circuitfarmer

Yeah this clown and like half the Dem establishment needs to go. Maybe more than half. I’m not one for the “both parties are the same” bullshit, but between the enablements and the not listening to constituents, it is clear that many of these people are incapable of performing the duties for which they were elected.

Definitely makes a lot of sense to use a VM for it. Though there is something fun about having a spare laptop and just playing on bare metal.

I’m running Mint currently

I’m wondering if there is a lot of benefit to going more barebones

Not really. On the scale at which homelabs operate, I doubt you’ll see any difference at all – except what might be the significant time sink to set everything up again.

I’m not having any issues with my current setup

I’d put this firmly in the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” category. Mint is already a distro which is ultimately a Debian derivative. It operates more like Debian as opposed to, say, Fedora or Arch. While it can be enticing to explore the many options of Linux, the benefit isn’t clear here.

Now, distro hopping on a nonproduction system? Something where you don’t care what’s on it and you just want to experiment? That’s one of the best parts of being a Linux user. But at least do that first before even approaching breaking something that isn’t broken.

It sounds more like you want to have fun distro hopping, and believe me: I can tell you from experience that distro hopping isn’t fun if you have to rely on that machine.

This is it. This is when it actually becomes permanent.

If the “don’t tread on me” morons weren’t such pushovers, he wouldn’t think he could get away with so much.

Ffs. He’s a rich dude supporting other rich dudes. He doesn’t give a fuck about you or me and his statements about affordability are obviously and demonstrably out of touch.

There was a time when hating the rich was something that brought people together.

This was my thought. When he invades Iceland everyone will reference the part of this speech about use of force and realize it only applied to Greenland.

This. Corporations on paper should have consequences like a person. In practice, they can do whatever they want, because the US Government worships capitalism. More so than the people.

Citizens United was a tipping point. If corporations are people and can give without limit to political campaigns, then only corporate choices will win. The others won’t even make the ballot. It is 100% a fix.

Was there democracy before Citizens United? Maybe. Certainly more than now.

A better question is how many more leopards need to eat faces before ANY Republicans grow either a brain or a spine.

I think it’s an astronomical number. Bigly.

Punk AF.

Not even the tiniest of violins for this one. I hope these bootlickers live in fear for the rest of their lives.

They are a good example that simply being human does not necessarily give you humanity, and they should all be absolutely ashamed.

You aren’t going to get any real change out of a career politician. Ever.

Peggle. As a grown ass person I still play it at least once every couple of weeks. Stupid fun when you don’t want to pay too much attention.

This this this. Show me a conservative that a) can understand that different people are affected by different things at different times, b) that people in government need to accept (a), and c) that they aren’t the main character, and I’ll show you Half Life 3.

They literally control all the government. And they still couldn’t govern.

If the roles were reversed, I can’t even imagine the right wing media backlash.

Clearly he’s saying “Trump stop”, another crazy lefty /s

And? Laws don’t matter to these people.

When there are consequences for a law being broken by these folks, report that.

In linguistics this is called “code switching”, and it is extremely common among native bilinguals.

Meanwhile, the president says he “couldn’t care less” about uniting America