Totally, assuming of course it’s a business class laptop (indeed if it’s a thinkpad or similar most anyone can grab a $50 screen from China, find a yt tutorial and have a go themselves with a fair chance of success). On the other hand if it’s a glued together ultra thin consumer POS, it’s likely more than it’s worth to get it fixed.

Same, tried the AID diet first without significant effect. Two weeks of beef salt water got me there and I started identifying foods ([chicken] eggs and [cow] cheese being worst, but carbs being problematic in general, hence AID failure). I now do it yearly after Christmas to check foods I’m suspicious of. It’s extreme, but pretty much guaranteed to work, barring Lyme disease, basically no-one has an inflammatory reaction to beef.

For those of you contemplating this, trick I found is when I eat an inflammatory food while hydrating properly I put on a Kg + of water weight within 24 hours (remember, inflammation of an injury makes it swell, with water). Easy to measure.

Sounds like all you need is an Ext4 USB drive with a LUKS key on it. Then add kernel parameters like

rd.luks.key=UUID=/.keys/TheKey:LABEL=KEYS rd.luks.options=discard,keyfile-timeout=10s

in GRUB and it’ll autoboot.

Pull the key and power down and you’re back to normal. I use it in a low threat model environment so I can hit reboot and go get a coffee and come back to a DE.

ETA: sorry, got the timeout format wrong, I don’t use it.

Also https://thetvdb.com/

Ah, so it is vibe coded [I created] was a trigger. Let people know, it might not actually be bad if you know coding already, but it’s good to let people know, not real maintainable otherwise.

Debian it is then, it comes in stable, testing and sid (who breaks his toys) also called unstable variants. Unsurprisingly, you’ll be wanting stable.

Valid point re containers, but OP has a wanting bare metal feel IMO. I like and use both, horses for courses, just giving some context.

Pretty much on the low side, but you’ve not been up long. Using key based login you’re fine.

Depends on what you mean by professional and your needs.

Debian (stable) is rock solid but (because) slow changing, if your application is slow (or not) changing it’s probably the better choice, but if you need new things before it’s ready for a new version it’ll be pain. It’s the professional sysad’s choice because they’ll likely not have to do anything.

Fedora is faster moving (think cutting edge, not bleeding edge (e.g. Arch) as opposed to Debian’s blunt safety) so if you’re in active development it’s likely a better choice. It is also sort of the testing arm for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is the quintessential professional Distro, so you’ll learn some of that along the way.

Nah, the fun is learning form others mistakes. Thanks for a fun read :}

Good flick, but to be clear sneakernet is just handing over physical media in person.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard disks (or a suitcase full of microSDs on a plane).

C64 sneakernet swapped floppies were huge at the time, no modem required.

If everyone is breaking some law, everyone is insecure.

Seems pretty plausible, not 3-2-1 yet, but on the way, and should get the habits established well enough. Just having an offline backup is a huge step up from most. Consider a waterproof box (perhaps buried) in the back yard instead of just another room (in case of fire / flood).

If you have a friend with a similar setup, or who perhaps wants one, you can sync over internet and both get your offsite without the expense of online backups or the inconvenience of lugging HDDs around.

Yup, easy, mayhap not, but worthwhile things often aren’t.

seems like I wouldn’t be able to install Facebook I think

Bonus.

Do what you can with what you have (I’m gonna have to wait coz mine are AMD but it’ll get there eventually, thanks llama.cpp, that story was worth propagating anyway), future’s bright.

Nice.

See also 85 TPS (106 TPS peak) on a single 3090 with Qwen3.6–27B. Shit’s getting viable locally, sorry (not sorry) techbros,…

I’ve never heard about any privacy issues there, but, it’s worth keeping in mind

You would hear about it, and as someone happy there, it’s a recurring nightmare, but an actual credible threat would be worth so many dollars lost to them that there’s a low likelihood. Shit, Torvalds runs fedora, still, keep a weather eye open.

Mostly Linux has the virtue of the many eyes on open source protection, but it’s far from absolute, as the rise of supply chain exploits demonstrates.