And by outdated, like 2015. Old E7440s or even older work great with added memory. New battery and you have a nice laptop out of the e waste pile. The only weak spot are drives, SSDs are expensive so to stay cheap you might have to use old spinny in there.

Connect: what am I, chopped liver?

Debian for daily driver laptops, mint for your mom’s daily driver laptop, OpenSuSE for desktop gaming, BSD for the servers, and life is good. Real good.

(This is bait, but only a little. :D)

Same. It is really nice.

Searxng works fine for me. It’s at least as good as google?

I have all the services on one machine and use proxmox backup server on the other one. It’s nice. I’ve got emergency configuration files etc backed up on the nas as well.

That’s why there are 6. There’s a pool with a hot spare. Just don’t want to pay $350 or whatever to replace a $90 drive.

The most well-timed thing I ever did was buy 6 2tb NVMe drives in August last year

God help me if one fails

Try using LyX on Tumbleweed. 5000 packages is not unusual

Good grief. If you’re doing all that, just set up Wireguard

Someone had a filesystem using gmail once

He’ll get to it after the buffering

JamRudder

I’m dead

Yeah honestly we should bring back more Old English characters.

Ash (æ) - between “a” and “e” like in cat Wynn (ƿ) - “w” sound, that will really throw them off Yogh (ȝ) - “y” or guttural “gh” sound

Absolutely

I like to not legally commit myself

E waste bins or eBay. A Dell D630 will run services just fine if you just install Debian command line, just add some cheap DDR2 memory.

Plex may also be harvesting your data. When I used it years ago it was already trying to send logs back home, blocked by the firewall.

Never had any subtitle trouble on Roku or shield

I wouldn’t scan shit from a website. Random QR codes are a security risk. Just won’t visit that website.