Maybe something on this list would meet your needs:

https://medevel.com/google-form-alternatives-1284/

Anyway, I can dig up some helpful documentation if you’re rally interested.

I mean, if you have a couple bookmarks handy, I’m always down to learn, but don’t put yourself out. I’ve been interested in Incus, basically because it’s the next best, new thing. Admittedly, I have not yet plumbed all the depths of Docker, tho I have a solid working knowledge of how everything works, and I have dabbled with Kubernetes.

Interesting. What would be an example of a docker container that would not run on IncusOS?

Pretty good issue. NextExplorer, Wildbox, and Sync-in look pretty intriguing.

I guess I’m a unicorn in that Netflix or equal has no draw for me. I’m not a movie watcher. I’m more interested in how they made it vs the actual movie content itself. I don’t even watch TV of any kind. I have no Spotify or equal, music streaming platform. I just can’t take the incessant ads every couple songs, and it’s the same flipping ad over and over. Instead, I listen to my music collection which is fairly large, most of it from my days of running a licensed internet radio station back in the pre-Napster days, and read. Not much into fiction or novels etc. Give me history, news, anything to do with computers, etc. I mean, the internet is a vast repository of data, and I have yet to surf to the end of it. At no other time in human history have we had the sum total of the world’s knowledge, maybe not wisdom, but knowledge, resting in the palm of our hand or sitting on a desktop. The great libraries of Alexandria would look like my magazine rack in comparison. I just find that reading helps me digest the information better, and in the case of news, it allows me to cross reference, highlight, search, compare ad nauseam, in search of the truth trifecta, which you’ll never get on your TV screen.

It would be super cool tho, to have a server dedicated to a totally on premise AI with no connectivity to external AI. I’m just not sure whether I can justify several thousand dollars of equipment. Because if I did, true to my nature, I’d want to go all in.

No shit. It’s been so long, I didn’t even know they discontinued downloads. Weren’t the downloads legit tho? Apparently they’ve moved in a different direction.

<giggle> I’ve self hosted a few of the bite sized LLM. The thing that’s keeping me from having a full blown, self hosted AI platform is my little GeForce 1650 just doesn’t have the ass to really do it up right. If I’m going to consult with AI, I want the answers within at least 3 or 4 minutes, not hours. LOL

I knew when I asked, someone would just whip out some links and wonder ‘Why the hell didn’t he read this shit right here? Search engines exist!’ LOL I thank you for the spoon feed. So, apparently I do a lot of ‘fun’ stuff.

I like it…I could change out the tranny and insert a standard 4 on the floor, but I’ve tried to keep it as true to the original as I can. I’d call it a resto-mod. I tell people half joking, that I’m saving it for when our government can turn cars off at will, which pretty much has existed for a while now. It’s not a daily driver. The only real driving I do is on the farm. I have had a TBI which blessed me with a seizure condition and tho I do have a valid license, I just couldn’t live with myself if I were cruising at 70 mph down the road and had a seizure, drifted into oncoming traffic and killed someone. So exterior of the farm, I employ the services of my lady friend.

Can confirm. The scripts in the new repository work just fine. I’ve run a bunch of them.

Fuck it. My dad used to work on his car, I think this is my generation’s equivalent.

I’ve got a '75 Ford pickup with 3 on the tree. I can work on that. Hell, I can pop the bonnet and sit on the fender and dangle my legs in the engine compartment. Once the automobile industry moved away from that type of design and started incorporating computer blocks, chips, et al, that you needed a metric and imperial tool set replete with a plethora of specialized tools just to work on them, that was outside my field of expertise. My Ford F450? Nope. I can’t even wedge my hamfists in a few inches. The whole engine compartment is slap full.

I’m starting on my home networking journey. I have a beeline on the way to build my own router…pfSense, OpenSense, OpenWRT…still chewing on that but I’m going to do it.

I have a beeline on the way to build my own router…

DO IT!

OP, I came across this, thought it might be worth a look see.

https://dockflare.app/

[Internet high five]

or as we did back in the olden days: ^5

Cosmos, Yunohost, CasaOS etc are pretty straight forward packages.

If I were a younger man, I’ve always wanted to produce a ‘server in a box’. Something small, powerful, capable, came with a plethora of click to deploy apps, in an environment that would be conducive with the average homeowner’s computer savvy or lack there of. I’ve seen a lot of mini-racks made with Lenovo ThinkCenters that really look good, could fit on a shelf in a closet and serve the household with privacy respecting software.

But I’m far from being a younger man, so one of you guys take the lead and make a million $$.

Seems incompatible with Capitalism ‘Surveillance-capitalism’

These are not equal. I am a capitalist. I run several, bonafide, tax paying businesses. I like working. I like money. Money can be used to acquire goods and services. I enjoy goods and services. We start businesses in order to generate capital. Even if you start a non-profit of any size, you still need to pay employees, pay utilities, etc. So you have to generate capital some how. Capitalism isn’t a bad thing, unless you are an anarchist or something, I guess. Business is what grows and maintains the economy.

Where I deviate is rampant, unbridled, capitalism…or a better word would be greed. There is really only one way to nix rampant, unbridled, capitalistic greed, and that is to stop consuming. Corporate America and indeed governments know. Once you stop the money, the wheels start falling off. So as long as there are consumers willing to pay exorbitant prices for goods and services, there will be rampant, unbridled, capitalistic greed.

As far as surveillance capitalism, well yes. That’s bad. We go to great lengths to mitigate surveillance, I know I do. Thing is tho, even if you’ve eradicated say…Google from your network, and even tho you’ve never had a Google anything account, they’re still making bank off of you. Google has it’s fingers in a multitude of pies and the chances that you will use one of their services during your internet travels, are probably quite high. That ship sailed on September 4, 1998, and it’s not coming back.

There is no change without pain.

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I was thinking Nastygram but I like where your head is. /s

I don’t want to come off as preachy to the community here either. It’s just something I feel strongly about. I’ll try to use the soap box sparingly.

the people I talk with, most just don’t care about privacy. When the situation is explained in plai terms, it’s like talking to a wall.

Yes, there are a lot of people who just don’t really care. A lot of people in my +70, boomer generation just fail to grasp the gravity of their actions either, much to my chagrin. They think the government is here to help. Side note: One of the most hilarious things I watched develop here in the US was centered around the participants of the Jan. 6th situation. People were shocked that the GPS beacon they carry around in their pocket was able to track them. Duh! I mean, the White House has it’s very own mobile phone network ffs. In addition, their FB posts, detailing their every last moment in their lives, replete with pictures, names, and even phone numbers/addresses, were easy pickings. Duh! However, I bet the majority of those people now practice some level of privacy, anonymity, and security in their lives, and if not…you can’t force a horse to drink. For some hard heads as you pointed out, it only becomes relevant when it happens top them, and then it’s shocking. Hard heads learn hard lessons.

I just think about if I were one of those who ‘just didn’t get it’. If someone approached me with some of the condensation I’ve seen expressed in privacy forums, I’d tell you straight out to piss off. So, that is my concern…the message. When dealing with the public, image is everything, regardless of how I feel about public images. In a lot of people’s minds, they already equate us to flat earthers, chem trail, conspiracy nuts who live in their mom’s dimly lit basement, wearing our favorite hoodie, thumbing through the latest edition of Soldier of Fortune. That’s already a hard nut to crack, and then add in negativity towards those who ‘just don’t get it’ and the message falls flat.