Yeah, I would do the same… Loving toolbox! I have to support some clients with VMWare though…

Hehe… Try installing VMware Player or Genshin Impact in Fedora! (Those are my two most recent headaches.) Any OS can be a pain, it just seems like Linux is getting friendlier every year and Microsoft becomes more overtly the enemy.

I just got top work and asked a senior tech: 24H2 + a 25H2 enablement package to make bypassnro still work for us. Geez.

Huh, that’s weird that I’ve been able to use the bypass NRO trick pretty consistently at work and at home… I should have mentioned the Rufus thing too, but he was doing this as a reset, not as a new install, so I didn’t.

Reset, once it’s done downloading (if you go cloud), pull your network cable. When it gets to “let’s get you online” hit shift f-10 which pulls up the terminal window. Type oobe\bypassnro and hit enter. Stay offline, and get back to the same spot in the install process but this time you’ll have a “I don’t have internet” link as an option. It’ll protest, but you can then move forward with a local account. I literally did it yesterday.

Once you have a local account built, Windows will give you “sign in” alerts in settings and in security.

Just for the record, I use Linux. I do however work in a Windows shop and understand that “just use Linux” isn’t at all helpful when someone asks a Windows question.

Can I recommend pocketknife? There’s a guy who writes hilarious reviews of knives. Only about one a week, but weird knife Wednesday is almost as high on my list of fun stuff as Taco Tuesday!

I don’t actually use the arr stack, but if you set up Tailscale it won’t hurt anything else by being set up. I just know that it’s pretty straightforward to use, so I thought I’d throw in a good word for it.

Nobody is addressing tailscale so far, so I’ll throw my two cents in: I have tailscale on my phone and my laptop, and I have a bunch of stuff running at home, and they all act like they’re on the same network as long as I’m logged in. There are a lot of alternatives out there, but I find it quite useful. I have immich for my pictures and pihole for ad blocking using docker. The basic docker tutorials are worth following. All I really use is docker ps, docker image docker compose up (-d), docker pull. Nano to edit the yaml files I find online. Unhacked so far!

Oh, you’ve met my sister!

I had a Dell laptop that made a whiny noise in Debian because of something with the sound card/driver/?, but if I plugged in headphones it immediately stopped. I fixed it with alsamixer. I forget the specifics, it was a while back. Shot in the dark, but if it isn’t happening due to load, maybe it’s a sound issue?

I’ve used Remmina from Debian Gnome. I had to turn on dynamic resolution update, and had to pick a color theme that was different from the default, but then it worked fine.

I run a Pi400 every now and then… It’s not setting any speed records, and starts to lag out after 10 tabs, but it runs all day on an external phone battery. There’s the odd app that nobody bothered porting to ARM, but I have more trouble with Arm Windows than Arm Linux.

I had a pinebook 1080p, same exact experience. Fine, not fantastic, good battery life. It keeled over and died after a year though.

https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/

Cost: one fan, four air filters, duct tape.

Purifies better than any commercial filter, never stuck with being unable to find a replacement filter.

Yup! Trixie on a couple machines, Fedora on the others. One LMDE box. No ads pushed at me.

Spacey ruined so much…

Yes, actually! Not so much gaming, but it seems like I’ll be surfing or whatever, and then… Dialup speed for a few seconds… Then normal again. My router is about 15’ away, just upstairs. Hmmm… I dual boot the laptop, I’ll see if it’s just Fedora.

Mental note: Send monnier my next smoker owned PC if I want it cleaned properly.

I own cats. Blowing out the fans is never enough… Tweezers!

I opened the garage door last night, what if my 3D printer got too cold and ruined the print?

Ahh, I see. Someone else mentioned portainer, that has a lot of “click to do bleh” functions. Might be what the doctor ordered. You could also put the command in a bash script, like restart.sh and then it’ll show up with an ls.