As usual, the American tourist causes endless problems for their host country.

(I’m American but you have to admit that we suck as tourists.)

Linux was the NFT or Blockchain or AI of 1999, so every tech company was jumping on board.

The sales pitch, as I remember, was that you could run your Wordperfect or CorelDraw shit on it, and not need to have Windows to use it and instead could join the future, which was Linux. Though, amusingly, their version of the future was running Windows binaries via Wine on Linux which, eh, okay but…

Of course, nobody used Wordperfect or CorelDraw at that point in history so I’m not entirely sure how that was supposed to sell you on buying not-Word and not-Photoshop.

Didn’t .net core depreciate the older .net framework stuff, and by extension Mono, and the target you should be looking at going forward is the new .net core stuff?

(I’m more a janitor than a mechanic, so my understanding of what framework is or isn’t dead this week is probably lacking, but I recall seeing an awful lot of chatter going on about that.)

Make sure you come back and update me when you try it, and then find out that the cables are all stapled to the studs.

That’s always extra fun to discover once you start running cabling.

Though, if you have good coax everywhere, MOCA is a legitimate option you should be considering, as it’ll do gigabit (more than, even) and the adapters aren’t particularly expensive compared to dealing with having to pull cabling through everywhere.

I guess along with all the google money, they also got Google’s pathological need to cancel everything, too.

I’ve never liked web UIs that have that level of permissions to screw around with the OS it’s hosted on.

Maybe that’s just some grumpy greybeard thing, but I’d really rather not have a single management plane that has full access to EVERYTHING, since that just feels like you’re one configuration oopsie away from some guy in Albania (<3 you, Albania) uploading all his hentai to your server and then trying to hack the FBI or some shit. (Or, you know, the much more boring oops-i’m-a-zombie-now outcome.)

Speed running Wii Sports?

Huh.

(I have probably 50 copies because I kept ending up with more and more due to buying game lots at estate sales and garage sales and such.)

Wii games worth something?

Maybe I’ll be able to retire on my collection of Wii Sports disks.

No no, just feeling like they’re in danger is fine now.

If you yell something, you might spook the person you’re intending to shoot who is, for example, simply holding their wallet.

Yeah I ran ethernet everywhere when I bought my house and it’s fantastic. Multi-gig everywhere!

I’m also never fucking doing that again because the builder of my house must have gotten a fantastic fucking deal 120 years ago on 2x4s, because they decided to do a narrow cross-bracing between studs on every damn wall, so I had fucking rock-hard old growth 2x4s to drill through every 14 inches or so in every damn wall I was running cables on.

Killed several hundred dollars in drill bits and other tools (broke a few fish tapes!) getting this shit done, AND it took like a month to get finished and then the walls patched where I had to cut into it to see what in the fuck the drill was hitting.

But yeah, ethernet everywhere is great!

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I can only be friends with people who use Arch (btw).

Until he’s living in a van down by the river and eating whatever he scrapes off I-35, I’m not willing to say that we’ve “got him”.

Yeah, I’ve never seen a multi-bay enclosure that doesn’t just randomly decide it’s done with this bullshit and have random dropouts or just plain fucking off entirely.

I don’t know WHY they’re so bad, but they are :/

I just converted part of a closet to a network closet and added some shelves and stuffed everything in there, though I know that’s not an option everyone has.

Should ask what platform here, IMO: virt-manager is Linux-only. (Or, I suppose, doing remote X stuff to run it elsewhere but that’s probably not what OP is after.)

There’s some command line stuff you can run on Windows, but then at that point, you can just use virsh on the host itself.

I’m of the opinion that virsh to manage and then a spice or vnc client to access the VMs is the “best” way to go so you’re not tied down to having to have a specific OS running a specific tool in order to do any admin stuff, since I mean, after you deploy how often are you screwing with the VM settings?

IME, they’re all the same chipset/set of chipsets and are all pretty awful.

That said, the most reliable ones I’ve found actually come from drives that have been shucked. Western Digital or whomever aren’t going to do the absolute lowest price piece of shit enclosure for something they’re going to warranty for 3 or 5 years, so those have been what I try to find and have had reasonable luck with them in terms of reliability and not-catching-shit-on-fire.

Usually cheap as shit on eBay or whatever, since they’re basically the packaging trash around something that was purchased for the gooey insides.

Interesting read, thanks.

I’ve grown cynical and assume any hard luck life “memoir” is bullshit and propaganda for whatever political slant the author wants to use other people (or at least the socially accepted stereotype of) to try to justify so I skipped reading it.

Sounds like I didn’t miss much.

…my first reaction was going ‘Wait, only 400?’ immediately followed by ‘Jesus christ, 400.’

I’m not sure which of those is actually worse.

Have you been to a theater recently? You only wish it was silent.

Idk when it started but its fine to talk through the whole movie or fuck with your phone volume turned on now.

Didn’t he write a book about his life growing up, and the suffering of the American people near him? And then leverage that into a political career?

Wonder how much bullshit was in there, too. (If you haven’t, the answer is “pretty much most of it”.)