they absolutely can be easily swapped. i’m just bitchin’ that i have to do it again after doing it two weeks ago, lmao…

which one?

inb4 someone mentions an emacs lisp package for filing your taxes

oooooooooooo, shit

i’ve got an 8350k sitting around as an email server, might be time for some migrations! tho hwenc tends to be worse than sw (nvenc certainly is, but the performance makes up for it) so i might just keep it as is for now…

heh, rack

that is hot

intel_gpu_top, nvidia-smi, or radeontop. pick your poison.

depends on what you want to host. a lemmy or pleroma instance could run on an old laptop – that’s often where people start. a small minecraft server too. email can be a bit more resource intensive, but it’s not that bad. mastodon can be a pain in the ass. peertube’s main bottleneck tends to be upstream bandwidth. jellyfin doesn’t require too much power, but if you want to transcode a “decent” GPU is preferable. i threw my old 1650 in there and it works fine for a stream or two.

i’d just like to interject for a moment

i’ve been doing cs for a year now with a coreboot’d t440p. if anything, it’s gotten me some greetz from my profs, lmao

i’ve made do with libreoffice just fine, i submit most of my labs in odt without issue

keep a VM for labs in case they require windows, on machine or a home server. pick your poison

i assumed you were making a comment on the modern (fascist) administration. there’s a difference between shitty politics and fascism. :P

the quote in question is over a decade old…

i’d assume this might be a drive issue rather than a distro / linux issue. iirc i installed debian from CD a few months back on a thinkpad because i was bored… hah, parties. you’re funny. undervolting thinkpads while procrastinating finals. that’s my kind of shit.

i really would like to run my own peertube instance, but until i get a symmetric connection, i just don’t have the uplink. :(

i hate to be a pedant (who am i kidding, i love to be) but they didn’t really invent electricity, so much as discover it and improve on existing technologies. ben franklin was writing about lightning rods a century before. also autoerotic asphyxiation. that’s true, look it up.

you’re evil. i love it.

on my campus, there’s a stack of several dozen desktops just out in the open (in a basement)

plus a dumpster worth on monitors, peripherals, and at least one ipad with multiple bullet holes. the screen is fine – somebody pulled the screen off, then shot the logic board. i have so many questions

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i love backwards compatibility as much as the next guy, but at some point, if there isn’t enough of a community to backport fixes, there probably aren’t many using them. if a tree falls in the forest, you get the idea.

i mean, most of them are celled “display managers” – lightDM, gDM, lxDM

rust compiles to native code, so barring some horrific implementation issues, i’d bet my money on it being roughly equivalent.