The Docker Engine makes hosting applications over your network easy, if you have spare hardware I highly recommend setting up your own server.

I may not know much about software development & programming itself however, I feel like I did my part here.

Smallest of crack in the glass? Flex-Seal

A space-ship that’s 60% glass, 20% stiffener bars and 20% normal space-ship stuff,

but the issue is that my VPN is blocked now, and a self hosted invidious or piped won’t help with that, right?

If I’m not mistaken this is incorrect, when you self host Invidious you also must host their companion tool to help skirt around YouTube’s blocking system.

https://docs.invidious.io/installation/#linux

You have to run this command on the same public IP address as the one blocked by YouTube. Not necessarily the same machine, just the same public IP address.
You will need to copy these two parameters in the config.yaml file.
Subsequent usage of this same token will work on the same IP range or even the same ASN. The point is to generate this token on a blocked IP as “unblocked” IP addresses seems to not generate a token valid for passing the checks on a blocked IP.

Documentation here is a bit outdated but I assume this is how it still works, just automated without the need to manually run their commands.

Invidious or Piped.

Use a public instance or self host your own. Pair it with Freetube and you can skip in-video sponsorships/ads.

While YouTube has been making it difficult for these services to stay alive they seem to alway work around them.

Unpopular opinion, if you’re going to use a Debian based distro you should just use Debian.

Yes, it is command-line/BASH heavy however, once you learn it it’ll make all the other Debian based distro’s even easier to manage. Only real difference is system directories are in different locations distro-to-distro.

I dunno, I started with Debian and then many months later learned that it was one of the harder distributions given the outdated packages.

Glad I chose Debian because Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux, PureOS, etc are all derivatives of it.

Don’t worry, once Canada enacts its firearm confiscation Ukraine will have a plethora of used .22 Lr rifles in the finest hot-pink camo and magazines pinned to 10-15 rounds.

if this works globally then I’m finally ditching PayPal. Hallelujah!

I honestly never tried Ventoy myself so I can’t really give you a proper answer to this however, after reading into it I see no reason why it wouldn’t work? So long as GParted can access the systems disks there shouldn’t be an issue.

Put a GParted ISO on a thumb drive using Rufus or BalenaEtcher, in your BIOs change the boot order so that GParted boots first, boot into GParted an then readjust/delete your partition as you need be.

Pretty straightforward for the most part.

Wow, UK laws in regard to acquiring your license are more wild than ours! I’m shocked to see you cannot own a Shotgun with a barrel shorter than 24 inches and, by the looks of it all rifles must be chambered in .22 Lr.

Not too sure about GB firearm related crime but hopefully one day regulations ease up on licensed owners over there!

If I lived in America I’d 100% get a gun

Check with your local laws! I’m Canadian and have a firearms license, our government reclassified roughly 140 families of firearms as prohibited hence why I can no longer use my Kriss Vector.

My coworkers took me to the range one day and I immediately went and got my license afterwards by completing the Canadian Firearms Safety Course, it’s such a fun hobby!

Hah, read my mind!

Got paid, picking up a Smith & Wesson model 1854 - .44 rem magnum. This will be my second rifle purchase as I can no longer legally use my 22lr Kriss Vector, pretty hyped for this S&W.

Update:

Does your laptop have 2 GPU’s?

NVIDIA Optimus sucks for Linux, I would suggest looking into EnvyControl and forcing your xorg & xrandr to use your NVIDIA GPU primarily and not the iGPU.

The day I do the old fashioned sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade and everything suddenly breaks is when I know I’m on Debian 13.

I don’t know how developed your school system is but, I would advise the principal into blocking the websites via DNS that way the computers won’t resolve them.

AdGuard, PiHole, OpenSense are free open source DNS resolvers however, chances are your school already manages its own DNS so I would obviously consult with them first.

The folks over on IOS are waiting very patiently for extension support. Firefox folks taking their time.