the above.