Terraform and Ansible. LLMs make Infra as code easy, and the best part is they can output beautiful Markdown and HTML documentation (use a CDN for the CSS).

You can easily load alternate firmware on a Kobo.

Pirates, not geniuses. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/

RReligion over substance.

In corporate environment, add Crowdstrike, Zscaler, windows instrumentation, and then some digital experience management solution to report on why apps are so slow, battery life is still only a few hours while it heats the room while sitting ‘idle’, or trying to render a file explorer window with 20 cores and 32 GB of RAM. Did I mention there are updates and you MUST REBOOT NOW, forget that you are presenting to a client.

Almost as offensive as Dell laptop keyboards on their corpo laptops. Ugh.

I haven’t heard any good end of the world stories lately. Can anyone find a pattern in Nostradamus that PROVES 2027 is THE year? I need to get on YouTube and start warning everyone.

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They funded his presidential campaign and own nearly all the media to oppress opposition and push propaganda. So big tech is getting from the world what they put into it?

Orange Pi?

Second image should be the display on a fridge.

It’s a burning platform, and the future isn’t bright. IT and security would love to get rid of Windows desktops, they are nightmare to manage and secure. Problem is legacy.

But who still uses native Windows Apps other than Office? Legacy apps are out there, but also being migrated to low code browser apps. Even Office is an web app and Microsoft has been converting their ‘native’ apps into browser containers. Point is that Almost everything runs on a web browser and that is what kids have been using in schools for nearly 10 years. To date, ChromeOS is widely used in some roles (contact center, some back office). Developers, graphics, video, marketing, executives, along with most sales often use Mac, and nearly every enterprise uses both Android and IPhone /iPad OS.

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Fight Club was Chuck saying fuck you to publishers for rejecting his work was too edgy etc. So he went all out, and not only becomes a published book, but a movie.

“Under Spanbauer’s influence, Palahniuk produced an early draft of what would later become his novel Invisible Monsters (1999), but it was rejected by all publishers he submitted it to. Palahniuk then wrote a second novel, expanding on his short story, “Fight Club”.[9] Initially, Fight Club was published as a seven-page short story in the compilation Pursuit of Happiness (1995),[10] but Palahniuk expanded it to novel length (in which the original short story became chapter six); Fight Club: A Novel was published in 1996.[11]”

Linux for desktop. MacBook Air for my laptop, only because of Microsoft Office. Bought a cheap Office for Mac 2021 licence. Mac is also much better than Windows 11 too: responsive, Fast wake/sleep, no 20 minute reboots with mystery updates, no registry, no Powershell. If you can avoid Office documents and run an AMD GPU, anyone should be golden on Linux. NVidia is fine if you are comfortable with command line. Not really sure what Windows has going for it except inertia, but if your coasting, you are going downhill…

Poor XMPP, no one will just let it die.

Not knowing about Incus (LXD). It’s a life changer. Would never run any service on bare metal again.

Using GenAI to develop my Terraform and Ansible playbooks is magical. Also, use it to document everything in beautiful HTML docs from the outputs. Amazing.

Would you believe Oracle OCI? They have an always free tier, as in you never pay. You need a valid regular credit card. At first I thought it was for a slow x86 instance, but it includes Arm hours equivalent to 4 cores, 24 GB RAM, 10TB of transfer a month, I think 200GB storage. Divide it up for an nginx reverse proxy in front of it, or HA Proxy if you are feeling ambitious.

Consistency between devices. Android isn’t android, everyone mucks with it, especially Samsung.

TBF, Motorola is a bit misleading. Nothing against the product, (I love my RAZR), but they were basically diminished to a brand-name that is now owned by Lenovo.