Whoever that guy is that does weird knife Wednesdays. He rocks.

I’ve had a lot of success with Lutris for apps you wouldn’t expect.

I had a Tough Book that I had to run a one-liner script on boot so I could have sound. It was something to do with alsamixer. I remember that I couldn’t get any audio out of the silly thing without that script unless I plugged in and then removed headphones. Loved that machine though!

I have not, and I will check! If that’s all it is… It’s been finicky for years!

My friends bought me a litter robot, too. I have mixed feelings. I seem to have to reset and fiddle with the thing too often, but when it works, it’s really good for keeping the smell down. My guys use it more often than the other two old school boxes, so I guess two paws up from them?

Just a guess: model rocket?

LVM is a bit more complicated than just using a normal partition, but it does add a lot of functionality. If you need to make an LVM volume bigger, you can just add another disk to the volume. You can also do RAID like stuff with it. Live resizing of volumes is doable too.

I think some LVM stuff can be done in Disks, but I generally just use the command line. Smarter people, are there graphical LVM utilities I don’t know about?

The spice must flow…

I see that spice is a grayed-out option in Proxmox, is it relatively easy to get it going?

Thunar

I know this isn’t a real answer, but it’s what I use as a stop gap measure… I basically have a text file called buffer, and ssh into the VM on a terminal on my host, and paste into the buffer file.

I know it’s lame, but for simple text and stuff, it works. For things like files and pics, I use a shared drive.

If someone has a better answer… Please let me know!

I have a GPD win. Tried getting Linux on it, had all kinds of problems. Like, couldn’t get the screen to stay upright, no sound, no keyboard, Wi-Fi dropping… Might give it another go someday, but probably not.

I had a weird issue with the ProtonVPN app where, if it didn’t shut down gracefully, it’d leave an ipv6leakprotection interface in my network manager, and route everything through it. There was an nmcli con command I had to do to clear that interface. It still happens every once in a while, but I use VPN a lot less since switching jobs from Evil Corp to go back to school.

I had a Jelly 2, which came before the Jelly Star. It was pretty dang small. I would have been happier with it if the dang thing didn’t drop wifi and Bluetooth every five minutes. If the Jelly Star has the same antenna, I’d steer clear!

I believe there is a phone called the Retro, which is an old Razor style flip phone, but it only has the screen on the top, and is quite small, and relatively cheap. Not sure about availability though.

I don’t know if this is a good analogy, but this is how it was explained to me: I want to send things to people, so I give anyone who asks a key. I keep a bunch of lockboxes that can be opened by that key. When I send them stuff, I lock it up in that box. They know it’s from me if the key works.

I also have a bunch of free boxes in a pile, anyone can grab one, but only I have the key to those. They want to send me stuff? Only I can get into it.

One thing I have done more of, of late, is using an external drive plugged in to the fastest usb port I’ve got (thunderbolt, in my case), and installing Mint on there. I’ve got an NVME enclosure with Linux Mint Debian Edition on it, and it has a USB A or C cable, so I can boot into it from several different computers. It’s also great for rescuing files off of non-booting Windows machines. You take a bit of a speed hit, but it’s not as bad as you’d think, and it fits in my pocket. (Good party trick, too.)

I set it up a long time ago, so I don’t honestly remember. I followed some guide, and did a few domain redirects to point at stuff on my home network and to shut Zuck out of my life, but I didn’t do anything crazy. So, I doubt it, but I don’t know.

I have a mini PC that is always on that runs my NTP and DNS, and it’s upstream DNS is quad nine out of Switzerland. (9.9.9.9). I tend toward the same usage patterns daily, and about a third of my requests never leave my home DNS to get resolved.

I just installed it in a VM to check it out, as I’m not a Cinnamon guy usually, and I really like it! I need to try it out on metal and see how it handles games, but so far I’m really happy.

I was going to make this exact joke, so thank you! Also, I have “Trust” from Batman 1989 in my head now.

Kinda, yeah. It’s an open source but commercial product. The stable releases are paid, the beta is free. I’ve only been running a three machine cluster for a few months now, but it’s been absolutely solid despite power outages, internet outages, a hard drive going pop…