Nvidia is just doing what every monopoly does, and AMD is just playing into it like they did on CPUs with Intel. They’ll keep competing for price performance for a few years then drop something that drops them back on top (or at least near it).

system d struggle sessions should be integrated into SystemD

“But they’re just TV shows” “it’s not that deep” etc. I would implore you to listen to this excellent episode of Citations Needed..

It covers how modern cop shows were invented directly to counter shows that portrayed defence lawyers as the protagonists, along with a general push to lionize the police state despite its inability to prevent crime or deliver real justice.

Pretty much spot on, though that is the exact point of these kinds of shows.

It was part of a wave of shows launched to counter the media perception of incompetence in law enforcement/prosecution. They pushed a bunch of dangerously misleading (or even outright fake) claims such as the reliability and accuracy of forensic evidence which has been later used in actual court cases to imprison innocent people.

As always, Citations needed has done a brilliant job on this kind of stuff that’s worth a listen.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Gmg1b4MSELodxHnHTQoAC

Yup, already keep an off-site copy of the important stuff via Hetzner but my Linux ISOs are the big data hogs

That’ll do the trick. Get yourself a powered USB hub and connect a bunch of SSDs to it, then jam the hub into your mini PC. You’ve now got yourself a NAS in all ways except looks.

Honestly a raspberry pi or equivalent on diet pi (https://dietpi.com/) is probably a good start. Though with the caveat that you should use its internal utilities to create an off-site backup of your most important data via a provider such as hetzner.

Cheap, low power, and diet pi is Debian with some tweaks so it’s very easy to set up either bare metal or via containers (as others have said containers may help manage things easier and safer in the long run).

For storage, you’ll probably either need an externally powered USB dock (30ish EUR) or a powered 3.5inch HDD dock if you go this route as the pi cannot reliably power even one SSD from its USB ports - you’ll risk IO failures. The same will come from any setup that includes any low power SBC just for stability. In my experience it’s still less than 15W but you need stable power for IO stuff on SSDs.

I’ve installed W11 for gf and I sorta see the appeal but they clearly had no idea what to do with the whitespace in the bottom left caused by moving the start button and instead filled it with a nonsense button that’ll inevitably get clicked billions of times by people expecting it to be the start button.

I use it, and it works fine. OpenOffice had a massive following before the LibreOffice fork so realistically most people moved there as a default option. Doesn’t mean Only office is bad, just that many FOSS users are more likely to use its competitors.

>cool CPU to 0 Kelvin

>CPU stops working

yeah I guess you’re right