I know Dell has been doing a lot of AMD CPUs recently, and those have definitely been beating Intel, so hopefully this continues. But I’ll believe it when I see it. Often, these things rarely pan out in terms of price/performance and support.

Yup. You want a server? Dell just plain doesn’t offer anything but Nvidia cards. You want to build your own? The GPGPU stuff like zluda is brand new and not really supported by anyone. You want to participate in the development community, you buy Nvidia and use CUDA.

The best way?

Get rid of all the connected stuff entirely, delete all your online accounts, get rid of your cell phone and similar devices, start paying cash for everything. Close your bank accounts and keep your money under your mattress. Move into the woods, grow your own food, and don’t talk to anyone.

How much storage are you actually using? You could just split it between the r230s and set up zfs replication in proxmox.

It should have power monitoring in the idrac already.

Yes, the use of the voice was intentionally misleading. That’s why it was decided the way it was.

System76, Framework, even Dell officially supports Ubuntu in limited cases.

I’d just try a couple different distros and see which one has the fewest issues for you. If you like, you can pay for official support from Dell or Canonical. If you do identify an issue in a supported scenario (Ubuntu version + device model) they will actually help you troubleshoot and resolve the issue. RHEL is the same if you want to pay a bit more.

A wiki would be great, since it allows user contributions and a familiar interface.

Not necessarily mediawiki, though. Or maybe something that allows people to submit individual options in a category and vote on them.

Get it running and set it loose!

I just had to have an organ removed, so I’m really hoping this hits the mainstream before I need it!

No.

But often those people sue and win. Midler v. Ford, for example.

Yeah that might be it. Sddm is a display manager, you might be using it for your login screen.

You might be able to work around it by just setting the service to restart automatically, so that it comes up properly once a display is attached. But if you can, I would try reproducing it on a fresh and fully updated install, and open a bug report to the maintainers if you can. Linux developers generally try to make really sure their programs don’t crash like that.

Unattended-upgrades or dnf-automatic

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/

CD players use 780 nm light, which is infrared. What is transparent in visible light may be reflective in infrared. Obviously, this material is not sufficiently reflective.

Boot log/kernel/dmesg, X/Wayland/kde primarily. Been a long time since I’ve had to troubleshoot something like this so I don’t know the new kids on the block. Maybe upstart or dracut? Whatever manages the boot process now

That seems strange. What’s in the log?

So what does it have to do with Linux?

Yes, we all know it’s fucked up. The point is that we don’t need a new class of laws just because it’s harassment and bullying ✨with AI✨.

Believe all you want, reality doesn’t care.

Yup. Don’t keep lithium batteries in a drawer. They all become fire hazards, given enough time.