Captain_Faraday

I got my spouse to start using our cupid BitWarden vault and we recently setup a relatively hardened MBP for their work/now home use since their mini PC running windows 11 has basically bricked itself because windows… But yeah, they aren’t using the windows computer, so a hardened MBP is a win in my book even though Apple can be similarly privacy-invasive if their devices aren’t hardened.

Second the PWM, but use 2FA or passkeys with a set of duplicate Yubikeys instead. Even with just 2FA TOTP codes, they are stored on the physical key. I have 4 of them in different places all duplicated. I sleep soundly at night lol

This is the way

My refurbished 2011 Lenovo W530 Thinkpad with 24GB from college has been running as a proxmox cluster node for the last year at least! No battery, the replacement died years ago. 🤣

Omg, you’re so right. I didn’t read it that way until you pointed that out.

lol that just occurred to me too

Omg, I love this! Thank you

Wait, Clippy was not helpful but at least pulpy and funny. I honestly miss that sorta stuff in software. Everything is so minimal and sterile these days. I mean, I use Neovim and prefer finding ways use my terminal for things, but I love my themes to be fun and still useful at least. I wish there was a local LLM you could run with Clippy as the animated face of it lol.

Saw this on Reddit earlier

No Roblox in our house… I have spoken. ~Probably Kuiil

I vote Fedora as well, I love it having come from windows myself about a year ago. Not a big gamer anymore, but can confirm Minecraft runs well on Fedora KDE Plasma and looks similar to windows. I am a homelabber by hobby and an electrical engineer by trade. I do a bit of light CS and networking/SCADA for in my job. Understanding Unix-based systems is helpful for both realms. If your friend is a CS student and doesn’t have a PC already as a daily driver, this is THE time to get into Linux in my opinion since they are a blank canvas. I’m of the opinion knowing Unix-based systems, like Linux is only going to help you later in your career so might as well learn it now. Haha

This! I love LibreOffice, but every time my spouse uses my Linux machine with LibreOffice Calc, they get frustrated when certain shortcuts they use in Excel do not work at all or the way they are used to.

Recently setup a MBP for their business and hardened it some, but it was defeating having to instead MS Office on there for them because it’s what they are used to.

And here too! https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Roblox

If this were to pass the Wisconsin Senate, would the outcry from the commercial space alone not reverse this? (I’m a privacy advocate, just curious)

The next time my spouse and I are in Target, we’ll check the Magnolia section. They love that section and I bet there is a clock made of candle wax shaped like an old radio or something sitting there with this. ROFL

It was DNS! According to the news anyways. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/amazon-web-services-outage-takes-down-major-websites.html

Gonna plug one of my favorite YouTubers now lol https://www.redshirtjeff.com/shop/p/it-was-dns-shirt

I think will actually start using this “master” and “apprentice” now. Love it lol

Recently set up a Rackmate T1 10” rack for the homelab so I could consolidate all my proxmox cluster and Raspberry Pi running Pi-Hole and acting as cluster qdevice. I was able to get my Twingate VPN working to access my services outside the home and a more privacy-respecting domain service, Porkbun, to host my domain as the base for my homelab subdomains with Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for HTTPS via Nginx Proxy Manager. Works well so far!

Lastly, my next project is adding Unbound Recursive DNS server to the pi running Pi-Hole.