One big issue with retail computers coming with Linux is the kickbacks from the Windows ecosystem.

Things like AV trials and MS Office. I don’t know if they break even or make a profit on all the bloatware from a Windows based sale.

Wired is king.

If I gotta do wireless I get one with a RF dongle/base.

Astro A50 Wireless. Needs a dongle but it’s waaaay more stable than any bluetooth headset. Both on range and audio quality.

Use case:

I want to set it up in my home so husband and 2 kids can access and share within GOG TOS.

Is there a feature to automatically download installers and patch files from GOG to the server?

Seems like a good feature to have to maintain an offline library.

More like I come in to fix someone’s aging infrastructure and find a QuickBooks share with read/write everyone because people are too lazy to RTFM.

Ahem…

Looking at you quickbooks network shares…

I hate this about new laptops…

I miss the old switch on the bottom.

Thinkpad X280?

LENOVO ThinkPad X280 12.5 LCD Ultrabook - Intel Core i5 (8th Gen) i5-8250U Quad-core (4 Core) 1.60 GHz - 8 GB DDR4 SDRAM - 256 GB SSD - Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (English) - (Renewed) Title https://a.co/d/4ylP22d

+1 for yt-dlp

Wow I got downvoted.

Yes I agree that launchers mentioned here are the online connected and required ones.

The old school launchers you could bypass by just running the exe directly.

The only useful thing launchers can used to do is adjust things like display settings that require reboot. Basically an INI config GUI.

This was more common back in the day probably due to the game engines. More less games require restart in recent years but that could be due to me playing more indie games and less AAA titles.

Edit: wow. Downvote much.

Systemwide RFC-3339 Dateformat

I meant RFC3339

Rfc3339 plus kebab case for many things

2024-09-01_lname-fname-resume.pdf

Support should be 5 years after End of Life or end of Manufacturing date.

Nice addition of solution.

In time Lemmy will replace reddit for tech questions. Give it a few years!

Last PC I built was fractal and it was a dream. Amazing quality.

I specialize in Azure admin.

Sounds like this might be by design to ensure secure connections.

Using AVD as a bastion replacement.

Only option with similar security would be VPN into the vnet and just ssh normally.

1. AVD as a jumpbox
2. Bastion (costly solution)
3. VPN then SSH/RDP

Can you clarify on how NixOS is great for selfhosting? I was going to do mint.

This is the real answer.

Flying to China for work/play?

Leave your real phone at home. Take a cheap burner.

Not really it’s just another unfinished project.

I want to play with nextcloud, homeassistant and tabbyml

Y’all laugh but I’m getting into Linux and dusted off an old i7 laptop with 16gb of RAM. Slapped a $40 512GB ssd and linux mint on it to get into !selfhost@lemmy.ml!

…then promptly forgot about the laptop