Yes they mean a SMB share. A type of network share that works (mostly) with Linux and windows.

Realistically it’s worse than that right? Where is your second and third 12tb drive for back ups? Raid is a nice to have but meaningless when it comes to back ups.

I was up 10 to 20 percent month over month, and suddenly up 1000% it has spiked hard and they all are data harvesters.

I know I am going to start blocking them, which is too bad, I put valuable technical information up, with no advertising, because I want to share it. And I don’t even really mind indexers or even AI learning about it. But I cannot sustain this kind of bullshit traffic, so I will end up taking a heavy hand and blocking everything, and then no one will find it.

I just was considering trying it out! Oh well.

Yes, just like how they got there in the first place.

Except when it isn’t. Like the confusion of a name, claim a name, channels, requirements to meet some bullshit before you can speak, and chat in which area and all the while it looks really awful.

I did basically the same thing with someone today, I sent them a link they clicked and we started chatting with Jitsi.

Realistically the issue is creating the place to go, not the service itself. That is the more difficult part.

Sure but it’s not intuitive, it’s a pain in the ass, yet there they are. They learned something new at one time, moving away from whatever they had before, why can’t they again?

How did they get to discord in the first place then?

pretty cheap relatively speaking, and usually a lot more flexible depending on what you use.

You have to do a lot of work. You would have to keep up on what domains it’s using (which were in the dozens four years ago for samsung), and make sure it doesn’t use some as kill switches if it finds something blocked.

We aren’t stopping just ads, we are stopping spying, data sharing, snooping, network mapping, etc.

Its even easier to never let it on the network.

LinkedIn is not, nor ever was a social business networking site. It’s a data mining and harvesting site that recently added AI training data to the mix.

It is mind boggling that people use it, even before microsoft bought it for data mining, it was going through the users emails.

Avoid.

Its always been this way. Never said hello in the first place. But good to see people waking up to it.

If you are talking about using Linux on a desktop, then use DigiKam for photo management. It is far more advanced, because it is a desktop application and been around a lot longer.

You could have a workflow of a desktop environment AND immich on the server for the best of what they both offer.

Want to mention some? I have no containers using that at all.

Perhaps you never clean up as you move forward? It’s easy to forget to prune them.

Yeah I am sure some people do that. But I wouldn’t. Some people eat dirt too.

And you have a weird world view if you think being social is leaving posts on a forum to reply to some rando you will never know.

Annonymity is extremely important. I don’t know you, you don’t know me. Nothing I say matters, nothing you say matters. There is no tone, no personality, just words. You could be a liar or a bot, it makes zero difference.

That isn’t very social at all.

I disagree. Billions are being made, data centers and AI machines are being built that use the electricity that could power 50 million homes, and that is Meta ALONE. Your tattoo artist and musicians are perpetuating it. Oh well, they don’t need my business. I don’t support people that do that.

If people keep saying “but I have to”, then fuck it, meta won.

No. There is no valid reason to use it. All this does is continue to enable a massive AI data center and Zuckerbergs billions. Walking away is the only viable option. It needs to go away, stop helping it remain.

Edit: Why would any one argue with this? Unless you are a billionaire, use of this shit is hurting you. Your environment, AI slop, your politics for fucks sake. Continued use is making your life worse for the sake of a handful of people enriching themselves from it, and you don’t care?