Super Mario 2: Don’t you pick up that key! Hey, put that key down!

Not that Alanis Morissette song?

Canuck here, and I really hate weighing in on your politics, but… Biden is old. An old politician, with policy experience, advisors, and hopefully at least enough common sense to step down if his health takes a turn. Trump is also old. And a lunatic. A criminal, a predator. No redeeming qualities whatsoever. A human shaped waste of space. When you guys voted for him last time, the rest of the world smacked their foreheads in astonishment and lost any respect for the voting populace of your country. We all honestly thought he was a joke right up until he won. Every single thing you see online about Biden is an attempt to get enough sane people to abstain so the lunatics can squeak a victory out of sheer disgust. Vote. Vote for a human being who means well, or vote for a bag of orange toxic waste shaped like a person. But realize that all the crap about Biden is a blatant attempt to get you to stay home and not vote. How many criminal charges…? Seriously?

I got laid off because my company thinks their shiny new AI will cover my productivity… I’m betting you can guess how I feel?

That sounds like a student project if I’ve ever heard one… What’s the FOSS project?

It is unseasonably warm in Calgary at the moment. That was last week!

I have not, and I will check! If that’s all it is… It’s been finicky for years!

My friends bought me a litter robot, too. I have mixed feelings. I seem to have to reset and fiddle with the thing too often, but when it works, it’s really good for keeping the smell down. My guys use it more often than the other two old school boxes, so I guess two paws up from them?

Just a guess: model rocket?

I was going to make this exact joke, so thank you! Also, I have “Trust” from Batman 1989 in my head now.

Kinda, yeah. It’s an open source but commercial product. The stable releases are paid, the beta is free. I’ve only been running a three machine cluster for a few months now, but it’s been absolutely solid despite power outages, internet outages, a hard drive going pop…

Hisense makes these e-ink phones that run Android. They’re fiddly to get a working app store on, but once you do, you can pick your reading app. I run a Hisense A7CC with Kobo, Kindle, Aldiko, Perfect Viewer, and, well, this app! That is, if you want a very small screen. Boox makes a few 6-8" e-ink Android readers. I do like being able to sideload in whichever reading app I want. The colour ones are overpriced though.

Oh, self-hosted would be another good place to ask.

I second the proxmox nomination! I use a fair amount of Ubuntu and Fedora, and with Proxmox, you just spin up whatever you want, whenever you want it. I currently have a machine with a few % of your machine’s specs, and I’m running WordPress, jellyfin, pihole, LMDE, and a couple Ubuntu desktops (Mate and Gnome) on different VMs, all at once, like they’re running on bare metal.

I just synced with gpoddersync, like two minutes ago!

Yes, you need a NextCloud server, but it’s getting easier to set up than ever before, and there are third party hosts available for cheap.

And…! You can sync multiple devices across NextCloud! Tablet and phone? Synced!

I’m using jerboa, and they just open in Firefox or vlc for me.