Regarding HoudiniFX it seems they have Linux installs, and a free (with watermark) version for hobbyists - https://www.sidefx.com/products/houdini-apprentice/
Other than that I’d say Blender is the goto app, showing up as one of the most popular apps in the Discover app.

My recommendation would be to use clonezilla or a similar tool to make an image of your windows install and save that on the external ssd.
Then I would install Fedora KDE or whatever’s your poison on the internal drive.
If you wanna switch back to windows then you can always use clonezilla, or your tool of choice, to restore the image.
You could also use KVM/Qemu in your linux distro to restore the image into a windows vm.
virt-manager gives you a desktop gui while cockpit + cockpit-machines gives you a nice webui for handling virtual machines in linux.

Clonezilla guide, for both linux and windows
https://www.linuxbabe.com/backup/how-to-use-clonezilla-live

Both Cockpit and Virt-Manager are available in Fedora KDE’s Discover app if you prefer GUI installs:
Cockpit

Virt-Manager

Reason I went or self-hosting Forgejo is to know it when federation comes along for real.
I’d love being able to federate my self-hosted Forgejo with my friends self-hosted Forgejo servers.
https://forgejo.org/2025-01-monthly-update/#federation

I’m a big fan of using https:// in Mull on my Android, and in Firefox on my PC.
Never been a fan of installing more apps then necessary.

If I had a ps1 I wanted to use then I would look at FreePSXBoot and UniROM - https://github.com/brad-lin/FreePSXBoot

Känns som att den här sortens projekt vore en perfekt kontring mot Trumps senaste tullar.
“25% tull på allt stål!” -> Sverige och EU passar på att rusta upp järnväg och annan infrastruktur istället för att exportera sitt stål.

Linux Routing Fundamentals

Linux has been a first class networking citizen for quite a long time now. Every system running a Linux kernel out of the box has at least three routing tables and is supporting multiple mechanisms for advanced routing features from policy based routing (PBR), to VRFs(-lite), and network namespaces (NetNS). Each of these provide different levels or separation and features, with PBR being the oldest one and VRFs the most recent addition (starting with kernel 4.3).

This article is the first part of the Linux Routing series and will provide an overview of the basics and plumbings of Linux routing tables, what happens when an IP packet is sent from or through a Linux box, and how to figure out why. It’s the baseline for future articles on PBR, VRFs, and NetNSes, their differences as well and applications.

Civ4 is the one I still play. I like my stacks of doom and could never get into the hexagons and no stacking units of later games.

Scientists have enhanced thermogalvanic refrigeration, a cooling method that leverages electrochemical reactions.

By tweaking the solutes and solvents used in the electrolyte solution, the researchers were able to improve the hydrogalvanic cell’s cooling power. They used a hydrated iron salt containing perchlorate, which helped the iron ions dissolve and dissociate more freely compared to other previously tested iron-containing salts such as ferricyanide. By dissolving the iron salts in a solvent containing nitriles rather than pure water, the researchers were able to improve the hydrogalvanic cell’s cooling power by 70%.

The optimized system was able to cool the surrounding electrolyte by 1.42 K, which is a big improvement compared to the 0.1 K cooling capacity reported by previously published thermogalvanic systems.

Source: https://scitechdaily.com/refrigeration-hasnt-changed-in-70-years-this-breakthrough-is-changing-everything/

Nope! The closest is the judgment stated that a hammer reinforced the message of racism that other symbols conveyed. in 2000.

Also, The Chancellor of Justice stated that those familiar with the use of the symbols may associate the clothing with anti-Semitism and racism, but questioned whether the wider public would perceive the clothing as an expression of threat or disdain for a specific group of people. in 2019.

So I guess you could call it a symbol that racist groups tried to take but haven’t succeeded.

Torshammare
I en tingsrättsdom 1998 dömdes den tilltalade för flera symboler, bl.a. en torshammare, men även hakkors.
Med hänsyn till de andra symbolerna och de mycket korta domskälen går det inte att avgöra hur endast en torshammare hade bedömts.
Liknande bedömning gjordes i en tingsrättsdom 2000.
Även i en annan tingsrättsdom 2000 dömdes den tilltalade för flera symboler och i domen angavs att en torshammare förstärkt det budskap om rasism som andra symboler förmedlade.

• Sida 78 https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/rasistiska-symboler.-praxisgenomgang-och-analys_h7b327/html/

Torshammare
I ett beslut 2019 bedömde JK att en bild av en t-shirt med motiv av en örn och en torshammare, som publicerats på en webbplats, inte gav anledning att anta att hets mot folkgrupp hade begåtts.
Torshammaren förekom, tillsammans med en tröja med texter och bilder, i ett beslut 1999.
Det är oklart vilken betydelse som JK lade vid torshammaren.
JK uttalade att den som är insatt i användningen av symbolerna kan förknippa klädseln med antisemitism och rasism, men ifrågasatte om en bredare allmänhet skulle uppfatta klädseln som uttryck för hot mot eller missaktning för en bestämd grupp av personer.

• Sida 88 https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/rasistiska-symboler.-praxisgenomgang-och-analys_h7b327/html/

Shooter had a hunting license and used his own hunting weapon for the attack. He had no known affiliations with criminals and had no criminal records of his own. He had no income during 2023 according to his tax statements.

Source https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/det-har-vet-vi-om-misstankte-garningsmannen-i-orebro

Note that the Qur’an burnings is not what they were on trial for, but for what was said during the events.
Also, Tingsrätten is filled with laymen and almost always appealed in these kind of cases.

Criticism: Bundling together

Freedom of expression expert Nils Funcke believes that there are still question marks about how far freedom of expression extends.

– If you look at what Momika and Najem say in the transcription found in the preliminary investigation, I would say that Najem speaks about the Koran, about Muhammad and about the religion of Islam, and I think that falls within a broad freedom of expression.
I think that Najem and Momika’s statements are lumped together and thus Najem is blamed for what Momika said.

According to Mark Safaryan, Salwan Najem’s lawyer, the verdict will be appealed.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/nu-faller-domen-efter-koranbranningar-i-stockholm

SnappyMail seem to be a fork of Rainloop and both Rainloop and Snappymail appear to allow multiple providers - https://snappymail.eu/
Cypht seems to be a similar solution where you selfhost a webserver that acts as a web client to external email providers - https://www.cypht.org/documentation/
I find nothing about push notifications for either of those solutions though, and I’m not sure about how much the webclients cache.

Ah yeah, this was the line I read a bit too fast:

Any modern Linux distribution should basically be in good shape for the AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors. The one recent caveat is needing Linux 6.12+ for the AMD Zen 5 CPU power reporting if that is important to you otherwise it’s an easy one-liner patch to backport.

Compatibility for desktop pcs is a whole lot better nowadays. Main thing to check is the motherboard; Bluetooth, WiFi and BIOS updates without windows can be pain areas but even that is getting rarer. Laptops require some more reasearch.
If you’re going cutting edge (AMD Ryzen 9800X3D) then you’ll need kernel 6.12 or higher.
Here’s a Linux review of the 9800X3D - https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-linux

I second this. OEM machines usually come with weird caveats where they saved money on the PSU or other parts that isn’t used in their marketing of the machine.

In my country many online computer stores offer to prebuild your custom pc, offering warranty on the whole build.
Great if you don’t have the time to put it together or if you want the warranty offered.

Now that we’re adding more dystopian books to the thread I’d like to shout out to Kallocain (1940) by Karin Boye. It’s more of a totalitarian state similar to 1984 but has an aspect of truth drugs, a hot topic back then, and thought criminalization.

Uconsole bigger one - https://www.clockworkpi.com/home-devterm

Beepberry - https://beepy.sqfmi.com/
https://liliputing.com/beepberry-is-a-79-hackable-pocket-computer-kit-with-a-blackberry-keyboard/

Colorberry - https://www.elecrow.com/colorberry.html
https://github.com/hyphenlee/colorberry

PC Pilet old but cool looking one - https://soulscircuit.com/pilet
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/pilet-mini-pi-5-modular-computer/

ESP32 - ESP32 is a SoC, example of handheld using it is the LILYGO T-Deck Plus - https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-1
https://linuxgizmos.com/updated-t-deck-plus-an-esp32-handheld-device-with-gps-and-lora-support/

Mecha Comet with the switchable keyboards - https://mecha.so/comet
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/modular-linux-handheld-mecha-comet/

Some links to help checking out the handhelds mentioned.

Some developers make gog users second rate citizens, some don’t publish on gog at all. I wouldn’t call it a sinking ship though, later years they’ve had more big name games such as Baldur’s Gate 3 than before.

Also, if gog shuts down tomorrow I can still install all my games from the installers on my network share, something I can’t say about steam.