I think now is a great time to use every opportunity to put my head down and improve myself.

*For now.

When they stop getting paid.

It is absolutely Broadcom’s fault, but it’s also still the state of things.

Thanks to Ubuntu, Mint is quite well endowed with functional software. If it can receive the same level of support as Windows or MacOS, it will probably outpace them both.

I have to say that I am getting pretty good at Linux. I use it on my gaming desktop, my 8 year old Lenovo, on a specialized workstation at work, and I have two servers running it. It’s approaching general utility.

That said, I am being defeated by Broadcom wireless drivers on a HP Enterprise laptop. They aren’t just working, and the wireless soft switch isn’t just turning on. Until we can get to the point where the average user can just try a bunch of .deb (or whatever) files until they hit the jackpot, it isn’t going to be as easily adopted.

Thank you, I did have that wrong.

If you can afford it, a SSD will significant improve your life. Also, any more memory will help.

As others said, you can disable swap.

Are you running the xfce version of Mint? It’s significantly less resources.

Not sure. To be edgy?

I know this isn’t what you meant but:

https://promowestlive.com/our-venues/megacorp-pavilion

Ah. I thought they were fully following in the footsteps of Microsoft.

Edit: I just read tfa. It was a blurb.

Even if they don’t use it for AI in particular, they will have a private nuclear power facility for their data centers. They would absolutely take advantage of that power generation if it was originally publicly funded.

Corporate entities are typically their own fascist state. The boss says how it goes. Employees typically have little input.

During COVID I had an employee that complained about masks because they were undemocratic. I reminded them that the employees do not vote on policy.

I’m gaming just fine on mint. It’s like the old days when I would install something and not be sure if it worked, but so far most things have been working more or less out of the box. Installing and patching mods to final fantasy 7 took a little bit because I wasn’t familiar with the terms being used, but it was a couple hours, not a few days.

My bad, I was thinking hundreds to thousands.

I wasn’t thinking about smart watches, but I haven’t been sold on them yet.

People who like to be flashy with their money do buy expensive watches, but I only see them in the hundred TO thousand range. Anyone flashing a hundred-thousand dollar watch is out of their mind complaining about fuel prices.

The rest of the meme tracks in suburban Kentucky.

Out of the criticisms I have of Vance, I do have to say that he wears the Trump uniform better than Trump himself.

The spec is too use 4 of 24 pins each for power and another 4 for ground. What if you used 16 pins for power? One could even be reckless enough to use 22 pins for power If the ground isn’t tied together, but that means you have to take a moment to sense ground.

Maybe you will see 8.5a at the device, but 10a at the source with the cable heating up…

That makes sense. It sounds helpful if you have a bunch of requests.

Nope. Is it for people to ask me to add stuff to sonarr?

Older geek here. I started with Plex and torrent. Added sonarr. Researched and switched to jellyfin. Learned about arr stack. Moved services to docker.

It’s now super low maintenance. If I need to update a service, I just kill and recreate it. I have a second machine for media storage.

I think I spent a weekend building the arrstack and I have a few days total working on the home made NAS.