An option is tritium vials. They’re pretty cheap on eBay and last something like 7 or 8 years.

This boy holes

For someone so upset about a letter, you seem to be using it rather frequently. But I will respect your wishes to steer away from it.

I was really sad when CTR and Ratchet & Clank stayed on PlayStation. Those were some of the best reboots in ages and I don’t really want to have to keep my PS4 setup just to play those.

I’ve felt this way before, but I also wonder if I would have had kids in another life where the world wasn’t so fucked. I feel occasionally that I was robbed of parenthood by our current state of things.

Haha yeah. That’s where I recently learned about it myself. They’ve been on a hot streak of some really fantastic videos as of late.

Interesting. I’ve changed my hostname on a few machines throughout the past and never ran into this. Good to know if I ever run into this in the future.

It’s kind of wild just how useful asbestos actually was. Aside from the obvious issues, it was genuinely a miracle material that did all sorts of cool things. Too bad our insides hate it more than just about anything else.

It sits in a read only container anyway. Worst someone could do is wreck my config.

I personally use Jellyfin because it means I can have a public-facing page with a login that I can access from any device with a web browser, including at work, without having to install software or use my VPN. I do organize everything meticulously on the backend, but it’s just way more convenient for portability.

Don’t Be Evil (as possible)

All things in moderation, friend :)

Except heroine. Don’t do heroine.

Fun story about these. When I was a kid and first came across these, my classmates had convinced me that lemon was the weakest flavor. This meant that when I had one, it was way too strong, and I assumed all the others must be worse, so it was the flavor I always picked when offered.

Moral of the story: don’t always take others word for it and be willing to try options that you’ve been told are wrong.

It’s almost like people have several unique sets of needs for an operating system and the community works to fill those voids as best as possible with no expectation of financial gain and so things aren’t as polished because of it.

But the company with near unlimited budget can’t figure out how to keep their OS from deleting people’s files and crashing.

“Man, I’ve had a headache for a long as I can remember.”

“Here, try some aspirin. At least give it a shot.”

“No thanks, I need the headache. It lets me play Fortnite.”

Which is why I only recommend it when people need the bleeding edge for gaming stuff. It’s my recommendation if they need more than Mint and Bazzite doesn’t work well with their hardware. And even then, I try to avoid Bazzite since it does a lot of non-standard stuff with the setup.

Arch is good if you already know what you want, but if someone needs the bleeding edge and don’t want to configure Arch, it’s the most straightforward route.

Well there’s your problem. But really, it’s because long-time distro hoppers will finally find the one that meets all their needs and assume it meets everyone else’s needs as well.

About the only thing other than Mint that I recommend to beginners is Endeavor or Bazzite if they need gaming. And even then, is lean toward Endeavor first just because it’s less modified and they’ll get more consistent results during troubleshooting.

But yeah, new users really don’t need anything other than the bare minimum otherwise they’re likely to get turned off pretty quickly by documentation not lining up to their distros edits.

I know I didn’t mention it in my post, but I do have a couple requirements:

• Self-hosted
• Web client
• Voice/video conference/group
• Private messaging

Nice-to-haves:

• Native mobile/desktop app
• Modern UI
• Lightweight

I have my sights on Snikket at the moment, but that was one I couldn’t get up and running. I can reach out with errors and maybe get it running, but my point stands that Docker Compose is supposed to be as hands-off as it gets, but some devs seem to not get that.

I’ve gone through like 5 different services trying to set one up. Am I dumb or does no one know how to make a straightforward docker compose? I thought the whole point of Compose was to copy-paste a config, change a few variables and hit go. Several of these assume you know so much about how to setup these services and then just leave you to your devices.

I want like 5 or 6 variables in an .env file. No reason I should have to spin up my own database and link it when you should be containerizing the entire thing in the first place. The only services so far that I’ve had any success setting up are Mattermost (which doesn’t offer group calls) and VoceChat (which I can’t get the voice to work in).

All the others either don’t offer voice at all or I can’t get past the setup.

I love how every time this question comes up, it feels like there’s a new way it’s counterintuitive when correct. But now we have to ask about the format. Because they could be arranged uniquely, aligning their centers of mass… 🤔