It really isn’t.

Hydroelectric and geothermal are utility scale renewable energy. Solar just drives up electricity prices.

Well, that would have been the entire history of computing right up until the point that the government starts fiddling with operating systems so ultimately we’ll have to provide proof of identity to download or install software.

I know you kids are too young to remember this, but back in the day there used to be a cartoon from The New Yorker, “on the internet nobody knows you’re a dog”. Very quickly it appears that many jurisdictions are trying to make sure that it is built into the frameworks of computing that everyone will know exactly that you’re a dog.

Everyone ignoring what is essentially the end of open computing.

Apache guacamole is something I wish I had when I started. Let’s you connect with telnet, ssh, RDP, or VNC using html5

In sysctl.conf you can put

kernel.panic=1

Where 1 is the seconds until reboot.

For homeservers if you’re not always on-site to look at it, it’s a good idea to set a reset on kernel panic.

More ideal not to reboot of course, but I am often hundreds of miles from my servers so a kernel panic over something that wouldn’t have otherwise killed the system is something I’d rather live with and reboot.

The size of seven libraries of Congress!

Haiku has come a long way, I’m told, but I haven’t tried it yet (and I don’t think I own anything that can run it on bare metal)

Erased my LinkedIn 5 years ago.

Nothing of value was lost. However, much was gained.

A Klingon throuple is going to have more black eyes than a bag of peas.

People who like games were pushed out and replaced by people who like money or power.

Always go with more ram. I can say that from experience.

I’m partial to fanless, but keep in mind my empire of dirt is almost entirely fanless so I’m just partial to it.

Insurance in particular is something that I really feel like regulators should be looking into because especially during the pandemic, people were driving a lot less, people are in their homes more so there would be less robberies and less catastrophic destruction, but insurance soared.

It was a long time ago now, but my predictions also ended up playing out in the data where they were paying out way less and still cranked up premiums.

I’m running a 4B model on one of my machines, an old surface book 1.

It’s a brutal machine. heat issues, and the GPU doesn’t work in linux. But pick a minimal enough model and it’s good enough for me to have LLM access in my nextcloud if for some reason I wanted it.

Biggest thing really seems to be memory, most cheaper GPUs don’t have enough to run a big model, and CPUs are dreadfully slow on larger models if you can put enough RAM in one of them.

mindustry is also on android on f-droid. I remember playing a bit when I took a lot of long airline flights.

Why my firewall is a fanless sign PC. Never really heats up, and I don’t need to worry about the unreliability added by fans.

“They can’t keep getting away with this!!!”

To be fair, and this is coming to someone who is fully sold on LibreOffice and hosts Collabera, the two word processors can open each other’s documents, but cannot produce identical outputs for the same files.

For 99.99% of things switching between the two is going to be just fine, but every once in awhile that 0.01% will really bite you, especially if it is something important such as equations which I have seen first hand don’t properly migrate to LibreOffice.

Depends exactly what you’re doing on that old PC.

If you just need to connect for administration and the like, VNC is decent. It’s my default.

If you want to watch videos or the like, I’d definitely suggest Sunlight and Moonlight. It’s a streaming remote desktop that’s meant for streaming gaming, and so it’s really good at video and audio.

Oh, and for anyone who has never used it, Apache guacamole is a really neat tool for centralizing configuration. Effectively, you can set it up as a website with a username and password that will transfer through ssh, telnet, VNC, and RDP, so if you need to hop into something while you are outside the home, it’s going to be effective. That’s something that I wish I had known about earlier, it would have made a lot of rough days a lot easier.