Heads Up on your phone is good. We play it with the fam on the holidays. You hold the phone facing away from you with the answer and your teammates give you clues.

I run Mint on my framework 13 AMD laptop. Works great out of the box. Even the fingerprint reader works without any issues.

I will never forget the joys of the playing Half-Life 1 on max settings with my Diamond Monster3D Voodoo2.

I found happiness. I am almost done with it. You want it after me?

This is good advice. Keep the conversation short, formal and boring. Bring up the weather as a signal there is little of interest in the conversation. When you are ready to disengage say “I will let you get back to your work now”

You should name it Hawk, so people can call it Hawk-Tui.

We had one case where a line had been strung over a lighting ballast in a janitor closet. Whenever that light was turned on the whole network would go down. Since it was only on for a few minutes intermittently it was a nightmare to find. You would go looking for the a bad terminator and the network would come back before you checked a single one. Good times.

Thanks for pointing that out, I missed that when posting.

I liked it so much I tore through it in a couple of days! The worst part is waiting for the next in the series since he has announced there will be at least two and possibly three more in what he is calling the “bomb light” series.

100% of what?

Earth

Been using KVM fir years. Works fine for me.

I feel like Beholders are the product of some nightmare fueled fever dream. They fascinate me endlessly.

Infinite Jest - just the part about video conferencing is wild and is even mire wild when you realize it was written in the 90’s before video conferencing really existed:

“Good old traditional audio-only phone conversations allowed you to presume that the person on the other end was paying complete attention to you while also permitting you not to have to pay anything even close to complete attention to her. A traditional aural-only conversation […] let you enter a kind of highway-hypnotic semi-attentive fugue: while conversing, you could look around the room, doodle, fine-groom, peel tiny bits of dead skin away from your cuticles, compose phone-pad haiku, stir things on the stove; you could even carry on a whole separate additional sign-language-and-exaggerated-facial-expression type of conversation with people right there in the room with you, all while seeming to be right there attending closely to the voice on the phone. And yet — and this was the retrospectively marvelous part — even as you were dividing your attention between the phone call and all sorts of other idle little fuguelike activities, you were somehow never haunted by the suspicion that the person on the other end’s attention might be similarly divided.”

You likely can’t do equity investing but you might be able to buy their bonds:

https://www.ndb.int/news/ndb-launches-new-usd-1-25bn-3-year-green-bond/

Seems like a bad idea to me. If you want to diversify buy index funds and ETFs.

The Cake Song

Haunting

It is a good Cyber-thriller.

I run Emby and MythTV on a Beelink Mini PC. It is a little pricey compared to some of the options you mentioned but not by too much. It works really well and is very quiet:

https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-SER5-5560U-500GB-Computer/dp/B0B3WYVB2D

They got got -> https://archive.org/details/weareanonymousin0000olso_l5h7