If you have a fridge with an app

GET OUT

They’re not handing over private crypto keys here. It’s a database entry that the person installing the system can put whatever they like in.

Ahh, well, they’re kind of an ongoing thing, they don’t get everything, they die off or leave before the whole job is done, so I ended up in a cycle of buying them, keeping the spidermites from totally fouling the process, but never getting rid of them entirely. If Thrips are your problem, Spinosad is your solution, end of sentence.

Understand what a Reverse Proxy is, because you will not escape reading that phrase.

Host things with Docker for now. If you don’t start hosting until you understand everything, you won’t start for a long time and that is silly.

Use Cloudflare for now, because they handle a lot of security stuff for you that you definitely don’t want to screw up. If you don’t know what Cloudflare is, read up on CDNs and why they exist. Their Zero Trust Tunnel is the easiest and safest way to go, as long as you don’t plan to do anarchy or sedition on it, just talk about your household plants and dogs and what not and you’re fine.

I never spray, just adding to your watering can in the correct amount does it.

Mites are a different matter though, Spinosad doesn’t do those I don’t think. When I got mites I killed everything, sanitized, let it sit for a few months, before starting again. They’re the bedbugs of indoor growing.

What you want is called Spinosad. It’s marketed under other names, but it will deal with them immediately and decisively. Can be hard to find, when I needed it there was a local grow shop aimed at weed growers that sold it in small bottles, only a small amount added to your watering can is needed.

Kills every stage of life, which is the downfall of many bug killers - gets the adults but not the eggs. This stuff is a thrip nuclear option.

California sets emissions standards for cars, which US manufacturers then follow everywhere, because their market is so huge, it is most cost-effective to build for their standards, which are the toughest. What Cali does tends to spread.

Sounds like you’re using a bad OS to me 😂

Agree. We are posting in a nuance-free zone. Gotta go, I can only hold my breath at this many downvotes for so long, I just swam down to add my upvote.

Hi Trey. Stop punching down.

My Ass Generates A-bombs

I’m probably repeating what others are saying, but you, friend, are the people who will bring Linux to the world, not us nerds. Your post reflects that you haven’t learned a few things you’re definitely gonna learn, but you are on the right track, like a bloodhound (ie. a thinking person) with a strong scent (something is rotten in silicon valley).

First off, you don’t have to deal with the command line at all, 99% of the time, even on Arch. But Arch is not your only nor your best choice, if that is a specific thing that worries you. Being on the bleeding edge is not what you think - you will get up-to-date GPU drivers on any decent distro, but Arch’s approach means you will have more instances of your graphical desktop breaking in various and weird ways, necessitating a trip to the console on the regular.

Me in particular giving you advice: you should install Debian, because it aims for stability as its primary virtue, sacrificing speed of package updates to get that - they make sure that everything that is being updated continues to work flawlessly together, before it arrives in the regular release cycle. I run it because it never breaks, and if you use the KDE Plasma Desktop you get a full-featured OS that will work the same way other KDE desktops on other distros work. You can even look into Debian Sid, which is their “rolling release” version that tracks pretty closely with Arch’s package updates.

Only caveat with Debian: by default, it will install the Gnome desktop, and you need to select KDE Plasma when you get to a screen where you select your Desktop Environment (DE) during the install process. You can uncheck “Debian Desktop Environment” and “Gnome” which are both selected by default, but you can select which DE you want to use at the login screen, so it won’t hurt you to leave Gnome installed as well - it is more Mac-like and has strong opinions about things like what colour you should be able to use as your desktop background, so I’m not a fan, but I do like their general approach. But KDE Plasma is the one that feels very much like Windows. Others do as well, there are some distros that are actually tooled to look exactly like various Windoze versions.

Others will recommend Linux Mint, and while I used to have reservations based on their lack of work on Wayland support, they seem to be catching up there, and as much as the devs will tell you Wayland is coming no matter what (and unlike the AI slopmerchants, they are correct), but it’s not ready today for quite a lot of things, so it’s not something you need to worry about. Even if you didn’t understand this paragraph, don’t let it get you bunghed up in your head.

Even if you are certain you’re gonna want the up-to-date version of some software, you can still do that on Debian, one way or another - Steam, for instance, I don’t remember what I did when installing it, but it was effortless and I have the same Steam as anyone, far as I know. I certainly have no problem playing my games.

You will be doing stuff in the console no matter what, but vanilla Arch is basically S&M for people who love that kind of pain, and could well put you off of the GNU/Linux OS entirely if being dragged through that slog is not your thing. There are also distros that use Arch as the underlying base, much as Ubuntu and many, many other distros use Debian as the base of theirs.

In other news, Windows has Linux built-in now, so you don’t need to ever install it yourself!

The very first time I debated a christian about this, in 1992, I asked them what about back alley abortions, and he said he would charge all concerned, the conceivers and the abortionists, with murder.

They’ve been telling us the whole time this was their ultimate intention.

Can’t tell if that’s Jesse Ventura in a movie or G Gordon Liddy in his backyard…

8 bit kid here, I played with my uncle’s Atari VCS, the original one with six silver switches on the front, and my first computer was a C64.

It is definitely true that the only real difference between games released in the last ten years and games released in the 90s is prettier graphics. We still play platformers.

We don’t need all this to have fun. Trust me.

Also it will implode and all of this will be available at fire sale prices.

Don Tchak never! The dude is completely corrupt, and I hear he has some very nasty sexual proclivities.

edit: whoooooosh

My bad, I was a kid during his Oilers days and I mean, look at him…

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I also didn’t know what it was when I discovered their forum, which is a combination of kool-aid addled VCbrains and tech geeks having normal, informed conversations about tech stuff. I was hanging out there for a while, until I realized.