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Re:Tech Independence by sivers on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:55PM (#37548229)
My previous version of https://sive.rs/ti (until a few hours ago) had no shell script, but just walked people through every step. It took like 50+ hours to write up.

But so many people were getting stuck and frustrated trying to type in all those commands, (and mistaking "l" for "1" and such), that I realized I could help more people have their own server if I put most of those steps into a shell script.

Hopefully it'll be enough to give them a taste of the benefits of having their own server, then they can learn more about the steps afterwards.

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Re:Tech Independence by december456 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:12PM (#37550277)
While i get the pain of users, i've observed that habits stick and only a weak 5-20% of the learners actually drop convenient-but-insecure habits (downloading untrusted files without inspection beforehand) because convinence always wins over. I wouldnt change the system but definitely mention (more than once) the risks involved with what they are doing at the moment and to inspect the code later when they learn more.
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