Depends on what you mean by non-tech savvy. Also depends on what you mean by cloud.

So, the simplest way to get something close to the dropbox experience is to use syncthing. Install it like you would any other program, and set it up (lots of videos and tutorials out there if you get stuck) this will then copy the folders you specify to all your connected devices. The problem is if you don’t regularly have all your devices powered on and connected to the network at the same time then your best option is to have one machine left in a closet powered on and connected at all times so everything syncs smoothly and seamlessly.

Doing that you get a cloud of sorts without having to deal with servers in a traditional sense. It also requires no knowledge other than fairly basic computer skills.

This is cool and all, but it’s limited to file sharing, to get more advanced features you need to start learning servers.

However, there have been several projects in the last few years to make having a personal cloud easier. In no particular order: Zima OS, Open Media Vault, Hex OS, Synology OS, Casa OS, True Nas Scale, Unraid. These are all operating systems you need to install on a spare computer and leave it on all the time, but they create a website at their IP you can visit that has something like an app store where you can just add services. There are lots of videos and articles about these to help you get started.

P. S. If you do start setting up a real server everything on it can be accessed at home without much issue, but to get it available when you aren’t at home will require you to learn a bit about networking, and probably require you to get a domain name.

P.P.S. This whole system is easy enough for beginners to get started but becomes a deep pool of gotchas pretty quickly, be ready to learn there isn’t a good just plug and play solution currently, one problem at a time you’ll get there eventually. I have been mulling ways to make this whole thing easier for some time, eventually I suspect either myself or someone else will probably create a more plug and play project for home servers, but it’s still the perview of tinkerers for now, and likely will be for at least the next 5 years.

You sort of can, on the desktop site when watching a video on the right hand side there are a bunch of recommendations. Next to each recommendation is three dots. Click on the dots, then you should get a dropdown with the option to never recommend that channel again. I do this fairly liberally and mostly don’t get AI vids recommended anymore

Is that typical mother behaviour? What do I do now?

Well sadly it’s not uncommon. As for what to do now, up to you, as unhelpful as that is. You have a few options, wait a while and see if she reconsiders, block and move on, or try to communicate how her words hurt, and from there see if you can reach a mutual understanding.

If you go for the last option do so with as little emotion as possible, my mom and I fought over the same stuff, and it got ugly.

I only know of the yellow ribbon from marching cadence

It could happen, but let’s be real if Congress can’t even remove him from office I doubt they will audit his returns

I have finally moves over to Kagi, and I’m really liking it, give it a try

There is the HDMI pi cm4 carrier board and projects like OSMC (Open Source Media Center)

How does one “daemon-warship”? I want a war ship crewed by daemons!

Quality is the main thing lacking, that and convienence. Do the fancy setup and with some configuration everything shows up in high quality with surround sound great for a nice home theater setup. Or even a middling home theater setup. Uhd 5.1 surround, hdr, the works. And convenience one app for everything from, shows, sports, Anime to porn, no need to use a keyboard the TV remote is all you need. It’s a bit annoying to setup, but the result is luxury and learning a bit more about networking.

Micro is pretty nice, has limited mouse support in the TUI line numbers highlighting. That or Neovim customized

Here is some background on the rational https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/national-id

Here is a rough overview of the current state of affairs https://legalclarity.org/what-is-considered-a-national-id-in-the-usa/

Here is some background on the rational https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/national-id

Here is a rough overview of the current state of affairs https://legalclarity.org/what-is-considered-a-national-id-in-the-usa/

No, you are validated as a valid voter when your ballot is cast, but the contents of the ballot are not tied to you

Someone who wants trun by turn directions more conveniently that airpods or something. Let’s you have situational awareness while driving. If they weren’t Meta I’d consider some for prompting me about people’s names I forget names 5seconds after hearing them. Or people like me who can’t consistently distinguish faces, hence the facial recognition witha a database of names would be useful. I could also see them a preferable to a go pro or something when trying to capture and share a pov video while say working on a car or something.

If you were doing that, it would be easy to forget sometimes that you need to turn them off or take them off before private activities. Especially if you need glasses.

Fuck Meta, won’t buy their glasses, but absolutely would buy a similar product if I could run it through my servers.

If you want a gui on your server ignore the Proxmox just use Debian

Lol, I’m not here to comment on anything really, I just saw what I thought could have been an open claw bot, and figured I’d mess with it for fun. Turns out it’s a person. No biggie, no need to get upset.

The emoji headers on each topic only HR and LLMs header each section of their work with emoji like that

Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about network security.

Usually single issue voters. A lot of people select the single issue they care about and vote for whichever party or politician agrees with them on that one thing, the rest is ignored.

Another decent chunk grew up in a household and community of X party members and assume the party mirrors their beliefs near perfectly since everyone the know who is an X party member agrees with them.

Smaller chunks of people will vote for one major party in the house/Senate and the other party everywhere else so that things are “balanced”.

Another small chunk of people as a matter of principle will vote for anyone who is running that hasn’t held office before vs the incumbent to make sure we rotate the politicians and have fresh ideas and faces.

The last small chunk looks at each position, tries to evaluate whether the candidates are likely to perform well in a given role, then select the best fit regardless of party, or in many cases least bad fit.

These are all paradigms of voting and party election I have personally encountered in the US. There are a few others such as 3rd party only, write in, or just random (like literally roll dice in the voting booth), but those are so rare it’s not worth expanding on for now.

The thing to take away is many people “aren’t political” aka they don’t watch/read the news, they just pick up whatever happens to come up at work. These are the second option and usually sone of the most common voting strategies in the US. If you get to talking to them, thier actual politics never align with their party affiliation, they will vote down ballot for their party anyway.

The other large block is single issue voters, they are either incredibly engaged politically or literally just care about and their hobby, their library, whatever it is, either way they distill their single driving issue. Whether that’s library funding, abortion, or whatever bee is really in their bonnet this week. They will almost always down ballot for whatever party is protecting their one thing, or destroying their one thing.

That’s US politics in a nutshell. Easiest way to fix it is to abolish parties, maybe have a lottery for political office even. But as it stands the two largest voting strategies routinely vote against their wider interests.

People differ from their politicians. Lots of right leaning people love solar, especially in remote areas because they don’t trust the grid for a variety of reasons, or just hate paying for the hookup