I put solar on my roof, bought some HBA cards from Art of server on eBay and file bays from an ecycler in town, and started shucking old drives from a dumpster that always has a bunch of PVRs in it. My power bill is nuts but I have a lot of DDR3 and spinning rust!
Wife of ten years, I stuck her on Ubuntu 16.04 back in the day. She ignored it and used a laptop. A few years later? Mint with Mate. She started on it long enough to set the background to the Windows 10 background, then went back to a Windows boot, since I dual booted. Last year, new computer, Fedora KDE, again dual booted. Haven’t seen her in Windows yet. Me? I hop all over the place, but our HTPC and her laptop are now Fedora KDE.
I have it running right now on Fedora using lutris. Standard install, no weird steps or anything. Lutris is flatpak.
I tried to run Genshin Impact on Alpine once. Did not succeed.
I put it on a machine as a joke and, well… Three months and it hasn’t gone bye-bye.
What irritates the ever loving crap out of me is that all the search engines have gotten so bad that you have to use AI to get the answers now… And…! AI scrapers are so hard on bandwidth and servers housing that all the old how-to tech blogs by actual smart people have packed their bags and left. I used to find loads of great self hosting guides by doing a Google search for “Proxmox npm setup guide” and clicking one of the top three results. Now: sponsored, slop, slop, shilling paid product, old Reddit post, etc.
I use e-ink whenever I’m not doing work. Easier on the eyes.
Not an expert, but the way I understand it is that, instead of b and d looking the same, and p and q looking the same, all rightward facing loops are italicized, and all leftward facing loops are left very round, so a brain that has trouble with mirroring images won’t get confused. They also use serifs, so a capital I and a small L aren’t similar.
Nextcloud! It was it’s own box, then a VM.
An ungodly mess of cables, planks, threaded rod, and old, used servers! My very own Proxmox Cluster! I have spent years tweaking and changing it, but I’ve had some services up (not, like, continuously) for 13 years now. The original server was an i7-950, and now I’m on dual Xeon Silver on my newest box.
“Potentially.” I snorted at this. “AI” is just VR, NFT, crypto. A scam to keep big tech from having to compete.
I had it forever, but it doesn’t work on later Android versions. I bought the paid version too.
I miss the Awoo videos. Puppies howling, Huskies going mental.
I am writing this on my Bluefox NX1… Android 15, 8gb ram, 128 GB storage. 4" on the diagonal, about three days battery. Crappy sound, crappy camera, finicky keyboard but autocorrect is a thing. Bluetooth earbuds and I don’t care about the camera most days. Dual SIM, 135$. Been using it exclusively for almost a year now.
My ThinkPad lives in Fedora and sits between 75%-80%, all day, every day.
In my case, I use a locally hosted stable diffusion setup, so it’s not even running 99.9% of the time. Turn it on, ask for the thing, turn it off again. Fans are spinning for a minute. A single session of any AAA game is worse.
Isn’t this really the only valid reason for any AI image generation? Things I’ve AI image generated: 1) Godzilla riding a Unicycle B) Godzilla taking a math test #) Godzilla fixing a printer iv) Godzilla roasting a marshmallow with his breath V) My corporate logo with Godzilla attacking superimposed. None of the above is a joke.
Every day, make one thing better.
I’m a card-carrying member, lifetime, of MMGFN, but they are Making More Godzilla Films Now, so…
I sync my podcasts hourly with Nextcloud and poddersync, so when my servers go down, my phone beeps at me.