Enterprise equipment is durable.

Consumer laptops fall apart.

What if me make a heat laser? /s

Update, no issues since!

Maybe. What is the cutoff?

I used to play with compiz fusion a long time ago. After breaking so many systems I eventually just stuck with stock.

I just followed this guide here. I’ll give it a shot!

https://github.com/orgs/linuxmint/discussions/462

This really pisses me off, but because Windows 11 is not significantly different from Windows 10. I’m running Windows 10 on decades-old hardware designed for Win7.

Sure, its a bit pokey, but most of the bottleneck is HDD technology.

DDR2 throughput is about 8GB/s. SATA III is 600 Mb/s

Just installing a SSD and having 8 GB of memory is enough for the average office worker who has a browser, mail, PDF, and productivity suite.

Anything released in the past 6 years should be sufficient for this.

My bet, hands down, is that they are betting hard on AI.

If you would like to address an audio issue, I’ll gladly hijack the thread.

Linux mint, occasionally my audio starts crackling. Only fix is to open terminal and run pulseaudio -k.

Happens maybe twice a day with my system.

What people expect:

✅Fix my box

❎Fuck my shit up

What we would get: System Kernel Interface

🔳 Regex Recursion

🔳 Kernel Language (Internal) [Dropdown: en-us, Dvorak, binary, Klingon, non-binary (Borg analog), Esperanto]

🔳 Ignore LPT on fire

🔳 Memory hole on sysctl

🔳 Mansplain man(8)

Side note, anyone need cloud storage?

Buy a used PC that can take a PCI-e card and has room for several drives.

Buy a used sas controller recommended by the truenas community

Stuff the PC with 10 drives: one SATA SSD for the OS and 9 20GB HDDs in ZFS configuration for 140 TB of storage with 2 failover drives.

Install TrueNAS and create a network share.

Repeat and/or upgrade as needed.

Edit: I just went web window shopping. Does anyone have $3k I could invest?

It would go to… Uh…

HEY SOMEONE PUT A DEAD CAT ON THE TABLE!

Yes, that one.

Good

Edit - See Gary Bowser

https://phys.org/news/2010-11-million-dollar-verdict-music-piracy-case.html

In all fairness, meta should be assessed a fee of 250k per EACH pirated work.

This would amount to forfeiting all assets to doge.

I support about 1200 users with about 8 other people. There is not tight control of the purchasing, so while most users have HP monitors, there is a hodgepodge of other monitors floating around.

Occasionally a monitor fails. With everything running on DC and using LED backlights, they last much longer. When supplies ran extra thin, about 20 Samsung monitors were purchased 4 years ago. They work, but have a terrible habit of losing connection with the desktop. Samsung will replace/repair them, but they still have the bad habit of losing the connection to the desktop.

Same systems work just fine with any other brand monitor, down to 20 year old displays. I’m convinced that there is a bug in the monitor that doesn’t detect video output properly.