Technically, yes, but only in that your battery can be explosive, given the right circumstances. Really, they’re more highly combustible than explosive. They can burn very very hot and very quickly, but they won’t detonate.

I love Debian, but I’d still put it more in the advanced category than Ubuntu. Not much, but it does rely more on the user understanding how Linux systems work.

Yeah, for newbies I always recommend sticking to the big distros meant for ease of use. Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop, or openSUSE. Only once you’re familiar would I recommend venturing into the harder and lesser known distros.

Once you pick one of those, you can download a “spin” or “edition” for the desktop environment you want. So, you’d want Lubuntu for Ubuntu+LXQt.

That only works with non-first past the post voting systems.

Ultimately, you can’t. Even if everything you’re doing is encrypted, they have access to the RAM that’s holding your encryption keys.

If you want cheap encrypted storage you can run a Nephele server with encryption and something like Backblaze B2.

Use a temporary email.

It’s not completely FOSS, but I run Port87, which is quite a bit FOSS. It uses Haraka as its SMTP server, SvelteKit as its server framework, Nymph.js as its database layer, Svelte as its frontend framework, and Svelte Material UI as its UI framework.

The ones that I created and maintain are:

• Nymph.js
• SMUI

The base app layout is also available on GitHub.

You can try them both and see which one you like. Gnome is great, and it’s my preference, but KDE is also great.

Yep. It’s currently 110° where I’m at, so I’m pretty close. It’s fucking hot.

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The way I’ve done it is Ubuntu Server with a bunch of Docker Compose stacks for each service I run. Then they all get their own subdomain which all runs through the Nginx Proxy Manager service to forward to the right port. The Portainer service lets me inspect things and poke around, but I don’t manage anything through it. I want it all to be super portable, so if Ubuntu Server becomes too annoying, I can pack it all up and plop it into something like Fedora Server.

They can’t do 4K video. The best they can do is 1080p30.

I didn’t say Raspberry Pi Zero. Those are niche machines. They’re not fast enough to do general purpose computing.

2.4 times. But, who’s counting?

No. They emulate a keyboard, and use the keyboard shortcuts to do things in Windows. So they won’t work out of the box in Linux, but you can add each of the keys as a keyboard shortcut, then they’ll work.

I’d recommend the Pepper Jobs windows 10 gyro remote. I’ve got two of them because they’re so great.

Exactly. N100 mini PCs are like the Swiss Army Knife of computers. Almost as compact as a Raspberry Pi, and compatible with a lot more things.

Mostly that it was an ancient version, so trying to get anything even remotely recent running on it was nearly impossible. But also that even when we upgraded to the next version, all of the libraries were still outdated. It’s like running software that’s old enough to drive.

About fucking time. I worked there for 4 years and absolutely hated every time I had to log in to a prod machine. (Which wasn’t very often, but still.)