neidu2

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[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 41 points 4 months ago (5 children)

You can run teams in linux. I don't know if the same goes for Outlook, but I found that accessing the web version via portal.office.com was sufficient.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 6 points 4 months ago

Happens only to the best of us

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 9 points 4 months ago

Honestly, I don't. I stopped caring about windows ages ago.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago

The only major issue I ever had with mint running relatively old packages was when I got my current laptop. Nvidia 4060 required a really new nvidia driver, which in turn required a really new kernel. I sorted it out by adding a few unofficial repos, and it worked like a charm afterwards.

Whenever old versions are giving you grief, they can usually be sorted out in a similar manner.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

Serve after breaking your dependencies to taste

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Pretty easy. It's not so much using intuition as it is reading step-by-step instructions. If you can use a cook book, you can install arch.

Source: I ~~use~~ once installed arch, btw

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sexy Clown Pose

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No idea. I'll look into creating one.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 11 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Remind me in two months, and I'll tell you what's happening.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (15 children)

I just had a chat with my oldest (almost 13 years y.o.) asking him some theoretical questions in the hope to spark some curiosity: "When you connect to a Roblox game, what do you think you're connecting to?". It took him a few leaps of imagination to realize that he's connecting to a physical machine somewhere, and now he's curious as to how such a machine looks. So that server stack I'll be setting up, he's interested in tagging along.

He already knows full well that there are more to PCs than just the windows UI, as I'm a linux guy, but I don't think they're aware of just how much can be done with a computer once you go outside of the usual GUI app that connects to some cloud service.

So, provided that his teacher agrees (after all, I have to take him out of school for what effectively will be "alternative education" for a few days so we can fly down to the head office), he'll end up with bragging rights of having dealt network hardware that costs more than the average computer, and computers that cost more than the average house.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (18 children)

I think so too. My kids are around the age I was when I first started tinkering with PCs, but they don't have any awareness of what's going on under the hood, (to be frank, nor do they seem to need it, as everything is so polished these days).

I'm thinking of asking their teachers if I can take them out of school for a day each and bring them to work with me for educational purposes so they get some perspective in the form of networks and servers.

Sure, they're mostly interested in gaming, but I want them to see what kind of infrastructure is needed for a multiplayer game, specifically the hardware that they never get to see.

I'm building a new server stack in a couple of months, and most of it will be used for testing, so I'd like for them to help build and connect it.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 119 points 5 months ago

For the sake of his children, I think that might be for the best.

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