The reason I got a cd burner was the frustration of dealing with Bluetooth in my car. I got a Bluetooth capable, simple, CD compatible head unit. The best part about using a CD is it begins immediately when the car starts, versus fumbling with a phone. Though swapping CDs obviously isn’t as great as using digital / streaming.

Also maybe no stock options like other corps? So more salary compensation

I like my P16, but I found that despite being brand new the build quality is a little shoddy. There’s a creak when I rest my right hand next to the track pad, the screen actually overhangs to the side of the keyboard! And a couple other plastic bits seem like they creaked and behaved poorly since I received it. Good components though.

I recommend imginn for checking instagram via a browser. I use it for basically the same reason, checking on local businesses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNy9s5qR4i0

The central tenet of advertising is consumerism = happy

I am loving Fedora KDE after using mint for ages. It feels like a nice blend of macos and windows but with real control. It’s very nice on a laptop. And I would love to have Kwin on every computer I use

32GB of DDR4 3200Mhz cost me $115 in October, now the listing is out of stock and says $392. 240% increase.

I like that billboard linked directly to it

I believe so - I never know which is the “right” domain- if there is a right domain.

Seems to be. I like using fmhy.pages.dev to check things like what domain is correct:

https://fmhy.pages.dev/beginners-guide#reading

That is a great fun fact

Glad I pay taxes so the FBI goes after this, fuck small businesses or individuals, gotta protect the megacorp media company /s

https://xkcd.com/2324/ https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/old_days_2.png

Thanks for the info, definitely motivated to learn and try Docker more now.

Cool I will look into it, I always thought I was stuck not port forwarding due to the campus situation, and therefore stuck with bad upload speeds. In fact that was a reason I was going to use Mullvad in the future despite them not having port forwarding, but I’ll have to consider some other suggestions if I can get the port forwards working.

Neat! Thanks

Definitely will look into Docker more, I’ve heard of it but hadn’t gotten around to giving it a shot before. Gluetun is not something I’ve heard of though. Sounds like a good setup for what I want. Any suggestions on getting started with Docker?

Can’t say I’m familiar with media servers exactly - do you mean Jellyfin, Plex, etc. or something more like adding Arr services. Didn’t know speeds could be improved either

Yep I was going to fire up a streaming site while torrenting last night, oxymoronic I know, and realized that Netflix or whatever would likely misbehave because of the VPN. Thanks for the other VPN suggestions

I guess I could’ve made that part a DDG search :) Thank you for the reminder, it does sound like exactly what I wanted on a little more research.