9mm is the only metric a Texan needs in his life

To be clear, my point is that you should just start doing stuff. It’s a journey. Don’t spend much on hardware or electricity

I have a garbage dell wyze thin client with tiny11 and hyper-v running Homeassistant OS. I did this because the solar inverters and batteries have windows only software tools plus an android app in WSA. Also runs jellyfin with a few shows. I plan to migrate but can’t decide on what OS. I found out USB and serial passthrough will work, so I can use a Windows VM.

The networking is garbage because it’s actually got two wifi NICs, I haven’t pulled Ethernet. One dedicated to HAOS. Tailscale works great.

Dell Thin Client type machine with a 2TB SSD of the essentials. Backs up once a week to my gaming desktop. Has enough horsepower for Homeassistant, Jellyfin, adblocking. Enough fast USB for two 2.5GBE. Upgraded to 16GB RAM before the crisis, but could make due with 8GB. Cheaper than a raspberry pi for only a few extra watts.

Bread and circuses

Now that it’s spring, your toes can be out in style instead of inside of your Arch BTW socks

AutoCAD barely works on Windows. I don’t have any recommendations other than a VM. In a VM everything is sandboxed, unless you go out of your way to expose real hardware to it. Give it a shot. Don’t use an unofficial lightweight version of windows, AutoCAD uses niche features that might have been removed. You don’t need a license

What should I start with? I just watched the trial and decided I needed to read some

I wonder if I’ll make it through Don Quixote and Count of Monte Cristo in 2026. I’m starting light with brave new world, catcher in the rye, and then Kafka.

Like how the Australians say No

I think I want this on a hoodie or something

Our displays are able to show even more detail now. Let’s remove all the details from everything.

I don’t get it

Same

Nice Ad

My napkin math is similar, although I do wonder about transcoding machines where the old one is using CPU vs newer solutions in the GPU.

There are little devices that take the “headphone” cable and transmit a tiny FM radio station just for your car.

I dunno, my 386 isn’t supported anymore

Windows accessing my other Windows installation’s files corrupted my filesystem, how does that factor in?

Life safety systems, fire protection, most controls, really