Hi, Brent!
Edge > Chrome. I use it at work. Much better.
What do you want to self host? To learn or experiment buy a cheap old x86 box. I get mine at goodwill auction. Otherwise desktop is good if you want something that needs more compute and that you’d spin up as needed vs always on.
Firefox for personal. I like Edge for work stuff.
Writing by hand with a pen you like on nice quality paper can be enjoyable. The best for me is when I journal on my typewriter.
I am happy with Proton.
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I was also asked this question at 15 while being interviewed by the local Sears. I went on to sell shoes though. Cordless phones would have been cool.
I wish I could get over the learning curve with GIMP but tbh my current workflow involves a windows 10 virtual machine for Photoshop. It works for my needs without GPU pass through.
I’m using Evolution as I prefer their interface. I’m curious to give the new Thunderbird a try when there’s a flatpak.
Please, please, please, don’t be caffeine! 🤞
Oracle’s take on the RHEL news is laughable and frankly disappointing even by Oracle standards.
+1 for Brother. Works great printing from Linux.
FreeTube is great for downloading YouTube content to Jellyfin so my daughter can watch it without ads.
I use Gnome with the pop-os tweaks: shell, launcher, and workspaces. Looking forward to the new COSMIC DE from System76.
It has a laptop style fan for the cpu. I’ve never noticed any noise but I have it off in a corner and near some noisy af parakeets so it’s silent to me.
I am running my home server on a Dell 3050 from shopgoodwill.com and it was ~$40 without hard drives. It has room for an m2 drive and SSD so I have Ubuntu/Docker on the m2 and all my data on an SSD.
I’ve used it in a VM just to mess around. I’d like to install it on an old ThinkPad and try to compile some applications.