Obligatory reference because you’re on startrek.website:

Why would you want one small, multi-purpose device when you can have a PADD for each book/instruction manual/hourly report? 🙂

That’s the key point, isn’t it? OP’s question isn’t really as hypothetical as it’s phrased; you definitely can go on Amazon or eBay and find cheaper, Chinese knockoff parts.

But will they perform to the same standards as top name brands? Very unlikely.

Why a vote to switch up an existing community? The admins have proposed the [AI] tag to mitigate slop projects.

You said you wanted a community to post vibe coded projects, go ahead and set it up. I don’t see why it needs to be foisted onto c/self hosted, unless you have some vested interest in boosting sloppy mcslopface projects.

I want a community where people can use AI to help build a tool

Sure, that’s github

and be able to post about it here

Fine, but others including myself want that slop as far away from here as possible. Maybe start another community? I suggest calling it c/vibehosted.

Did you expect to be blocked for posting a wall of tedious slop?

CLI is better than GUI

Keyboard is better than mouse (and don’t even mention touch interfaces)

Run your main computer headless and SSH in from a thin client

(Not my actual opinions, don’t SWAT me)

Yeah, “Ubuntu wants you to use their new feature” is… unsurprising. Explaining the benefits and purpose of that feature? Now you’re talking.

I installed another but similar Brother model on Arch recently, so not exactly what you’re asking. But it took 5-10 minutes between finding drivers and printing a test page. I doubt it will be much different in Mint 👍

So, according to points 1 and 2, the better way to use Linux is just the generally recommended way?

Using a WM rather than a DE follows the same principle, I guess. But tiling? That sounds like a YMMV option.

The better alternative would be if all sites just had RSS feeds… but yeah, since we can’t have nice things, this is the way to keep tabs on site updates!

a custom distro

…or just a pre-exsting one. Heck, they should just make it a point to support open source development.

You said it yourself — you’re new to self hosting, and CasaOS fits what you want to host. As a starting point for getting rid of hosted services, go with that for a start.

Sure, you won’t immediately be getting your hands dirty mucking about with dockers and stuff, but you will have your working home server. For learning and experimentation, I second @Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s plan B — use another machine to test building the same setup on a base Linux system.

If you’re like me you probably have an old laptop lying around that wouldn’t be great as an always up, day to day server, but as a testing environment to mess around with docker containers it should be fine?

I use Baïkal on a no-frills webhost. It’s been running for years without problems.

Who hurt you?

greybeards dunking on you because you’re not a “real” linuxer

Oh, right. I see.

androids can’t do base distro’s anymore?

I’ll be honest, I never tried. Seeing that there are projects working independently to bring Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch to Android, I’d guess no? Plus I know you can run any distro in an emulator within Android systems, but that feels more like a curiosity.

So, 15 years later we’re worse off than then? Argh.

Out of curiosity, was it “just” a plain Debian system, or did it support touch screen and phone service?

a lot of them have anime or furry stuff as their wallpaper or profile picture, but they use linux

What you’re experiencing is sonder.

This message doesn’t say anything about the validity of your license, though. Or am I missing something?

I’m not up to date on Windows versions, but saying Win 11 has reached end of service is… unexpected?

Have a downvote for the complete lack of context. What is this, why is it interesting to you?

All I see here is a lowest effort share of something that should probably just have been added to your personal reading list 🤷

I suspect that they have ulterior motives

Rather than guessing at the motives of others, let’s remember Hanlon’s razor.