That FUTO wiki link he showed in his previous video looks like one gigantic project and a half that if I had the free time i would consider seriously trying.
The networking thing specifically would probably be the tricky part for me, as my knowledge is only good enough to set up a home network without configuring it (you know, the physical hardware hooking up part), and every IT job I've worked in always had a dedicated server/network guy handling all the companies issues while i just focused on working on desktop towers.
I admittedly didn't watch the entire video on the document, but I did watch the portions I thought would be things I'd want to implement at home at some point (the personal home VPN, the adblocking at a router level, etc), but the biggest thing I am interested in is his instructions for the home media server setup, because as of right now, my setup is super lazy and basic - I just have a Linux computer connected to each of my TVs, both with 4TB drives in them loaded with my movies and shows. Obviously, more annoying to update multiple machines when I get more stuff to add to the library. A media server done in this manner would make that much easier, so I will absolutely go back to this portion of his guide in the future.
Currently though, my adblocking system works well enough - my computers all have Ublock Origin, Sponsorblock, etc, and GrapheneOS doesn't have root access for a proper adblocker so I use the Mullvad adblocking DNS for the stock web browser and it works great, so while there's really no need for me to do this, I may, just for fun.
Back when I first put this whole set up together awhile back, I was completely new at using Linux as a daily driver, so I didn't feel I had the competence to set up a media server properly, but that's part of why I was really looking forward to this FUTO guide of his, and I'm really happy to see it includes a dedicated spot for this.
Also, Louis is spot on about the Linux "Community" - bunch of arrogant fart huffing cocks. Hard to believe more people don't want to adopt it. It's clear his comments about that touched a nerve with some people on the Reddit it got shared on.
it's rot in my brain. i will admit that i suffer from this rot in my brain. i'm working on it.
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I'm glad to see you at least feel you want to work on this. I didn't say all that out of some "Reddit bad" meme, but because I did the same thing a long time ago (not Reddit, but you know what I mean), and you start believing the things people say about you over and over. Even if you know these things to be not true, you start subconsciously adopting what you hear about yourself constantly. Steve did it, and in my opinion, he's still doing it by the mere existence of that second channel he started.
I get it when you say you don't want to think highly of yourself, or as being someone to "look up to" because it can cause you to believe you can do wrong or not take responsibility when you do wrong. I get that, but at the same time, there's a difference between believing you are the "end all be all" to Right to Repair, and constantly saying over and over that you are a bad person, which is something you've been doing a LOT more of over the last year. That part I never agreed with, and didn't make much sense, but after seeing just how much you are hyper focused on people on Reddit trashing you at every turn to the point of lies and gross misrepresentations about your character, to even random commenters who are clearly tourists that know nothing of any of your work, it starts to make sense why you constantly say you are a piece of shit, that you are a bad person, etc. It really is brain rot.
We may not agree on everything in the political and social spaces, and you may have your general outlook on this site being "Nazis who aren't allowed to pet the cat", and that's fine. But I like the kitty, and I want kitties to be happy. We at least agree on that, and that ThinkPads are good computers. Your review of the P50 got me to buy mine, and I still use it today.
