I acknowledge that this is spoonula thing is happening … but its madness.
I don’t entirely understand, and something in me rebels against doing so.

These are such great names.
I dated a Dutch girl years ago. Marjan made the Dutch language sound … silly, totally charming.

This is my favorite. My utensil is hereby declared to be a Pan Licker.

I guess I get to put it in whatever drawer I want. It’s the only Pan Licker I’ve got. No rules!

I’m gonna break one of my rules and explain my joke …
Where I live, the things behind it are spatulas. And so is the red rubber thing. And they are clearly not the same.
… So that’s funny. Err … well I think its funny. I’m not very funny.

I love you people.
I thought that would be a funny pic, but I don’t think I expected so many fun terms from around the world.

TLDR … Spatchula and its variants wins by far.
Got some good entries in the Creative category.
But, I’m going to go with Pan Licker from now on!

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The summary, as best I’m able. (Updated a couple times.)

Things I expected …
yes - xx
spatchula - xxxxx
spoon - xx
silicone spatula - xx
rubber spatchula - x
rubber scraper - x
dough scraper - x

Creative …
spoonula - xxxxxx (This is a real thing!?!?!)
spatuloon - xx
spoontula, cousin of the spork - x
microwaved ice cream spoon - x
Softspoon - x

Around the World …
maryse - x
slickepot/lick-bowl - xx
Pannenlikker/Pan-Licker - xx
Gummihund/rubber-dog - x
Portugal dictator - ?

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And then we got some surprise entries on the actual spatchulas behind the red thing.
These terms totally make sense, but they sound weird as hell to me!

turners
fish slices
egg slice or fish slice
fish lifters

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Weird Al had a thing to say about spatchulas.
He says I spell it wrong …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BUDwj_mXKE

Friend, I hope that leaves your head some time soon.
This should help. Talking about it helps.
Be good to yourself today.

To be fair, there are a lot of inane articles saying this exact same thing about javascript. If its true, its ancient history, and I’m tired of it. I learned javascript when it was a babe, and watched many other platforms fall by the wayside. I’m not defending anything about it, but javascript works. Still.

Method: Spend very little. Spend in few places. Use cash.
Results: Stellar. I don’t think about it much. I put money aside consistently.
Timeframe: 15 years? Something like that. I had IRS problems, and stripped my life down. Its all clean now, and I keep it that way.

Never buying Ubi again. Doesn’t matter what the game is. Fukem.

I check my 5 free articles on Ground News practically daily. Ugly site. It points out some ugly things about us.

Ya. A nuanced media net is the only real answer. Trying to balance one liar against another rarely results in balance.

I can say both of those things with genuine respect. I thought I was going to get drafted into Desert Storm. I don’t like sand.

Al Jazeera is the mouthpiece of a hostile foreign power (to me). Its also sickeningly, cloyingly coated with hate for the US throughout any segment. I will on occasion read something that’s been generically reposted, recognize the writing style, and then confirm that it came from AJ. Its so tilted that it reminds me of Fox News. And I don’t watch Fox News either.

I hear you …

Ok. Yes, my use case is a private document and media store. I’m ungoogling.
VPN seems like a good place to start. But I’d like a simple answer, and I expect there are none to be had. As you’ve illustrated here, I’ll find a reason to punch holes in the firewall. And then I’m going to need to secure a web server. Life happens. I’ll keep it simple for now while I sort things. Thanks for your perspective.

Ya. I understand VPN. I do enterprise IT stuff. The things I build assume a secure environment. VPN is step one.
Nailing down a web server on the internet tho … there’s so many ways to attack. There’s so many things to secure. And its a bit complex to manage all that.
The nextcloud site covers hardening the server, but doesn’t even mention vpn.
I’ve been watching threads like this. I’m pretty convinced vpn is the answer.

I don’t often change upvotes. Sometimes I will go back and upvote things after I better understood the poster’s point.

Downvotes tho … I review my downvotes at lemvotes.org. I haven’t changed many, but I do reconsider them.

Well, I might as well put a dog in the fight. I’m considering my final, actually secure deployment of nextcloud.

This discussion has convinced me that a vpn is the only answer.
And almost everyone says wireguard.

K. Thats what I will build.

And this is the start of the longest crypto nerd fight I’ve seen on Lemmy. Well done, people!

Somebody else pointed out, maybe my instance just federated with them. This seems a likely cause for the sudden change in my feed.