Notices by Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social), page 29

@infosechandbook Wow. Air Canada?! WTF?!

@art That's terrible!

@vinzv I like SuSE a lot too. If I were running it on this machine, I would probably go for the Tumbleweed variant, for the same reasons that I use Fedora over some sort of enterprise / LTS-type thing. 🙂

I definitely run enterprise distributions on servers at work, apart from a hand-full of cases.

@Mtony75 hah. I've never heard of Ladybug, but my cousins definitely had Donkey Kong too. Indeed, a true classic!

@Mtony75 Awesome! That totally brought back memories! 😄

@Gargron I hope you're okay. 🙁

@vinzv Well, since this machine is a quasi desktop -- because we watch movies on it, sometimes use the web, and even (rarely) open documents on it, it's really nice to have the latest and greatest stuff.

Fedora's upgrade procedure is so smooth that it's really not a burden to upgrade once or twice a year. I just went from v27 to v29 -- you don't have to upgrade Fedora every six months if you don't want to.

Fedora is also actually a very stable system. So no sacrifices there. 🙂

@brejoc Thanks! 🙂

It's good to know that you're saving energy too. Please know that I wasn't passing judgement on you for running your machines (even if you did leave them on). 🙂

You can also adjust the performance profile in Linux to save energy while the systems are online. Then you can potentially leave the NAS running 24/7 without as much concern. The performance profiles actually provide a pretty good amount of flexibility, and it's another fun thing to tinker with!

@Mtony75 oh, wow. My older cousins had Coleco when I was little. I can still remember playing a Smurfs game on it in their basement. 😄

@vascorsd That's unacceptable. I think I'm going to write them about it. Hopefully, other people will too.

@brejoc I am really energy conscious, so my #basementrack consists of a small case like the one you have for your NAS, with an AMD six core mini-itx board inside. It has a single 500GB SSD, which holds our massive CD collection, ripped to FLAC format. We use MPD to play music from anywhere in the house (using an app as an interface). The machine is also connected to a projector so we can watch Netflix and such with it. The whole thing runs on #Fedora, which I just upgraded to v29.

@jonw Honestly, I think that's just how things are now. 🤪

@vascorsd Wow. I've never read them before. I didn't know they were so bad. I suppose all blog comment sections are vile cesspools now. I don't know why so many sites still have them.