I mostly check if my SIL is watching anything before rebooting & updating. Otherwise my wife will stick her head in two minutes later to ask if jellyfin is down.

Best in the United States? That’s like being the biggest fish in the bowl.

I wouldn’t call myself a distrohopper, but over the last 30 years I’ve daily-driven Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu (and derivates), Manjaro and now landed on EndeavourOS for the last four years.

I enjoy the vast and up-to-date software that pacman and AUR have, but I don’t really need the exercise in system installation/building any more. So EndeavourOS it is.

I’ve tried OpenSUSE and NixOS on virtual machines from time to time. I like, but I feel they’d be in the way for my computing needs at the moment.

You don’t have to pair it with you phone… but if I don’t, what’s doing somebody else from doing it and e-locking it when I leave it on the street.

I have a compressor travel fridge. I’ve had it for about six years. The display died this summer, so I had a hard time knowing what temperature it was set to, or if it was even on. (Crotch goblins love to press buttons that go beep).

Anywho, I got a new display circuit for it with Bluetooth. The only reason I paired my phone to it is so others can’t fiddle with the settings at the local campground.

Same thing with my e-bike. I don’t want someone else pairing their phone with it and locking me out.

Probably. I live far up north, so we don’t have many natural disasters of that nature. Cold would be the shit factor. The power grid being knocked out (and as a result water pumps) would be the likely scenario.

Me and six neighbours have a shared well with drinkable water (and I have plenty of activated carbon for distilling booze… I mean, making water drinkable), so seven days is plenty of time to hook up an inverter to that well pump.

The guideline here has always been to be self-sufficient for three days. I aim for seven.

Having a few water jugs has come handy when water pipes have burst. They usually fix it within 24 hours, and have water trucks out way before that. But it’s still nice to be able to boil your potatoes for dinner and have your morning coffee without any additional hassle.

I’ve got an alcohol camping stove and a couple of liters of fuel for it. It was cheap and doesn’t go bad.

I have a bit more memory, so I jump between the two qwen 3.8s.

Glimmer muse was a good contender in the MoE space for a few days. Might be more viable on 8gb.

I try most models, that get support in llama.cpp or forks. IIRC I wasn’t overly impressed with this one. Slower than it should be, mostly because its KV cache is huge.

Ah. The CI, Eh?

I thought he was against guardrails?

I have hardware is the generation you’re thinking of. A T480 with intel and an Nvidia mx150. There’s been a few options, but at the end of the day those Nvidia drivers are the weak spot.

I’ve been running the intel chip exclusively for at least a couple of years. I don’t do gaming and that mx150 is lacking by modern standards. I use primecontrol to toggle between the integrated/dedicated/Optimus modes.

It was doomed from the start. The intel chip is the one driving the screen, so whatever the mx150 does need to be copied over to that framebuffer on an already saturated bus.

I can’t recall where I got them. Probably the cheapest stuff off of eBay or Amazon. Looks like adafruit has one, too.

The original remote for my Panasonic units sends all the settings over IrDA, so I only had to record and replay the commands to turn it on and off.

The only internet-connected 32-bit device I own is a PowerBook G4 running MorphOS. I have an OG raspberry pi that controls a model lighthouse that we have for decoration.

In my old house I had two pi zero W:s with IR-HATs that turned on the air conditioning when they saw my phone nearby over Bluetooth. I’d still run those if I lived there.

I have a wireless doorbell with a speaker that plugs in to an outlet.

I’d much like to replace it with a zigbee-button, but I’ve had issues finding a foolproof (wife-approved) zigbee thing to make the ding-dong-noise.

This was great at first, but ten years in their hearing has gone. They’ll sleep through me yelling at the top of my lungs now.

No, well I do the first mount over sshfs, then wrap EncFS because I don’t trust hetzner with my unencrypted data. rsync just makes sure I only copy whatever files changed since last run to keep traffic at a minimum.

I’ve gone up one size. 5TB for 10,90€.

Weekly cronjob that mounts the storage box, an EncFS volume and rsyncs my files.

This.

However, there are plenty of residential proxy services to purchase. People are willing to sell their liability for perks, and others are willing to buy. I’m sure there’s a whole dark economy around this. It’s what OP is asking for without the extra steps.

I don’t even want pervert glasses. I barely even take pictures with my phone.

What I really want is that projection from those O.G. Google glass that projected image straight in your eye. Then I could watch porn all day every day everywhere.