Be sure to watch costs. Lots of mechanics own everything to the “SnapOn man”.

Have you considered graduate school? (Enrollment goes up when economy sucks.)

It can be easier to get a job with a masters degree or PhD.

Bonus points for being societally acceptable.

What about people that live outside? Can they draw a line around “their” space and keep vampires out?

Yes, but Microsoft named it.

Can’t think of pro-LLM fan boys in the same light anymore.

And what happens when the AI is an official at work? “My boss says I am the second coming of Jesus and this expense is approved.”

Apt-cacher-ng doesn’t tend to expire automatically. It can be configured to keep the last version regardless. https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/html/maint.html#extrakeep

One can also use a cache to hold deb and rpm files requested by the machines. (Works great when running hundreds of systems.)

I like “apt-cacher-ng”. It will do deb and rpm. https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/

Edit: better link

Offline repository caches for Linux have been a thing for decades. People absolutely pass binaries to friends.

Flatpac may not be suitable, but that is only one way to get software on Linux.

Pretty much every Windows machine I’ve ever owned after a certain year requires you to type in your Bitlocker key, including my first-gen Surface Go from 2018.

This is interesting. I had a work computer require this ~4 years ago, but not one of the three since have (personal and different employers.)

My first system was hacked so fast. Thank you RedHat for defaulting all services on.

I hate modern AI, but that is what we need it for. Maintaining old code bases, and not turning it into a text editor/AI API (unless that was the original intention).

Edit: I have to add more words. Maintaining code bases includes compling and testing the code on a variety of hardware. Running tests against that code. Responding to questions. It is a massive amount of work.

Yes.

Source: Am Systems Admin (engineer/architect/your mom)

Lots of different ways.

• reposts
• sourcing from other sites.
• reading popular blog archives.

It is complicated. There are several options, each with tradeoffs in functionality, compatible software, and performance.

A simple method is to use one system as a desktop, and SSH into the others as “headless”.

Other options include making a K8s or HPC cluster (there are other cluster types).

Spreading a single set of communicating processes requires a low latency interconnect. Something better than Ethernet, like Infiniband. But many programs don’t support that.

Ah, shit man.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

Yarvin has influenced some prominent Silicon Valley investors and Republican politicians, with venture capitalist Peter Thiel described as his “most important connection”.[15] Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work.[16] U.S. Vice President JD Vance “has cited Yarvin as an influence himself.”[17][18][19] Michael Anton, the State Department Director of Policy Planning during Trump’s second presidency, has also discussed Yarvin’s ideas.[20] In January 2025, Yarvin attended a Trump inaugural gala in Washington; Politico reported he was “an informal guest of honor” due to his “outsize influence over the Trumpian right.”[21]

So as far as quality of life, it wouldn’t even cost them anything.

That was my point.

There are near 800 billionaires in the USA. Assuming all only have $1 billion dollars and it is all invested, applying the “4% rule” gives a sustainable $40 million each per year. With $10 million to personally spend, that gives $24 billion a year for charity and public works.

I failed to find a list of the costs to solve various issues. Homelessness could be solved in a couple years.

The numbers provided are just a starting place. Many problems are extremely expensive. Actually working to solve them would help.

In case this is helpful (to whoever)

“It’s important that Shipping is up-to-date on these developments, Bob is their point person”

Response Options:

• Sure is. Bob is great. Is there a problem?

• That makes sense. Who is Bob?

• Sir, this is a Wendy’s. Can I cake your order. (Only applicable if you are on shift at the Wendy’s you work at.)

With 7 billion current humans, and many more dead, it is unlikely any problem was not noticed.

Sometimes it was intentionally setup to be a bother, other times the fix takes more resources than a single person can apply.

/lecture ended

No. Sometimes.

Beards are sometimes like that too.

Let’s talk more about the headbands. I use the cheap elastics and haven’t had an issue. Have you tried a large handkerchief?