Using Linux with obscure hardware (CNC mills, chromatographs, etc) is a bit like punching yourself in the nuts, but still free.

What ever happened to the badly drawn comic memes, I liked those.

Security from what? Get a threat model.

A NAT will restrict connections from the internet, but won’t stop attacks from your local network. As your network grows, it might be a good idea to isolate shitty IOT devices (firmware is often full of holes), home internet and sensitive devices like cameras.

Where thinkpad?

Backups people backups. You don’t realize how much you want them until it’s too late to make them.

You got it to crash your kernel? I only ever got it to crash the editor. :(

If you don’t bother to provide any argument, I won’t bother to argue.

Hey, could you unlock your phone and hand me it so I can scroll through all your texts? No? Then you do have something to hide.

If that doesn’t work, try search history.

Considering how overloaded lemmy.world is right now, a pi in someone’s basement would be better, and besides, centralization is bad. Federation is what prevents lemmy from becoming the next Twitter.