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This was the final push that convinced me to rebuild my server from scratch! I started doing so 3 weeks ago :D

I was running my containers on a single good old Debian, that I replaced with Proxmox. I set up several VM that don’t share anything between them :

• One for all the services I don’t really care about, like game servers and utilities with no personal data.
• A second one for services in need of a GPU passthrough (Immich and Jellyfin) and partial access to some of my data (photos and movies in this case)
• And a third one that gets access to all my personal data, only hosting a container for WebDAV access and a web file browser. I might hide these two services behind a VPN in the future if I feel like doing so, for now it is still to practical to have them freely available…
• A last VM is running network related app like my reverse proxy.

I should have done this years ago, but I’m still learning and learning costs time :p

Next I want to hide all of Internet facing services behind an identity provider/application proxy (I don’t really know if it is the right way to name it ?) like Authentic to totally block access to any content from unauthorized visitors.

I guess I’ll be mostly fine once this is done ^^

Both are a good as entry points ! But from what I have experimented with my friend and family that are also transitioning to Linux, Mint (Cinnamon version) is the best entry point you could dream of. They took the best from Debian and Ubuntu (not snaps obviously :p), and their desktop environment (Cinnamon) really does a great job at making you feel at home from the start when coming from Windows. Everything works out of the box.

Très intéressant, ça fait quand même pas mal de parallèles avec ce qu’on observe aujourd’hui en France 🥲

Yes ! I don’t get why debian always seems to be forgotten outside of its server use. I have been running it for 2 years now (homelab, laptop and desktop).

And FYI Marine Le Pen has just been sentenced to a (surprisingly low) fine and a year wearing an electronic tag a few days ago because of her mutiple European embezzlement.

And guess what, judges also sentenced her to an interdiction to present herself to any elections, but said sentence ends before actual French presidential elections in 2027. I’m so mad at this.

Maybe you’re right, but I also think the difference is due to how the EU is trying to justify this : they say their IR camera will help lower phone use while driving.

It’s very hard to use the same rhetoric against motorcycles, because you actually always need both hands to drive, making phone use far more hard and risky than with a car.

And anyway, most motorbike crashes aren’t due to inattention but mostly overspeed, which an IR camera won’t help to deal with.

For me, it’s mainly due to the global enshittification of the social networks I was using.

Lemmy is my first try with a fediverse network and I have to admit I love it. After only a few days of use my feed is so good that I already deleted Reddit :')

And also, the fact that Lemmy is not controlled by a single authority makes it even more satisfying to use.