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[–] stephenc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There's no place like localhost? There's no place like loopback?

127.0.0.1 isn't "home". ~ or $HOME or similar is. 127.0.0.1 is just the network address to your computer, not "home" in any way.

No idea how this got started.