i started in january of this year because i upgraded my wife’s computer. that gave me an old computer to tinker with.

i recommend getting an old computer, installing an OS (look up thinks like truenas, proxmox, unraid… there are more and they are different; try them all out if you want to see what you like)

then go onto youtube and search for things like “<OS> beginner” and you will get a bunch of tips/tricks/tutorials/etc. for starting out with your favorite.

/c/NoFailedPrints

: D

i currently use immich, and it is phenomenal. immich is self-hosted, though, so you will need to host it somewhere.

i like it more than google photos because of its search features. ai/ml (local) learning of your photos so you can search for generic stuff and get pictures for it - it has been super helpful for sharing pictures with others, and i can generate single-use or limited-permission links to the photos just like a pro service. after importing a whole bunch of photos and letting the ai/ml run, make sure to name the people it pulls from your photos for easy searches for them : D

i havent had the chance to try stoat yet because most of my friends refuse to leave discord, but i heard of Stoat (used to he called Revolt, but i think there was a trademark conflict) a while back and have wanted to try it out.

https://github.com/stoatchat/

that is great! terminal use is not for everyone, so i only recommend using it if people feel comfortable with it or think it can save them time (and during troubleshooting, but im usually helping at that point).

my wife diesnt like using the terminal and has successfully gone without using it (minus me setting things up for her in the first few months), and that has given me a lot mire confidence in recommending linux to those that just want to use a computer and want it to “just work”

they get kubuntu or fedora with ~3 months of support from me. it can sometimes take 6 months if the person doesnt really use their computer often, tho.

underflow

like when an escalator breaks; its just stairs now.

(rip mitch)

my brain is ruined. my head voice said “Gee-Guh-Nome”

so hype for C770 (or whatever the good C card will be).

its an enum; write the whole fucking thing, please.

forgot to set CONSTANTS.GRAVITY as const. tech debt - bottom of backlog.

flatpak, boi

watching it mansplain to itself why it was wrong is quite the amusement.

rust is more proprietary than linus.

just old enough to have a vga port. perfect; pick it here before it grows any further and no longer supports every server ever made.

i played a few of these bartops. they were intentionally very hard for short playtimes, and were a bit too expensive too play a lot. it kinda seemed like it was there to get money very few times out of very few people.

as a huge nerd who plays games at bars, the bartops were not good, heh. barcades and pinball halls are much more fun.

you mentioned CAD was a bit too much for what you are looking for; however, there is a simple code-only cad program that makes simple tasks like making a shape super easy: openscad

https://openscad.org/

example:

Circle(17);

makes a 17mm radius circle.

i think i am old. i grew up using DOS, and really hated spaces in filenames and folders because they appreared truncated at the first space with a tilde and index of that file/folder representation.

ex: C:\folder name is bad\ == C:\folder~1

i hated that so much that when i got to windows 3.1 i refrained from using spaces (some command line was still necessary in w3.1)

i have jept that habit through the years, so when i moved from windoes to linux, my natural instincts of snake_case_folder_names made it so i didnt have to change : D

running a jellyfin server on something like this may not be pleasant, so it depends on what you are trying to do with this machine.

for most things, yeah - it will be fine; however, if you are planning to do live transcoding, running an llm, or other compute-heavy tasks, the box will need to be upgraded.