I’ve been Linux only since 2016, after a decade of "trying " to move over. I do still have a partition for the increasingly rare event that I need something MS, which so far has been one class in my University that required a lockdown browser for a test.

It’s a pretty bold move to advertise the inclusion of a key logger in your OS.

If no-one stops him, then the US only has itself to blame.

The tangerine pufferfish has an incredible ability to say a thing enough that it becomes true enough to happen.

Man, remember when popes lasted longer than my computer upgrades?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

My tap and die set sit on a shelf, my lathe is in the shop. I’ve dropped my hammer from 150 feet because the tether broke and the most upsetting part was climbing the ladder down and back up.

It depends on whether you view it as a lathe or a hammer. My nice computer is at home, my computer that I sit in the park under a tree and code on, then set it on the grass while it compiles is in my bag.

So I started going to University recently, and the amount of people I’ve had actively chastise me for how I treat my laptop has been shocking.

This is a tool to get things done, it’s not some precious gem, I bought a cheap laptop with the expectation that it’s going to get gross and crusty and I’ll have to hose it down once a year, I’m going to wing it around and drop it and clean the screen with my sleeve.

How many seconds you’re prepared to wait for Windows to shutdown.

It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them.

I look forward to a virtual road trip my 86 Hyundai Pony.

That lawyer would do anything for a client.

I had a similar situation with my ryzen 1600 motherboard, except it was the sound card. Everytime windows updated it would dump the driver I installed and try another one that was broken. I had to keep my sound drivers on the desktop so I could reinstall them. This occurred even after I reinstalled windows 10 on a different ssd.

I made the switch last month from Brave for years, back to firefox. Brave is easy more effective at blocking tablets and ads, even with ublock/adblock. You can install it and just start using a cleaner web, and it’s really easy to customize gow much of an effect the sanitization is. I defended a lot of what Brave did in the early days, because what I was hearing from developers is that they were trying to monetize it in anyway possible that maintained the privacy of the user, and I understand that ethos.

It’s the years and years of missteps that finally got to me. I started to feel like I had to keep up on what they were doing to make sure nothing slipped through, and that’s not trust.

I still think they have the best ad blocking tech, it beats my pihole, it beats Firefox with extensions. It’s fast, and it displays websites reliably.

But, we do need to consider the roads we pave and the tools we use. Brenden Eich has not apologized for his donation, but at the time he did write a blog post about supporting LGBT initiatives at Mozilla and he had support from people that he worked with. He resigned because at the time there was nothing you could do to assuage an internet hate mob but resign. There is information around stating that three board members left because of his appointment, but only one actually said that,

I know here in Canada there are social workers you can reach out to find resources, that may be an option for you. Find a local office and explain the situation to them, there might be programs you can take advantage of.

They don’t give organs to alcoholics who don’t stop drinking either.

Good luck getting a heart of you refuse to quit eating a hamburger an hour.

Look, you have to pass a baseline level of taking care of yourself to qualify for an organ, and vaccinations are the bottom, base level first line of defense.

It’s an old career question. Like if you would sit around fixing old cars you should be a mechanic.

It’s a silly question though because no one would answer "If I didn’t have to work anymore I’d go around unclogging random folks drains while they complain about how water tastes. " even if they enjoyed being a plumber.

I’ve had a handful of jobs I found really rewarding and I enjoyed, but not one of them would I do if I want getting paid.

Man, I don’t envy the people in charge that have to put up with this nonsense.

Okay Mr.Mullet, you think you guys can do this, it’s all yours. Take the trained forces somewhere that wants help. Except I know when the town burns down all we’ll hear is “They abandoned us!”. I understand that no one wants to feel helpless, but you should know that sometimes you have to step aside and let someone who’s job it is, do their job.

There’s an old adage for cars that I think applies to home servers.

Fast, Cheap, Reliable. Pick two

In my experience, SBCs take a whole lot more tinkering than I like to do. I bought a cheap matx motherboard and a second hand ryzen 2400g which has served me well. Inside a second hand htpc chassis with an ssd for the os and a couple hdds for storage. It even has a 5.25" bay I can install a drive for ripping. I’d rubbing OpenMediaVault with Docker for Sonarr/Radarr/Overseerr/Nextcloud etc.

It’s probably not the cheapest to run, but it was cheap to buy and it’s very reliable because it’s based on x86 so the support will probably outlast me.

The Pop_Shop gives you the option via a little drop down of flatpak/Deb. I’m not sure if the option is flagged by application developers or system76.

I was but after two reimages I’m not even sure which torrents they were.

“There are 14 competing standards!”

“We should make a new one that has all the benefits of the others, and everyone can use that.”

“There are now 15 competing standards!”

Rinse and repeat.