This is a bit of a hack, but while you wait for a new drive or laptop, you could install Linux onto a thumb drive and run it from there.

When you use Rufus to write the image to the flash drive, it should give you the option to create a persistent storage section with a slider to say how much of the drive to allocate to that. At least this should keep Microsoft from destroying the data on it, lthough it will probably ask every time it starts up whether you want to format that drive.

This way you can just use whatever your BIOS boot key is, probably something like F12, to boot onto your Linux and keep it away from Microsoft :)

Yeah it is bad. But don’t write off cryptocurrency forever because of it. Ethereum used to be Proof of Work also, but made the transition to Proof of Stake, which has basically had no issues or exploits and reduced electricity usage more than 99%. Most modern chains like SOL and BNB happily have completely abandoned the antiquated PoW mechanisms.

What crypto needs is regulation and enforcement (and a better use case than just number go up); unfortunately under Trump the US will possibly get the former, certainly not the latter.

Maybe 2027 I suppose.

Honestly this seems a little excessive, BUT there is one important thing you can do to prolong your rats life and that is to always have two or three. Sorry if you already know all this, but just in case: Rats are very social and help each other’s physical and mental health; we might think we can provide enough social contact for them, but they just need at least one other rat in their life to be happy. IMO It’s best to just start with 3 from the same litter (in case one dies on the younger side).

This is the real cost IMO, as you need a decent sized cage to be able to give them some room to move around, as well as lining, toys and food. This should usually be the majority of the cost of ownership.

Truthfully most rats are fairly resilient, the hardest thing to deal with its that their lifespan just doesn’t compare to other types of pets. 3 years is really the max you’re looking at and we’ve had many barely make it to 2, so really you need to plan for end of life care and burial or cremation costs and the occasional vet visit, which very a lot by region.

If you have a VCA or a local vet who specializes in rodents (cause trust me, we’ve had bad vets who accidentally did more harm than good) you should be able to get an idea of costs for a tumor removal should one occur, unless you just want to put them down once it starts hurting their quality of life. This is much easier said than done because they are such sweet animals.

For us in central MA, for our least healthy rat is around $800 for a tumor removal (which has already come back about 6 months later, so another $800 upcoming), and end of life stuff usually is around $200-250. I hope this helps!

Bitcoin is basically only mined via ASICs now. You can still mine something like ETC but honestly chains have (rightfully) been moving to far more efficient consensus using Proof of Stake.

For the amount of electricity you would need to mine a meaningful amount of BTC, you’d be much better off buying spending $50 or $100 worth of BTC or ETH every week. Either hodl or DCA sell when prices bounce up.

I will miss her so much!

They are beautiful! My wife loves Dumbos, we’ve only ever had one but he is indeed adorable.

Yeah I’ve felt that way for a long time. It’s done all that I need and more since about 2003.

Yes you’ll fuck things up. Don’t keep anything remotely important on it and screw around with it. That’s how you learn. Blow your install away intentionally, try a different distribution the next time. There’s a lot more variability between distros, and more customizability compared to Windows too.

If you want to learn something new and different anyway. It’s definitely not like Windows except at the most surface level; you can get by in the GUI for almost everything until something goes wrong, but that’s exactly when you want to have been learning cmdline stuff, so you can try to salvage it.

chattr +i

;)

I was looking for a smaller (14" and not bulky) gaming Laptop, and ended up with the Lenovo Slim 7 Pro X. And I’m very happy with it; feels fairly future proof with 32GB of Ram and runs NixOS like a champ.

Only has a GTX 3050 though, so it’s not for the highest end gaming, but that’s never been my priority anyway, it runs BG3 quite well and that’s the beefiest thing I’ve thrown at it.

As mentioned, Minisforum and Beelink make great APU-based Ryzen systems which are going to give a great bang-for-buck. Get them from Amazon vs their dedicated website as some folks have had shipping delqys with the OEM website. ETA Prime does great reviews on YouTube of these boxes and shows what the FPS is like on some current, a few years old, and retro games for each one.

If you want the smallest possible system, with room for one the smaller form factor discrete graphics cards I’d say the NUC 9 Extreme works very well. I have a GTX 1650 in it and it is perfectly fine.

Steam Deck with a usb c dock is also a great option.

Funny how “muh freedom” means you should be able to not wear a mask, but others should be disallowed from wearing masks, even if they have actual safety or health concerns. Very consistent.

Was hoping for something enlightening here actually related to crypto, and found a very generic analysis of US debt. What actually matters is the deficit, and we will have to see if the US ever gets back to net positive.

When the first article on the site you see is titled “Plot Against Simonyan and Sobchak’s Life Confirms ‘Terrorist Essence of Zelensky Regime’” and the other sources referenced have sputnik in the title, you really need to consider the biases of the source you’re reading. Is it generic Russian disinformation? You decide.

I own more crypto than any other currency, that does not mean we should embrace every article which paints the dollar as facing imminent doom.

I have to say PulseChain. Richard Heart is entertaining AF and has been accused of being every bad thing imaginable, but after some fairly long delays did release his copy of the entire Ethereum blockchain.

People were (and are still) able to bridge out their copied assets if they didn’t want to stick around (recently this happened with the PEPE copies and he took a big hit on the pPEPE price, when after the initial pPEPE price spike, the OG holders swapped pPEPE back for ePEPE and bridged out), but it’s early enough in its life that some of these coins might eventually become meaningfully more valuable. Already some good farms to be a degen on.

Still love ETH and hold rETH and regular old ETH but PLS is fun and exciting at least for now.

Have to say I don’t enjoy the black void; I miss the facade of the VCR repair shop or Plinkett’s house. even if they just sit in the set dressed in their Lightning Fast shirts and talk normally. It doesn’t have to be any setup, they could literally just talk about the show with all of them sitting in one of the sets but at least we could be reminded of the premise. Love those 'memberberries.

Nice to see so many upvotes! :)

Mike is the key to all this. If he can sober up enough to edit and upload videos, because he’s a funnier alcoholic than we’ve ever had before…