Office Space, but also the IT Crowd

Run a live version of kubuntu from a usb drive to confirm wifi/lan drivers work and you can access the internet.

That’s super-interesting! Could you share some details?

According to Framework support, there are no supported models as of yet.

I have a Framework 13 AMD running Linux Mint. It works great and I love it. Modular IO ports are super nifty.

Here are the downsides as I see them:

1. Price
2. No touch screen
3. No wifi 7

I expect 2&3 will come in the future and I can upgrade! The fact that I can upgrade rather than throw it away in the future offsets 1.

Does Fedora have a long term support version? Last time I used it a decade ago I had to upgrade every 1-2 years.

I feel like Beholders are the product of some nightmare fueled fever dream. They fascinate me endlessly.

Infinite Jest - just the part about video conferencing is wild and is even mire wild when you realize it was written in the 90’s before video conferencing really existed:

“Good old traditional audio-only phone conversations allowed you to presume that the person on the other end was paying complete attention to you while also permitting you not to have to pay anything even close to complete attention to her. A traditional aural-only conversation […] let you enter a kind of highway-hypnotic semi-attentive fugue: while conversing, you could look around the room, doodle, fine-groom, peel tiny bits of dead skin away from your cuticles, compose phone-pad haiku, stir things on the stove; you could even carry on a whole separate additional sign-language-and-exaggerated-facial-expression type of conversation with people right there in the room with you, all while seeming to be right there attending closely to the voice on the phone. And yet — and this was the retrospectively marvelous part — even as you were dividing your attention between the phone call and all sorts of other idle little fuguelike activities, you were somehow never haunted by the suspicion that the person on the other end’s attention might be similarly divided.”

This seems to me to be a weak substitute for good privacy regulation.

You likely can’t do equity investing but you might be able to buy their bonds:

https://www.ndb.int/news/ndb-launches-new-usd-1-25bn-3-year-green-bond/

Seems like a bad idea to me. If you want to diversify buy index funds and ETFs.

The Cake Song

Haunting

It must be for wifi that they operate.

Except for tha time with Windows 8 where they tried to get rid of them.

I just want my privacy back.

It is a good Cyber-thriller.

It’s a discipline.

I run Emby and MythTV on a Beelink Mini PC. It is a little pricey compared to some of the options you mentioned but not by too much. It works really well and is very quiet:

https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-SER5-5560U-500GB-Computer/dp/B0B3WYVB2D

They got got -> https://archive.org/details/weareanonymousin0000olso_l5h7

I remember when SFC was first introduced, I excitedly wrote a script to invoke it remotely so I could use it on a user’s pc when they called to fix their problem. To this day I have never run that script. This was in 1998.