My ISP is a local deal, well-known for protecting privacy, and run by an absolute nerd (in the best way possible, also outspoken about privacy, FOSS, and other such things). Their customer service is second-to-none; I had an issue with my static IP a couple years back, and had an actual engineer on the line within a few hours. On a weekend.

It’s XMission. I dropped Comcast for them once they were in my area. Comcast can climb up a cactus.

Task lists keep me sane, wtf are you all smoking

spoon fed software

That’s a new one. I like it.

My phone comes in clutch for this. I use Tasker to create a reminder automatically whenever I get a text from the pharmacy to pick up meds. Otherwise I will forget by the time I actually have a minute to get them. It reminds me every day until I mark it as completed.

My calendar is also indispensable; without it I would be a lost man 😅.

Right, but asking for 2-4 drive bays…

🤔

A PCI-E expansion board full of M.2 NVME drives might do the trick.

I’d argue for something a bit bigger, physically. The Optiplex SFF systems don’t have a whole lot of interior space for hard drives, in fact the 7050 SFF can only handle a single 3.5", a single 2.5", and a single NVME.

I have an older HP Elitedesk 8300 SFF that can handle 3x 3.5" drives, 2x 2.5" drives, and boot from an M.2 NVMe on a PCIE adapter card (I modded the BIOS). But that’s limited to 3rd gen Intel 🫤

For as popular as Samsung is, they sure tend to fuck up the UI quite a bit.

I use Planka pretty regularly to track some of my projects. They just pushed out a release candidate for v2 a few weeks ago, which brought some nice features.

Uploaded your mind to the cloud

what happen if I yank too hard and damage the shifter?

It’s literally designed that way. You even answered it yourself:

The idea is to really push to the left so you engage reverse and not 1st.

That’s part of why I only download released episodes and movies. Cam rips suck ass, and there’s too much risk of downloading garbage that isn’t the real file.

Yeah I just straight up pirate movies now, I don’t even try to hide it from people anynore. It’s clear to me at this point that all these companies care about is getting richer by the minute off the backs of the common man, and their excuses for doing so are getting more and more pathetic.

planning on running a number of docker containers and a couple of vms.

Just FYI, you can probably do ALL of that on a $200 Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF.

Source: my $200 Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF running 3 VMs, 3 LXC containers, and 16 docker containers - not including the multiple containers within the Nextcloud AIO “mastercontainer”. There is plenty of overhead to spare.

MS Office has had the same basic layout for well over a decade now though?

Ah yes, migrating a foreground user process to a background system process.

Yes, I am painfully aware. Unfortunately, this doesn’t actually help.

Bingo.

And even then it’s difficult to find shit, like for instance, finding the working directory for crontab when run as root. This answer on Stack Exchange is the embodiment of my second example in the other comment. The answers go into great detail, yet still don’t answer the question in any reasonable capacity for a “standard user” like myself.

Nice. I’ve got a SJW account as well, but that’s for more political and social stuff. My db0 account is more focused on the tech side of things.

Man pages tend to assume a lot and overload the user with information.

Forums are full of “duh, haven’t you read the man pages, idiot?” kinds of people.

Web searches are full of AI/garbage (same thing) articles that focus on distros/programs that are either horrendously inaccurate, out of date, or simply don’t exist anymore.

Therefore, I utilize the tldr man pages, and use extremely specific terms for web searches.

Not wrong, but still.