methodicalaspect

Digital “ownership” is temporary. Piracy is as permanent as the end-user wants it to be. I prefer the latter.

I haven’t used Windows in a couple years, but is Windows Sandbox still a thing? It was supposed to create a temporary, lightweight Windows VM specifically for testing untrusted software and such.

Occasionally it’s cheaper to buy a second Lenovo laptop on eBay than it is to buy a replacement part…also from eBay. Found this out with mine recently: mainboard was bad, equivalent board was $500, identical laptop with damaged chassis was $300. Bought the second laptop and swapped the mainboard into the good chassis, but now I also have spare a WiFi card, DIMM, keyboard, touchpad, battery, and screen. I’d call that a win.

Smalltalk flashbacks…

Linux Mint. If my 85-year-old dad can get used to it after over 30 years of Windows, you’ll be fine.

/edit Also Firefox comes with pretty much every Linux distribution, but if you need something Chromium-based, I’m partial to Vivaldi.

I’d love to see Linus verbally bitchslap the fuckwit. Or physically, that’d be cool too.

“Hell is real” is a year-round thing.

Eh, it was good when I got it. Who am I to turn down a free dual socket server though? :)

I have an old rackmount server I got for free. Dual Xeon X5650s, 192GB of RAM, four 8TB HDDs, and a pair of 250GB SSDs. I can only use it in the basement because it’s too loud to run anywhere else, but even then, it’s currently off because it trips its circuit breaker under heavy load.

A power strip full of Pis in a k3s cluster doesn’t do that. I used a 2GB model 4 for the control plane and 3Bs as the workers.

You can do it on a handful of Raspberry Pis rather than one, then.

Yep, hard-line lawful neutral. Though I lean chaotic evil when someone high enough on the food chain starts complaining.

Powerwash Simulator.

Somewhere, an ISO27001 auditor’s jimmies started rustling.

If I’m not mistaken, the Alaska Airlines accident aircraft completed 99 flights, as it went into service only a couple months ago.

Not an expert myself but I binge air crash investigation shows like nobody’s business, and this seems to speak to QC and maintenance workload/culture issues.

Far from it, Debian is one of my favorites, though I run EndeavourOS on my main machine.

It’s Linux Mint Debian Edition that’s the oddball, but in a good way.

LMDE didn’t install the DKMS modules on my kid’s PC, so the nVidia drivers never loaded after a new kernel got installed. I do enough tech support at work so we chucked Pop!_OS on the PC (and set it up with btrfs and timeshift-autosnap) instead. No more problems.

May not be a problem with mainline Mint, of course, but there are weirdos like me who prefer the Debian edition.

nVidia has entered the chat

Why yes, I do have a moment to SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER

https://youtu.be/k_Jq38JKN3A

First thing that came to mind.

Oh good to hear. You gonna try it again?