Going separate for now, maybe later I’ll go for all on the same

I really should pick up another used thinkpad… I’ve got one for my wife, one for me for work, and I would really like to have a personal in the mix to make my life easier.

Not the person you’re asking but personally I use Jetson nano for some work stuff (and when I upgrade the “old” one is mine), odroid I’ve used for some misc creations and testing, and I’m personally looking forward to trying the radxa x4 as an htpc.

What I am really excited about right now is tossing my recently acquired spare jetson nano on a drone, right now I’m setting it up to walk around with it and test CV before it gets mounted up on the drone.

My solution was HDMI in as others suggested. Currently a picture slideshow screensaver for Kodi, previously a rooted firestick.

I was a brief user of the Beastie going back some time, though I guess a longer semi-user of it as I had in on a sparc I picked up from a computer show for a few years. Didnt do much with it other than have a few dbs on it though!

But also make sure its current, and hopefully well documented.

Since I have to deal with an older system that has not yet been replaced (and isn’t slated to be for a variety of reasons), combined with some security requirements that the clients IT team had put into place…

I still have blank CDs and have burned them relatively recently. Probably will be doing so again in about 2 months…

I’m sure they do what all huge corporations do.

Make shit up and then say “oops, sorry, here’s a tiny fraction of the profits we made keeping that money for so long as a fine teehee”.

It released, but for the prior version of KDE, not current.

That said, take a look at Application Dashboard, Plasma Drawer, and maybe Rocket but I don’t think its been updated in a few years.

Flowing/coming together.

I think what they are referring to are docs where pieces are explained individually, but not in a consistent or cohesive way, obfuscating use.

Started with slack, hopped around for a few years as new distros began to pop up. Stopped using Gnome after… We’ll call it a philosophical disagreement with a Gnome developer. The main issue persists, so I still won’t use it.

Eventually landed back on Debian, and I stay there with a mix of Debian based (proxmox), Debian stable, and one box running Sid for testing/reporting issues. I have two “main” desktops, deb stable and arch.

Most have no GUI, except for my main desktopss, a laptop, and the one running Sid, all are KDE.

I’m pretty well settled on the Debian side, arch is a more recent bit of fun. I may move the arch box to something else at some point, but the Debian boxes are basically here to stay.

Python is phenomenal for prototyping IMO.

Once you need performance, its best to use another language (even partially).

But quickly banging out a concept, to me, is the big win for python.

I just have my downloader trigger a scan at completion.

I have a few proxmox clusters going, combining it all wouldn’t be practical. This way my servers (tiny/mini/micros I’ve repurposed) stay small with decent sized ssd’s, big storage in 2 NAS’s, and a third for backups.

My NASs are purely NAS, I prefer a Debian server for… Pretty much everything. But my storage only does storage, I keep those separate (even for an old PC acting as a NAS).

No matter what goes down, I can bring it back up, even with a hardware failure.

Personally I won’t even download it, I even deleted music ive had for years because the artist went maga. And let my daughter use the CD in some arts and crafts, because I can’t listen to it anymore.

That said, yeah, I’d prefer to download over buying if I didnt want the company or artist to get the money for it.

Pretty much, yeah.

Usually the only things loaded are FreeDOS and instructions for how to install an OS (and the laptop’s instructions/links to them online).

A bunch of companies had or have an agreement with MS not to sell hardware without an OS, FreeDOS was the workaround, basically loaded to get wiped.

MSI did it for sure, same with HP and I think Asus. Not sure how many still do it though. I haven’t bought premade new (including laptops) in quite some time.

Such a wild time… I started building PCs for people (even my gym teacher), it was so fun - and yeah, such a huge jump every time!

Now I have the same build for nearly 15 years with upgrades along the way, and my servers are all decom’d t/m/m PCs.

Edit: Jump had a typo

Also Slackware!

But I skipped from my 286 to a Pentium 133 (then went a bit backwards to a 486 dx100, then ahead to some cyrix and AMD).

Thats about $500 I think? Seems pretty low for the typical ransom approach.

Maybe they charge $150/row for their storage services :)