Thanks and right on! I love repairing things, feels good indeed.

Its the entire door and it was actually available widely for lots of unreasonable prices. I think it is a common part used in multiple units.

Luckily I found a local discout seller with a good price and stock on hand.

Thanks for that. Unfortunately, unless I'm missing something, it doesn't solve the work flow issue as my goal is to get my written text into a modern format that works with everything else I use, such as ascii or markdown.

Word Grinder hits all the marks.

Yes it has a web ui to connect to wifi. For cable you just plug it in.

Its simple and I can easily put a laptop or phone or whatever behind the microrouter and have confidence its only using the vpn.

When I travel I take a second microrouter with me to connect to the hotel wifi. All my devices are set to use the microrouter wifi so they never touch the hotel network, only the vpn. Easy, private, and avoids any filtering the hotek is doing.

I tried this setup for a bit. I liked Word Perfect for Dos but converting files to my linux desktop was a pain and I never found a workflow I liked.

For undisturbed writing, I use a laptop running a minimal cli only linux install with Word Grinder. Its a modern text mode writer app that stores files in text or markdown.

If your concern is ensuring a killswitch type vpn setup, I do that but in a different and simple way.

I have a GLinet microrouter configured to join the vpn and active killswitch mode. This is 2 clicks in the menu. I connect it to my network via its wan port.

Everything I want behind the VPN gets connected to the microrouter lan port and job done.

OP listed the apps they want to run and none of that was on their list

A gaming rig is a waste of money because you don't need a fast gpu on a such a server. You want a boring server box and even better one with built-in "ilo" remote management.

Everyone else agrees they are.

Really? Can I see the survey you sent everyone but me to determine this?

The story is not about a new breakthrough or even Energy tech at all. Its about policy.

The common definition of technology is any practical application of scientific priciples.

So yes, a shower head, a shoe horn, and chopsticks are all technology.

However, in the context of News and Discussion, Technology typically means Computing, Internet, Electronics, Telecoms, AI, Energy Tech, etc and usually with a focus on new developments, product releases, new breakthroughs, etc.

I understand! For most of my career its been the same for me.

The "big" switch I'm currently contemplating at the moment is moving to FreeBSD on my home file server.

I do sometimes consider switching my workstation to OpenBSD when I get nostalgic for the early struggle days of linux. Like when you had to be really careful with hardware selection and what not.

But then I remember I had a lot more free time in those days!

Linux feels so mainstream to me now. Some days I'm temped to switch to OpenBSD or something ;)

How is this a technology story?

Seriously, as someone who has been using linux as their daily driver since 2000, I find it pretry amusing.

welcome to the blocklist

I never login with the root account. Not even on the console. You don't want everything you do running as root unless it is required. Otherwise it is much easier for a little mistake to become a big mess.

Every project eventually makes their own package manager. Its pretty insane if you stop and think about how routinely the package manager is re-invented.

It seems like the author is confusing open source with Open Source. The latter has a formal definition which includes a lot more than simple access to source code.

I also agree that no one is entittled to free support or enhancements, bugfizes, etc.