That’s not how downtrodden works.

What about mercs getting paid in drugs and rape?

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your thinking is flawed; don’t blame the innocent for the motivation of criminals

from a diagramming pov, remember to document the link speed at each end as well as the ethernet cable type. if your cable modem supports 10GB I would really really look at 10GB network devices pretty closely, budget allowing. I would steer cleared of managed, it’s just a PIA for your setup.

You might want to experiment with modem <-> switch <-> wifi vs (modem <-> wifi <-> switch). remember wifi is just ethernet. so the order may or may not matter as much (vendor gets a vote). there does not appear to be a reason to march ethernet cable traffic thru the wifi router, but maybe there is???

def agree an 8 port switch might be better for you, use a 5 to split a single cable at a single location (say, tv + game console + speaker combo)

Remember if you need a WiFi mesh (multi access-point) to connect your devices, if possible, link the mesh backplane together via ethernet cable so that you don’t chew half the speed with wi-fi backplane chatter.

Libre Office ppt is good enough imo; Apple Keynote is superior to both imo.

Speaking of crimes, Wsl2 is GUILTY and shall be judged INSUFFICIENT

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Excel is def the mkt leader for a reason

I loathe Ms Access but have to admit there is no peer that even comes close.

Vs code is relatively reliable, cross platform and gets the job done. When there are a lot of people “one way that works for all” is a quality as well.

That said, I wish open offices were better. Even Apple numbers isn’t a realistic excel alt yet (though it is super decent). And I agree there are plenty of editors that work in many situations.

Just learned about zed and helix yesterday.

whaat…c arrays are safe, just make sure to avoid bugs & use cases that make them unsafe! ;P

imo, when safety is required, use a diff language with in grammar options.

https://ziglearn.org/chapter-1/#runtime-safety

Awesome, go for it! ansible (more or less) is directed ssh. inventory, role, playbooks + templates, etc; for learning, definitely go for it! if you were to roll your own automation framework, you’d end up w/ansible.

Are you crossing a physical boundary?

If you have rw on dest but not src “Moves” (copy=>delete) can look like this

All it takes is for a lone soldier deep in a nest to have r - -

could be a perm issue

how many devices do you need to update?

ansible wants to have a home base and an inventory of devices to manage. for example, if you have a flock of Rasberry Pi’s and a server stashed under a desk somewhere, yes, ansible is 100% going to simplify your life.

ansible mgmt from a device to that same device… It might be just as easy to make backups and track your file deltas. the temptation is to use ansible so you remember what changes you made, but it can be a pia when you need to do a quick shift and have to go thru the playbook (unless you have playbooks on the ready).

what you are attempting is called high availability; it might not be worth it; usually would need three different physical devices (in a homelab situation)…a load balancer to route traffic, and two nodes to handle said traffic. to perform your storage upgrade, you pull one device out of the load balancer, do your upgrade, and then add it back in. then, you do the same for the other load balancer. this would have 100% service availability…but this is a lot of work for a one-person show!

do that for fun - you do you. however, if you can handle a few hours of downtime and don’t want to burden yourself with the long time care+feeding the above setup will require…

remember you can use USB boot, mount both your drives, and then if you are lucky, your distro (on USB) will have a disk management/cloning utility.

click click click, boom…you have bit perfect copy of small M2 on to large M2.

Do not change your small M2! power down, swap 'em, and power on! if it doesn’t work, you still have your OG M2 to boot from.

there are backup/restore utilities and other ways, each taking more and more time…but M2 is pretty quick.

Leave ‘em behind.

What should be and why it is, two diff questions…

A terminal renders a single glyph in a grid. That’s it. This stems from the days from before - when there was no graphics instruction to render anything different, and link speeds could be, on bad days, slower than typing speeds.

Terminal rendering evolved to include ANSI instruction to manipulate the rendering-color, grid position, etc.

However, at its core, is this limitation…a glyph in a grid…and this limitation is due to how slow terminals are.

Terminals originally operated at a serial baud rate where one could nearly type faster than the transmission speed.

X windows…was designed…to not have these limits.

Terminal emulation is handy, but … it is limited. By definition retro. If a terminal doesn’t work…move on…and make something that does :)

Excellent. It is very very very tweakable.

Enlightenment says:

“Welcome”

We unfuck ourselves like we always do.

But first, a whole lot of nothing….

For sure.

My point was more … first time, ever, you boot a raw device, a display can be handy unless you know what you are doing. Once it survives a reboot…

After that, if you need a GUI — just run an x windows server on your main rig; interact with your remote server as the client without the need of a display.

Usually it’s handy to have a display during initial setup and cfg. Also, with x windows port forwarding … you access your server gui over a network like god intended :)