I feel ya. Two still in their boxes JetKVMs and a new Pi 500 is just the start for me. Soooo much stuff, so much money, and hundreds of hours of research into all of them.

We’re here.

Send bachelors.

It’s the other steps that make it ADHD.

Oh man, this one is a direct hit.

Because he’s an idiot.

Slackware 3.1.

Maybe shoot kidnappers?

Normal people cannot legally carry firearms into a Court House.

He’ll start losing Republican support as soon as small businesses start getting crushed by this tariff insanity.

And for a lot of people I would still recommend Windows.

Eh, only if someone needs it.

For instance my 75 year old father is happily using Linux Mint on his laptop. Why? Because all he’s doing with it is web surfing, watching youtube, and checking his email. At home that’s all most people are doing, especially older people. I set his up so that it backs up his stuff and auto-updates. It just works and if it does get broken I can recover it with minimal effort.

It’s the same for me at home. My main PC is Linux Mint where I do almost everything. For the occasions I need Windows I have an Intel NUC attached to my KVM. For work I’ve got LM installed on my work laptop and when I need Win11 I have a VM setup in QEMU/KVM with it.

Are there people who have workloads, or gameloads, that only run on Windows? Sure there. We all know that.

But there are a lot of people, especially home users, who could easily run Linux and don’t.

What I don’t get about this is the reason.

The man is, as predicted, staggeringly incompetent. He’s just that bad at his job.

There is no comparison between a top of the line SGI workstation from 1993-1995 and a gaming rig built in 2025. The 2025 Gaming Rig is literal orders of magnitude more powerful.

In 1993 the very best that SGI could sell you was an Onyx RealityEngine2 that cost an eye-watering $250,000 in 1993 money ($553,000 today).

A full spec breakdown would be boring and difficult but the best you could do in a “deskside” configuration is 4 x single core MIPS processors, either R4400 at 295Mhz or R10000 at 195Mhz with something like 2GB of memory. The RE2 system could maybe pull 500 Megaflops.

A 2025 Gaming Rig can have a 12 core (or more) processor clocked at 5Ghz and 64GB of RAM. An Nvidia 4060 is rated for 230 Gigaflops.

A modern Gaming Rig absolutely, completely, and totally curb stomps anything SGI could build in the early-mid 90s. The performance delta is so wide it’s difficult to adequately express it. The way that Pixar got it done was by having a whole bunch of SGI systems working together but 30 years of advancements in hardware, software, and math have nearly, if not completely, erased even that advantage.

If a single modern gaming rig can’t replace all of the Pixar SGI stations combined it’s got to be very close.

If you can buy a Tesla cheap enough the usable parts, such as batteries and motors, can be moved to a different frame or vehicle. Even an ICE vehicle that you’d like to electrify. It’s all just parts.

Will be interesting to see how long globalism lasts once everyone involved has to start paying to maintain it.

They can and have been recreated. They just suck due to having very low light output.

I worked for RadioShack for nearly 10 years. I started as a part time sales guy and ended up as Store Manager being tapped for a District Manager slot. After I went through some of the DM training I left the company because I knew I didn’t want to be a DM and I didn’t want to stay a Store Manager forever either.

Tandy (RadioShack) tried to save themselves but their all of their core markets were gone. Not as many people buying parts, other retailers caught up with their “Buy it cheap in China and sell it in America” business strategy, cell phone sales declined dramatically in both volume and profitability, computer sales did the same, and of course like Sears they completely missed the sea change of Internet Sales.

I’ve never figured out a way that RS could have survived the period that killed them but I do think it might be possible for them to be successful NOW…if they were still around.

That sucks. If I can’t control the ads with settings, dns fuckery, or firewalling then I guess I’ll leave their ecosystem.

As you can see I am an Admin on DJMs home instance. I’d like to look at what you have.

I like Tasting History, Max Miller does a good job.

They tried that pivot at least twice and couldn’t make it work.