JustARegularNerd

This whole article is a 5 minute write up about a PCMR post from Reddit where a user had their memory stolen. That's it. Not even surprised this article is a nothingburger given it's Toms Hardware.

They had me at "Sustainability - Save the planet by talking about it."

And such is the circle of life right. I also feel that if we as a species can move beyond meat, then we should. I can live a perfectly normal life on my current vegan diet, and if that carcus is then left for other animals and fauna to have, thus leaving the cycle undisrupted.

I suppose what I'm getting at is that I'd rather let the animals that need those nutrients have it, as I'm already sorted.

From my end, I'm a registered organ donor because I feel that I won't need this body once I'm done with it, and if anything is useful off it for someone else, then hell, let them have my liver.

However, an animal can't consent to that and yeah, an argument could be made that who gives a fuck, it's a pig/chicken/cow, it's not gonna give a shit, but death is unfortunate for anything and I'd feel more at ease that the carcus is either left for nature to do what it does than me harvesting it for food.

I admit I'm using my 1,1 as an extra seat in the office, but it's form of use.

My dad had a G5 (essentially the same case design externally) and this guy is probably not kidding, those things felt like a massive aluminium block

Unpaywalled link: https://archive.is/6UiCT

From the headline I surely thought it was a bit clickbaity and maybe they wanted to use a ML algorithm to monitor some states of the facility.

Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

The construction of a nuclear plant involves a long legal and regulatory process called licensing that’s aimed at minimizing the risks of irradiating the public.

Nope, seems that tech companies are trying to further feed the electricity demands of their data centers even if it means trying to fast track licensing.

Trump’s done a lot to make it easier for companies to build new nuclear reactors and use AI for licensing. [...] The goal of [Trump's May 2025 Executive Order] is to speed up the construction of reactors and get through the licensing process faster.

At the same time, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gutted the NRC.  In September, members of the NRC told Congress they were worried they’d be fired if they didn’t approve nuclear reactor designs favored by the administration.

Of fucking course Trump and DOGE is in the mix here too.

All of this extra radiation risk so that the top 1%r's have their pockets lined and we end up with Copilot and Recall. God damn.

I need to migrate a server off Windows

Why is this? I think we're missing a step here. Especially in the self hosted community, it's safe to say we are all very pro Linux, but it's not an automatic benefit for every possible use case. Why is the business seeking to move off Windows Server and why do they care about this?

I'm only a level two tech with not a wealth of experience, but deviating from industry standard tools like Windows Server is setting off alarm bells because:

• No professional would do this unless there was a very niche purpose or requirement
• Is the business trying to cheap out on a Windows Server license? If so, as a tech it immediately brings their operations and priorities into question
• How will the server be managed long term? If you're not the one doing it, it's going to require specialised technicians that are experienced with Linux, which is going to be more expensive
• Not being a professional setup, how do you plan to address security concerns and protecting the server? Will there be any intrusion detection or prevention?
• This breaks the principle of least astonishment

If a tech was called in to look at why the CCTV isn't working, or the music not playing, the place they call is going to send out a level 2+ tech, and they're expected to know Windows Server and figure out third party applications on that server (or find their support line for further information). That tech is not going to expect a Linux server, and they're going to rightfully walk the fuck away from that, and tell the business to call a Linux technician, which are way less common, probably remote only and more expensive.

Welllllll, it's two clicks because the first click is opening the bookmark that would've taken me to my local radar.

Albeit, that's very nitpicky and not the issue I have; 99.9% of users would click Use my location and it'd be perfect.

In my case, I just don't ever give location permissions on my web browser - while the BOM would surely to goodness not sell off usage data to third parties, I've been conditioned to think any website could and therefore I'd rather type in the location manually.

Yeah, I liked having a bookmark of the nearest radar - I could immediately bring it up with one click and see what's happening. The new system with the pannable map, you just have a view of the whole country, and must zoom into where you actually are to see what's happening.

The weather predictions layout is.. fine, but the old one definitely felt more like you had all the info you needed right there where this one you have to click 7-Day Forecast and then expand Tomorrow to see more detail.

I would only hazard against Debian for gaming because of it's slower update cycle (yes yes you could use unstable or sid..), so performance improvements or fixes will take longer to get to you.

Otherwise I completely second your comment; OOP, just pick anything mainstream like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Bazzite, Pop!_OS, you'll be fine on any of those. Once you're comfortable with whatever you chose, then you'll be more informed on picking a distro more suitable for your liking.

"He has destroyed multiple governments out of spite. Including his own."

Fuck that got me good

I've worked in business IT before, so I have a (very small) bit of background I can probably share from your bosses side.

If you're not recommending a distro that has a support contract (e.g. Red Hat), what you're creating is a bus situation - if you get hit by a bus, who is going to maintain the Linux terminals when they go down? Would that contract cover supporting LibreOffice? How will normal staff be able to figure out how to use Linux, and will there be a measurable increase in productivity from them, or will they be slow to adjust?

Regarding OneDrive (or more realistically, SharePoint and Microsoft 365), Microsoft has a service level agreement for this. I can't read it on my phone because it's in docx format, but I dare say that it does have some coverage for if data is leaked, otherwise most enterprises wouldn't even touch it.

Your boss likely doesn't have concern in that aspect because of the SLA assurance, and thus it makes more financial sense to move completely over to M365 and away from on premise servers that require constant maintenance, upkeep and power costs.

I'm not sure of the business size you're in, but I'd hazard a guess that its a small business if your boss is in a position to potentially change out the existing IT infrastructure. You're facing an uphill battle in convincing your boss to move to Linux because the desktop support for it is limited and likely expensive, and the alternative is to keep you and probably hire other Linux technicians to maintain those Linux systems when they go down.