Ventoy? Linux live iso files aren’t too big less than 5Gb each. You could toss on a handful of utilities like memcheck, clonezilla, and a hdd eraser. Then a few isos of distros you want to try. Adding and removing isos is a breeze with ventoy.

Ugh, how could I forget?

I want to see a seamless roaming standard so a grandma can buy a random brand’s wifi extender, plug it in, connect it to her ISP router’s wifi and have the same ssid through the house. No needing to jump to NANA-SWIFI-EXT.

I would happily dedicate a corner of my garage for a big sodium ion battery.

Also, fun fact they can charge and discharge faster than lithium ion. Also, their chemistry doesn’t lead to spontaneous combustion. Perfect for a house backup.

That’s fair. Could be a generational thing or an age thing too. I’m a married older millennial. I can see where a girl just looking for something casual would prioritize looks higher.

There are different leagues. Men typically focus on looks first then other things like personality.

Women typically look for other things first, and looks are second or third or lower depending on the woman.

A guy on a first date might think the girl is out of his league, based on looks. But the girl might think he’s out of her league due to socioeconomic standing and education/intellect or humor. Even if he’s a bit funny looking or overweight, that can actually add to his charisma if he’s little confident.

Guys think girls want gym-bod, girls actually want dad-bod. Because girls see gym-bod and think he’s a muscle-bound idiot who spends all his freetime at the gym. Dad-bod is way better because that means he’s not hyperfocused about being away from home during all his free time. Plus snuggles are nicer. Dad-bods don’t mean weaker either, just look at strong-man competitions.

Obviously this is generalized based on conversations I’ve had with my wife after reading articles or topics that arise. YMMV.

From what I’ve read if you use a VPN it’s pretty simple to get past the great firewall of china. It’s also only technically illegal, and not really punished.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/trump-and-congress-finalize-law-that-could-hurt-your-wi-fi/

Tldr: different countries wanna do 6g differently. Actually a big problem is the big beautiful bill that just passed in the US. Wifi6e/7 6ghz spectrum that was reserved for wifi got approved to get auctioned off. But it’s already a global standard. If us cell cariers buy it up and use it to make faster 6g cell speeds (short distance very high speed). That’s going to fragment standards globally.

Cell carriers don’t currently use anywhere near all their spectrum they already own.

I have had several firetvs which I really can’t recommend anymore. I don’t mind roku with jellyfin client and an adblocker like pihole except the garbage “daily trivia” options that pop up on the sidebar that you have to hide once a week is annoying. Currently use an Nvidia shield with a custom launcher isn’t a terrible experience, except for the fact that I have to reboot it all the time because it’s glitchy as shit and it was overpriced.

I’m tempted to next try the NUC with that fancy KDE big picture mode I saw get a facelift recently.

Oh, and tried one of those virus ridden chineese android boxes. Also do not recommend.

• Tech company gets acquired by massive company for a ridiculous sum of money
• Site never really generated much revenue
• Parent company demands cuts
• lays off workers, ahem sorry, removes redundant positions
• re-org
• gets rid of physical assets by moving to the cloud claiming savings despite it almost always being more expensive and worse than running your own.
• lay off more employees claiming move to the cloud behind schedule and over budget
• blame the economy
• probably something with AI
• hire a more ‘global workforce’
• re-org
• RTO mandate to make the highest paid employees leave after they trained their replacements overseas
• voluntary severance package
• another round of layoffs
• re-org
• quarterly report showing highest profits in company history
• worst compensation bumps in company history

Not every download client supports blocking filetypes. Here’s how I solved it:

You can add cleanuperr to your *.arr stack. It will listen to your queues and if something gets stuck, like .arj files, it’ll remove them, blocklist them, and maybe re-search? I’m not sure.

You can also change your settings in sonarr to not do any rss sync searches with your public indexers. This stops sonarr from seaching those indexers automatically for the next release. I’ve notices most of that garbage pops up before the official release, then gets drowned out by the real stuff after the release. If you leave the auto/interactive search enabled, you can just click the auto search button for the episode the day after it comes out. You likely won’t pick up any garbage this way.

I wrote a script that spam reports these, and I run it when I’m feeling frustrated with a something, but nothing I’ve spam reported with the script has gotten taken down yet. So, that sucks too.

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Home Assistant? Maybe a homepage like Heimdall or some other dashboard? Maybe Uptime Kuma to notify you when your services go down? Definately a pihole or adguard home. Biggest quality of life improvement. It’s the biggest thing my wife notices and approves of. She audibly groans in disgust when she leaves the LAN on her cellphone and sees all the ads and garbage that had previously been blocked. My pihole dashboard show 70% of the requests are blocked on my LAN. And everything works great.

Garuda - all the benefits of arch with an easy installer. And it’s prettier (in my opinion) than EndeavorOS. Gaming is pretty great.

Yes you can cluster devices. I have a NAS in addition to the my laptop proxmox cluster. It lets me use the NAS as storage, so the VMs/lxc’s virtual disks are actually on the NAS. This allows me to make the VM/LXCs Highly Available. So if one laptop crashes it’ll automatically spin up the things running on that laptop on a different one. This can also be done with ceph, but I already had the NAS, so ceph seemed redundant.

Either or both will likely work just fine depending on how broken the screen is. The virusy windows would be easiest (sometimes macbooks are harder to get everything working due to drivers, windows ones typically just work). But the virus will be removed when you install proxmox. I currently have 3 laptops in various degrees of old and broken being used as a proxmox cluster.

Do you have any old hardware lying around? Old gaming pc, or an old laptop? Doesn’t matter if it has a broken screen or keyboard or trackpad or can’t upgrade to win11. Maybe ask around if someone you knows has something similar.

I’d start with that. Then save the money for an upgrade to the old hardware like adding some extra RAM and a big refurbed hdds.

Done this with massive log files. Used perl and regex. That’s basically what the language was built for.

But with CSVs? I’d throw them in a db with an index.

Bought my house a few years back when pickings were slim. Managed to get one that wasn’t in an HOA and fit the needs of the family, but no fiber internet. I have cable with 1G/40mbps, and that upload speed bothers me. I do a lot of ofsite backups and I work from home. My upload bandwith is almost completely saturated 24/7.

The local fiber company offers service one street over. I’ve called and begged and pleaded, but they won’t expand. Talked to the city, crickets, talked to competitors, nothing.

I set up a playwright script that runs every day. It goes to their website, enters my address, gets the message that my address is a part of a future build, clicks on the register button, receives the message that they can’t build here due to reasons. And then texts me to tell me that there has been no change to their website.

It keeps me from constantly checking and obsessing over something that’ll likely not happen for a good long while. I set up a ssh command to trigger the script in home assistant. So when I’m frustrated I can spam click it half a dozen times.

I’m waiting to eacalate things. I’m an automation test engineer by trade. I’m proficient in load tests. I’m perfectly capable of breaking their website, but I have a feeling that won’t convince them to expand and finish servicing the neighborhood. I might safely crank up the # of requests, but if they aren’t noticing me now, they probably aren’t going to notice a 10-100x increase.