While that’s true, short term (vacation) rentals existed well before airbnb, they just weren’t so prevalent.

Depends on which country…

That’s possible, I’m using Firefox, is that something firefox would do?

The site does use https for me… it instantly redirects from http to https

From the article:

Herinckx said his focus is on consumer goods not covered by sanctions. Reuters found no evidence that his firm was violating sanctions.

His business might be of dubious morality but it might not be illegal, so I’m not sure the government can do much.

That’s only the meaning you’re used to, and that’s my point. It depends on the context. I can assure you that, in the context of microcontrollers, for example, “bare metal” means running without an OS.

Well, since we want to be technical … Docker is not bare metal. Linux apps are not bare metal. Arduino is bare metal.

I still run it on a 10 year old chromebox (replacing chrome with linux of course). It’s really not that heavy. If it seems very slow, I’d try rebuilding the database from a dump (if mysql/mariadb), and making sure the db is on a fast drive. At least, those two things made a huge difference for me. Also, some people reported huge speedups switching to postgres.

Well technically, (s)he never claimed you said that either…

Nice! … how exactly, I wanna know :)

I have my nextcloud server exposed, I keep it up to date, patched, etc. but I’d love to use the extra protection of a VPN. Just … I don’t think mobile apps work very well with that, unless I keep my phone constantly connected to the VPN, right? Or is there a smart way to do that?

I don’t think you’re out of touch, just use docker compose. It’s not that hard to conver the docker run example command line into a neat docker-compose.yml, if they don’t already provide one for you. So much better than just running containers manually.

Also, you should always understand what any command or docker compose file does before you run it! And don’t blindly curl | bash either, download the bash script and look at it first.