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Never had a systemd caused DNS issue.

Unix grey beard here.

Yes. Distros with systemd are simply easier to maintain.

Brought to you by (us) security researchers who will happily come in and sort out your security issues later. For a very hefty hourly fee.

So? Pubkey login only and fail2ban to take care of resource abuse.

One Steam using family member here went from Windows to Linux during May. They did their part.

I went from Seafile to Nextcloud with family file sharing as the primary usage. I’m using the AIO docker installation without issues.

This might not help, but I never experienced the issues you had.

(I moved away from Seafile due to - in my opinion - it dying a slow death with less and less support)

Still no. Here’s the reasoning: A well known SSHd is the most secure codebase you’ll find out there. With key-based login only, it’s not possible to brute force entry. Thus, changing port or running fail2ban doesn’t add anything to the security of your system, it just gets rid of bot login log entries and some - very minimal - resource usage.

If there’s a public SSHd exploit out, attackers will portscan and and find your SSHd anyway. If there’s a 0-day out it’s the same.

(your points 4 and 5 are outside the scope of the SSH discussion)

Feel free to argue with facts. Hardening systems is my job.

This is not “the correct answer”. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with “exposing” SSH.

A few replies here give the correct advice. Others are just way off.

To those of you who wrote anything else than “disable passwords, use key based login only and you’re good” - please spend more time learning the subject before offering up advice to others.

(fail2ban is nice to run in addition, I do so myself, but it’s more for to stop wasting resources than having to do with security since no one is bruteforcing keys)

I went from Emby to Jellyfin as they started their enshittification journey. I don’t really notice it being less polished.

Ollama as a general LLM server and then LLaVa as model

… yeah, maybe that’s not the only post I made on the subject?

Nah. Those of us who tried explaning legalese here the last few days have been heavily downvoted.

Maybe sometimes people really just need to chill and accept that their gut feelings aren’t facts.

I host a SearXNG instance and follow the Matrix channel. Haven’t seen anything along those lines.

The AI support doesn’t hurt you if you don’t use it - and they’ve done the right thing by making sure you can do things locally instead of cloud.

Here’s what AI does for me (self-hosted, my own scripts) on NC 9:

When our phones sync photos to Nextcloud a local LLM creates image descriptions on all the photos, as well as creating five tags for each.

It is absolutely awesome.

Depends on language and platform ;) Ghidra, strace, printouts gets you quite far. The only language I regularly step would be assembler.

Sublime Text.

The only thing I need from my editor is syntax highlighting and not be slow.

(Assembler, C, Python, Java and Bash are the languages I mostly work with)

Bad for Linux. I see Asahi Linux on Apple hardware as being the “best Linux” for consumer use (and home servers) moving forwards.

My 12yo learnt about Recall from some Youtube video and has now said they want to move to Linux. I’m not fully convinced it’s possible though, I know they have some modding tools etc for indie games that seem to be Windows only. Let’s see.