I have this meme on my phone… my wife is the texter … I’m like call and make that appointment… and she immediately starts looking for a web portal to schedule it.

Lol

I send it to her randomly when she’s needing to call someone.

No ack in the trailer.

I’ll still wishlist it tho

My wife who is a huge Minecraft fan has been playing stardew valley with me.

She also loves the portal 2 coop

It’s a visio.

Literally the cheapest 32inch TV that best buy had.

It’s absolutely unusable with the ads disabled.

Horrific television.

Pihole on your network… And block Internet access to the TV…

Tho… a while back the wife and I bought a dirt cheap 32 inch TV from bestbuy… it will literally turn itself on to deliver an advertisement if you power it off while in an app. (Skipping the home page)

Pihole crashes it.

We bought it for watching football outside so it’s unplugged for the majority of the year… but that’s still absolutely unacceptable. Imho

I’m not amd guy… I’ve used Intel and Nvidia for ages and ages… when my last upgrade failed hardware wise… I bought a Intel minipc from Beelink with an Intel ultra 5 125h.

It came with windows 11.

I’m a dad of a 1 yr old. who is playing stardew with his wife right now.

Ive formatted a handful of times to different Linux distros to see which felt better for me on this PC.

Manjaro, kubuntu, Debian, kde neon.

Currently I’m running kde neon. Out of the box it likes to reboot on updates… so I found a non-sudo needed cli command to fix that. (It’s a setting apparently in settings)

Anyway…l say all this to say… the way steam is now… and how graphics cards are… you can pretty well run what you want.

Granted it’s antidotal from me… But as long as you’re not buying the absolute latest stuff from a hardware vendor… You’d be fine.

If I was buying now I’d probably not buy the Intel chips that are having troubles but the gen before that… and probably some 3xxx Nvidia card.

And not hesitate to run any distro I wanted.

Ps I like apt… because that’s what I’m comfy with. So I tend to use distros that use apt. Tho manjaro is nice because of the aur… But they have issues company wise

Sure. But can they enforce it? Chevron says maybe not.

https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2017-06-24-the-perfect-media-server-2017

I did perfect media server It’s got mergerfs for splitting data and using disks in various sizes .and snapraid for a level of redundancy. Tho raid isn’t backup.

That said I’m now running this setup on a n100 machine with a qnap tl-800c jbod USB c box.

Works great for downloads / Plex and home server needs.

The b100 chip isn’t amazing… Don’t get me wrong but it works really well for Plex.

Hope this all makes sense. I’m on mobile with out my glasses. Lol

I only scroll all for now… Hexbear is the only thing I have blocked. I just got tired of trolly garbage.

I get many many emails from a website that specializes in gifts for spouses …

I unsubscribed from all… they doubled down. I unsubscribed again… and they Kept sending emails.

I flagged the entire domain as spam in Gmail and it all just goes to spam now.

Fuck all that noise

Yeah my ex wife initially made fun of my server with my Plex media on it…

Guess what she wanted after our divorce? That’s right Plex.

If she scoffs at your media setup she’s wrong for you.

Thanks! We will finish vanilla and then look into mods. We haven’t even unlocked ginger island yet. Haha

The wife and I are doing our first play through of stardew valley.

It’s a lot better than I expected

My Midwestern ex wife pronounced it “aig”

A long “a” sound. I’m a Southerner so for me it’s egg. With a eh sound.

I wish Minecraft had an in game play counter… Well… I mean I’m glad it doesn’t but I kind of wish it did. I’ve been playing since 2011 or so…

I probably have more than a year in actual game time… lol

I juuuust retired a t420s recently… off lease computers are absolutely the way to go for buying new to you laptops.

Toss in a SSD and a Linux distro… and you’re good for 6-8 years imho

My wife did a cert class for data analytics and needed a work horse laptop. I bought her a used i7 Thinkpad from eBay.

It’s so damn fast… m2 drive 32 GB of ram it’s literally only limited in speed by the user input.

Just an amazing deal for $450

Edit it was a t14 gen 2.

I work for a small dev company. We have no idea what other silos are working on. Only 1-2 people at the very top have some sort of inkling… Maybe.

In a company that large… I don’t doubt that projects get filed under a very large encompassing epic (or the equivalent for what ever scrum software they are using) and not overly discussed with the business majors / marketing people that are the c-level people now.

I’m of the mindset that you bought the domain you can do with it as you please. Where I think you’d get into “trouble” is if you were talking about piracy or something associated with their IP.

And the best possible outcome is they contact you and buy it for some much larger amount than you paid for it.

Lmao I mean I knew it was going go be bad … but that’s so hilariously awful.