Make my own gluhwein alike drink. On 1dec i take a jar, and put in

• 3 star anis
• 7 cloves
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• grated orange peel
• 3 crushed peppercorns
• vodka till everything is fully submerged

Close lid, store dark and shake once a day. On christmas eve: filter out the solids an mix the vodka with a bottle of red wine. Serve warm

Boil it and serve it in a bowl, not on your plate. (You can’t get all the water out and I HATE it when water seeps out to the rest of my meal)

He’s like teflon … Nothing sticks.

But once there is a minor scratch, it will become completely worthless in no time at all. Now it’s not IF but WHEN that scratch happens

Pay or be punished ;)

Elementary on my wife’s, the rest of the family manages mostly. Outside family I now go to great lengths to avoid it. I just help them find the right distro and guides.

Otherwise some will see you as 1st 2nd and 3rd line support as well as hardware engineer from installation onward. Kind of the same as in the past when tv’s could be repaired. If they know you can do it, your done for. You have not stated working hours nor tariffs. And why pay for parts? You probably have boxes full of all kinds of stuff. (Including a demand to come over and fix stuff on xmas eve at 22:00)

I know, it sounds bitter, I’m not. Or …well over this point maybe a bit, I enjoyed helping out until too many saw it as a right and not a favour.

Let’s be gratefull it does not run win11 okay? (Or any windows for that matter)

Yes, two… Two years younger and two years older

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It might die slowly if you take down all root dns servers and keep them off long enough.

Maybe if you disturb BGP between isp’s enough

but I can’t see how either can be done, it’s quite resilliant

You could try and remove the power supply, the batteries and the cmos battery. Then use the power-on button a few times (won’t start but could help drain all components of residual charges.

Now put it all together again and hope for the best.

• Power off. Power on and keep pressing <F1> to get into bios
• Turn off secure boot again
• Exit and save values
• Keep pressing <F12> to get into the boot menu
• Try booting linux and take it from there

Script that monitors the logs and uses notify-send to throw a popup? Not yet fully interactive but could be a start

You could drop all and use the log function to see all traffic denied

I used/tried Ubuntu a few times -just because some solutions announce it as their supported platform- but I got tired of how they push snaps, and so I stay on Debian. Last week I went to deb13 on various machines and so far had no other task then fixing deprecated python functions in my own scripts, which isn’t abnormal. The one ‘issue’ I had was a PHP version mismatch in an apache2 config. So I’m (still) happy with Debian! And like @eugenia@lemmy.ml wrote, every 2 years (give or take) a fresh install is how I like to do it.

One can’t have enough on diy and repair/restoration

If you use new encryption and not re-use the existing I’d say there is no advantage in wiping

I installed I3 a few times. I did not get it and I was to lazy to look up how to use it. Somehow your post made me install it again. This time I took that moment to look up how to use it. Less than 15 min later I found myself banging my head against the wall. Should have looked it’s usage up the first time I installed it. This is what I need like 70% of the time. THNX!

At one hand I’d say : you really need (mental)help

At the other hand … Global warming is doing just that.

So if it’s guaranteed global warming is reversed and not starts over, one could reason it’s justified (biggest question, which/who’s children is it ghonna be)

i don’t care it does not care

okay, I admit I like it