I am in complete agreement with you on all these points.

The issue is, workers ARE already being exploited. The idea is regulations would bring about safeguards that would try to prevent these scenarios.

But let’s say what you said has happened and now someone is in this situation you described. There are two scenarios:

1. Prostitution is legal
2. Prostitution is illegal… now what? commit crimes? starve? It’s not like because prostitution is illegal suddenly there are new prospects available to this person in this broken system

I’d argue decriminalization of prostitution does more good than harm in this situation.

Your first fear is completely valid, hopefully good policy and active regulations can prohibit that. Still can’t imagine it will be worse than the current state that sex workers face.

For the second point, while job centers are tasked to find you a job in your field, it is funny to imagine a conversation going like:

• So I have a doctorate in chemistry with 6 years of experience in my field, looking for a new position
• Sorry Dr. we don’t have any openings atm, but we do need an office twink, unfortunately our last office twink is now t’was

Idk man, I feel like that’s work in general. Like would you be doing what you are doing right now if you could just do whatever you like? Or if you just a better choice?

A lot of us are just trying to make ends meet with whatever tools we got. I don’t think making prostitution illegal is gonna help the ones we want to help, but regulating it could. The focus should be having the working person to be the one in charge, not johns or brothels or any other third parties.

Ah right, I thought you were doing it like this

Internet -> Fritzbox + Pihole -> Opnsense -> Home Network

It makes sense now :D

That sounds overly complicated, why not have it all on opnsense instead of 3 different devices?

Is your opnsense unstable? Otherwise regarding network availability you are just introducing unnecessary failure points the network.

I’m curious as why you decided to setup pihole when you already have opnsense. More so that your records are in pihole and not opnsense

No, Hosting has a technical definition. When you rent a server or in this case VPS, the company is hosting you. You can maintain or administer the services but you are never hosting yourself on someone else’s computer.

Is it self hosting? No.

Does it matter? Idk.

By definition, the cloud provider is hosting you. It’s not about being good or bad it just is. If the mod deemed your question to be irrelevant to the community then idk maybe it does matter in this context.

I’m afraid we’re going to be… dead by daylight

Cool, thanks you too!

Is it cowonglobal.com?

Yeah, maybe a smaller one would be nice I should see if there are any around my area

Yeah finding one is gonna be a challenge I would assume

All valid points, except 128kbps mp3, that is straight up nasty unless your whole library is black metal I guess :))

But yeah storage smol, no sd hole

Have you had experience with that? Is it stable with large libraries?

Thanks for the input. That does sound disappointing :/ Could it be the small ram?

It definitely is a solution. I might give it a try for a few days see if I can find my happiness there haha

Hmm… right

Tuckerm also suggested an interesting device. It looks to be open hardware as well. I’m not that knowledgeable with hardware but I guess I could try to build something myself.

Thanks for all the tips ( ദ്ദി ˙ᗜ˙ )

Oh my… that is exactly what I was looking for… and I can’t have it :((

No your points are completely valid. I just couldn’t find what I was looking for, that’s why I am asking the community directly. As I mentioned in my post this isn’t a spontaneous decision, I have been exploring every possibility that I could and didn’t find something to my exact needs.

The closest thing I saw was android devices, but they bring bloat and not really FOSS under the hood anyway