If you really, really, really don’t want to buy a keyboard and monitor, you can buy a USB KVM console, but it’ll likely cost more. Something like this: https://www.startech.com/en-us/server-management/notecons01

Probably work on Château Picard. Like living in a hypothetical post-scarcity world, having all of your needs met is not an excuse not to do productive work, or to adopt selfish goals.

I’m in the same position, and it feels so damn powerful. I’ve convinced an entire university to ditch Ubuntu in favor of Linux Mint, and I’m also advocating for replacing our aging VMWare servers (with a soon-to-expire license) with Proxmox.

Damn, I had no idea netcat had a hardware implementation

A minor can’t consent, period. Even if they say all the right words. That’s what “statutory” means in statutory rape. It is the adult’s responsibility to avoid and disengage from that contact, at all times.

Considering the power dynamic between someone who is legally a child and is restricted in some liberties, and an adult who has far greater liberties, trust, and power, I certainly wouldn’t consider it ethical.

What they’re not telling is the worm died of starvation. It was likely the preferable alternative.

When you hear that clunk of the 135mm being loaded from the direction of your ass

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she was acting as a whistleblower

Genius. If I’m ever prosecuted for murder, my defense will be that I was making a point about the public safety and the ease of breaking and entering with a knife.

I haven’t tried, but you might be able to set up a samba share that points to /var/www/nextcloud-data/USER/files, just make sure that it uses the www-data user.

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Because “willful, profit-oriented degradation of quasi-monopolistic services” just doesn’t sound nice, so a man who’s passionate about that sort of stuff came up with a better word for the concept, and other people who are passionate about that sort of stuff picked it up. Those same people ended up leaving Twitter and Reddit when they underwent that process and congregated around the fediverse.

At some point, you have to compromise.

• You can open the port(s) used by the game on the firewall (assuming you have a publicly routable IP).
• You can run OpenVPN or a proprietary solution, but you’ll have to open a port on the firewall, and I know from experience that they’re a bitch and a half to configure.
• You can run Wireguard, but you’ll have to open a port on your firewall and have the other clients generate and send you their public keys.
• You can run Tailscale (my preferred solution), which uses Wireguard and works without opening the firewall and without a publicly routable IP (e.g. behind CGNAT), but you’ll have to install the client, have the users sign in, and then add them to your tailnet, which IMO is much easier than setting up Wireguard peers manually.
• You can use Tailscale Funnel, which exposes your tailnet to the public internet, but it’s in beta, has high latency, and only supports TCP, so you’ll have to figure out how to smash UDP datagrams through a TCP tunnel.
• You can try Ngrok (my backup in case Tailscale can’t connect), which is a similar NAT traversal solution, but it only supports TCP and gives you a different IP and port every time you create a tunnel.
• Twingate also exists, I guess, but I’ve only ever used it for SSH.

A guaranteed buff from sleeping (unless werewolf)

Can’t see the ad if it’s blocked by a tongue!

Anything apple is shit on.

Because Apple is a horrible company, not because of the technical knowledge of its users.

Listen to Final Fantasy XIV’s music, especially Shadowbringers and Endwalker. That game is a musical with audience participation. Some songs were also performed by a real band of the actual developers, The Primals, and later included in the game.

Mild spoilers (hide the video and you’ll be fine):

• Footfalls
• On blade’s edge
• Close in the distance
• Of countless stars
• Ultima (Primals version)
• In the balance
• Dedicated to moonligh
• Metal: Brute Justice Mode (both in-game and Primals)
• Locus
• eScape

Spoilers (major plot points in video or lyrics):

• Who brings shadow
• To the edge
• Athena, the tireless one
• Tomorrow and tomorrow (more a cutscene song, but it’s amazing)

This is the winner, I’LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!

The Greatest Show On Earth by Nightwish. It’s about 17 minutes long, plus an epilogue narrated by Richard Dawkins.

Tech support for factory machines. I used to work in a fairly modern (in terms of products) factory, and the SMT assembly machines were positively archaic. Most were decades old by the time I quit, they all had their own quirks, and very few people who could troubleshoot them. The factory was shut down every weekend, and getting the machines to talk to each other and the server on Monday mornings was a ritual just short of praying to the Omnissiah.