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linux-capable tablets for $100-$200
  • This is a bit of a slog, but I have tailscale and rdclient running on an iplay mini 50. I have a SIM card in it, but I am on wifi 95% of the time, and it connects back to my desktop at home running Fedora. Not quite as good as being in front of it, but it's a pretty reliable workflow, and I can switch the same remote session to my laptop if I need more screen size.

  • What can I do in other Linux distros that I can't do in Linux Mint Xfce?
  • Steam and Lutris work well! I can game on XFCE Mint just fine. I actually have an easier time of it than on a number of distros, thanks to the combination of flatpaks and the Ubuntu base. But, I am not "the kids".

  • Building out my jellyfin media server question
  • I have a Mini PC from China for 200$ Canuckian (That's like 25 US dollars) which has two 2.5 GB ports. A lot of NASes these days also have 2.5 GB. As long as you don't stick a 1GB switch between them, you have plenty fast speeds.

  • What kind of person am I if I decide to stay in a job, even if my supervisors work against me?
  • Not similar, but my old job sucked, hated my boss, hated many of my co-workers, and despised the company. I took a package out and am back at school, and don't regret it for one minute. Fear of the unknown is how bad bosses keep good employees.

  • NFS mount disappearing
  • I did the hackiest, lamest thing back in the day... I had my client write the current date and time to a file on the share every two minutes as a Cron job... Kept it working for months! I saw it on a forum somewhere, tried it, and... Shocked Pikachu face I don't know if I ever disabled that Cron job! Haha!

  • DOOGEE Blade 10 Ultra Review: A Sleek, Rugged Powerhouse With Impressive Storage And Durability
  • I've had two different unihertz models, and neither of them could stay on any wifi, and both of them dropped calls like crazy. I contacted customer support, and they 'offered' to swap for another exact same phone, if I paid to ship both ways, and I didn't mind having no phone for a month. Jelly 2, and Atom XL. The Atom was especially bad as it has a giant bloody antenna sticking out the top of it, and still no WiFi!

    Avoid Unihertz.

  • Any recommendations for making a free or low-cost wiki for personal projects? (NOT Fandom though)
  • I ran a mediawiki for almost exactly that for a while on a really old computer that was collecting dust. Eventually I turned it into a VM. I still have it somewhere... You could totally host that on linode or digital ocean.

  • How to get the good life of the 80s and 90s back?
  • There are a lot of problems, but there are a lot of things we aren't worrying about now, either. AIDS was killing millions, and there was no treatment. The Satanic Panic. People were exposed to lead and asbestos everywhere. Duck and cover drills in schools for when the nukes went off. I mean, we're all scrambling to figure out how to stop climate disasters, but then they were scrambling to stop some nutter on either side from pushing a button and ending the world! Where I come from, they still took kids away from their parents for the crime of being Aboriginal! Things change.

    I choose to be optimistic. All through the twentieth century, overpopulation and mass famine were looming spectres, and better crops, phosphate fertilizers, falling birthdates all led to us not really being that worried about that. Read Stand on Zanzibar.

    Crime rates are down all over the world.

    The inequality? 1920's. The FTC and the EU are (finally, IMO) taking big tech to task for their monopolistic behaviour. It's moving slow, but there is starting to be the political will to address the challenges.

    Things go in cycles.

  • What are your favorite Firefox extensions?
  • I really like the Firefox Multi account containers extension... It keeps my school stuff out of my shopping stuff, and my banking stuff separate. I keep all Google products in their own container.

  • Godzilla Minus One Team React to their Oscar Nomination for Best Visual Effects

    This makes me so pleased! Go see this movie!

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    My current phone, ask me anything!

    www.notebookcheck.net Mode 1 Retro II: Affordable flip phone starts running Android with 48 MP camera and two displays

    P-UP World has released a flip phone that returns to the roots of the form factor. Rather than using a foldable OLED display, the Mode 1 Retro II has a pair of small displays and physical controls for equivalent to US$199 in Japan.

    Mode 1 Retro II: Affordable flip phone starts running Android with 48 MP camera and two displays

    I like it so far, although it does have some quirks. I find that I tend to ignore the bottom half and just hold the top bit like I would hold a normal phone. Not super fast, but it goes easily in my pocket, and now I have the nickname "Flip phone".

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