It’s in english for me (hah! jk) Dunno about it’s origins. I just installed the flatpack.

I’ve got a bunch of old dvds and bluerays I’m ripping to my NAS. Automatic Ripping Machine works great… when it works. I’ve given up and now I’m using VLC.

Ventoy? Linux live iso files aren’t too big less than 5Gb each. You could toss on a handful of utilities like memcheck, clonezilla, and a hdd eraser. Then a few isos of distros you want to try. Adding and removing isos is a breeze with ventoy.

My next tv is probably going to be a dumb tv. You can search for commercial business tvs online and find dumb tvs for displays and digital signage. Same screen, just no smarts, plays a network stream, off a usb, or hdmi input. Nothing else.

I recently began hating devices and how each distro does it slightly differently. /dev is the worst. I plug in a usb, look for it under /dev/usb, not there, oh it’s /dev/serial I suppose that makes sense. Plug in a different usb, not in either, no by-path or by-id, oh, I can only find it by the bus… but that path changes each time I plug it in, and that’s the only place I can find it. Permissions are black magic on devices. I’ve been root and can’t open a cdrom, get permission denied. Other times I can give a user 777 and it seems like they have it all, but still can’t open that drive. Everytime I reboot my coral usb changes bus paths and breaks my frigate docker, but I can’t find any stable path to it. Fought for days trying to get proxmox to forward a cdrom drive to a container then a vm. Went through half a dozen tutorials and threads of people getting it working and I couldn’t. Spin up my laptop and do it bare metal, and STILL can’t get it to work. VLC can play the disk just fine, but not the docker container. Switch to ubuntu instead of my arch distro, and boom everything works… most of the time. Other times I have to do a ritual of removing the database, logs, reboot, start the container, unplug usb, plug in usb, and then it works.

Have you tried OnlyOffice?

Ugh, how could I forget?

I want to see a seamless roaming standard so a grandma can buy a random brand’s wifi extender, plug it in, connect it to her ISP router’s wifi and have the same ssid through the house. No needing to jump to NANA-SWIFI-EXT.

I would happily dedicate a corner of my garage for a big sodium ion battery.

Also, fun fact they can charge and discharge faster than lithium ion. Also, their chemistry doesn’t lead to spontaneous combustion. Perfect for a house backup.

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Back in college we had a project that was this. Most of us used Linux From Scratch, a few of us used gentoo, having played with arch since, you could use that too.

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

That’s fair. Could be a generational thing or an age thing too. I’m a married older millennial. I can see where a girl just looking for something casual would prioritize looks higher.

There are different leagues. Men typically focus on looks first then other things like personality.

Women typically look for other things first, and looks are second or third or lower depending on the woman.

A guy on a first date might think the girl is out of his league, based on looks. But the girl might think he’s out of her league due to socioeconomic standing and education/intellect or humor. Even if he’s a bit funny looking or overweight, that can actually add to his charisma if he’s little confident.

Guys think girls want gym-bod, girls actually want dad-bod. Because girls see gym-bod and think he’s a muscle-bound idiot who spends all his freetime at the gym. Dad-bod is way better because that means he’s not hyperfocused about being away from home during all his free time. Plus snuggles are nicer. Dad-bods don’t mean weaker either, just look at strong-man competitions.

Obviously this is generalized based on conversations I’ve had with my wife after reading articles or topics that arise. YMMV.

From what I’ve read if you use a VPN it’s pretty simple to get past the great firewall of china. It’s also only technically illegal, and not really punished.

Yea, sorry. “No sex outside of marriage” was a phrase I’d heard a lot growing up inside Christianity. I was making a joke that this particular phrase could be interpreted either way. As in no unmarried sex. Or no sex with people you’re not married to.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/trump-and-congress-finalize-law-that-could-hurt-your-wi-fi/

Tldr: different countries wanna do 6g differently. Actually a big problem is the big beautiful bill that just passed in the US. Wifi6e/7 6ghz spectrum that was reserved for wifi got approved to get auctioned off. But it’s already a global standard. If us cell cariers buy it up and use it to make faster 6g cell speeds (short distance very high speed). That’s going to fragment standards globally.

Cell carriers don’t currently use anywhere near all their spectrum they already own.

Does it work when you’re booted to a live usb?

Jellyseer will kinda do that. But only for tv/movies in your jellyfin library.

I haven’t seen anyone in the comments try to justify your actions from a chrisitian point of view. I’ll try and likely fail. I’m a former christian.

There is no “thou shalt not lust after a woman” commandment. There is a “thou shalt not commit adultary” commandment. And there is the admonition from Mathew that if you lust after a woman you’ve already committed adultary in your heart.

But here’s the rub. How do you define adultary? ANY sex before marriage? Or cheating on a spouse? If you define it as cheating on a spouse, then I can see where Mathew is coming from. A married man lusting after a woman who isn’t his wife HAS emotionally cheated on her already. But by that definition, a single man CAN’T commit adultary with a single woman. There’s no cheating. Prostitute or not, two single consenting adults don’t break that commandment.

I don’t think adultary means “sex outside of marriage” I think it means “sex outside of marriage”. Big difference.

I believe extremists like to push the commandments to encompass more than they really do.