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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, I didn’t realize there was an AUR for it already. It would only take yay -S linux-cachyos.

  But I need to fix my btrfs/snapper anyways.

  I broke it after reverting and messing up my subvolumes. Swap was not properly setup and somehow reverting also broke my snapshots subvolume.

  I also want time to test on my spare laptop first so I can create a script/config for it to deploy to my school laptop and gaming rig. But it’s exam week for school and I need to finish transferring a 25TB VM to a hardware server.

  I’ll mess with it over spring break.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks to hyprland, I’ve fallen in love with Arch. Sure it works on other distros, but the AUR is great for easy configuration. I’m running it on my container server, my laptop, my gaming rig, and my OneXPlayer(portable gaming rig). That said, I have been eyeing CachyOS because of the kernel optimization plus it seems easier to install.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm using my home server and coding to rebuild my brain after a stroke.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been in a similar position to you. I was in an accident and woke up missing a quarter of my skull.

  Props for getting back to servers and code as a part of your recovery. The recovery process for me took a long time and a lot of work. I imagine you are in a similar position and question whether things will ever be the same again, the same way I have. I don’t know your particular situation very well, true. But for me, recovery not only took a lot of exercise, balance routines, relearning vocabulary, and a couple of surgeries; but it also took a lot of faith.

  Shoot, you mentioned your projects, I did something similar. I found a hypervisor on Craigslist and set up Apache Cloudstack. I pushed myself to learn DevOps skills on it, Jenkins, terraform, cloud-init, and I’m still working on a AWS DevOps Cert.

  But I would like to say kudos on your work. I think that doing it during your recovery is an extremely difficult prospect, but I do think that it pays off in the long run.

  tldr; I think your recovery is coming along great. You may have quite the ways to go down that road, we don’t really know. But until you’re fully recovered, you will be in our hearts, minds, and prayers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Doom Rogue Like.

  Not sure if Jupiter Hell(successor by the creators) will run on dos though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you checked your modem/Wi-Fi router?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, after testing it, I realized it was just more efficient and organized for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s made by DHH, the Creator of Ruby on rails… I can’t tell you if he is a right wing conspiracy theorist because I simply haven’t done the research.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I would say either of those are good options to start with. I sincerely doubt fully breaking the PC. Maybe research Linux for your GPU, you may have multiple options. It may be worth a second hard drive so you can easily swap back and forth until you are fully comfortable. Dual booting on the same HDD is also possible, but more annoying.

  Personal issue I ran into: motherboard customization on my big gamer doesn’t work without Windows… Not a huge deal, but my Rainbow LED runs its animation in reverse. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  EndeavorOS… I’ve been wanting to try that… Although I heard some good things about CachyOS and need to try that one first.

  That said if you’re on the hyprland journey, you may look at Omarchy, it is basically Arch with hyprland preconfigured. Not a huge deal, but simple for a test.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh… My journey actually started with Nobara after researching. But I wanted to try hyprland, so switched to Arch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hyprland is my new favorite. Never even thought I would like a tiling Windows manager before, but it is pretty sick. Quickshell is pretty cool too…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Debian servers… But what direction did you go for your daily driver? There is no wrong answer, but I like hearing how people migrate over.

  I was the same as you, btw, started with Debian servers be it an Apache Cloudstack hypervisor, or k8s host.

  But because I decided to go with a tiling Windows manager, somehow I ended up down the hyprland rabbit hole on Arch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have… Moved my gaming over to it… Admittedly better since I don’t play anything like cod or bf. But you can keep a dual boot just in case. Still plays horizon zero dawn, fallen Jedi, borderlands 4(probably better on Linux), and Doom Eternal. Also Rocket League.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, you are right, I was not familiar with the resistance of the human body and I was wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha. Ok, I thought you were a young child because you spelled battery differently and your take on everything I said the first time seemed childish. I told you not to touch a car battery because I thought you were a child. I still wouldn’t personally touch it, but that’s not what’s funny. You are NOT an electrical engineer. YOU ARE A STUDENT, lmao, I thought you might be a child and I wasn’t far off.

  Your German, correct? I fixed aircraft in Germany, and you are only a student. Ever work on 115 VAC @ 400Hz 3 Phase? Ever work on C-130 avionic systems? What about B-1’s?

  There is actually a lot of stuff I miss about Germany, too. Döner Kabob… God I miss those, they were my favorite. Oh and the German ice cream. Also the beer… I miss a good Dunkel. Keep studying you’ll be an electrical engineer soon.

  o7

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Do yourself a favor, don’t ever touch a car battery. It will hurt and you will feel it. They show that in movies as torture for a reason. It’s not the voltage in this case, it’s the current. Those batteries are capable of 550 CCA (cold cranking amps). Warm that battery is 685 CA. In fact I think I would consider the car battery more dangerous.

  2. In alternating current the electrons move back and forth across the material similar to a wave striking the shore of a tropical beach… No one said anything about reflecting. Have you never been shocked by an outlet? Shoot, I grew up in a trailer with a short on the front door. If you touched the metal, it wouldn’t even hurt, but you’d certainly know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Theoretically, the building is ground and you only need to connect one cable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Disagree. DC current will seek the path of least resistance, and will not go down the pole.

  I’m unsure if this is an apartment, but I would start by reaching out to the landlord and say your lights have been acting up whenever they are using it. Maybe say your electric bill has been higher, maybe stage that a little bit by simply leaving a light on for a month. Have them inspect the floor damage too.

  Once they leave, I would install cannibalize a power cable, plug it into the wall and hook the hot wire up to one of the screws.

  The benefit of using AC, is that it is less likely to take the path of least resistance and travels as waves back and forth, doesn’t necessarily matter if they are grounded or not, they will feel it, likely marginally lower since it is also going into everything their 8ft pole is touching.

  …I don’t know why I’m on a villain arc this morning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saved for later, will probably try once it publishes to flathub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugliest ladybug I’ve ever seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting paradox: Windows for specifically MS word⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Side note, you could run it as a VM on proxmox and still get it to work… I think… But again network connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting paradox: Windows for specifically MS word⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is a difficult question. Yes, you could use a VM if you have the hardware. The only downside is needing network connection in order to connect to it. If you are away from home that may require opening a port, or preferably a VPN.

  Alternatively, I have winapps installed on my Linux laptop. Now, that is designed to run Windows as a VM within docker, podman, or libvirt. The reason I like it is that it doesn’t just use a full rdp session. Do you remember remote apps from back in the day? It is not a full rdp session, it only connects to the app you’ve launched and it appears on your Linux machine as just another window.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I simply didn’t see it that way. Sure, the Linux community doesn’t necessarily agree on which version is the best for new users. But we tend to agree on reliable distros which are good to get started on.

  Brand New user? Unless they have a specific task that the PC needs to do, then first priority is reliability. Off the top of my head, Debian is reliable as hell, Ubuntu is about the same and fine but not my preference (very dislike snap proprietary bs that almost no one uses anyways), Fedora is a common use case and while I haven’t used their desktop in a while, I rather like the rhel based distros they are reliable but keep things a little newer than say Debian.

  The point is that I disagree with you entirely. You see the choice of distributions as daunting and a scary thing. I don’t. I see the choice as freeing.

  It has never mattered to me personally what version of Linux someone is using, or what path they think I should go down, I do my own research for my own purposes and come back with my own options(maybe my 90s rebel inner child still exists). Admittedly, perhaps someone needs more guidance when running away from Microslop and I could help as long as I know what package manager the distro is using.

  Now, you also say that Linux isn’t mainstream already? There are entire career fields built on it, why the hell is it not considered mainstream. DevOps typically uses Linux heavily, might be as simple as an install script, or a full k8s deployment. And shoot running docker servers for backing up your files via VPN? What about 25 TB of jellyfin movies/shows. Sorry, but even if not used as a desktop, a Linux server can go a long way and do a ton of good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Straight up, I got it confused with Pop!_OS. Although I’m too lazy to look it up, my buddy who has been using it for years mentioned looking at other options because of that reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I’m with you on that one. Debian is reliable, so it send like the safest option. Personally, I use it for my seed box, and I’ve helped others set their own up to. Fedora, on the other hand, introduces package updates a little more frequently and in the long run, I think it’s more enjoyable to work on in a desktop environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, I would love to understand the tooling behind that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair. Technically I’m running Windows in a container… But technically that is also a vm.

  That is for this neat remote app fella: github.com/winapps-org/winapps

  Makes it look like Windows applications run on Linux without using full rdp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually I want to delete my comment… 22.04 is actually Pop!_OS not Mint. So I’m really dumb there, admittedly, Ubuntu spinoffs get me a little mixed up.

  And the work bit, in truth, I think he could fix it by using a btrfs partition, snapper, and grub-btrfs. Build the machine to automatically take snapshots so if someone breaks it, you can fix it faster.

  And yeah, ease of use is important, that was not meant as a criticism instead I pointed out a logical reason why Mint made sense.

  Long story short, comment stupid, my bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suggest you check out this: github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

  It is a script to remove a bunch of Microslop… I’m betting on Microsoft re-enabling it unannounced after an update though.

  But I’m with you on the Linux bit…

  …I use Arch btw…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mint? Based on Ubuntu 22.04? Seems a hint dated.

  No offense, I swear. But I have a buddy who has to support Mint installs for work and it honestly sounds horrible.

  Then again, the ease of use is probably worth the time saved setting up Arch.