You know over here in Europe we don’t have to refrigerate egg or wash slaughtered chicken in a chlorine bath. We use something called a vaccine that prevents salmonella in the first place

External drive? Is it a usb drive? If it is you might be best pulling out the drive and connecting it to a sata port. The mount as read only and do what everyone else suggests

Did you know K-9 mail is soon to be thunderbird mobile

Consider this; you were taught Microsoft <product> in school as it’s used in work environments, Microsoft <product> is used in work environments as it’s taught in schools or the person making the decision was only taught one product.

Why do you think Microsoft is giving free upgrades from windows 10 to 11, same thing from XP upwards. It’s vendor lock in, and that’s bad for many reasons

No offence, but have you been living under a Microsoft shaped rock for the past 30 years?

I’ve been down this road, java Minecraft is fine, bedrock Minecraft is not. Most people and cross platform play Minecraft use the bedrock version. It’s literally Microsoft saying FU linux

I’ll counter the other comments. It’s not any more difficult to maintain than any other service. What is a pain is the spam, and as I run it for a business the users. The biggest problem I have is other mail servers been incorrectly configured for SPF, DKIM and dmarc , usually it’s things like external billing platforms that have been integrated incorrectly by customers and suppliers. Spam is now starting to come though with all the proper headers for SPF and DKIM

Not from the US, but I believe it’s to do with child protection laws, Google says it’s COPPA. Generally a service has to put in extra protections, such as prevent direct messaging, not tracking kids, not personal info. Basically all the bad shit that social media does, they can’t do to kids and most importantly have to actively monitor and restrict. That why most apps and stuff ask for date of birth or if you are over 13 or whatever

The amount of times I’ve had this argument in the office is untrue. I think the default values aren’t stored in the docx file or something like that, but when you manually set a value it does store it in the docx.

Then you have the whole proprietary blobs in a “open” standard to deal with.

The worst offenders are people who format with tabs and spaces and wonder why it’s all messed up.

If you have to use a program that is windows only you have to use windows. I could move our entire company over to Linux if it wasn’t for SOLIDWORKS been windows only.

Wine can be an option but I’ve found it very hit and miss on some of the more obscure windows only programs

In the past I’ve used virtual box (virtual machine) in seamless mode, so it looks just like a window in Linux. I can’t remember why I stopped, I think it was down to licencing and oracle buying it.

Exactly all programs should be web based cloud subscription only. We don’t want that filthy code on our rgb nvme drives

I’ve done it before where a newer version of a program is available that hasn’t been backported, just need to watch the dependencys. Sometimes it works out fine, othertimes you need a second package or 2 to update, othertimes it’s time to upgrade to the latest bleeding edge release of the OS

Oh and sailing, kayaking/paddle boarding, bike rides, at the beach in waves, generally anything that involves getting wet

Did it over android when I first got it, but you can drop the file in folder called update on the SD card https://gopro.com/en/gb/support/hero8-black-product-update/windows?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIupqBnuzbgQMVBcbtCh3oQQDKEAAYASAAEgL72_D_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds Bit of a lol at the instructions, but it’s got everything for windows. I started out with 2/3 smaller SD cards, that’s why I’m doing the SD card dance, have since got a large one but still just pull the SD card out, I’m pretty sure it just works using the usb connection, but don’t use it

I’ve got a GoPro 8, I just pull the SD card out and attach it by usb card reader then dump it to the nas. For pulling clips out I usually us the android GoPro app. Make a 5-10 second video and share it straight off the phone. Most of the videos I do are in 1-3min anyway.

Something like iSCSI as you already have to 10gig card, or fibre channel SAN, apparently qnap supports both, however I’ve never used a qnap or iSCSI For booting https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ISCSI/Boot For the qnap https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/tutorial/article/how-to-create-and-use-the-iscsi-target-service-on-a-qnap-nas

The general idea is a small boot partition to load kernel and most importantly the drivers for the nic, then mount the Nas over iSCSI and finish loading the os

To be honest a 1TB SATA ssd isnt that much, you could have 10 distros @ 100gb each with extra storage mounted on the nas. 100gb is loads for a Linux OS. I think most of the virtual machines I spin up without a GUI use a 20GB disk

You can also boot directly over the network with pxe/netbootin etc but I’m not sure how that works with an add in network card, as it’s usually a feature of the bios itself

Have you had a look at PCI exhaust fans and cable ties as cheaper version of this https://akasa.co.uk/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&amp;model=AK-CC7401BP01

I did this without the zip ties, kind of wedge it between the motherboard and the power cables.

Trickle, never used it but seen it mentioned a few times

I put fail2ban on everything, and I manage to lock my self out of systems at least once a month, so I guess it’s working as intended.