Linux runs on almost anything these days. I’ve installed Mint on Lenovos, Dells, and HPs without issue (even media keys all worked out of the box). As others have suggested, I’d probably look into used business workstations from the last five years to ensure you’ll get a solid five to ten years out of it.

Sorry, I couldn’t make that out. Maybe you could remove Altman’s cock from your mouth first?

As a Canadian who recently moved back to Canada from the US, I’m gonna throw my anecdotal evidence around and say this is horseshit. Even my tax person has said she’s never seen so many returning Canadians in her decades of work.

You might be able to use something like distrobox instead of a full VM. That would at least put it in a container that you could either run from an encrypted partition or something.

Different users would be the “simple” way you’d normally do something like this under Linux. But if your regular users have sudo access, you can’t really lock anything down.

I don’t know if it would give you as much hard drive space as you want, but I got an Odroid HC4 a while ago and it’s been great. One of the very few SBCs with two SATA slots ready to go.

I’ve used both, been daily driving Cachy for a year or two now. CachyOS is a bit easier than plain Arch, in my opinion. I’ve been using Octopi (a gui tool that fronts the package manager) because I never fully got the hang of pacman yet. And I use Btrfs Assistant (another gui tool) instead of configuring snapper from the CLI.

Overall, it’s more involved than something likr Ubuntu or Debian, but it feels manageable.

TLDR: capitalism

Buco seems to be having a good time. 9/10, unsure how Eaton feels.

Just cleaned mine up a bit recently!

PC on the left, RPi for simple stuff and an Odroid HC4 as my media and backup server.

Not pictured: another RPi dedicated to HomeAssistant, a magic mirror, and networking stuff.

Also not pictured: my workbench tools on the upper shelves, which have not been tidied recently.

They’re among us. You never know who might be a bot. Even… you!

29º represent!

Why have many monitor when few monitor do trick?

Is it a laundromat if it’s not autoMATic? Cool either way.

As far as Arch-based distros go, CachyOS has a lot of helper tools included, and a lot of GUI programs. That’s probably why people consider it beginner-friendly.

I wouldn’t really consider CachyOS as a beginner distro. It’s probably the most accessible for anyone looking for something highly optimized, but there are plenty of others that are easier to set up and use.

Been daily driving Cachy for a couple years now, and I love it. It’s not for everyone, though.

If it’s 99%, I don’t think it counts as “abnormal” anymore.

I can’t figure out whether the verb is “still” or “physical”.

If a quick game lasts 10 minutes, then 10^152 minutes, which is about 10^136 times the age of our universe.

How far apart are the TVs?

If it’s cheaper and/or easier to run ethernet between the TVs, you can use HDMI-over-ethernet extenders (like this one). Fewer PCs/SBCs to manage that way.

I picked up an odroid HC4 a while ago, and it’s been great. Only has two slots, though. I have it set up to do periodic backups to a cloud storage service, so I feel pretty good about it overall.

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