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The video is about the controversy surrounding how the Linux Foundation spends its money.

The speaker, Brodie Robertson, argues that the Linux Foundation should spend more money on the Linux desktop and less on other projects, such as blockchain and machine learning. He points out that the Linux Foundation employs the vast majority of core kernel developers, but that only a small percentage of its funding goes to Linux kernel development.

Robertson acknowledges that the Linux Foundation is not obligated to listen to his criticism, as it is a member-driven organization. However, he believes that it is still important to have a conversation about how the Linux Foundation spends its money.

Here are the key points:

• The Linux Foundation is the biggest employer of Linux kernel developers.
• Only a small percentage of the Linux Foundation's funding goes to Linux kernel development.
• The Linux Foundation spends money on a variety of other projects, such as blockchain and machine learning.
• Brodie Robertson believes that the Linux Foundation should spend more money on the Linux desktop.
• The Linux Foundation is a member-driven organization and is not obligated to listen to Robertson's criticism.

You start out by bemoaning the onboarding experience and then move on to portability and then speak up the idea servers should just be relays and browsers should be the new world order.

Yes, onboarding definitely needs to be improved.

Yes, portability can be improved. Lemmy falls short of Mastodon and not even Mastodon is perfect.

But, what mastodon does so is foster does do excellently is foster the idea that social media is a tool and that users shouldn't be overly attached. Also, perhaps if we learn to value servers, so not treat them as mere relays, perhaps we'll be able to teach value and independence.

The problem is, too many people keep trying to think, how can we make the Fediverse relevant in the modern world? And the better question is, how can we redefine the modern world? How can we normalize the idea of cooperative servers? Whether friends, towns, cities, etc. How can we make it so the people running the servers that host our communities are committed and engaged and not running them at a deficit? I would even go as far as to say that there should be government schemes to repurpose old computers into mini servers and that governments should give everyone a domain like NAME.TOWN.CITY and everyone can run a personal server and get used to it and then they can grow from there.

Thanks. I feel like since I started posting on Lemmy, I've been like a bottomless pit trying to learn everything I can. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with me.

I thought seedboxes were a torrent thing?

Do you tunnel your usage through a VPN?

"Boxing Streams", you ask? Hmmm. Maybe try searching for that exact term. Not that I would know.

I'm a newbie, so my answers may be wrong. Forgive me. Someone will correct me though 💪

To take full advantage of my ISP's 2.5G ethernet port do I need a router AND a switch capable of 2.5G througput ? Or only the router and the switch is going to divid it accordingly between all connected devices on a 1G switch?

You need a switch capable of 2.5 too

I have no idea what's the best bet, a SBC (bananapi mini, orange pi, raspberry pi...) a fully fleged router (like TP-Link AX1800 and flash it with opensense/openwrt) or an Intel N100 Celeron N5105 Soft Router ?

This one is 100% preference and it comes down to what you want to run. The Banana Pi RPi-R3 has good OpenWRT support. N100s have PfSense support out of the box.

But given your requirements, you need OpenWRT/PfSense/OPNSense

Any good recommendation I should look at for a managed switch that would work great with the same capabilities above?

There's some decent recent cheap ones from AliExpress, but if you can afford, grab yourself a UniFi 8 Lite POE. That said, the switch you linked seems a good purchase.

Probably last question, is regarding wifi APs. Is it possible to make an access point from my router even tough it hasn't atennas? If I connect an access point directly to my router, will it be capable of giving away wifi connection?

Depends on the router, but some old routers you can stick in AP mode. Some you can flash OpenWRT and then make an access point. If it works, it's usable.

But again, take everything I said with a grain of salt. It just so happens I've been asking similar questions of late and am just telling you what stuck.

Let me rephrase. What I feel is that downvoting should be used for legitimate content interaction. i.e. That doesn't fit this community, that's not a good post. Not, I don't like this opinion. I'm saying it should be saved for legitimate communing.

I like it all except the downvote bit. I don't like downvotes being weaponised moreso than what they already are.

No. With ActivityPub, it's totally decentralized. There's no central authority whatsoever. What there is however, is an instance that's bigger than the rest. So if we talk about Lemmy. I can access it and post and my ISP can block Lemmy World and I'd never know.

With BlueSky, it pretends to be similar, but the reality is that everything needs to go through their central server in order to be displayed on a timeline. BlueSky is designed in such a way so that everyone does the heavy lifting, but to be seen, you need to have approval from their central server, where they can modify, insert adverts, do whatever. It's a centralised service that cosplays as decentralised. I don't understand why people keep pushing it when it's literally the same shit we all escaped from but with a new paint job.

Come now Sean, you know that everything open about BlueSky is smoke and mirrors, considering that everything stops and starts with the indexer.

Nice