The joke is electricity and Linux.

The real answer is the free hardware.

My main reliable is from 2008? It cannot do modern virtualization due to not having the CPU instruction sets.

Is the redundancy used for bools? I mean in actual practice.

Seems like a lot of work, when the font I use will mess it up. And compiler/interpreter won’t care.

But if it makes you happy, go for it.

Fuck. Copilot is going to add ads to everything.

Videos, links, random paragraphs. Everything written by a llm will feature 3rd party ads. Taking a page from malware developers, there will be innocuous libraries added that will later morph.

Eventually, we will stop writing software as llms will be all software. Serving ads. Serving you to advertisers.

“Hey watch, what time is it?”

“Time for a sugar snack. Just go to the counter, it is already paid for (by you).”

Apt-cacher-ng doesn’t tend to expire automatically. It can be configured to keep the last version regardless. https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/html/maint.html#extrakeep

One can also use a cache to hold deb and rpm files requested by the machines. (Works great when running hundreds of systems.)

I like “apt-cacher-ng”. It will do deb and rpm. https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/

Edit: better link

Offline repository caches for Linux have been a thing for decades. People absolutely pass binaries to friends.

Flatpac may not be suitable, but that is only one way to get software on Linux.

Pretty much every Windows machine I’ve ever owned after a certain year requires you to type in your Bitlocker key, including my first-gen Surface Go from 2018.

This is interesting. I had a work computer require this ~4 years ago, but not one of the three since have (personal and different employers.)

Here here!

I love meetings about the general idea and concept of a project that takeip the “doing” timeof the single person that will do the work.

Other options are LUKS with Tang and Clevis, or LUKS with SSH and Dropbear.

Sorry, I have no details.

Edit: Tang/Clevis are local software and a network server that provide keys. If stolen, won’t boot.

SSH and Dropbear make it so you can login to provide keys.

It is complicated. There are several options, each with tradeoffs in functionality, compatible software, and performance.

A simple method is to use one system as a desktop, and SSH into the others as “headless”.

Other options include making a K8s or HPC cluster (there are other cluster types).

Spreading a single set of communicating processes requires a low latency interconnect. Something better than Ethernet, like Infiniband. But many programs don’t support that.

What features do you want?

That hurts.

What should my first configurations and preparations

Write on paper your goals. Write on paper a list of your systems and what needs to speak with what.

Then pick the most important or simplest device and get it connected the way you want.

At home, colors Whatever color the purpose is.

I was wrong. “Find” didn’t find it.

For the out of the loop, but also lazy:

Android app that reveals installed apps which may be leaking your location data.

Should swap it around. Send tight, short human readable email. Use LLM to expand and add flowery language for those that want it.

You put lots of time and effort in. Now it will be discarded due to decisions of others.

Sad and/or disappointed feelings are normal.

Take care of yourself.

Look up what system vendors will sell for that CPU. If they sell 256 GiB, then you are likely good.

I don’t find I ever upgrade after the first couple months. I would max it out or get multi CPU boards wherI cannot afford to max it out.