This is a great post

We love when science memes is just US politics.

Me studying French so that I can refuse to speak it I immediately get a response in English whenever I attempt to speak it

Wholesome and legal activity

If you can’t configure Docker, reverse proxies, and Yaml files, you shouldn’t be self-hosting

Yes, absolutely.

Configure Docker

if you cannot run docker compose up or understand the basics of what it’s doing, you should not be self hosting. Yes, Docker can be difficult to troubleshoot but you need to understand where your data is being stored and generally self hosting projects using Docker are easy to set up.

reverse proxies

Implying exposing your server to the Internet. Yes. 100%. If you do not know what you’re doing, you should not. This is dangerous to your machine and to your data.

Yaml files

This is a plain text file. You can open it with Notepad or your operating system’s equivalent. Editing a text file to enter some default parameters is a low bar and if you can’t edit a text file, you’re going to get caught up in some other part of self hosting

90% of drivers admit to taking their eyes off the road to look down at their speedometer. Together we can stop this.

And Canada. I don’t remember it specifically but I am certain I was sitting in my school gym for a Remembrance Day assembly.

Thought this was a butcher’s guide for a sec

These are still capable laptops. I’ve been the same one as in the article with Linux on it for years now.