I strongly relate to your experience, I am currently employed and basically doing my old job + learning devops/coding for our internal site.

I too have set up my own home NAS (proxmox with two computers running as nodes) with LXCs and a VM for HA. Have moved out of the cloud as much as possible and trying to cut ties to the major corporations wanting to profit off our data.

I am a leftist, nearly Marxist and work at a fucking financial institution that I hate because I have to make an income to help support us.

I wish so much I could work somewhere that aligned with my values, and want to quit so badly but I can’t leave us without my income for long and the job market sucks and it feels like learning coding/dev ops is a waste of time because of LLMs even though the evidence that they’re able to do the things claimed is non-existent (they’re helpful for sure but companies are seriously massively over-inflating their current capabilities and making stupid decisions because of it).

I want off this corporate bullshit ride.

I use a nvidia shield with adguard as my duck/dns server to block most of the tracking stuff, if you like android tv it’s good.

I don’t think it’s in any way limited to the EU lol

Lenovo is generally cheaper then Asus, but they both have high end brands for gaming, Legion vs ROG

Mullvad is more private but Proton VPN still supports port forwarding.

lol

My literal job consists of helping other (generally much less technically savvy) representatives provide support to our end users, and it being their literal job to provide “tech” help to users is still not enough of an incentive for 80+% of them to learn anything beyond basic computing. Sometimes it’s like pulling teeth just to get a fucking click path or screenshot of what’s actually happening.

Now expand that out to now I am not getting paid to help people and those asking for help are often VERY entitled that they deserve to have their hand held through the entire process. It’s frustrating and often thankless.

There’s an older manual for how to ask a “hacker” for technical help that I think is so spot on for setting proper expectations: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

If they use a reverse proxy, not really since they’re not actually open

Homie the web platform I’ve been tasked with helping keep running/update is ASP Web forms and the lack of asynchronous updating is pretty annoying to work with in a ticketing software.

Use docker

I find it runs better then YouTube in Firefox on my crappy laptop

Lol I bet it’s the “dragon person” or “dragon rider” they also always talk in third person

I haven’t tried yet (because I’m not a very organized person) but pushbullet.md

Do they though?

A lot of Lemmy people seem to vehemently hate emojis

Sure if you don’t want any websites to work

This is why I never go in my friend group’s line chat, we have a discord channel with everyone in it but for whatever reason like half of them only want to use line

Download driver whateverthehell.exe today to fix your issue! Free scan!

Still better then iOS, it’s a trade off tho, I used to flash a new rom like once a month for fun and because I was hoping to get an extra feature or a little extra power, really not necessary anymore with a good android phone. I did still root and rom my old android devices recently tho :P