Well, I think you should’ve splurged for a slightly better keyboard…

Audio! I went from stereo to 7.1 and got this intense loud buzz that wouldn’t go away! (Fedora KDE). Drove me nuts. Spent hours trying every dang thing. Finally connected it to a Windows machine. Same buzz. My woofer had just ate itself. Nothing to do with Linux at all.

So, I like the idea of Esperanto. If everyone learned a second, easy to learn language, you’re meeting on equal ground. Unfortunately, I’ve only ever met a few people in my entire life who agree with that idea. But… If I don’t recognize the number? “Saluton? Kiel vi fartas?” If they start speaking English, wait a few seconds… “Domagxe, mi me parolas anglujon…” Not only do they hang up, but they tend not to call back. If it’s a real call, they usually ask for me by name and I can switch to English. Win-win.

I have a really cheap old as the hills desktop with an ancient Quadro gpu in it connected via a decently expensive but also used 10gb Nic to my nas which is running Proxmox and a bunch of containers, but the two interesting ones are a tailscale exit node and Jellyfin. The Jellyfin gets the gpu via pass through, and I get 1080p on tap anywhere in my house with no fuss no muss, and I can use the tailscale app, connect, and act like I’m in my house from anywhere else, including other continents. Noticeable delay on play and pause on media if I’m on the other side of the planet, but that’s it for limitations.

I have a docker compose immich that I somehow managed to kill fourteen minutes after convincing my wife to switch to it.

I agree, and I take it this far: “I worked hard and paid for my house, why should some lazy loafer get housing for free? I paid 24,000$ in tuition, why should kids get free college?” I think that, at some point, one guy has to be the first guy to benefit from progress, and all the people who didn’t benefit just have to suck it up. I would 100% pay a much higher tax rate if it meant that homelessness was gone, hunger was gone, kids got free education… I’m Canadian, so I don’t need to say this about health care. Yeah, I paid an awful lot of mortgage, but if someone else gets a free house? Good!