dirtypirate

My elderly neighbor needed a computer to do accounting, I set her up with Mint on a T430 w/ LibreOffice and told her I’d giver her free support till the laptop died.

5 years on and the only time I’ve had to fulfill my side of the bargain was when her printer was out of paper and she couldn’t find her eye glasses to read the error message.

Fedora is good for servers and corporate environments, Mint is good for a familiar desktop, Ubuntu is good for mac users.

Professional software linux still doesn’t support:

Solidworks

AutoCAD

any DWG viewer

yeah that URL is terrible, I use ionos in germany for a lot of domain name reg, maybe they will suit your needs too.

I’m self hosting a mastodon instance (my 1st ruby on rails and wholy fucking shit is that bloated compared to django) and it took a while for my instance to get into the federation, now I see all kinds of fun stuff and have total control

I’ve run into some issues with federation posts filling the /media directory but it seems to have been sorted out now.

if you have questions DM me and I might be able to help, I’m writing code for the next 4 hours and really want to do ANYTHING else…

pirates don’t use windows.

Linux mint is easy, transmission is a great torrent client, if you remove all trackers from each torrent your ISP never knows what you’re doing

hoisting a heavy object to the top of a slope

in a Missouri USA they pump water up a hill then drain it back when demand increases, it’s a rather large system. In Al’Abama an individual is using underground salt water tanks to store hot an cold salt water for HVAC and electric on his farm.

personally… I use solar electric to drive a 10k/btu AC and scavenge the unit’s waste heat as a food dehydrator, storing food is also storing solar energy and the AC keeps is pleasant indoors.

I had a similar, we’d kept an IRC channel open for years, then he went off the deep end with conspiracies and I cut contact. I miss my friend but that friend was a chill software geek, not the rage addicted lunatic who took his place.

power goes out 12 times a week, water’s on for only 5 hours a week, internet drops out every 2 hours, (only alternate option is musky), no cops, no fire dept, no schools, trash is just piled up with no plan whatsoever, no public transit, more superfund sites per sq mile than any state, more taxes than in the USA, … hurricanes, earthquakes and narcos.

if you knew all that, why would you choose Puerto Rico?