Its a good hobby. I have a 14 year old Iomega network drive that I loaded Debian onto. It will serve audio or samba shares without overloading the 256MB of memory

I can pop mine by using the muscles that open close the escutcheon tubes

Google search has become so shit that chatgpt sometimes actually has better info…except when it doesn’t. Stract.com is the goto for old school searching

Good thing chatgpt burned through a logs worth of CO2 for nonsense

I don’t fully trust chatgpt, but here are steps it suggested.

Set Community to Restricted or Private During or after creation:

Go to your community page.

Click “Community Settings” (gear icon if you’re a mod).

Under “Community Type”, choose:

Restricted – Only mods can post; anyone can view.

Private – Only approved users can post/comment; content may be hidden from outsiders depending on server config.

🔒 Private is best for a fully closed community.

3. Control Who Joins Still in settings:

Enable “Require mod approval to join”.

You can also toggle:

“Allow users to follow”: turn off if you don’t want lurkers.

“Enable posting for approved users only”.

4. Manually Approve Members To approve users:

Users request to join your community.

As a mod, go to the mod queue and approve or reject requests.

You may want to consider closing the group and making it by approval only. I had commented before not realizing women only posts may have also meant no comments also. Hard to prove who is who online though.

Yeah, no point supporting something that has become obsolete. Foss community often puts effort in as passion, but a business will not want technical debt and move on to the next hardware support

I don’t suffer the trots from spicy food. If I make a Thai Curry I will put 5 Thai chillies in it. Could just be what my body is used to, but could also be people who struggle might be combo of not used to spice in their system and not eating a lot of veg or iber then have an Indian lentil meal or something?

For what you are doing SketchUp might be the best tool. Its easy to work with and good with architectural stuff.

Windows11 is trying to do just that; having a minimum spec chip, so they could eventually drop support for a lot of older hardware. But PCs are so modular that you can pretty much add any hardware together and the OS (such as Linux) can figure out the packages you need to make it all run…but even Linux has dropped a lot of 32bit support in the last few years. So it happens, just at a much longer time frame

That is high for a laptop. I have a PC, its fanless which helps, but it runs maybe 15w idle with display shut down, and 23w if graphics display is active. 45 watts if I’m rendering video. Your 120w might be the battery charging at max maybe?

I guess I was lucky my UPS batteries lasted 10 years. The last year their charge capability dropped off fast, and one was starting to bulge. Not Lithium though, just LeadAcid, so more of a leak hazzard than fire hazzard

Not all SD cards are created the same, but also make sure you add “temp to RAM” setup so the constant tmp writes are not burning out the card.

Newpipe seems to be working fine.

Add Stract.com it is a little behind in web crawling of current info, but the results are like how google used to be around 2010. Just relevant content info, no ads (yet) and occasional randomness

Ha. Meaning we aren’t ground floor or top floor, we are sandwiched between two other floors. Barely need to add heat aince we share all the heat that the building has

Same. We live between two floors. Heat rarely is put on, because stove, fridge and dishwasher are enough to supplement what the sandwiched apartments floors already provide

I have had Windows control the power setting of the card before, there were some settings in windows to alter how power was handled for the network adapter. Also some dell BIOSes have power settings for the mono/network that you can alter if its acting weirdly.

There was a book called the Domestic Encyclopedia that I used to have, it was a super thick book, it had all kinds of cleaning solution solutions depending on what you were cleaning. Somewhat ironically my clean freak wife made me get rid of it, so that the shelves liked tidy. But lemon and vinegar do work, the citrus oil and acids help breakdown stuff, where as 90% of things can be cleaned with just water anyway - water being the universal solvent.

If you ssh login directly and issue same command, not In cockpit interface, does it react the same?