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

It continues to blow my mind that this was considered a “kid’s show”, and had daytime airing slots (along with courage the cowardly dog).

borrows blu-ray instead of buying it

Haha no it doesn’t.

unplugs NIC

rips blu-ray with blu-ray drive running old firmware

Rogue One is far and away a better movie though

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.

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).

Doing illegal things is the new black, haven’t you heard?

Also, how exactly would they catch anyone doing this?

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

Ooh, and it’s a wall-mount award, which makes it convenient for the politicians in question

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.

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

It’s about sending a message

I wouldn’t

Flatpak has its issues, sure, but it’s better and more open than snap, while maintaining utterly simple usability.

I mean either way you’re gonna bottleneck on the 1G port

Uh, if you’re wanting to go above 1G, this thing is not going to cut the mustard. Seriously, why would they give it a 2.5G WAN port paired with a 1G LAN port? That’s so dumb.

GSV, and thank you very much for noticing