Seems silly to limit it to one month of the year.

Prusa and Cura are available on flathub and work fine. AFAIK Orca isn’t in the main repo but the flatpak is on their github and works fine for me too.

Termux and associated addons, especially x11. Because fuck the direction the entire Android ecosystem is going in. I’d rather have a Linux phone, but Termux:x11 is as close as I’m realistically going to get at the moment.

It gives you enough time to shut down properly and avoid data loss, which is what a UPS is supposed to do.

If you configure your power settings right, it’ll run on battery then shutdown or s2d safely.

1. Old laptop as a server is viable and not unheard of. They’re generally low power consumption, and have a built-in KVM and UPS.

2. Depends on your VPN provider and use case. I’d recommend against Tor-only if you want normal people to ever see anything you blog. You’ll need static IP and/or dynamic DNS if you want it to be reachable with any kind of reliability. Doing it over VPN requires your provider to support port forwarding, which not all do.

3. Again, depends on your use case. It’s generally a good idea to disable unused services. Worst case it goes down while you’re on holidays or something and you can’t get it back up for a while. Can you live with that? It might also be a good idea to leave SSH on but access restricted to LAN only. That way you don’t have to get up from your main rig to tweak stuff on it, and can follow tutorials in a browser while SSH’ed in to the server.

It’s a weird isometric skateboard racing game, for some reason. I sucked at it, but I’m not sure if that’s a controls issue or a skill issue. Manual here, Amiga gameplay video here.

Wild. I’ve played the official one. Never knew this existed.

The OG Legion Go supports eGPU, at least on paper. It’s one of the reasons I bought it. Mine runs bazzite fantastically, but haven’t personally tested the eGPU piece yet.

Pretty sure they are in some places. Depends on local council.

Nobody is protesting, but imagine if they did!

The split second before the orbital laser hits full power. Because fuck that person in particular.

When I lived within walking distance of my work, I used to try to take a slightly different route every day. Not by a lot, just a different side street here or there. You might see some cool street art or a nice flower or get to meet a friendly dog or cat.

Or you could use a fork that strips out the AI shit.

Don’t mantis shrimp have a ridiculous number of colour receptors? My guess would be there’s something going on with the clam’s reflective tissue that we can’t see.

They need more content to feed to the LLMs

On a regular basis, probably classic DooM / DooM 2.

AdStandards can’t issue fines or force those ads offline. I think that might be ACMA territory.

The article does mention, and I think it’s worth remembering, that AdStandards is an industry self-regulatory organisation. They can’t actually do shit. They call them a regulator, but they don’t have any real power. They don’t do anything proactively, can’t issue fines or legally-backed takedown notices, and their “rules” only apply to members of the AANA. Besides a lot of “we have investigated ourselves and found no misconduct” situations, this means the socmed ads mentioned in the article are functionally unaffected, because the businesses aren’t members. Even members can just refuse breach notices. It mostly exists as a place where consumer complaints go to die.

Shaka, when the sausage fell.

What is going on with retailers, do they think every young person who shops is a millionaire??