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You’ve never had to bike over to a friend’s house 8km away to download a modem driver and copy it onto a floppy and bike back home only to realize that the floppy had bad sectors and you had to do it all over again, and it shows.
That’s just the way network hardware has always been, regardless of OS.
Yes, but it’s easy to work around.
Source: I bought a brand new Lenovo Legion autumn 2024, and the GPU needed a very recent nvidia driver, which in turn needed a newer kernel than what was available by default. I had to install a mainline kernel, and download nvidia driver from their site. Took maybe 30 minutes to get it up and running properly.
After 30 years of playing whack-a-mole with piracy sites, this time it will surely help.
One can argue that Linux Mint isn’t that up to date. But in my opinion, it’s up to date enough.
It’s new enough that you’re not living in the digital medieval era, and at the same time, any software installed is for the most part mature, well tested, and stable. And I find that more important than bleeding edge versioning.
And on the few occasions where I need something newer than what can be found in the standard repos, there’s always the option of building from git or adding additional sources.
I’ve been a linux user off and on in varying capacity since the 90s, combined with some FreeBSD, but linux was only a secondary OS on my desktop until I made the complete switch once I saw the trajectory of Windows 8.
Mint reminds me of how Windows 7 was designed: Simply a good OS.
I heard it’s a Mastodon thing
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Barebones, usually. In general I prefer software that does only one thing and one thing well. Input or output to/from said software can be handled by other pieces software.
I’m a big fan of modular designs where you can swap out any layer with something else, provided that the data interchange is c9mpatible.
Lacking the above, I usually go for softwares with support for plugins/extensions.
Not sure if it’s still in use today, but the above description was 2008 through 2012. Msdos was used for “gun timing”, which basically amounted to extreme precision when it came to opening or shutting some solenoid valves. The computer had a GPS input and a bunch of serial outputs, and a control line (also serial).
The control line sent instructions of which solenoid to open when, a time reference was determined by the GPS, and you can probably guess what the serial outputs were for.
Well aware of it. Used it between the top two rows.
I had a similar matrix of screens at my old job: Seismic survey observer desk. Three rows tall, four columns wide.
They weren’t all connected to the same PC, though; If I remember correctly:
They were all connected to a Raritan KVM switch, so I used that to select which row to control. The exception was on bottom left and bottom right which had a dedicated keyboard and mouse.
I have a picture of it somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it.
Same. Got some leftover Fortinet from work that I’m using. Could be better, but my Fortigate 101E works miles better than my ISP default router. All I had to do was assign upstream wan to VLAN 10 and spoof the MAC address.
I don’t have experience with hosting lemmy specifically, but from what I hear it doesn’t require much other than being a bit RAM-hungry. Add some swap space, use the instance primarily for yourself, and you should be good.
Hosting does not attract CSAM on its own. Anonymous uploads do. Only host services that you find useful yourself, and maybe sharing it with friends, and that’s a reasonably safe start.
Where did xmms go, by the way?
Does sshd count?
Beyond the “default” stuff, I always seem to end up with a setup that involves linux + apache + mod_perl + postgresql for various purposes. And by the way, that’s the only proper LAMP stack in my book, and I will die on this hill.
I’ve done some very dodgy things with VGA cables in an effort to route the cables through narrow bulkheads. For normal computer-to-monitor-lengths this is probably fine.
I haven’t noticed much signal degradation below 4m-ish.
At 12m, you better solder properly and wrap some extra shielding around your splice.
Source: I’ve ran plenty of VGA cables between bridge computers and a deck monitor on ships.
Normally it doesn’t matter. The only restrictions is in terms of who can buy domains of that country to begin with (some countries have restrictions on that), and what sort of content is allowed in such domains. Other than that, it’s OK.
I’d tell you a joke about brown dwarves, but it’s kinda dark…
Same