JustARegularNerd

joined 1 year ago
[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

On that ThinkPad, LMDE.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh god, I got Murena (LineageOS distro). How does one install that onto a ThinkPad T480..

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

For devices I need to be productive on, I have LMDE 6. It is rock solid being based on stable Debian, but with the niceties you expect from Mint.

For my gaming PC, I've got Bazzite on it and so far so good. Just used it for entertainment and gaming but if I were doing coding or app development I'd either have to adjust how I do that to suit an atomic distro, or I'd just use LMDE as I feel I have easier control of what I'm doing on there

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

This might be for the better, but Discord was so infuriating about updates and forcing you to download them what felt like 50% of the time I opened it, I gave up and just use it in Ungoogled Chromium now. I'm pretty sure within a few months I ended up having 15+ debs of Discord in my Downloads folder.

For anyone else trying to use the native Discord app on Debian, I think they'll find this a major treat.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It truly baffles me how teachers could morally justify that. I would immediately think "Wait, if I make my students buy my textbook for the unit, I'm just fleecing them and they have no choice in the matter." and you would naively hope that anyone else would also feel the same way.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I like that it doesn’t detract from the original mood. I also appreciate the remaster of the washing machine model, it really needed it.

That all being said, it’s also amazing that those 20 year old graphics still don’t look half bad.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

The digital sign the local university has is powered by a Raspberry Pi - I caught it rebooting while driving past

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

While I'm far from being a sysadmin I'm in the same boat. Main study laptop is Linux but I just end up using Windows on my gaming PC for the same reasons.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I think this is a bad take, a take that assumes one is superior for using Linux over proprietary alternatives

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago

Looking up the specs of a D270, looks like the memory is upgradable.

It also looks like the Intel Atom N2600 it has (from my reading) is actually a 64-bit processor

I'd probably say you shouldn't have much trouble finding a bigger DDR3 memory stick for it for dirt cheap or free from an e-wasted notebook

Ultimately it depends if the performance loss you're finding is memory limited or CPU limited right now, but I would think that giving it 2 or 4GB + giving it 64-bit would go a long way

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This all happened two weeks before I started, so I don't know the exact details. If it was set up the way I think it was, I'd say yes, the DC was in it's own VM and then a separate VM would've been used as a NAS. Of course being hardware RAID the whole host server went down when that card failed.

They probably didn't have a second DC set up due to the DEFCON 5 levels of "We can't work!"

They were ultimately planning on going to the cloud anyway from what I heard and that catastrophe just accelerated that plan ahead

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I got a server from ewaste because the RAID card did fail and having SAS drives they couldn't even pull data from it with anything else. It was the domain controller and NAS so as you can imagine, very disruptive to the business. As they should they had an offsite backup of the system and so we just restored onto a gaming PC as a temporary solution until we moved them to M365 instead.

I just use software RAID on it now and so far so good for about 180 days.

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