I snapshot my machine, set it to go overnight, went to bed. Woke up, 24% done “Do you want to use the package maintainer’s version?”. Grr. Went smooth though.

I installed a lot of Nokia fiber switches. They were all right. Never came with issues, stood up to decent abuse. Pricey, though.

I landed on Fedora Gnome as my default choice unless I have a reason to go other. My wife finally stuck with Linux after trying Mint, Ubuntu, Pop, and Ubuntu Mate, then landing on Fedora KDE. (When I say trying, I mean me trying to get her to use it and then her abandoning the machine for Windows.) Fedora KDE stuck.

Yeah, I know enough too, but I worry about the sneaky details I don’t know.

So, word of caution. Be careful. I tried using Copilot to open a connection for a single port between two LANs on my network in pfsense, as I didn’t know pfsense. It happily recommended opening 0.0.0.0/0 on the first LAN’s gateway address. It worked!.. By opening everything on the whole network up to anything at all. The problem with AI: you can only use it if you already know enough to catch its horrible screw ups.

I am running Mint 19 xfce 32-bit on a Pentium 4 with 1gb of RAM. Works okay. Not seeing showed records, but useable for, like, 2 or 3 tabs or for word processing. You could probably do a bit better with that system.

I sync my podcasts hourly with Nextcloud and poddersync, so when my servers go down, my phone beeps at me.

OpenSCAD and my (crappy) 3-D Printer: a phone case! Whoo!

Wife of ten years, I stuck her on Ubuntu 16.04 back in the day. She ignored it and used a laptop. A few years later? Mint with Mate. She started on it long enough to set the background to the Windows 10 background, then went back to a Windows boot, since I dual booted. Last year, new computer, Fedora KDE, again dual booted. Haven’t seen her in Windows yet. Me? I hop all over the place, but our HTPC and her laptop are now Fedora KDE.

I have it running right now on Fedora using lutris. Standard install, no weird steps or anything. Lutris is flatpak.

I tried to run Genshin Impact on Alpine once. Did not succeed.

I put it on a machine as a joke and, well… Three months and it hasn’t gone bye-bye.

If we had a decent high speed rail system and shotengai style downtowns… But we don’t. I spent Christmas in Sapporo once, and it was cold, wet, blizzardy, and we were able to get everywhere without freezing.

Also, (at least for now), it gets really cold here! I’ve wiped out trying to bike on ice.

My ThinkPad lives in Fedora and sits between 75%-80%, all day, every day.

This is how I explained Matrix to my mom: its like an email address, but for chat. You can chat at me, even if we aren’t using the same server, like someone can send an email from Gmail to Hotmail. She got set up and promptly went back to texting me every dang time.