I spent so much of my time in the Gentoo community fixing things that have gone wrong through newbies taking his advice as gospel. I’d be happy if he never made another video, and that’s outside of, well, everything else.

And at least for LastPass no passwords were compromised

I’m just going to leave this here:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/09/experts-fear-crooks-are-cracking-keys-stolen-in-lastpass-breach/

Metadata for MP3 tracks is stored in an id3 tag; you need an id3 tag editor to embed the thumbnail into the tag.

There’s a lot of automation out there, MusicBrainz Picard is probably the best option out there for automating the process, especially if your tracks are already sorted by album.

I’m not worried about that 😎

You should be. Your name will be associated with abuse forevermore.

The admins can tell me what’s the frequency/number they’re comfortable w/ and I can reconfigure the solution.

Or you can set some sane defaults and a timeout period. 1 request / 5 mins is fine to check if something is online and responding.

Hahahahaha.

I was still using Notes in 2013. Most functions had moved on, but for the government department that I was working for at the time it was essential for IM, group mailboxes, and… a specific type of diplomatic communication.

Booting up a laptop … that doesn’t have wpa_supplicant etc

If you french fry when you pizza you’re gonna have a bad time.

Seriously though, if you want to use wifi without some sort of supplicant you’ve fucked up.

You want a standard rack shelf, it’ll fit 3-4 SFF stacked sideways. You can 3D print some supports.

No idea if it’ll fit in a shallow rack.

No. There’s actually a possibility of Bcachefs getting merged.

Boomer spreadsheet program.

Not literally, it came out in 83 - it was the original ‘killer app’, and was behind the widespread adoption of microcomputers into business in the pre-network and internet days.

If you don’t mind learning a bit upfront (the installation process is low level but well documented) and want to experience a fantastic package manager, try Gentoo!

It will make no difference to the performance of a VPN; nothing that those nodes are doing is IO bound.

Even if you own your own servers you still need somewhere to host them; ISPs / colocation providers are going to have the same issues with abuse.

PXE is automagic being basically kind of hacky extension to DHCP stuff.

If PXE is enabled the machine will automatically find it via a DHCP relay on the network.

the boot image supplying server being in the same intranet as the rest of the other servers … Since the first mode is probably too unsafe, that leaves us with the second mode.

Why do you think that’s unsafe?

It’s still on your YouTube Music account, if you clicked that button.

Should be automatic, but…

for everyday use … hektograms and the like are more common

[citation needed]

The standout feature of Gentoo is its configurability; you can configure portage, the package manager, to enable and disable features of a package at build time.

Say you don’t have Bluetooth. You can just exclude Bluetooth from every package by setting the use flag globally:

*/* -bluetooth

it can even manage dependencies, a good example is picking pipewire over pulse.

It’s also easy to package software that isn’t in the official repos - here’s a post where I did just that.

The community is fantastic and supportive, and you can often get a near immediate response in IRC.

Finally the documentation is excellent, especually the handbook.

I’m very biased, but try Gentoo. It’s no harder to install than arch and has some very cool package management features, like USE flags.

IMO running through a Gentoo installation is a great way to learn.

The handbook is well documented and walks you through all of the steps that an installer would traditionally do.

You can do it in a VM or bare metal if you’re feeling adventurous!

That’s a great question. Mostly it’d be a matter of exporting and then importing / converting the disk image and standing up similar VM “hardware”.

You might still need to reactivate the licence; I’m not sure if the virtual hardware move will trip activation.

Why are you using VirtualBox for this anyway?

KVM/QEMU + Virt-manager all the way.