Cool console but holy hell the historical revisionism. And obligatory anti-China fearmongering at the end.

It gives you enough time to shut down properly and avoid data loss, which is what a UPS is supposed to do.

If you configure your power settings right, it’ll run on battery then shutdown or s2d safely.

1. Old laptop as a server is viable and not unheard of. They’re generally low power consumption, and have a built-in KVM and UPS.

2. Depends on your VPN provider and use case. I’d recommend against Tor-only if you want normal people to ever see anything you blog. You’ll need static IP and/or dynamic DNS if you want it to be reachable with any kind of reliability. Doing it over VPN requires your provider to support port forwarding, which not all do.

3. Again, depends on your use case. It’s generally a good idea to disable unused services. Worst case it goes down while you’re on holidays or something and you can’t get it back up for a while. Can you live with that? It might also be a good idea to leave SSH on but access restricted to LAN only. That way you don’t have to get up from your main rig to tweak stuff on it, and can follow tutorials in a browser while SSH’ed in to the server.

Nothing that clever or complicated. But I have a feeling it’ll never get finished. I think it’s a grift, just a money laundering scheme where federal funds go to private companies and then back into our big wet boy’s big wet bank account. And it’ll possibly end up getting used as a bargaining chip whereby companies get deals to consult on the construction in exchange for favours.

The vibe has been really weird around here. I’ve been out shopping for incidentals and expected to have to deal with the usual consumer spending orgy but it kinda just … hasn’t happened. Maybe a little bit busier than normal, but nothing excessive. Even the decorations in the shopping centres are kinda half-assed this year, and I don’t think I’ve heard Mariah Carey even once.

Breakfast is a social construct. From a global and historical perspective, the modern western breakfast is really an outlier. Most cultures treat it as just another meal, and have traditionally eaten based on what’s available and their anticipated needs for the first part of the day. Yes, it’s important to eat in the morning, (and ofc something reasonably healthy) but beyond that there’s really no rules. Eat whatever works for you. Could be a couple pieces of fruit, could be leftovers from last night’s dinner. Could be a smoothie if you can’t do solids first thing. Just try different stuff until you find something that clicks.

It’s a weird isometric skateboard racing game, for some reason. I sucked at it, but I’m not sure if that’s a controls issue or a skill issue. Manual here, Amiga gameplay video here.

Wild. I’ve played the official one. Never knew this existed.

The OG Legion Go supports eGPU, at least on paper. It’s one of the reasons I bought it. Mine runs bazzite fantastically, but haven’t personally tested the eGPU piece yet.

Assuming this is true, A: why the fuck does Amazon have that level of surveillance on their tech staff? And B: Isn’t DPRK supposed to be a starving, impoverished, technologically backwards country?

This isn’t the win they think it is.

I feel like using Gentoo is cheating. Ubuntu was up to 5.04 in 2005.

Probably going to finish Skate Story. Might finally invest some time into Nier: Automata. At least some of this year’s Cacowards.

Pretty sure they are in some places. Depends on local council.

Bread and circuses except you can’t afford bread and the circus is this

Nobody is protesting, but imagine if they did!

There’s an RFC for this.

No shit I thought that was custom and had to look it up. Turns out Chevrolet actually made a ute for a few years. This body type was invented in Australia AFAIK, I didn’t think it ever made it to the States. Was really popular here, only really stopped being made in the last decade or so.

The split second before the orbital laser hits full power. Because fuck that person in particular.

When I lived within walking distance of my work, I used to try to take a slightly different route every day. Not by a lot, just a different side street here or there. You might see some cool street art or a nice flower or get to meet a friendly dog or cat.

I mean if you’re curious, spin up a VM and have a poke around. Why not? It can be useful to see how other distros do things. Power users might distro hop a bit trying to find one they “vibe” with in terms of update cycle, atomic and/or immutable, pre-packaged software and drivers, package manager, init scheme, glibc vs. musl, or any one of a bazillion other nerdy things. Some distros follow particular design philosophies, for example being intentionally packaged to be more barebones to run on lower-end hardware.

The differences in day-to-day usage now are a lot less than they used to be, and a lot of it is functionally irrelevant for a desktop user. Things like flatpak and appimage mean more or less anything that runs on Linux can run on any distro. If you start moving outside of that and your distro’s repos you might find some of the above stuff becomes relevant. Regarding desktop environments, some distros may only focus on making sure everything works cleanly and looks good in one or two, so installing a different one, though technically available, might not look and/or work the best. Available themes and colour schemes might be different (although you should be able to install those with varying degrees of ease), along with any distro-specific management software (OpenSUSE’s YaST, for example, if that’s still a thing).

If you’re happy where you’re at, stick with it. Especially if you’re new to Linux. By the time you run up against any potential limitations you’ll have a much better idea of what you want out of a distro and you’ll be in a better position to judge. Personally I’ve been thru Slackware, OpenSuSE, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Arch (btw), Alpine, Ubuntu and a couple of the BSDs (not in that order). I’ve settled on Bazzite now because it does everything I realistically need to do on a daily basis with near-zero fuss. For weird shit there’s always VMs or distrobox.