Ok well this deserves a closer look. Might slap this on a spare laptop and give it a test drive.

No no - it’s not plagiarism; it’s standardization.

Do you think this is just like an ungoverned ChatGPT?

Ok, sure, you do you. Simply offering a way to do this that works well for me.

Tbh I will usually simply swap out the OEM drive for a bigger and faster (and typically cheaper than the OEM upgrade option, per size) one the second I unbox it (optionally, go through the setup process before taking it out, so it’s ready to go next time you want to plug it in). This lets you not waste space on that “rainy day” contingency (which I’ve almost never actually needed). The one exception (and I keep a dedicated laptop around for this) is automotive diagnostic suites with proprietary USB hardware - I’ve got an old thinkpad still running windows 7. XP would honestly be better, because a lot of that shit doesn’t like “new” versions of windows.

Then do it in two steps. There’s a way forward. Just requires bit of fiddling.

FWIW, Fedora with KDE is fantastic - been using that as my distro of choice (for systems I want a UI on at least) for a few years now and I love it.

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