For a headless server: Ubuntu. Solid, reliable and stable for many years.

For gaming: Pop OS looks promising now that cosmic has been released, however I’d probably stick with Fedora as it’s leading edge and has served me well so far.

Huh, those server specs are surprising. I think I have better than that for my home server.

Thanks again for all the hard work Dave!

That conspiracy is old news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory

In addition to no authoritarian leaning jurisdictions, I also wouldn’t want the server to be based in a country that has age verification laws that apply to hosting. Yes I have a vpn, but the point is I shouldn’t have to use it just to access what used to be freely available information.

I stopped donating after we found out that we’d need to shift hosts but happy to start again.

Because they’re weak.

In all seriousness, income has stayed about the same in nominal terms, but the cost of living has gone way up even between millennials and gen z. So really income has gone down and booze is much more of a luxury.

Older (i.e. 2000s and early 2010s) hypnotic techno. I do 30 mins of deep breathing exercises 3 times a day, while listening to it, to try and maintain a sense of calm throughout the day.

Realise my music choice probably isn’t what most people would classify as “chill”. I mainly listen to electronic music so I find it easy to lose myself into the extremely repetitive percussion and melody.

It’s photos like these that make me want to get back into tabletop gaming. Awesome paint jobs!

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness.

In the last 25 years I’ve hit rock bottom and also experienced the happiest moments of my life. Can’t sum it up any better than Dickens.

Yeah that’s the thing, don’t want to spin up a 500w gaming pc just to watch stuff on plex

The article author seems to write this off as just another run of the mill sci-fi rpg, but I’m pretty excited for this. Peter F Hamilton is one of my favourite authors and he’s done the world building to support the narrative of the game.

Going to be reading his tie-in novel over the xmas break and it seems to have got decent reader reviews so long as you like his style of writing.

Cheers, yeah I thought about crossposting to c/privacy. I also should have searched first as it seems like it’s pretty common thing to do for networked devices of all sorts.

I’ll give it a go myself and do a write up for novices like myself if I succeed.

I’ve got a 42” LG C3 as my gaming monitor. It’s connected to my network so that I can stream content from my plex server. Anybody know if there’s a way I can cut the TV’s access to the internet, to avoid updates etc., while still maintaining access to the home network?

I can’t lay claim to it, comes from this recent “Honest Government” video

Putting the N back in cuts

Happy Days when the Fonz jumped a shark on waterskis.

There was was a panic around disco? Huh, TIL.

I also don’t know the difference between hip-hop and rap. Separated them out to be on the safe side.

I do know the difference between house and techno and get mildly annoyed when people use either of them as umbrella terms for dance music. It’d be fair for fans of hip-hop and rap to feel the same.

In case you’re interested (and very simplified): Techno started in Detroit and was influenced by early German and French synthesiser music, plus the car factories.

House started in Chicago and was influenced by soul, gospel and disco.

• Jazz
• Blues
• Rock n Roll
• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Techno
• House

Way more than 4.

Thank you, I wasn’t aware of their deep Russian ties and now won’t be buying it. I’ll edit my post to reflect that.

Ant Man is mostly unemployed by the time he becomes a superhero. That seems most relatable in these times.

That second sentence is a bald faced lie. I lost grub thanks to a failed update and then 2 days of my life trying to repair it.