Drink water… seriously. Make tea if needed. No sodas.

Invest heavily in a good mattress, you spend 1/3 of your life on it.

Try and make something. Woodworking, painting, music, anything that makes you feel happy.

Find 2 or 3 good friends and keep them for life.

Stay away from religions and cults.

(optional) get a dog. Man and dog evolved together, we need each other.

I started Shaolin Kung Fu at 45. 7 years later im getting my black sash and getting invited into the inner chamber.

I use a Pi running LibreElec…basically packages OSMC.

Plug it into a smart TV with HDMI and your tv remote can control the Pi OSMC Interface…no need for a separate remote…I was pleasantly surprised at that.

Other news, we stood up a Gopher server…ya know…just in case

I always recommend Mint to wundows converts. It looks like the windows UI, just works out of the box 99% of the time, and has a huge user base that is happy to provide assistance

Usually no. Taxes are different depending on where you buy. We expect there to be 5 to 9% added on at checkout.

The Anvil of Crom

–Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack –Basil Polidouris

I want to add 1 thing…graphics drivers have come a long way. Nvidia is a good example where some diatros come pre loaded to support Nvidia…like popOS. Check your vid card for distro compatibility

No weeds in my garden. Kinda how the Teletubbies never dealt with crabgrass.

Sure. My ISP gave me this range for this exact reason.

I use port knock. Really helps against scans if you are the edge device.

If it’s public facing, how about dont turn on ssh to the public, open it to select ips or ranges. Use a non standard port, use a cert or even a radius with TOTP like privacyIdea. How about a port knocker to open the non standard port as well. Autoban to lock out source ips.

That’s just off the top of my head.

There’s a lot you can do to harden a host.

There’s a 40 year I.T. veteran here that still suffers imposter syndrome. It’s a real thing I’ve never been able to shake off

Pop Os is nice. I went and bought the same hardware that system76 uses and then loaded their popOs on it. Going on 4 years of use now, zero issues. Battery life is challenging… Solid laptop otherwise.

Cats in the cradle, has no one said this one 😭 😭 😭

Still waiting for my personal jetpack and/or flying car

Linux tool. I use it on Ubuntu hosts

Try mtr . It’ll run kinda like a trace route but will show you where the delay is happening. Still relys in icmp not being blocked

It’s great. We already set it up and worked without issues

PopOS I have to be at the bar and I will have a little early and then I’ll get you some food for the day off the road to get the title and I can come by.