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  • NATO is a defence alliance, the world bank was made to rebuild Europe, the IMF was designed to keep currencies of members stable, and the EU was made to keep France and Germany (and later Italy) from killing each other again in 20 years (believe it or not it's hard to go to war with your trading partner). Taken together they are the core institutions responsible for the relative safety of the entire western hemisphere in the wake of WW2.

  • The Real Reason No One Is Giving Biden Credit for How Good the Economy Is Right Now
  • Between my wife and I we make a little over 200k USD a year.

    I do not own the fruit of my labor. If I am unemployed for an extended period of time I will lose my home. Sure I am not struggling to pay my bills (for now, but I could be hot with a layoff at any time), and sure the numbers that flow through my bank account are unmanageable for a lot of people. But at the end of the day I have a lot more on common with someone making federal minimum wage then I have with someone who owns the means of production.

  • Biden Says Debate With Trump Will Depend on the GOP Nominee’s “Behavior”
  • Having taken a grand total of 30 seconds to glance at your post history - it's due to the politely formal language you use. I'm going to guess one of the two things - English is not your primary language, and or your extremely well read in English literature.

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  • To anyone reading this and not getting it. When your pet gets sick you take care of it (named special servers/other machines). When a cow in the feed lot gets sick you...replace it.

  • want to get started but finding the technical side really overwhelming
  • Unfortunately I can't give you specifics - because I simply don't use mulivad. It looks like mulivad used open VPN if on windows, or wire guard for Mac/linux. And Gluetin is a generic vpn client packaged in a docker container?

    If you are downloading onto your main computer - a docker vpn client is just going to get in your way. I should ask - what is is said computer running?

  • want to get started but finding the technical side really overwhelming
  • This is why I talked about allowing local traffic.

    I'm going to try and keep this newbie friendly (but I'm not the best at it, so let me know if something is not clear).

    In an ideal world everything has an IP address that is unique. Some portion of the denotes it's network, some portion denotes the host. In this way we can define logical (and oftentimes physical) associations. Your home is a classic example of a local area network (LAN).

    So what does a vpn do? It makes a tunnel that connects your machine to a remote network, forming a logical connection and "relocating" your device. In the VPN config you should have the option to allow local access. This will set up some fun rules for how network traffic is routed - if it's going to a LAN address it can, otherwise all traffic is routed over the VPN.

    Ok.

    I'm going to warn you right now. Unless you want to do some reading on how traffic is routed, how Linux handles VPN connections and (probably) containers, do not run the clients that download content on your media server.

    If you want to use jellyfin to distribute media in a lan you do not need to do anything other then just start the jellyfin server on the pi and add content.

  • want to get started but finding the technical side really overwhelming
  • Ok. I'm going to assume you have zero networking experience, and have one computer (a desktop/laptop). I'm also going to assume you are using some flavor of screen mirroring tech (eg a Chromecast) to wirelessly connect the

    Per your post the goal is to A) download items, B) store the items on local disk, C) display the items on your TV via some kind of wireless.

    I'm further going to assume we are strictly working with torrents.

    You will want to download two applications, 1) a torrent client (I'm not going to recommend one because Im not up to date on the differences), and VLC. You will also need whatever application your VPN requires but I think you have that configured.

    When downloading via a torrent you first turn on the VPN prior to downloading/seeding/etc. Once the torrent is finished, you can send you content to your TV via VLC (there is an option to use the TV as a renderer target).

    Some gotchas. Unless you configure your VPN to allow local traffic, all traffic goes via the VPN. This means that your computer is completely isolated from the rest of your Network (it's visible, but can not interact with any of it). If you want, I can go into the hows/why's of what's going on. For the Pi. Use it to learn and play with Linux for the time being - focus on getting comfortable with the shell and do not attempt to run a reverse proxy/web server unless you understand what's going on (this is to keep you safe).

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  • I'll be honest, unless you have been using Linux for...a long time, of your job requires you to manage servers, your probably not that last category.

    If you enrolled in the windows insider/test doohickey then you might want look into the rolling release distros. If not, something with a standard release cadence will be better.

    I my self? All of the servers I manage have no desktop environment (core infrastructure does not need graphics). But if I am on a workstation? LMDE - Because I care about the graphics getting out of my way so I can do my job.

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  • Linux users fall into three categories. People who want stability over everything else, people who want everything to be bleeding edge, and people who don't use desktop environments.

    The most important thing for a new user is understand which of those three they are.

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