It’s extremely context-dependent.

If we’re talking about enterprise-grade, five-nines reliability: I want the absolute simplest, bare-bones, stripped down, optimized infra I can get my hands on.

If we’re talking about my homelab or whatever else non-critical system: I’m gonna fuck around and play with whatever I feel like.

That is some big dick energy ngl

Or if you’re using JavaScript, undefined

Yep. And a lot of the gas stations in my area have the auto-hold latches busted or removed, so you have to stand there and have a super loud ad screamed in your face. Which is why I now have a pack of reusable zip ties in my car that I will slap on the fill handle if I come across a pump like that. And no, that’s not dangerous - the stop mechanism in the pump handle operates such that the handle depresses further when the auto-shutoff engages, so it does not disrupt the safety of the filler mechanism.

This is the sort of American tourist that makes me feel deeply embarrassed when I visit other countries

closes questionnaire

Nicely done! That’s pretty awesome :)

Though I should point out that it’s also not hard to lock down a windows install a bit more if you don’t make the default account an admin one. But moving to Linux is better imo for a whole host of reasons.

Indeed, I am. And thank you for noticing.

Yeah, an IP ban would not be out of order tbh

I’m staunchly anti fascist myself, but… there are definitely some complete fucking wingnuts who have attached themselves to the movement.

Ezpz just use wine or set up a VM and exfil the data you need

Self hosting isn’t likely to ever get to the point of “plug and play”. It’s inherently incredibly flexible and different people will do different things with it. Some people just want NAS. Some people want to build a router. Some people want to have a modest compute farm that they physically own. Some people want a virtualization playground. Or pretty much anything else you can think of, or some combination thereof.

For instance, I custom built a 2-tier + optane cached NAS running proxmox, and I have a handful of old thin clients I can spin up for doing Beowulf things when I feel like it, and I also have another repurposed thin client with an old enterprise-grade SFP+ NIC running pfSense as my router that can support up to 10g (futureproofing).

Definitely not the macaroni pot

conspiracy to cause a public nuisance

I’m sorry, but that is the most idiotic nanny-state bullshit “crime” I have ever heard of.

My issue is that I don’t want to have to register for shit like that. If it’s security related, and it’s a free Linux distro (e.g. not RHEL, etc), it is absolutely not appropriate to diminish anonymity in exchange for those updates, or to paywall them.

Lmao theres gotta be a timeline in which Malibal ships to the DPRK and ONLY the DPRK

I’ve had a T series with a 5850 in it for a while now, and it’s an absolute champ. Definitely one of the best laptops I’ve owned.

Are you stuck using an old spinny drive or what? If that’s an SSD, wtf is adobe doing?

Can you explain the specific functionality that you’re looking for…? I don’t understand your objection here.

You’ve got mail! <3