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  • There’s lots of uses for it.

    An overlay network like nebula uses “lighthouse” nodes as ways to reverse proxy to all the other hosts in the overlay. I’ve used og eeepcs as nebula lighthouses before.

    “Dumb” 3d printers honestly don’t need much to bring their feature set in line with expensive ones. I still use an old netbook to control two. The screen and keyboard are great when I want to check files. Slicers and whatnot can easily run in low resource settings on those computers.

    Vents allowing (and many netbooks do!), you can slide the computer into a shelf and use ssh to perform tasks on it. There’s a bunch of stuff that an always on computer with a built in battery backup can be used for at times, especially if it’s on a wired connection and you can use the wireless interface.

    People will say you should be afraid of the batteries exploding or venting. I’m honestly not too concerned, but be sure to check them maybe once or twice a year.

  • There’s a bunch of dot files and directories in your home directory that are used to store configurations and presets and stuff.

    It used to be that if you logged in without those files and directories then x, the display manager, the other software etc would copy over stub versions and that’s how you get “defaults”.

    So when I have a hairy x session I used to delete the configuration files and directories and let it repopulate with defaults.

    Nowadays I don’t do that anymore, but it used to be an issue.

    E: try ctrl alt f1 or two or something and see if you get a terminal or login prompt.

  • I’m planning on voting for the party for socialism and liberation in November and you can too!

    They’re running Claudia de la Cruz on a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to arms shipments to Israel.

  • running a "second seat" on a different F key like in the link might be a good way to do that.

    back in the day i would just log out and log in. there's so much going on with desktop environments i kinda had to spend some time in one doing my daily to figure out if it was what i wanted.

  • in order to make it easier to track all this, i've got a spoiler block with links to the posts you referenced and my responses to them. it's at the bottom of this post. there's four, two of them were replies made to people other than me and one was a top level comment. the fourth and biggest one is a conversation i'm in, responding to the other person and engaging with what they say in good faith.

    so no, i'm not ignoring everyone who's responded to me, and i'm not ignoring you.

    in order to keep this from descending into minutae, i've recognized a few broad responses to "i'm voting third party":

    "You can't win and winning is all that matters."

    "You can't have any effect."

    "You're gonna spoil it."

    the first is false, the second and third contradict each other and are also false.

    If you think there's a broad type of argument against voting third party that i missed, let me know.

    since i never got to actually break this one out: if the democrats want my vote, they can adopt the policies i want.

    I think people who claim "a vote for x is a vote for trump" are just trying to shame me into voting for their candidate using manipulation and falsehood. they usually don't respond or give up that tack when i say "no, that's not how it works", so i don't know what they actually mean because i never get to really dive into it. feel free to dive into it.

    you wrote about spoiler effects using popular vote, but we're talking about the electoral college, so that's pretty moot. seems like its hard to blame candidates losing on the spoiler effect rather than the electoral college being fundamentally undemocratic.

  • So you have a lot of suggestions in this thread.

    I have an unconventional one:

    Red hat.

    You can use it for free as long as you register on their website.

    The benefit: lots of documentation, a significantly different way of thinking about things (it asks you to define a compliance posture out of the box lol) and a package manager that does a lot of things right.

    You said yourself youve been in the game for a while. Why not try being agent smith instead of neo?