Perhaps this was written much earlier than v5.

You just summoned a demon

Maybe this is useful https://tunnelbroker.net/

All business models are aimed at company profitability. Customer satisfaction is an expensive early necessity which you can largely do away with as you become entrenched.

I’m assuming it’s aimed at people trying to avoid tying the hosting IP to the publicly consumable service.

Not if you indicate you are sure in advance

For most commercial products they offer what they call Copilot with data protection.

I hate that they are shoving it down everyone’s throat but data leakage is a primary company concern that they have addressed.

Now, how much that is true on the backend is anyone’s guess, but they’re selling something that they could be held legally accountable for.

It’s more like a whole series of legal covers for everyone involved up and down the chain if things go sideways.

It’s art (that makes you horny)

No worries.

For those who were wondering:

On the security updates:

Yes they’ll provide some security updates for some time even out of contract. No time frame given, only in relative release numbers:

Our naming convention for releases is: <major>.<minor>.<patch>.

Version -2 of currently released minor version goes EOL. The cadence is not explicitly provided

On not renewing or renewing later:

Yes, jump in any time.

Can I update every second or third year? Will the previous versions receive security updates?

Sorry, I must have been too tired, got nearly all details wrong: 32GB RAM 1TB M.2, USB3.2, BT4.2,WiFi 5,4k HDMI, Gigabit Port, and not a Beelink but a DreamQuest. There’s just the M2 interface disk connected, no SSD.

It’s literally one of those little known brand nuc, tiny box - beelink I think. Total cost $200 or so - it’s been running non stop for the last 3 months without an issue. I don’t think it even has a fan in there.

I’m running a n100 16gb with a 256ssd, 4vms and 4 docker images, it’s pulling 7-9w.

I was an avid Reddit user but dropped it like a stone in the kerfuffle - it took a while but Lemmy has now replaced that 90%

I’d love to see a content propagation analysis.

My sense is that a ton of new memes are first shared on Lemmy then shared across to other social media.

…Ok, so the niche forums don’t have critical mass yet, and you’d have to post to some general thread to get any response - but all the cool and thoughtful people are here, so the level of general discourse is higher, I love it.

Nothing, love Mint. Just not as easy to install on WSL with a gui.

Wsl seems to be installed since it responded to the command to set it to version 2.

But it doesn’t sound like it ever installed Ubuntu properly since it shows no installed distributions.

Quick search shows that you need to enable the following windows features:

Virtual Machine Platform And Windows Hypervisor Platform

Are these enabled?

Edit:

Someone already answered the same thing but I didn’t see it before posting this. Well done and glad it’s working.

It’s quite possible you’re running wsl 1 - some.versions of windows 10 never upgraded that subsystem - not sure why.

But it might need wsl 2.

Open PowerShell as Administrator and run: wsl --set-default-version 2

That should upgrade the Virtual environment subsystem but not the ubuntu installation - you can delete it and start again.

Or you can try and upgrade it.

Run this in your PowerShell. wsl.exe -l -v

It should show you the Ubuntu install, the state, and the version.

It should say 1, under version, if my assumption is correct.

If so you need to upgrade it to 2 also.

Copy the exact Name - it might say Ubuntu-20.04 or just Ubuntu etc .

If it says “Running” and not Stopped terminate it like so: wsl -t Distro-Name

Then run the command below (again, replace name with your exact name).

wsl --set-version distro-name 2

Then try to start it from its shortcut again.

Let me know if that worked.

You can dip your toes and have a basic Linux desktop to play with up and running in 10 minutes (less if you know what you are doing).

It will run in a virtual environment within windows (assuming you’re running 10 or 11).

So you don’t risk anything relating to disk partitioning.

And you can always start it when you have a few mins to play with it without closing down everything else you’re working on.

Not mint though. Ubuntu desktop which is I think is also pretty relaxed.

See here basic instructions