My experience is that use of an LLM is an amplifier to your output but generally at no better quality that you can produce on your own.
The skilled developer who uses an LLM and checks its work will get a productivity boost without a loss in quality.
The unskilled developer who copy/pastes code from stackover can get even more sloppy code into production by using an LLM.
I started using linux Slackware in 1996. First time I was paid to install linux on a server in 1998. It was Red Hat 5.2 way before they switch to Enterprise Linux.
Been my desktop daily driver since 1999.
Yes, I’m old.
Yeah its a tough crowd sometimes. Especially when doing that training with our customers.
I’ll never forget the time I was explainging how something worked and one of the customers interrupts me saying, “I don’t care about this – can you just show me where to click?”
I used to do some linux training for new hires at my old job. The company had a training room with a rack of servers for lab work.
It was a training on how to deploy the product on a customer server. I personally wrote the instructions and tested them on the lab machines after a fresh install.
I had others test the lab instructions. I even had people from non-tech roles verify that they too could do the labs by following the instructions.
Still I get a guy in the training complaining that “this doesn’t work” and I can see from the error on his screen that he must have skipped one of the steps in the lab instructions.
He’s not even trying to figure it out. Even though others are finishing, he just decided that it doesn’t work and gave up.
Yes it has a web ui to connect to wifi. For cable you just plug it in.
Its simple and I can easily put a laptop or phone or whatever behind the microrouter and have confidence its only using the vpn.
When I travel I take a second microrouter with me to connect to the hotel wifi. All my devices are set to use the microrouter wifi so they never touch the hotel network, only the vpn. Easy, private, and avoids any filtering the hotek is doing.
If your concern is ensuring a killswitch type vpn setup, I do that but in a different and simple way.
I have a GLinet microrouter configured to join the vpn and active killswitch mode. This is 2 clicks in the menu. I connect it to my network via its wan port.
Everything I want behind the VPN gets connected to the microrouter lan port and job done.
OP listed the apps they want to run and none of that was on their list
A gaming rig is a waste of money because you don’t need a fast gpu on a such a server. You want a boring server box and even better one with built-in “ilo” remote management.
I like how AI is already a joke now
Pro Tip: don’t make sweeping generalizations like “KDE Breaks Bluetooth” and then claim its happening while including little to no detail.
I’ve been running KDE for over a decade without any such problems. KDE absolutely does not break bluetooth or removable devices.
Now perhaps the way you have set up and configured KDE isn’t working right and causing problems with bluetooth and removable devices. I’d believe that but hard to know what hapoened without any details.
As a category, decentralized vpns are interesring.
It comes down to specific details of the exact provider compared with your own security objectives, to evaluate if it will work for your needs.
I buy phisical media and lately I’m listening to internet radio again. There are streams in flac even.
I don’t think you can do this with routing because IPv6 doesn’t support splitting a /64 into subnets. Might work via virtual bridging over a vpn link. I don’t think tailscale supports layer 2 tunneling so you would need to use something else.
Nobody considers IRC to be a substitute for documentation.
I use ctrl-click to select
Thats a lot of bug fixes!
I use Void Linux on my home servers and I really like it. Clean , small, and stable.
As a person who takes a belt-and-suspenders approach to security, I agree with you and I do the same.
When I make a code change, even just to a comment, I run the full regression test suite again.
I’ve recently been asked to help some folks on the biz side automate tasks “with ai” and I’ve had very good results having gemini write apps script to do automations via google sheets.
For example HR wanted this for workshops they run “Write an Apps Script function to use the employee email list on sheet2 to create random teams of 4 and record the teams on sheet3. Use the template on sheet1 to write an email notification to each team and then send it.”
Worked on the first try and the code is decent.