The Bard in Green

I’m hosting a minio cluster on my brother-in-law’s old gaming computer he spent $5k on in 2012 and 3 five year old mini-pcs with 1tb external drives plugged into them. Works fine.

I think you’re going to have more luck with a more right wing, more immature humor, more toxic masculinity kind of crowd.

Qubes wins that fight, as it is technically a posse. DOM0 is the sheriff.

sshfs

Idea 1:

Print out some of the various CLI cheat sheets and pin them to your wall by where you work on your computer.

Maybe this one:

Then, print a page with commands you commonly use, either with more complex syntax or that aren’t on the sheet. (Like, “ls” is on there, but “ls -s -h” is not, for example.

Idea 2:

Write bash scripts to automate some of your commonly used tasks. Comment them. Imagine someone else is going to have to use them, even if you’re the only one who’s ever going to look at them. Not only will this help you learn lots of commands and force you to describe what they do (which will help you retain the information), it will be there as a record of how it works that you can go back and look at months or years later, to remind yourself how to do something.

I was like “Which of the 6 systems I use on a daily basis do I answer these questions for?”

• I have my gaming PC which runs Linux Mint and I mostly use for Minecraft and Stellaris.
• I have my daily driver laptop, which duel boots between Linux Mint and QubesOS.
• I have my file and dev server (it runs a bunch of virtual machines I use for various projects) which runs Debian and shares all my files over sshfs.
• I have my backup server which rsyncs with the fileserver and runs Debian. The motherboard is like 12 years old, but it is pretty much just a house for a bunch of 8 TB drives.
• I have the living room TV, which is an older Dell All In One that runs Linux Mint.
• I have a weird frankenputer with a beefy GPU in it (better than the GPU in my gaming machine) that runs Debian and gets used for locally hosted AI experimentation. A friend gave me the GPU for Christmas and I had nothing to put it in, so I threw shit together from a bunch of the old PCs sitting in closets / garages around my house. Because I’m that guy.

And like… when I took the survey, I answered “yes” to having a firewall, even though I don’t run one locally on any of PCs (except the laptop, when it’s booted into Qubes because duh). BUT all of these are behind an OpenWRT router that DOES run a firewall, which I’ve spent a bunch of time messing with and customizing to get it working the way I want and put in personalized rules for the various systems. Which my wife and son LOVE (“Dad, the internet’s down again!”).

I’ve written more than enough words to win, while failing to finish my story. I’ve also played a lot with local LLMs. Can confirm on all counts.