Just so, so many things.

Too much what exactly? Don’t use the functionality you don’t want.

Why would anyone setup and maintain a server to do infrequent conversions of small files?

No, they’ll just add it as a requirement to do any work with federal jobs or something.

The executive office in the us has so many levers of power it can pull that they don’t really need laws anymore.

Notice that it hasn’t amongst mainstream consumers.

Good. Mainstream consumers don’t understand enough about networking and computer security to be trusted to self-host anything beyond desktop applications. And even that is debatable. They’re so bad at it that walled-gardens have become ubiquitous just to keep viruses from running rampant.

Yeah, this whole “Linux server” thing just isn’t going to take off.

Many “self hosters” simply aren’t comfortable with the basics and expect things to be just an app you install. A simple two-tier app/db architecture is too complex for them (hence the prevalence of sqllite these days).

I’ve run nextcloud for many years and was simply surprised to hear that it’s “difficult to manage and slow”. My experience has been quite the contrary - it’s been easy to keep up to date and has never failed an upgrade or lost data. And it performs “well enough” since I don’t use low-cost hardware for servers.

My only complaint is that I need to run occ from a terminal rather than having a web interface for it. Makes running it in a k8s pod kinda annoying.

It’s crazy how often I’ve seen this with regard to Russia invading Ukraine. But not once from the US invading Iraq/Afghanistan. Or England’s occupation of Ireland. Or the Israeli presence in Palestine.

😂

Oh shit, you’re serious?

🤣🤣

That doesn’t matter

Apparently it does?

Yeah, I tried it out to see what they were doing and just didn’t see the point. Just make a plug-in for IntelliJ.

He’s the type of dude that hits on a AI image. He was probably bragging that he wasn’t shot down.

Robert Duvall!!!

Before recently he wouldn’t have been prosecuted for this either. He needs to be impeached. And all the self hating liberals need to vote in the next election to turn Congress blue as the ocean.

😂 no. Wtf? 🤣

This is the sort of thing bacula was made for - physical backups spread out over multiple removable media (tapes mostly, but it can work with optical drives).

https://www.bacula.org/free-tape-backup-software/

It tracks where it puts your files, so it does have its own db that also needs backing up. But if you want to restore without needing to search manually through dozens of disks this is what you need.

Trump was so right - I’m very sick of “winning”.

Nothing happened to senior security officials who included a reporter in a private signal group chat to discuss bombing another nation.

There is no shame in Trumpland.

Nothing else you said mattered. 🤷

Also, even within the one option, if at some point I upgraded my Linux system and I got an empty /var/www directory, it would never in a million years occur to me to say “Well that’s stupid I don’t want that directory” and remove it.

Because frankly you don’t know enough to know any better. Sorry if that sounds condescending, but it’s the truth. You should be able to delete /var/www without it causing any security problems. That you don’t know that isn’t your fault, it’s experience.

I’m just being serious. If your software has some files and directories, and you start fucking with them, it might react badly. It doesn’t really matter if you feel like the existence or layout of them is unjustified in some way. Just let them be, or else switch to some other software, or else take responsibility for making sure stuff won’t break from you fucking with them. Those are the options. “Delete it on purpose and then whine about how it shouldn’t have been set up that way in the first place, if stuff breaks” isn’t one of the options.

“Never delete anything on your computer because it might be needed”?

This isn’t “some random directory” as you’ve claimed before. It’s a specific directory used by IIS. It’s akin to /var/www for apache. If you uninstalled apache you would, and should, delete /var/www to cleanup afterwards.

If you uninstall IIS you should be able to delete C:\inetpub to cleanup.

That it causes a security problem you didn’t know about is not your fault. It’s Microsoft’s fault. That is a stupid bug to have and they need to fix it properly.