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  • The Omen laptops are pretty good as well. Even the fan blades are made of aluminum. But I would avoid their desktop PCs because they use proprietary components.

    Like any other company, some products they make are junk but others are decent.

  • He didn't have the support of the people he though he had. The odds of a successful coup were extremely low.

    What is baffling to me is how he didn't see the obvious target on his back, and continued doing business in Russia like nothing happened. Why didn't he try to hide?

  • Personally I prefer older PCs in standard formfactors. I avoid HP, Dell, Lenovo pre-builts because they use proprietary power supplies and motherboards, making them difficult to upgrade. Laptops aren't really upgradable, they don't have enough SATA ports, and USB isn't reliable enough for storage. Raspberry Pies, while power efficient, are too underpowered. Old server hardware is also an option, but they are generally too noisy.

  • I've been using Firefox as my main browser for a long time. Sites that don't work in FF are very rare. If it's something I really need to access, I just use chrome/edge for that particular site. But as I said, it happens rarely, and there's an easy way to work around it.

  • Containers are very useful because they isolate the application from the rest of your server.

    This solves a lot of problems: no dependency conflicts with your operating system, you can upgrade/downgrade any time you want, no state gets stored on your main system which makes resetting the application when it misbehaves as easy as deleting and recreating the container.

    Before containers, changing my host OS (e.g. because ZFS wasn't properly supported on the distro I was using) meant reinstalling and configuring a lot of shit, which could take days. With docker, I can migrate in 1-2 hours... Just install docker on the new OS, copy over the files, docker compose up a few times and done. The only things left to setup are samba, ssh and a few cron jobs.