Well, that would have been the entire history of computing right up until the point that the government starts fiddling with operating systems so ultimately we’ll have to provide proof of identity to download or install software.

I know you kids are too young to remember this, but back in the day there used to be a cartoon from The New Yorker, “on the internet nobody knows you’re a dog”. Very quickly it appears that many jurisdictions are trying to make sure that it is built into the frameworks of computing that everyone will know exactly that you’re a dog.

Everyone ignoring what is essentially the end of open computing.

Apache guacamole is something I wish I had when I started. Let’s you connect with telnet, ssh, RDP, or VNC using html5

In sysctl.conf you can put

kernel.panic=1

Where 1 is the seconds until reboot.

For homeservers if you’re not always on-site to look at it, it’s a good idea to set a reset on kernel panic.

More ideal not to reboot of course, but I am often hundreds of miles from my servers so a kernel panic over something that wouldn’t have otherwise killed the system is something I’d rather live with and reboot.

Erased my LinkedIn 5 years ago.

Nothing of value was lost. However, much was gained.

A Klingon throuple is going to have more black eyes than a bag of peas.

People who like games were pushed out and replaced by people who like money or power.

Always go with more ram. I can say that from experience.

I’m partial to fanless, but keep in mind my empire of dirt is almost entirely fanless so I’m just partial to it.

I’m running a 4B model on one of my machines, an old surface book 1.

It’s a brutal machine. heat issues, and the GPU doesn’t work in linux. But pick a minimal enough model and it’s good enough for me to have LLM access in my nextcloud if for some reason I wanted it.

Biggest thing really seems to be memory, most cheaper GPUs don’t have enough to run a big model, and CPUs are dreadfully slow on larger models if you can put enough RAM in one of them.

mindustry is also on android on f-droid. I remember playing a bit when I took a lot of long airline flights.

Why my firewall is a fanless sign PC. Never really heats up, and I don’t need to worry about the unreliability added by fans.

To be fair, and this is coming to someone who is fully sold on LibreOffice and hosts Collabera, the two word processors can open each other’s documents, but cannot produce identical outputs for the same files.

For 99.99% of things switching between the two is going to be just fine, but every once in awhile that 0.01% will really bite you, especially if it is something important such as equations which I have seen first hand don’t properly migrate to LibreOffice.

Depends exactly what you’re doing on that old PC.

If you just need to connect for administration and the like, VNC is decent. It’s my default.

If you want to watch videos or the like, I’d definitely suggest Sunlight and Moonlight. It’s a streaming remote desktop that’s meant for streaming gaming, and so it’s really good at video and audio.

Oh, and for anyone who has never used it, Apache guacamole is a really neat tool for centralizing configuration. Effectively, you can set it up as a website with a username and password that will transfer through ssh, telnet, VNC, and RDP, so if you need to hop into something while you are outside the home, it’s going to be effective. That’s something that I wish I had known about earlier, it would have made a lot of rough days a lot easier.

On the topic of dns, I still use GoDaddy. People ask why, it’s because GoDaddy seems like a good idea in 2003 when I got my first domain, and 2006 when I got my current one. At that point it’s just inertia, I tend to buy several years in advance because I don’t like annual payments, I know it makes me a weirdo. That means I’m locked in for several years and it’s not enough of a problem to do anything about.

Anyone who uses GoDaddy knows that they turned off their dynamic DNS option quite some time ago. My system is pretty stable so I don’t usually need to change it, but if I have a power failure at home or I need to reboot my router, I obviously need to change my DNS at those moments.

When I’m away from home, I end up having to use TeamViewer to hop into a jump box vm I have set up for that purpose. The two obvious problems with that are first of that TeamViewer is a proprietary product, and the second of all that they see me hopping into a jump box regularly and they assume that I’m a commercial customer. There is apparently a way to tell them that you’re just a hobbyist, but I haven’t gotten around to filing that.

What I did do is set up a script that compares the current IP to my DNS IP, and if they are different then I send myself an email that contains the old IP in the new IP. This way, I don’t need to hop into my network to find out what the new IP address is. I also added a little bit there to save the last successful IP address sent by email to /tmp/ so that if I lose my IP address but I’m doing something where I can’t hop onto the GoDaddy website to fix it, I don’t get 100,000 emails with my new IP address.

I killed my house power a couple weeks ago, and the whole system worked exactly as intended. I was pretty happy to see that.

Ubisoft has been getting it’s nuts kicked for years now. During the last quarter, its profit margin has been -24%.

Under these conditions, money > people for anyone. If you made 50,000 a year and every year you were coming up 12,500 short, you’d be looking to make major cuts to your spending, and if someone was going to get hurt as a result, you’d have to just apologize and move on because that’s not sustainable.

Anyone who holds Ubisoft stock for the past 5 years hasn’t made a profit. In fact, they bought a stock at around 80 dollars that is 4 today. Without changes, their investments will go to 0, and every worker at Ubisoft will lose their jobs at that point.

It may appear as if this is a unique feature of capitalism, but under any economic system, underperforming systems need to be cut. People aren’t buying the games, people aren’t playing the games in great enough members and at high enough prices to justify having so many people working on each game, so there just isn’t a good reason to keep giving resources to all the workers.

Hopefully someday these places make murder illegal so people can’t kill others without violating the law.

Erm… Yeah, that’s matrix with encryption enabled on the room.

A lot of things people say about matrix don’t apply to conduit. I’ve run it on an Intel Atom d2550 and it ran fine.