because these topics are de facto censored on most of the internet

Complaining about capitalism, landlords and US Politics are censored on most of the internet? Have you been to Reddit or Twitter?

Also aren't a bunch of other websites specifically dedicated for discussing specific topics? I.e. modding video games, agriculture/horticulture, etc?

Are there like a bunch of bloggers complaining about living in the West that are being censored, or are they just not popular because they're terrible writers and have 0 reach?

Also no one talks about Linux besides weird and niche communities. It's not censored either. I say this as a Linux user.

Could one prong on this assault be to increase the IRS' operating budget, so that they're able to track down and stop more of these tax haven shenanigans?

Well you could simply start by plugging up a few questionable tax loopholes.

Whether or not the reason the IRS can't collect the tax revenue to be able to provide certain services is because of them not having enough money, I don't know.

But if you're issue is with certain laws on taxation, it would makes more sense to deal with those first.

EDIT: To mention something else that's important to all of this, there's something called the Laffer Curve. The simple explanation is that there's a happy medium between the percentage of income tax and the amount of tax revenue gained. Too much or too little income taxation and you end up with less tax revenue. You can see this in a few times during US history where the income tax wasn't as high, but the tax revenue was great. So to further determine where we should go with income tax you could look at the past few years of projected and actual tax revenue, as well as spending to service government debt among other government spending.

I'm not an economist nor an accountant, but this is likely what you'd have to do to figure out the balance between taxation and government spending in order to have money for certain social services. However, no one wants to do that and another big problem is the government doesn't like being told it needs to manage it's spending better.

He was ousted in part because Mozilla is supposed to be and open and inclusive place to work,

So by "open and inclusive" that means "everyone has to have the personal opinions, even when they don't bring any of those opinions to the company?"

To clarify, I think gay people should be allowed to marry. I don't agree with the supposed position Brendan Eich has. I say "supposed" because you haven't provided any proof that this is his position.

Here's 2 great questions you should answer:

1. Should Muslims be allowed to work at Mozilla?

Islam is very anti-gay, and if you've met any Muslim immigrants, I have, they don't think the gays should marry either. Among, uh, other things. Depending on age and where they're from.

1. Should you be penalized/reprimanded/fired by your employer for having opinions they don't agree with?

Let's say this: you work for a Pakistani Muslim and in a workplace that's predominantly Middle Eastern and North African. He doesn't believe in gay marriage, you do. You donate like $50 to some LGBTQIA+ organization. Should your boss fire you?

Or let's be less controversial: you want to legalize all drugs and donate to a candidate who thinks the same. Your employer had a family member who died of a heroin overdose, and they're pretty anti-drug. Should they fire you?

Or lastly: you're a Republican. Your boss is a registered Democrat. Neither of you talk politics at work and you get along well and you do your job. Should they fire you?

hard to do that when your boss doesn’t believe you should be allowed to marry.

Was Brendan Rich going out of his way to tell any gay people at Mozilla he thinks they shouldn't marry? Was he bullying gay subordinates? If he was, yea, he should absolutely be fired. If not, it doesn't make sense to me for an employer to fire you for personal opinions you hold that don't effect your day-to-day job.

Ah, okay. So, if I understand correctly, unless I'm trying to have Jellyfin do what YouTube does with offering multiple resolutions and bitrates for video, I don't need to bother with looking for a GPU that's good at video transcoding?

I don't know about your second question, but with almost every proton-ge update I've gone into Steam and switched over to the new version with no issues so far.

Maybe that's a no-no for some games but, again, no issues so far.

EDIT: Same goes for wine-ge whenever I have games I bought through GOG and play through Lutris.

Outside of the (theoretical) technical specs of the OPi5 being better, I've heard/read mixed things about OPis. Some say they're a good alternative, some say they're cheap Chinese-made crap. I've had no experience myself, so take it with a grain of salt.

I'm interested to see more data on the RPi5 when it's out, as to figure out if it's worth getting over trying an OPi5 for a home media system with Jellyfin.

This guy scrapes

True! I should probably do that before delving too deep to where I start losing my sanity.

EDIT: And ay, voila! It works! Played a little bit and so far I'm not too impressed by performance nor the game itself, but at least it works now.

If you really want Intel, just get an N100 or N300. Low power, Intel HW transcoding on iGPU on Linux kernels 6.3+, and can handle Jellyfin no problem.

Didn't think about that either. I'm finding I didn't give this as much thought as I should've.

You can get a minipc with everything you for $175 for a no name brand, or maybe $250 for a more well-known brand.

But why do that when I could spend +$600? 😜

Saves you whatever they marked up the price to for adding the "organic" label.

I'm not 100% sure what you're referring to, but having #' before a function is is to tell the reader/compiler that you're specifically referring to the function of the name that comes after it. You could just do ' and that works in Emacs Lisp, but it's more technically correct in this case to do #' as org-deadline is a function.

If that's not what you're referring to, I apologize.

It's a nepenthes Diana.

Ah yes! That's a great little hybrid. This plant, no?

It was winter and I assumed it would drop all it's pitchers and go dormant. However its leaves are also a bit brown.

In cooler times in nature they don't go dormant, they just make less pitchers.

Here's my suggestions

• Let the medium get almost dry between waterings

When it does, fill up the tray and let the water be absorbed or evaporated.

• Move it to an east facing window, or outside during spring

Maybe it needs more light. New Zealand has a fairly tropical climate IIRC so outdoors in the spring might be a great idea. Here's an interesting read about light.

• If you tap water has a PPM above 50, repot

I don't think you'll have to do this as looking at your governments legislation the water is a lot better than some parts of America.

Here's another guide to repotting from a reputable grower. They even have suggestions of when to repot.

Other than that Nepenthes 'Diana' is a pretty vigorous and hardy hybrid.

Good point. So what we're really talking about then is

• something like a raspberry pi
• 1 or 2 hard drives for base storage
• 1 external hard drive as a backup

Yes, should've mentioned that in my post.

Oh boy, that's certainly a novel issue! Well thanks for the answer and I'm glad I didn't have to delve too deep in to trying to figure out the issue!

Find a static site generator you can tolerate and style things the way you want, have the static files be generated, pick your favorite way to host and server up those static files.

It's not self hosted, but you might like 750words as well.

I have a business account with them. I don't really remember why I upgraded to a business plan. Might downgrade it to save a few bucks for now.

If you are not trusting Proton, you should not trust Tailscale as well, in my opinion.

True, although I don't know if I say I don't trust them. It's more of a sense of skepticism that's always in the back of my mind when it comes to any service.

Another question is that why are you paying $19 for that? They have $10-12 plans that come with 500 GB storage, emails with 3 custom domains and high-speed VPN.

I have a business account with them. I'm trying to remember why I upgraded...

Another question that pops in my mind is, why do you need a VPN? Do you need to connect to your services privately, or do you just need to change your IP for (relatively) better privacy?

At this point, if I'm going to do be doing more self-hosting I'd want the ability to connect to services privately. The other thing is that with Tailscale I can set my PiHole as my DNS server. That way any device on the tailnet gets the ad blocking as well. Plus, if I can get unbound with DNS-over-HTTPS (via stubby) setup on it then I have a pretty secure and fairly private setup. That's kind of what's got me thinking about moving to Tailscale.

It sits in water so it's always wet.

I use tap water but it's from a well so It might be a bit overly mineral. I can try and deionize it.

Ah well I'd start with the first thing. Nepenthes aren't bog plants, they don't like sitting in water. They like they're medium moist. So I'd dump the water out of the tray it's in and only pour water in the try when the medium starts feeling like it's about to dry out.

I don't think there's anything in the Pi-Hole VPN setup with Wireguard that says you need to open up port 53. In fact, in the Pi-Hole userspace you see so many people specifically saying to not open up port 53.