Actually France is doing pretty well IT-wise, but the majority of the countries in Europe are greatly lagging in IT development and digitalization.

Just changing the SSH port to non standard port would greatly reduce that risk. Disable root login and password login, use VLANs and containers whenever possible, update your services regularly and you will be mostly fine

If you are behind CGNAT and use some tunnel (Wireguard, Tailscale, etc.) to access your services which are running on Docker containers, the attack vector is almost not existing.

If you know what RAM is, and you bought an 8GB Mac in the last 10-years, then you are likely self-aware of your limited demands and/or made an informed compromise.

Or you simply refuse to pay $200+ to get a proper machine. Like seriously, 8GB Mac’s should have disappeared long ago, but nope, Apple stick to them with their planned obsolescence tactics on their hardware, and stubbornly refusing to admit that in 2023 releasing a MacBook with soldered 8Gb of RAM is wholy inadequate.

Pull an Elon Musk move then.

My rent costs me pretty much how much would it cost me to raise two kids. And wondering why people don’t raise kids. Because life and rent became so expensive, it’s literally impossible to rent and raise more than two kids on two average incomes.

Doesn’t updating homebrew packages require a reboot?

I wonder what’s the Linux experience/support on this laptop

Do you really need multiple VMs, can’t you run all at one? The easiest would be to install some windows/Linux on a single machine. Then stream your games with Sunshine/Moonshine and connect over RDP/VPN?

1984 + 40 = 2024

Now I understand why Trump wants him for his vice president.

Yes, this OS looks interesting and beginner friendly

Why don’t you give PopOS a try, it is quite user friendly Ubuntu/Debian based

I am exactly in the same boat. I might disagree with someone but the amount of work he put into it is admirable

And yet so many people believe in religion without a single scientific proof. But yes, I got your point.

For the record there are a lot of shameful events in your history too, but I am sure your own government has done its utmost to hide those facts.

Just that in the US there is a massive anti China and anti Russia propaganda. Do not get me wrong, I don’t disagree with a lot of their policies, but the US isn’t also spotless and a role model in a lot of ways.

You will be surprised how much of the open source software out there is written and maintained by lefties and tankies.

Sadly conservatives seem to have either lower education and are not notorious for their sharing and selflessness.

The big AI bubble

Jokes aside but in the not so distant future you will be able to clone your image and voice and just pay some third-World guy to pretend to be you in video calls while you pay him a cut from the salary

And it is down, I guess someone has hacked it and is sending tons of requests that crashed the server as it returns 504 at the moment.

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted - just pick one or more services from the list and start looking into their documentation.

YouTube and the web are full of information and guides how you can do it. Me personally I would suggest you to use Docker container and Docker compose if possible. You can see how you can install Docker or Podman to run the containers.