Ok, I realize this is c/selfhosted, but I have a question… why not use something like the xBrowserSync extension for this?

Aside of someone could associate the data to me for my list of favorite web places, which has 100 other exposure points. Is there another use case you’re solving?

I was surprised to see lemmy.world didn’t defederate. I hope it does. And, I hope a mod weighs in on the planned direction for the instance.

Thanks for this recommendation as it’s potentially a logical step. I’ve thought about this but not researched it enough, yet. I don’t understand enough about the differences yet. Hypothetically, do I need or want Mint on Debian, or do I just want to get the real deal? Not posing the question to you, just what I’ve yet to research further. Mint is currently working fine for me, so there’s no rush.

I’m sure it’d be fine, I’m probably not willing to put in the right amount of effort. I think a big fear for me is I use the computer for work, and while I have others, I prefer this one. I may not have the 15-30min to research and resolve something I did to myself.

I also try not to be the person who asks for help on the same question for the 17th time.

So far I’ve always been able to find answers in documentation or communities. Turns out I’m not so unique. ;).

I’m with you here, sometimes I’m really lazy and don’t want to mess with it. Other times I’m hell-bent on doing something I know how to do in a GUI through terminal.

Mint has let me keep my system OS rock solid, and I’m not afraid to try about anything in the vm. Reinstall when time permits or just roll back to a snapshot.

I’ve got time shift installed, but I use my computer for work, so there’s some draw to stability and having everything just work.

I looked at Manjaro VERY briefly, and I played with Endeavor a bit. I installed several distros as VMs just to poke around. I found Debian familiar which is likely the main reason I find myself leaning that way.

Mint was my “gateway distro” to get away from windows as a daily driver. It still is my daily driver and it’s given me enough guardrails to not screw it up too badly and learn.

I’m looking to go further up stream towards Debian. I’ve looked at arch and “arch that’s not allowed to be called arch because it has a gui installer”, but I’m not ready/able/“risk-tolerant-enough” to keep that stable as my daily driver. Fedora dormant seem quite right for me.

I really like mint, it meets my needs, has treated me well.

Welcome to the better side! Lots of good stuff in here. Pick what you want and go from there. I transitioned to mint and put windows in a VM (virtualbox) as my “crutch”. The on thing I haven’t see is use an app called timeshift. It’s a auto backup tool. It’s saved me a few times when I tried something that in hind sight wasn’t a good idea. It let me roll the machine back to a pre-screw up state.

The other good part of this is that it let me try more things because I had a safety net.