In another week, it’ll be a gate embedded in the snow with a pile of rust and four tires surrounding it.
Edit: 5 tires
In another week, it’ll be a gate embedded in the snow with a pile of rust and four tires surrounding it.
Edit: 5 tires


Definitely give KDE a go again. I was in the same boat as you in the 2000s, KDE was horrific and I refused to touch it with a ten foot pole until about two years ago. It’s my DE of choice now on devices that can handle it (I’ve got some dinosaurs). Now GNOME 3 checks that hatred box.


Calibri kind of sucks, it’s better on screen then TNR, but it’s ugly as shit still. A better font could probably be found that reads well on screen and in print. But:
Rubio did admit in the memo that Calibri wasn’t the “most illegal, immoral, radical or wasteful” example of DEI to his mind’s eye, but he still berated the font for contributing to “the degradation” of the State Department’s official correspondence.
Fuck this guy, regardless.


You could do that, but I could argue that master/slave nomenclature isnt a good scheme for this anyway, since it doesn’t control any other branches. Unlike master and slave drives from the olden days.
By all means go ahead and keep your naming schemes. It’s your own stuff that after all, that for some reason you felt the need to tell everyone about. However, I might recommend trying to move past it seeing as language has an impact on how people think, and being edgy doesn’t exactly have a good track record of producing the best people.


I brought a laptop from 2003 back from the stone ages. It runs surprisingly well, is up to date, and only really struggles with web stuff because of the state of things.
Antix linux running on 2GB ram, Pentium m 1.4GHz, and an SSD in an IDE enclosure. Uses about 200mb of ram. As far as being functional, the screen is small and low res, and it doesn’t do these newfangled video formats. But if you consider 90% of my work life is in spreadsheets and documents and low resource applications, it really could be just fine. I’m not saying I would enjoy it if it was all I had to use, but I could if I needed to.


Open source developers are just like you and me. They’ll get fed up with the bullshit and start developing things they need with the resources they have, just like they’ve always done.


Rpis are great for always on things with low power use but not if you have many low power use things. But you would really be feeling that 1GB of ram, and microSDs kind of suck to run off of. I would honestly save the $25 and put it toward one of the $100 tiny/mini/micros.
I would not steer you away from an RPI if you don’t have one, they are very useful and fun, but if you’re looking for learning about self hosting, you’re probably going to end up getting something more powerful anyway
The Le Potato AML-S905X-CC has h.264 and h.265 decoders up to 4k, emmc connector So you don’t have to run off an SD card. I’ve used it as a media player and its pretty damn solid. I can’t speak to streaming games because I don’t do that, so I don’t know if it’s a different format. It does not have a powerful processor, so if the stream is encoded differently I wouldn’t expect it to be very good.
Its pretty old, around rpi3 performance, but having the decoders in there make it better than the RPI 4 for playing those types of videos.


Ah, but you see, they don’t do it now.


Seriously, the number of tunnels they cut off in as soon as a call comes in is astounding.


OK, but what about the lab coat?


Raspberry pi was founded as a cheap accessible computer that schools with few resources could afford. $25 boards, or if you had big bucks $35. With the intention the price would stay like that with improving technology. They broke this model with the rpi4 and have only gone up in price.


This is New Mexico
That last sentence. Perfection.


I got lucky and bought a house in 2015 at 28, I barely pulled it off with roommates, barely pulling it off now with a fiancé. There’s no way I could buy a house now. I’m not even sure we could upgrade if we needed to.


- TommyJohnsFishSpot, 2025


Unfortunately, per the comment you replied to, that isnt under my control.


Oh, I agree, but I have to argue enough with professionals who know better as it is. I have to do it every day with recent PhDs as a BA who’s been doing the job for 15 years. At this point it’s not my problem if something happens. I have other things that affect me every day to fight about. I’ll just continue cycling through my no repeats after 10 changes, 12 character passwords and using my yubikey for docusign for my own sanity.
To not answer your question, is there a reason you’re not using ventoy instead?