Yes, but OP mentioned nothing about Cloudflare.

Sweet. Both OPNSense and pfSense firewalls have the ability to tie into MaxMind’s GeoIP service. Not sure what your perimeter device is, but it’s pretty easy on those. And free.

Best solution is a VPN to your home network.

However, if you want to host it publicly, at least restrict access to it via GeoIP. For example, if you live in Europe and only need access from there, only allow the areas in Europe you travel to and block everything else. This will greatly reduce your attack surface.

Also, make sure everything is patched. Always. And implement something like fail2ban to deny repeated failed logins, along with a reverse proxy.

I ran KDE for a year or so recently. The screen sharing bug, since I rely on screen sharing greatly for work, made me switch to something else. If that hadn’t existed, I’d have probably stuck with it.

KDE is a great DE, but I’ve always found it more buggy than the rest. It also pushes the envelope, though, and really is a cutting edge DE.

GNOME might be more “stable”, but I’ve also found you need to have at least a half dozen extensions and GNOME Tweaks to make it usable OOTB. Also, it uses as much RAM just doing nothing as a Windows install.

KDE has always been “Wow this is cool and very well designed” until I always run into a bug I can’t get past and have to switch. This has been my cycle for half a decade or more:

1. I hear about KDE’s latest cool features (HDR support was the latest) and give it a try.
2. I use it for several months.
3. An update breaks something that is critical to my workflow and I have to switch to something else.

These days, though, I use Cinnamon. It is the definition of “just works” and other than network management GUI elements being kind of meh (especially for VLANs), I’ve found it to be rock solid.

Wow. Never seen someone defend porch pirates before. What a hot take.

I know Pop_OS! has some excellent Optimus controls built into their distro. I haven’t used NVidia in a while, though, since I went all AMD for better driver support.

This. America used to give so many fewer rights to all.

Yes, there are SERIOUS problems in America that are systemic, but they are fixable. We just need to keep going.

“Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong”

Don’t worry Nancy. Just like all of the straight men out there, trans women don’t want to touch you either.

You don’t have to introduce legislature protecting yourself from non-existent threats.

Debian and Linux Mint.

Debian for mission critical stuff like servers or things I don’t want to futz with, like HTPCs, work machines, etc.

Mint for my gaming desktop because it’s a bit newer on kernels and such.

How secure an OS is depends entirely on the configuration. A Linux install can be less secure than Windows or macOS, if configured so.

Linux tends to be more secure OOTB because distro devs tend to be security conscious. Android is also fairly secure, since it has no root access, sandboxes applications to a degree, and has other hardening employed. However, Android is also very vast and built for various devices by many manufacturers, so it also depends on them.

OP doesn’t say how old their kids are. Could be teens with plenty of aptitude, but if they’re younger…the switch may be the better option.

As for emulation, I was more just was saying it’s possible. For single player games it’s fine, if done legally.

Yes this is true. I’ll edit my original post.

There is no “TV version”. The switch docks to a docking station to make it output to a TV. You just need a docking station and controllers to make a single Switch into a shared screen experience in the living room. Anyone’s Switch can use the dock.

Physical games are sharable, but only one device can use that game at a time, because they’re physical cartridges.

Personally, I’d go with a Steam Deck over a Switch, unless your family specifically is looking to play Switch games that are exclusive to it (which technically with emulation the Steam Deck can also play, but that’s not legal unless you own a switch and the game). The nice thing about Steam games is that Steam’s Families feature lets you share the entire game library digitally to 5 family members, so unless they want to play the same game at once, you only buy games once and they can all play them. There are also some games that let you own one copy and let multiple people play multiplayer at once on it, too.

Plus, games on Steam are cheaper than Switch games and the Steam Deck is only a bit more money upfront than a Switch is, especially on sale, which I expect it to be on sale for Black Friday coming up.

Finally, Steam games also can be played on a PC. Any PC. The Steam Deck is just an easy to use, skinned UI PC. As such, when the Steam Deck becomes obsolete, you don’t have a bunch of games that are now locked to an obsolete platform. There are PC games that are decades old that still play on PCs today (although sometimes a bit of fiddling is required for REALLY old ones).

Edit:

FYI the regular switch and OLED can dock. The switch lite cannot.

Where are you seeing they’ll win the house? All I see is a narrow blue control of the house on projected outcomes.

Don’t give yourself false hope on the Presidential. It’s terribly unlikely.

Our best hope is the house stays blue and they can be a roadblock for the next two years until the midterms, which is likely what happens.

It’s going to be a tiring two years until midterms and four years until we can get rid of him. We’re going to have to fight tooth and nail to keep our rights and freedoms, but we can do it. I can only hope America wakes up once again from the nightmare.

Not really news. It’s been floating around 2% for a while.

Yo what’s wrong with the Woz?

It’s always so sad, yet predictable, when people that get famous become drunk with power and make poor life choices that hurt others. If put to good use, the power these people wield could do so much good.

This world needs more people like Mr. Rogers, Steve Wozniak, and Keanu Reeves. Not this shit.

I really hope Trump and Vance get stomped into the ground so we can all collectively tell these racist, sexist, and xenophobic assholes to, on no uncertain terms, fuck off.