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I...do not miss XP, but I understand the nostalgia attached to it.

I learned a lot of technical skills on XP, but that's what made me appreciate the architectural decisions behind UNIX-likes all the more.

You can tinker in the image in a variety of ways, but make sure to preserve your state outside the container in some way:

1. Extend the image you want to use with a custom Dockerfile
2. Execute an interactive shell session, for example docker exec -it containerName /bin/bash
3. Replace or expose filesystem resources using host or volume mounts.

Yes, you can set a variety of resources constraints, including but not limited to processor and memory utilization.

There's no reason to "freeze" a container, but if your state is in a host or volume mount, destroy the container, migrate your data, and resume it with a run command or docker-compose file. Different terminology and concept, but same result.

It may be worth it if you want to free up overhead used by virtual machines on your host, store your state more centrally, and/or represent your infrastructure as a docker-compose file or set of docker-compose files.

With his experience (and I agree if this is the case), he's probably expecting issues with unsupported configurations of Windows 11.

I guarantee that at some point after Windows 10 support drops that Microsoft will start pushing features that require TPM functionality. Maybe it will be minor at first, like you can't use PIN logins without it. Eventually it might move on to HTTPS requests failing without root certificates protected by a secure element store. Maybe OS updates will fail to install making these customized Windows 11 installs just as useless as Windows 10.

I've been a software developer for over a decade, and while I will never say always, usually unsupported configurations like this TPM workaround eventually fail. I wouldn't place my trust in it lasting.

What is obscene is subjective.

Is that the official distribution link or a personal mirror?

It's not built in, but I generally recommend Solid Explorer for that functionality: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplorer2&hl=en_US&gl=US

Honestly, taking the time learn Docker and then learn more about the specific containers that you want to use is probably going to be the easiest way forward in your position. If you have any specific questions about Docker or the containers you're looking at, I can try to help.

When it comes to network mounts, I've found it a lot easier to use rclone for that purpose, and that's currently what I use for the backend of my Plex server.

Especially when it comes to gateway configuration.

Let's maybe leave the racism at the front door? Or, you know, entirely?

The stupid sidebar on the right is reason enough for me, but I also want an adblocker that's not crippled.

I bought a used 2018 model over a new current model because of the lack of physical function keys.

Also, Dell, bring back Fn + Left for Home and Fn + Right for End!

Who looked at a great keyboard layout and decided, "I know! I'll make this Developer Edition hardware more difficult to develop on!"

I'm using https://www.kavitareader.com/ with Moon+ Reader. Kavita supports OPDS feeds, which is perfect.

I'm exactly with you on everything you said.

I love this feature and use it all the time! Are there any apps I can replace this with?

Plus the indexer was relentless and just smashed HDDs.

I'll second the issues with the indexer. I disabled it for every disk I had because the additional I/O load for disks was ridiculous. I remember benchmarking game launches with it enabled and disabled to see how much of a difference there would be, and I saw some games take a full minute less to load into a playable state.

I don't know if I just had more files than the average consumer or what, but they didn't anticipate the load under certain scenarios.

I'll take a forehead over a notch.

Mine has also been very reliable.

The DMCA supersedes that - it's still a crime to bypass copy protection mechanisms, and there are very few exceptions to that rule.

It's not even grey - in the US it is illegal under the DMCA.

I'm not up to date on ripping tools, though.

I'm using a combination of:

• The Boox Palma reader, though they have larger tablets if you prefer. I'm not sure about the others, but the Palma runs Android with the Play Store.
• Kavita to host my ebooks online.
• FolderSync with SFTP to sync all of my books ahead of time to my SD card.
• Moon Reader to add my Kavita server's OPDS feed as an online catalog if I need to grab something manually.
• Calibre to manage and embed metadata.