I use Kubuntu for that. Works good, is reliable, and uses Plasma instead of Gnome. The KDE Plasma environment is way easier to “get” for people coming from Windows than Gnome.

So it is oficially a shitphone.

Apt update and upgrade happen automatically.

Time to go to the farm shop and get a bottle from the vending machine!

I was running a server hosting a Gutenberg mirror at home 30+ years ago. And no, it’s not public.

The “best content” being ip-located ads, probably.

Linux server administration tool, web interface based. Makes managing servers way easier.

I just repurposed one of our older PCs for that task. Slap Ubuntu on it, install webmin, and you’re set up.

I assume. I mean, they do make money somehow, and it’s probably not by getting pirated.

All of the anime pirating sites are riddled with ads.

As if the commercial sites were any better…

Are you complaining about issues with the perfect products of the Alpha Complex’ finest R&D department, troubleshooter?

One of my schoolmate was a serious asshole. Our guesses for his future were either he’d be a lawyer, or he’ll make a career in the FDP (a more money for the rich kind of political party here, with a “liberal” label).

I was not surprised to learn that he is lawyer, working for exactly that party.

Dr. Who: “Hold my beer”

During and due to the reign of Helmut Kohl. A chancellor who put the sake of the party over his oath of office. There were large donations to his party of unknown origin, and he claimed that he had given the donor his word of honor not to tell where the money came from. And that was it. No prosecution, no consequences.

This is for me simply unacceptable. Our Grundgesetz (constitution) says that anybody is equal before the law, and here someone was obviously more equal than others.

Zohran Mamdani

Knows politics, but is a person I’d trust to fix things.

Network Administration.

If the network and servers all work: What are we paying you for?

If the network or one of the servers are down: What are we paying you for?

But even travel alone isn’t enough. You need to have a genuine curiosity about the world. About humanity.

Indeed. I’ve once met a boatful of American tourists visiting Cologne (Germany). I don’t think they actually knew where they were, and even called me a liar when I told them that the cathedral they were looking at was 750 years old (“No bulding can be that old!”).

Peter Argonis “Anthony Carter” universe.

And of course, I’d hire the talent. This material needs proper care.

I actually think there could be a market for this kind of stuff. “Master and Commander” was a wonderful movie, and if it had not been drowned out by the third “Lord of the Rings” movie, it could have been turned into a good-running movie series.

Peter Argonis works in the same genre “Dashing Hero Captain in the Age of Sail”, and IMHO he is better than Patrick O’Brian (of “Master and Commander”).

Yes, but a lot of ZigBee stuff ends up in environments that use a cloud-connected “smart” hub.

That’s why I never went serious into home automation. Because any affordable system is based on cloud shit beyond my control. Cloud goes belly-up, and thousands invested ins such a system are suddenly scrap? Not with me.