Check with your utilities, there’s often an opt-out option for the information sales.

I’ve always moved myself, but I’d just find a locally owned moving company willing to deal in cash. It’s good advice for most stuff. avoid online forms, and there are a lot of instances where you can just use false info.

The only reason to change your address with the PO is forwarding. if you’re worried about missing mail, you should change it. Then go to the DMA Choice site and opt out with your new information. Update your actual business info with each company.

I use an app called PaperKarma to aromatically opt me out of junk mail that comes through. they do a reasonably good job, but they’re a subscription service, so I save up the junk, pay on sub cycle, process the opt outs and then cancel.

I forgot to mention, I also pay for a masking service for masked emails and phone numbers. The free burner options tend to be blocked these days.

What this takes is just diligence and patience.

There’s also some misinformation in this thread:

Banks, utilities, even government and health agencies sell your personal data without your knowledge and to any single one of them your home address isn’t necessarily “protected or sensitive” information.

Partially false. These industries, especially government and healthcare are regulated and can only sell a certain subset of your data, mostly anonymized, if at all. I work in the government IT sector, and PII is serious, even under the current trump nightmare.

I’ve managed it. My name and personals no longer show up in any of the search engines, and based on reports haven’t been in any known data brokers for over a year.

Applying for credit/housing shouldn’t get you listed anywhere. That’s in theory legally private.

1. Delete your socials. All of them. Recreate any you might need with falsified info. especially LinkedIn. Once you’ve got a job, disable your profile.
2. I pay a service too to opt me out of data brokers. They send a report every quarter. This is double edged, since you have to give that company a lot of personal info, so use a less sketchy one.
3. Freeze all your credit reports. Unfreeze for 24 hours when you need credit, then freeze it again.
4. if you own a house, contact the county records, tell them to remove you from public listings.
5. Any junk mail you get, run through their opt out process.
6. Go through your Internet history, start deleting your accounts.
7. Google yourself regularly and contact any hosts with a hit to demand they remove you. (or have your data service do it for you). do this on multiple search engines.

It’s taken about 6 years, but aside from one Instagram post from a motorcycle dealer who’s been ignoring me, I’m virtually invisible.

Kids are already coming out of school computer illiterate. They know how to use specific applications, but don’t know things like directory hierarchy. Onboarding young people into working with general office productivity like SharePoint, or giving them a real grown up laptop instead of an ipad is like teaching boomers to open PDFs all over again. All the same old training and helpdesk calls.

the solution is the same as it was 30 years ago: computer class where they deep dive into how the things work, not just how Microsoft and Apple decide the things are used.

Woah TIL that because I’m admin, I’m self hosting an entire enterprise of nearly 50,000 users.

The most correct answer so far is Win11 IoT. But there’s a good chance it won’t have enough “windows” for your school needs.

If you’re just trying to get work done and not trying to stick it to the man with the purity test that this thread seems to insist upon, you can install normally and force an offline user. (Microsoft keeps threatening to kill this capability, it still worked last time I tried early last year.)

Then run Chris Titus debloat utility before you set up anything else.

If you don’t have a registration, you can activate it with massgrave.dev.

Self signed for this use case is fine. you know and trust both ends of your connection, and no one else needs to know or trust either end of the connection.

We’re still stuck with abiding by their regulations, so anything they do, corrupt or not is relevant.

lol I started to reply, suggesting a recommendation feature to help find non-algorithmic tech feeds but then realized that’s exactly how all this started.

While I support the idea of using RSS readers to break free from algorithmic and/or AI curated feeds, I’ve mostly stopped bothering, since all the content that gets into the feeds has become algorithmic, AI slop.

There’s just no escaping it these days.

… documentation… released soon

On a project geared specifically toward helping the ignorant, documentation and admin guides are probably more important than code releases.

Non technical people will want to see and understand the process before they have to do the process, so don’t really on simple wizards to be your breakthrough to the masses.

yup, I even commented on the previous thread.

I’ll take a look at this safebox out of curiosity, but as I said in the previous thread, assuming this even meets OP’s goal, I expect the project to be another abandoned GitHub repo once the constant security maintenance cycles hit.

I’m generally of the opinion that OP’s target could be better met with well designed and well maintained walkthroughs of the most common use cases. There’s a ton of documentation and tutorials out there, but they’re all either terrible or unmaintained. A system that cross-linked and branched for the various up to date use cases like a choose-your-own-adventure book would be super.

lol Nix as the beginner friendly choice?

“very simple RAID?”

For someone who hasn’t even seen a command line before? Who doesn’t know what a RAID is? That’s the target audience here.

You’re entirely missing OP’s point here. You’ve reduced maintenance complexity, but increased the typical learning curve to get started.

missing a way to find out what they do without installing them

At the very top of the project page it says:

Termix is a web-based server management platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, and file editing capabilities.

Now you know what it does without installing it

You’re confusing a lack of handholding with gatekeeping.

beginner friendly solution, something with a UI, fewer manual configs…

First, you’re not entirely right. you can get a ton of self hosting done with things like Synology or Home assistant, and never see the complexity. You might get owned by a botnet, but it “works.”

Self hosting securely has a steep learning curve, there’s no way around that. What you’re asking for is for someone to write programs that’ll let you skip the learning curve.

GitHub is littered with abandoned attempts at doing this. You bury your lede by mentioning “your project” at the end. It’s your project going to be another well intentioned attempt that’s eventually abandoned or causes more problems than it solves?

in Powershell, yes. the cmdlet naming convention is Verb-CamelCase.

Only specific verbs are allowed as well. It works if the convention is broken, but it’ll complain when you import them as a module.

it does not.

.gov.fr. is a subdomain of .fr., unrelated to .gov…

the actual information:

https://www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein-powders-and-shakes-contain-high-levels-of-lead-a4206364640/

At some point you had to learn all about debugging the overly-complicated and annoying OS that runs your full installs, didn’t you?

per the searxng container instructions:

Understanding container architecture basics is essential for properly maintaining your SearXNG instance. This guide assumes familiarity with container concepts and provides deployment steps at a high level.

The fact that you’re logging into your container to manually edit your config hints that you need to read more about managing containers.

Make sure you’re editing the file that you’re mounting on the host, and edit it from the host.

Have you checked the actual log with podman logs? It’ll tell you what it’s doing about its config.

did you shower think yourself into the dead internet?