A truly insane take. Jesus.

I am working on routeing mail through tailscale to a relay, since my host, for whatever reason, blocks mail ports and charges to have them turned on.

Should work fine. Your provider can't stop you from opening ports unless its a shared environment and you don't have permission/the port is already in use. Generally what they do is just block connections from outside. So if you use a VPN you're sidestepping that issue. With the VPN in place, and the server online and running you should be able to connect via {VPN_IP}:995, etc.

IMO MiniITX are a real PITA to build for on a budget. Most of the smaller components are sold at a premium because of their size.

I sell these things for a living and its exceptionally difficult to compete with pre-built ITX boards. Generally, I have to get a really great deal to come out on top vs some of the prefab models.

Because of that, unless you need something very specific and can't find it elsewhere, I generally suggest that you do some research and find a nice prefab one for your needs. If you don't mind spending the extra $, then building them is a hell of a lot of fun because you can customize them and you get exactly what you want, nothing extra.

Replacing the mini-rack with a completely 3D printable version will pretty significantly curtail the cost (between 1-300 euro because mini-racks are fucking expensive), so it might really be worth it if you can. Everything else is pretty trivial. Only thing you'll have to make sure is you get a CPU and MB with enough PCIe lanes for you to expand to what you want. Specifically a PCIe X4 to 6 port SATA 3 host controller. The board only uses 4x lanes, but you'll have to ensure that all 4 lanes are available or you'll see reduced read/write speeds.

A reverse proxy like Caddy or Nginx is like a bouncer for your web services. It sits out front, deciding who gets in and where they're allowed to go. It's great for stuff you want to expose to the internet – like a website or web app – because it hides your actual servers, can handle HTTPS for you, and lets you set up some basic access rules.

A VPN is more like a secret underground tunnel between you and your server. Everything that goes through it is locked down to only members of the VPN. This is what you want when you're dealing with private stuff you don't want exposed to the open internet, like your home lab dashboard or some internal tools. The beauty of a VPN is that it works for everything--not just web traffic. SSH, file transfers, databases. All of it gets the same protection.

The federal judges could also send people to arrest Trump.

No, they cannot, because federal authorities won't prosecute a sitting US President. Only the House, by way of Impeachment, and the Senate, by way of conviction can anything be done about Trump now.

Additionally, SCOTUS gave the President total immunity when it comes to "official actions" which is not at all defined in any capacity, so the interpretation is up in the air. All's Trump has to do is argue that these are official actions and nothing can feasibly be done.

So he demands a sitting supreme court justice be arrested and they are. It goes to court and its found Trump can't do that. The judge is released, and nothing happens to Trump at all. So he tries again. And again. And again. Until he's finally successful.

Roe v. Wade was considered the law of the land and no one ever thought it could ever be overturned. Republicans tried for over 50 years to get it reversed which everyone agreed was a fools errand. And then they did... Just because something can't happen doesn't mean it really can't happen.

If she believed the drug charges were expunged and they were not, then she likely filled out the wrong immigration form and was granted residency because she "lied" on a government immigration document.

With a drug charge she very likely would not have been approved for residency. But this also means it's an oversight by USCIS, because the applicants criminal history should have been reviewed at the time of her application.

Something isn't adding up here.

I couldn't tell you. Personally I avoid systemd. My daily driver is Alpine Linux. lol

Look. I use both nvidia and amd video cards for 20 plus years.

And I've been using linux since 1992; so I'm going on 33 years with using both NVIDIA and AMD. I genuinely don't see the relevance here.

The experience under Linux using amd in factually better than Nvidia.

Again, his highly depends on the distro. With the vast majority of modern distros this is just a plain objectively incorrect statement. Using NVIDIA is as simple as installing a single package and restarting to load the drivers.

You can’t deny this fact.

I quite literally just did. Because it's not a fact. Five years ago? Sure. I'd give it to you. But not today. It's objectively incorrect.

The only down side of open source in this particular case is the stupid HDMI Forum people, who do not allow us to have the latest hdmi implementation for 4k 120hz in an open source driver.

Because it doesn't adhere to the open HDMI standard. If you want it so badly, integrate the changes yourself and offer the stub to the community.

Anyhow, the user is free to choose whatever video card they wish to use.

Which is why I posted in the very first place because you saying "don't buy NVIDIA, it doesn't work with linux!" is fucking stupid... End users are free to choose whatever video card they wish, especially without interference from someone operating with opinions deeply held in the past.

https://nym.com/ is great.

Pussies.

Since both locations are under $HOME the singular difference between them is the hidden aspect of ~/.local. That's pretty much it.

I think that's really an oversimplification--it really all depends. Systems won't boot in under 20 seconds under all circumstances, and just because your system takes a while to boot doesn't necessarily indicate there's an issue.

But either way, systemd-analize blame will help you track down some possible issues and hopefully correct them.

Another thing you can try if you're running Gnome, is to edit the application.desktop file in your system application launch folder and add a startup delay X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=60 to some non-critical applications that you still want to run at startup. This will ensure that not everything tries to star at once, but you still get all your helpful apps to run at startup.

I feel like the issue is pretty prevalent in the community as systemd not being incredibly popular with the fogies (myself included). Systemd is expanding at an exponential rate and the documentation is difficult to sift through for niche things like this.

But yes, it does exist and works relatively well.

Mint uses systemd, so just use it; systemd-analyze / systemd-analyze blame.

You can also visualize it;

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I also do this. There are some utilities I'd like to see included directly into most *nix distributions, like fd.

I use bin to manage the utilities, and can setup a new install by just bringing he binary and config. It works great--I highly recommend it.

I'll give it a go.

I guess I just offer better advice, not sure what to tell you. There's no reason to prioritize a single GPU over another, especially so on Linux. Driver support has come leaps and bounds this year alone, and it's only May.

Users should and need to make the decision for themselves which GPU is best for them and you shouldn't try to scare them away from a particular GPU because you had a bad experience with it.

While booting off of the usb I could access all the data on my laptop without having to input a password.

This is entirely expected behavior. You didn't encrypt your drive, so of course that data is available if you sidestep windows login protections. Check out Bitlocker for drive encryption.

I've been looking for a calculator app for years now that fits what I need I need it for and have yet to find a good one. There was a good one a few years ago called function-something which allowed you to create your own mathematic expressions and it was super awesome, but it's been discontinued... :(

EDIT: To those asking, I've essentially tried the first 50 that show up under "calculator" in Google Play. If you posted it, I've very likely tried it and found it lacking.

CS2

It has a native linux client: https://x0.at/I1ZV.png