I can’t see any reason to trust this project with my browsing.

People are lazy

Yeah, that tracks. It sounds like Type 1 Laziness: people who don’t want to do anything.

I sense you make this because you are Type 2 Lazy: Happy to learn and make 100 new things to avoid having to do a boring thing more than once. That’s something I can both appreciate and relate to.

Sorry if this is a silly question, but what is the use case for this?

You are confusing Thought Experiments with daydreaming.

Other than Friendica, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube and PieFed, what’s worth running on a Docker instance with 8 VCPUs, 16GB of RAM and around 300GB of storage?

I usually do it the other way around. I figure out what I want to run and at what scale and then I get the server.

I take pride in being a contributing member of my community. I see no value in obscuring that by using the vocabulary of magic to describe it.

I think it actually devalues such real tangible contributions to jumble them in with rituals and ceremonies that also give the practitioners a sense of satisfaction and inner peace but do nothing for the world outside of them.

I guess, “Spending time doing things that give you a high sense of satisfaction, especially in ways that help others, will make you less likely to take drugs” isn’t a very exciting headline?

I wouldn’t call it magic, but it was a power beyond his control

I don’t understand how it was a power beyond his control. Taking the story at face value, Crowley created a rhythm and then manipulated it. Crowley’s understanding of how some people are very susceptible to following rhythms and can apparently be tripped up by syncopating the rhythm is in his control.

“Bugs In The Gut” sings pretty well to the tune of Blood In The Cut.

you got bugs in the gut o/~

I understand that might be what it means to you but I can’t find any source that suggests that the world is commonly used that way without any supernatural, magical, or metaphysical aspect.

Personally, I do the charity work I do because I find it rewarding on two levels. I enjoy repairing things and I enjoy knowing it will benefit someone in need. I derive a sense of satisfaction from both.

I don’t experience a feeling of connection to “something” beyond myself. I don’t know what that would other than something magical, like a spirit.

any practice, religious or otherwise, through which an individual finds ultimate meaning, purpose, and connection to something greater than themselves

To this study, my volunteer work testing and fixing electronics for my local charity shop would probably be counted as a “spiritual” practice, even though I do not believe in spirits or ghosts or magical energy.

You can certainly do all that learning with or without directly connecting the fiber to your firewall pc. For a mini pc you will likely need to get a USB to SFP adapter. If you want to go that route I suggest searching for compatible hardware recommendations and get a USB to SFP that has worked well for others.

Personally I would stick with the ISP modem. In any case, happy learning!

This is working fine with no issues.

It seems like a lot of time and effort with no upside except having one device in the place of two. Is there more you are hoping to accomplish with this proposed change?

If you were honest about what you can bring to the friendship and what you can’t then it’s nobody’s fault. Its mismatched expectations. Sometimes you can work that out and sometimes you can’t.