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  • Just to counter balance the discussion, no.

    Yep, lots of shops, cafes have a small camera in the corner, but most are.either broken or only live - ie no recording. And they accept cash... in fact lots of takeaways only take cash.

    There's ANPR on major roads, but not on minor ones. (I recall there is / was? an app for tracking where ANPR cameras are located on OSM maps)

    I can go about my life with very little surveilance, but I don't live in a major city.

    I was also told recently thelat even the mobile speed detector vans publish - rougly - where they'll be on Facebook, so it's not all bad.

    But, digital surveillance (think of the kids / terrorists) is definitely eroding privacy and affecting the general public to move in the wrong direction.

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    The Best Laptop of 2026 was Made in 2016

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  • To compare...

    We're running brand new Dell laptops with Windows 11 and most are failing.

    Some are hardware issues (laptop won't charge!) Some are software (BSOD, random issues, etc)

    So, TBH, I'd like to buy back all our old laptops, replace Windows with Linux and do away with all the corp. spyware and I bet my team's productivity doubles.

  • Systemd preparing to comply with age verification laws

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  • Just think of all those Azure and AWS VMs needing age verification as they're spooled up, destroyed and receated every few minutes...

  • How was your week?

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  • Yep, the person that invents time travel is going to have a long queue of parents...

  • How was your week?

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  • Built some Pax wardrobes over the weekend.

    3 of them, on a 3" plinth to level out the floor.

    Nothing like powertools and mess to make me feel alive again.

    Then 2 days of Teams calls and some spreadsheets... I need the summer to get it's arse into gear so I can use more powertools... and BBQ...

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  • Yep.

    About "a month ago" my daughter was toddling around. "Last week" she was at college "Yesterday" she moved into her own place with her boyfriend.

    I rarely see my daughter now that she has her own fulltime life.

    If I can be future-you to anyone here, make the absolute most of your kids' time. It really REALLY flies by.

    Source: Working away from home to earn money for a future that never happened.

  • How to diagnose a complete system freeze (no REISUB, no mouse/kb, have to hard reset)?

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  • @MindfulMaverick@piefed.zip definitely do Step1 from here.

    Make sure it's memtest+ and not the others.

    It might fail quickly, it might take all night, but this will find bad RAM.

    If it passes, move on to the next steps... I'd also add: check PSU

  • Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android?

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  • Correct.

    That conversation has finished, the dust has settled and syncthing-fork is fine.

  • GIMP 3.2 released

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  • Yep, agreed.. it's an amazing tool - esp. as it's (almost?) like Photoshop and other expensive tools.

    I just can't suggest it to my friends without being afraid / avoiding / making excuses for an acronym... they'll have to find it themselves and they won't want to admit it either...

  • GIMP 3.2 released

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  • I'm sure this would get more mainstream acceptance if they changed the name.

  • What security measures did everyone use when configuring and can Ansible manage multiple installs?

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  • Ok, so a few things to pick apart there...

    If you're using reflector to find the fastest mirror, personally, I'd do that once and maybe check it... twice a year? As long as you have, say 3~5 mirrors, then if your fastest failed, you'll still update. And the 2nd / 3rd fastest are not going to be much slower.

    So, really, that could be done manually

    But, that beings me on to ~.pacnew` in general. Again, IMHO, that should not be automated.

    Ok, maybe locale.gen updates can be ignored, but sometimes a config file really changes a lot. And that new file should be in your ansible master files to copy to all relevant devices.

    Handling different processor types? Not really a problem. If you have a load of devices then grouping your ansible hosts by OS type might be a good idea because they'll probably be doing similar things, but you're usually installing packages by name, doing an update, etc not OS specific usually...

    You'll need SSH for a remote Ansible controller to access the devices, but using private key pairs, possibly only enabling on specific IP addresses, etc, would help.

  • What security measures did everyone use when configuring and can Ansible manage multiple installs?

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  • I have a laptop, NAS, Pi and some VMs running Arch - all updated by Ansible, most setup by Ansible.

    It's fine.

    However, you'll need to manually do a pacdiff often to check if something's had an updated config file...

    And if you're using the AUR, Ansible can use that too, but you just need to keep an eye on those packages in case something else needs tweaking (not to mention getting an AUR helper installed in the first place)

    Re: security - it depends... usually, if you're not using something you need to shut it down for security.... with Arch, just don't install it in the first place. So if you don't need an SSH server don't install it / remove it ( I don't recall if OpenSSH is installed by default TBH)

    You could setup a firewall, but, are you using hostile networks?

    Just ensure root has a good password and you've not done the Ubuntu thing of removing the need for a password to use sudo and you'll be fine in most situations.... maybe a password protected screensaver for when you leave your laptop alone at Starbucks...

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  • Yep.

    And as this is the internet and you don't know me and I won't know if you did it or not, then you now have to go through with it. 😉

  • Considerations For Buying a New Laptop

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  • Definitely look for a 2nd hand one, you'll have less issues.

    Don't go toooo old as some had wifi issues back in the day (no / partial drivers)

    There's a lot of refurbs by major brands (ie Dell) that are ex-corp lease models with some kind of warranty (which won't cover the battery) because of the Win10 purge.

    I think the GPU is the main issue if you're wanting to play games... and as others have said, gimmicks like touchscreens and fingerprint readers can be hit & miss.

    I've installed Mint on Lenovo, Dell and HP laptops with no major issues.

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  • The flying toasters in the After Dark screensavers

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  • You obviously do not work on customer systems 🙂

    You need to be able to rebuild the bootsector of a hardrive from memory with a keyboard in the wrong language using only notepad and cmd 😁

  • What distro has rdp working out of the box?

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  • Upgrade it to Ubuntu 25.10 ?

  • Which Linux distro for home server?

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  • Arch.

    Minimal, rock solid, good documentation.

    If you feel the need for containers, that could be installed too.

    Whatever you use... understand it and do backups. Something will break.