The expense and waste is the point. Winning never was.

You say all that in jest but I’m old enough to have seen the change. Old enough and from a remote enough area that the change happened late for me.

I’d say it was about 1994-1995 when I noticed it. The police became more militarized and the standards of law enforcement were changed to be a revolving door where if they fucked up, they just got moved far enough away from the fuck up that no one knew about it there. Basically following the Catholic church system.

So law enforcement went from being socially embedded in the community to being outside of it a bit. And then over time, above it. And mind you, this is very rural. Towns smaller than 10k people were considered our cities. Cops have always been class traitors but looking back, this all felt like a calculated sea change.

And then of course 9/11 happened and police started getting the militarized hardware to go along with the attitude. And then Fox news started to warp what were pretty decent people into being xenophobic hate worshippers.

But right before all that, if you were caught causing trouble, underage drinking or even drinking and driving, the cops would bring you to your house to face your parents. Not to a jail cell.

We had a decent amount of freedom. Actual freedom. Capitalism was reigning supreme at larger scales, but it hadn’t been applied to every single thing in life quite yet. It didn’t have its act together enough to suck the fun out of just existing. Even state government (in a low-population state) felt pretty community driven. Legislators would come by and visit even my tiny village.

You didn’t see no trespassing signs on every piece of fence because frivolous lawsuits hadn’t been made popular yet. My mom, a single mother, she did struggle financially but she still was capable of raising my brother and I in safety on a waitress’ wage. And again, this is a tiny ass town she was waitressing in. Fewer than 500 people.

The 80’s and 90’s were far from perfect but it does allow me to know we can do better. We can have it better. And it’s one of the few things that keep me working and fighting. The younger generations deserve better and they can have a better life than has been provided to them.

Some nice improvements to an already great piece of kit. Good job y’all. Looking forward to updating.

I think others are right in that you literally cannot do what you’re asking. But if you want a better outlook for her and her future, quite possibly without you, I suggest having discussions about epistemology and how we know what we know. Maybe see if she’s open to testing her sources of knowledge a bit.

Because the trillions is the point… Not security.

Or… Use drones and just take full credit. No need for obfuscation with our current media.

You might read up on attachment styles but don’t rule out autism either with the emotional outbursts. Especially if they feel like they don’t come from “you”.

As others have said, talking to a professional to get a full diagnosis can help you advance in this area and maybe help you heal.

Well, with Plex constantly changing allowed abilities and such, it seems to me that this is the expected outcome.

I can’t believe he’d just… Lie to us like we’re a court, Congress or himself or something.

The OP might disagree from what I’m seeing.

But I keep hearing the value of Plex is that anyone can use it.

I don’t either but I sure would like to be able to read stuff sometimes.

I’ve come to the conclusion that nextcloud is probably the best single Google replacement. “Old hardware” is a pretty broad definition, as I’ve still got Zip disks kicking around. But more than likely, you can run Nextcloud AIO reasonably well. The more RAM the better for sure. But you do get an online office, document storage and sharing, calendar, contacts, tasks (to replace Google Keep), text and video chat, picture storage, etc. Doing all of that really well can take a beefier machine, but keep things in perspective, be patient and you can at least get it going to see if you want to expand in the future.

My preference is paying for Unraid and using spaceinvaderone’s Nextcloud AIO package and accompanying video tutorial is the way to go. Unraid isn’t free, but I highly, highly recommend paying for it as a platform. I feel like it still allows some challenges in getting things set up but in a more fun way to reduce frustrations. And Unraid just does so much.

I’m doing that as well (mostly done except some tinkering and optimizations). It’s my third time setting up nextcloud, but this time it’s for real.

In my experience, that’s just true of all software. There’s a couple of high end InDesign plugins I use for work. Aside from that, I’m on my own.

As I understand and have been using it, you don’t need to turn off the tailscale connection. It’s only going to affect how any individual IP address gets routed. In this case, whatever the IP is of Immich. If a phone connected to your tailscale node (phone is anywhere in the world) wants 192.168.1.50 for example, tailscale redirects that request to the other end of the tailscale VPN which happens to be at your home instead of whatever network the phone is connected to. Any non defined IPs just go where they normally would.

Once I changed the default model, immich search became amazing. I want to show it off to people but alas, way too many NSFW pics in my library. I would create a second “clean” version to show off to people but I’ve been too lazy.

We don’t have that freedom either. We have the freedom to be constantly harassed or imprisoned for not having a paid residence.

I went with Willow related naming.

My main server and NAS is Madmartigan. Proxmox server is Willow. Headless gaming machine is Sorsha. Bedroom/office laptop is Elora Danan Living room laptop is High Aldwin Then two raspberry Pi’s named Rool and Franjean.

I’m not even into Willow that much, I just wanted to find a world of characters I liked.