I will be all better in two seconds.

Because it’s a smoke screen to hide the fact that really don’t!!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!

Of course, there comes the double reverse conspiracy theory.

I guess that’s why the US has been pestering us to spend more on defense all these years.

But let’s not let reality get in the way of a nice conspiracy theory.

There’s not much point to a military alliance if they don’t have the stuff to military properly.

That’s not what NATO is for. Read the charter. It’s a very short document, I’m sure you can manage.

Failure to do what?

NATO’s only near peer adversary: NATO is overrated.

Sure bud.

That’s highly dependent on the hardware. My router only has two ports.

Just to make sure you know this, routers are not switches. You might get some of them to sort behave like switches with careful configuration, but most of the time it’s asking for a lot of trouble.

You have three routers? Why?

Throw 2 of them out and get actual switches.

The Olympians are a bunch of whiny ass petty excuses for gods.

Most operating systems these days are just micro-kernels to run the actual operating system, your browser. Most users will be perfectly happy using whatever in most cases as long as you can get one of the major browsers on it.

If they have special requirements, then you need to figure them out first.

I’ll do something even better.

Edgelord was the wrong word choice, sorry. I mean argumentative jerks that pick fights over absolutely anything.

Don’t sleep on the actual edgelords either. I got a guy in my replies right now screeching how women in politics are the real fascism because of identity politics.

But the jerks are the real issue.

Only up to a certain extent. The point of federation is that the shit gets spread around the instances.

Also, we have evolved “free speech” kind of ethos that only allows the most egregious of norm violations to be moderated.

This is place is forever lost to the edgelords.

If they want to learn how to run their own stuff, go ahead and teach them.

Do you think sister here wants to learn how to run nextcloud?

I definitely think they should help their families out. Helping them select an alternative service is helping out.

Being on the hook for endless tech support while getting blamed for everything is not helping out. It’s also not healthy for your relationship with your sibling, and it’s not a good use of family holiday time.

A partner is different. You already share a lot of infra, and since you presumably spend a lot more time together it’s not likely to impact your relationship as much unless you go full Pat & Mat do IT.

We’re a bunch of assholes in a more or less unmoderated space. Of course discussion sucks.

This is my most heartfelt advice: do not do hosting for family members. You will get no end of trouble.

Find her a commercial service she can trust. Or throw up your hands and go “big tech, what can you do”. But do not, under any circumstance, run her IT.