Old thin clients and mini PCs are great for this. Many either have a half sized PCIe slot or can take a second network interface using the WiFi m.2 slot and a 3d printed bracket to mount the nic port.

You’re best off splitting the routing and WiFi tasks into separate hardware. Buy yourself a used ruckus unleashed r550/650 or r510/610 depending on how much you want to spend for wifi then run routing on whatever hardware is fit for purpose. I usually slap OPNsense on something like a dell/wyse 5070 j5005 mini PC, any mini PC with a PCIe slot will allow you to build a 1/2.5/10GbE router with open software. Chinese N100 router boxes are cheap now too, or you could reuse an old mini PC of some kind.

I don’t like rolling my own router using arm boards anymore, router distro support for them is unreliable and j5005 pulls <10W anyway.

+1, I absolutely loathe the twitter model of discussion because it’s a huge mess of out of order replies and random spam. Individual discussion posts with tree threaded comments are way, way, way more effective at keeping discussion relevant and directed. Also +1 re: moderation, social media functions best with effective, vigorous, moderation and the twitter model just sucks there.

When you’re coming from a position of extreme privilege and you’re either a bit stupid or lack empathy or general social awareness being treated equally with “lesser people” (like women, brown people or people from particular religious backgrounds) can seem an awful lot like you’re being discriminated against.

Not as badly as you’d expect, modern compression is pretty quick using the lz*'s and you’re only expending cycles when you’re hitting swap

We joke but zram swap works wonders on low resource systems sometimes

Ah, gotcha. It’s just difficult to figure out what this does if you’re not already neck deep in configuring status bar JSON

Screenshots showing what this does in action would help a lot

Cyclocross. You ride a bike similar to a road bike (but with better brakes and knobby tires) until you encounter an obstacle you can’t just bunny hop over. You hop off the bike, pick it up and jump the obstacle and then continue riding. It’s the bicycle version of a steeplechase race in mud and it’s hilarious.

It’s not even much of a skill anymore now that there’s so much focus on natural language question and answer. You can straight up Google “how do I X?” And get a relevant answer for just about anything.

Edit: I’m not even talking about generative AI here, googling simple questions without using AI worked well before the AI craze.

The scientific community would just collapse and we’d be worshipping cats as a world wide religion.

You’re a couple thousand years late on this one

Better to figure this out late than never I guess. Wasn’t this obvious 10+y ago though? Facebook has always been a predatory propaganda firehose.

I guess our local loonies just kept the panic party going for an extra decade or two

You don’t remember the religious nutjobs playing records backwards at 3/4 or 2x speed hunting for audio that they could claim was “I love Satan” subliminal messaging? Right up through the mid 90s we had all sorts of psychotic make believe like that.

The satanic panic rolled right through the mid 90s where I lived

Damn, that’s quite the change from the “d&d is satanic1111” of the 90s

I miss windows eating my work when it chooses to install updates and reboot automatically while I’m asleep

Edit: even after I’ve set registry flags and policies to “never automatically reboot” - it’s always fun losing 4 days of work because windows randomly says “fuck you”

I get spam like this on every single messaging platform eventually. Just block and report it and get on with your life.

I’m not sure how to get the N from session history, nor how to check my session history…

journalctl --list-boots will list all sessions stored in the journal.

The output is from yesterday, when the device stopped working correctly.

I’m not familiar with linux kernel, but I can see there is definitely something wrong…

The HDD (old) is attached to a USB hub (new), I tried switching port of the hub but the same issue happened again, if I try to mount it with sudo mount /mnt/2tb, it says it is already mounted:

Those messages tell you what’s happening, there’s an unrecoverable error on the USB bus connecting the hard drive which is causing filesystem errors when writes fail. Diagnose that, lose the hub first and directly connect the drive to the pi, then try replacing the cable that attaches the drive if the error still occurs. I’d also check with people in the rpi community in case there are any known issues with USB on your model. There may be some pi specific USB firmware things you can do to increase reliability.

You can also try disabling UASP for the drive in case BOT transfer somehow stabilizes the connection. You’ll lose performance but that helps with some USB storage bridges.

Some USB storage bridges are just unreliable under Linux and crash under load, your last option is to buy another drive enclosure that’s tested and known to work correctly. I went through like 5 USB/NVMe enclosures looking for one that worked properly, that whole space is a compatibility mess.

I wonder which billionaire is going to snap up bluesky once they’ve fattened their crop of highly engaged users