Yeah, the whole farming industry is based upon non-comsensual interfering and eugenics type stuff.

Thr line with rice and potatoes seems more blurry, are they farming us?

I’m glad they trademarked history to be honest.

Of course artifacts need a vacation from time to time but they always come back home.

Nice to see this pop up as Apple announce their 5yr plan to flood the world’s landfills & scrap yards with 8gb fused ram Neo’s.

Cool, I just tend to run one liners or little shell scripts but nice to see more of this stuff appearing.

Worth considering the backend too imo, as I imagine I’m not the only one here trying to leverage the most out of potatoes with not a lot of storage.

On my little n100 boxen for example having a building ffmpeg for the cpu/igpu to use hardware decoding gives ~5x the encode speed for a slightly larger filesize for hevc.

Personally I’ve found online banking, medical and travel services rather hard to resist.

Those new mobile phone things the kids are using also have biometrics and internets and look pretty handy to have around.

It’s dark age Europe, because of the chuch.

Aquinas apologetics in there too, yay.

Fortunately no one owns the period or phrase and we are free to call dark age Europe dark age Europe if we wish, and I couldn’t give a fuck if someone with a sticker thinks otherwise.

Academia as everything else runs on trends, fashions and the needs of the masses, even those that don’t go to masses anymore.

I don’t think that’s mediation.

I can get into ‘the zone’ swimming and cycling, but that’s great fun. Meditation is exhausting, hard work and often leaves me more pissed off than when I started.

😂

It’s a really simple system meant to ‘just work’ and provides an idiot sheet you can copy and paste from for those who don’t ever want to RTFM

as long as the system isn’t doing anything important Arch is great for noobs fucking around, it’s high grade spoonfeeding and doing what you are told.

Power users use RHEL, Ubuntu, Gentoo. Governments, armies, tech giants and that kinda stuff, Arch is more for newbies karma farming on r/unixporn for lolz

Thanks, I do have backups of important stuff.

I think bcachefs is what I’m looking for, but I’m gonna wait a bit until development calms down a little and keep on the way I am at the moment.

Thanks,

bcachefs could be the answer but I don’t really want my data on a fs I need this week’s kernel to access properly. Maybe I should just hold off for a few months.

I’m not monitoring the drives, I have backups of important stuff…but would be nice to tag more important stuff amongst the mediocre stuff on the off chance both drives don’t fail at the same time.

doh

will just keep on keepin’ on then

I think that’s just one of the official binary penguins that were released last month.

I’ve been using the ‘Open With’ extension on Firefox to play video through mpv with a click

Why?

Triple booting is a pita, moreso if you don’t know how to partition a disk. I’d want any laptop encrypted, which adds further complexity to the triple boot.

If you wanna browse, research, watch videos and tinker just install a distro. If you wanna spend time switching your system off and on again over and over and over again to find out what’s working/broken go for the triple boot.

Docker could be worth a shot. You can ‘docker pull fedora/arch/debina/whatever’ and can play around with the base systems. Alpine takes up about 6mib so isn’t too resource intensive if you need to nuke it a few hundred times to get up and running.

I’d put the 1gb ram laptops to server/kodi/retroarch/something mode and focus on the three decent machines for anything that requires a modern web browser, or add some ram. Porteus might be worth a shot if you’ve not tried it and want to push the Firefox on a potato idea.

I don’t think this is a one OS fits all situation, unless maybe Gentoo.

How bad is really bad?

AntiX is a good choice. Other option is a usb3 drive for each family member so everyone has their own portable AntiX on a stick.

MX is the related project with a more standard install and could be worth a look, the Fluxbox option should be quite light.

Each user could have a personal AntiX system on persistent usb3 and each system could have a bare metal MX Linux install. Just see what wins out via natural selection over time.

LXQT is another option for a full desktop environment that will run on a potato. If family members are mainly just users and you are admin, the base OS may not matter much. They could switch between a potato running Alpine and a good system running Fedora and if they are just logging into LXQT to launch browser, office, email etc the internal system plumbing is not gonna concern them.

thx

Thank you.

I think I will aim for =>8

so any nuc with a number 7 or more would do the job?