FippleStone

Bro

If you’re comfortable hosting your own services, I can recommend FreshRSS for an aggregator and FocusReader for an android client.

The same is true for most professions I feel

Have you considered some kind of remote mouse app? There’s multiple good options out there, wifimouse.github.io/ for example

Is anyone else getting crazy moire patterns if they zoom in on the background?

Someone’s running a Bell 103 for laughs

Whenever I get worried about new technology I think of the Luddites, then I am less worried

Noice

You should be able to, ahem, find some convinent ROM collections on most torrent indexers. A standard NES game is only ~128kb, so the whole library of games is only like 750mb. It scales exponentially with every generation as data storage improved, so the SNES library is 2gb, the N64’s is 5gb, and the PS3’s is 20tb. I find that I really don’t need the full library of a consoles releases available, so I usually only choose maybe a hundred or two that I’m interested in, there’s only so much time in the day. If you don’t need a handheld device I can recommend modding your ps3, it can emulate most anything, the hombrew scene is active and there’s been a lot of support for it, plus for the majority of consoles it’s a full custom firmware solution, so it’s a pretty seemless experience once you set it up. Plus with the internal hdd there’s plenty of space for stuff. Pretty much everything up to last gen is easily pirateable, so have fun with it, it’s easy once you get the hang of it.

I would definitely recommend consumer grade hardware for a small home server, I ran older server gear (dual e5645+42GB ram) and found it to be loud and power hungry, especially at idle. Moved over to only slightly newer consumer stuff (i5-3470+8GB ram) and it still did what I needed it to, without costing $40AUD a month to run.

8GB of RAM is perhaps a bit limiting at times but I’ve not yet run into any critical issues because of it. I wouldn’t want to try simultaneous, high bit-rate transcodes on it but aside from that it’s been fine for my use case.

Damn good bot

Plenty of tutorials out there, you can have a google for one that you like. It’s pretty simple though, just download a .iso of the distro you want to try, and then flash it to a thumb drive using, I’d suggest, Rufus. Balena Etcher is another good option.

Oh for sure, the US is totally cooked when judged by most important metrics

I think it’s a little buffer to make sure the actual blocks on the disk exist and line up with the partition start, but definitely don’t quote me on that

I haven’t heard the term whalecum in a long time…

Who controls the present now, controls the past.

Disgustingly good, I love it

But just to note, this doesn’t work if your ISP places you in a double NAT situation by using carrier grade NAT

Unpopular opinion, but we don’t know that…

The N4120 is a surprisingly competent piece of hardware, very sweet little processor