Linux still sometimes brings me back to the C64 and Amiga days and and nights of fiddling and figuring things out. Learning experiences and fun times.

A tiny microplastic lining.

He will reduce mindless consumerism of cheap garbage, so there is that.

That I have a nice phone number.

I don’t buy much clothes but I’m in need to order some new ones. Zalando was great because of the vast selection of brands - despite them making it harder to filter on environmentally better options already several years ago. Now I don’t want to use them any more. Any suggestions for good, ethical and preferably environmentally friendly online stores for Sweden/EU?

Idk, I think people are showing their needs of belonging more than in a long time, be it nationalistic or political or ideological or religious or social media cliques or influencer following or family or heritage or skin colour or sports teams. Because these are dynamic times, so the tribal Us vs Them is way ahead in the front before other primal urges and basic needs.

Here in secular Sweden with the probably most inclusive state church in the world, they have found that young people are showing interest in religion more than in generations, except they don’t want the all-inclusive “woke” church but prefer more traditional and fundamentalist flavours.

Some preemptive advice if you’re in the market of integrating TTS for some customer or service:

Do not ever use any “humanisation” tweaks. Having a computer voice stumble on a word or fucking cough is uncanny valley and how to make people feel manipulated in one simple trick.

Just don’t. Everybody hates it.

Another twenty plus years Linux server and devices admin and user that found last year that Linux is finally mature and stable enough to replace my desktop too without having the fiddle with it every once in a random update. It was a decision that I can accept making workarounds for legacy windows software and l can live without other eco system. Yeah, there are plenty of reasons that people are still running Windows and keep doing so.

Don’t make being user of an operating system your identity, people. It’s just as annoying and unnecessary as those Apple fanboys we all know and dislike.

I have an Asustor that is running Debian. It’s just a PC in a NAS enclosure so why should it not.

Pretentious fucking twat.

During the blockchain craze there were attempts of monetising distributed data storage by cryptobros renting out disk space for virtual currency. AFAICR it turned out more expensive and less reliable than most any competitive datacenter. So my guess is that it would be much less than you imagine.

Variants and derivates of Debian on my servers and other headless devices because no reason except I know it, it is stable, it works.

Been trying linux for desktop every five-ten years for the last twenty odd years and went back to Windows every time because it was too bad experience despite I really tried to like it.

Except this time.

Fedora KDE on my laptop, soon on my stationary as well. No more Windows for me.

IKEA bulbs are cheap and work nice with my HA and ZigBee USB stick. Quality of light is good though obviously Hue is better for x4 the money.

Same here. I love the soft diffused shadows from multiple light sources and that they can be set low and yet the entire room is illuminated.

Yeah because you started talking about something that was well beyond the scope of what I was suggesting. You could also have said “thanks, but I want to keep this in my laptop because reasons” it would have been clear and consistent but instead you started rambling about seemingly tangiental other aspects of your project. Neither me or anybody else has any obligations to bend over backwards to come up solutions for you. We throw out ideas and maybe you can find something that brings you forward.

But certainly, I won’t bother trying to help you again. Ta ta.

What on earth are you on about? What negativity? I’m trying to suggest solutions and point out that maybe the solution is somewhere else than your initial idea?

I’m not sure where your mind went while writing this, but my comment was a suggestion for a possible solution to your original question about massive sets of fast volatile memory for storage. Maybe you need to consider changing platform and adapt your project to what is accessible if you want to make this happen. Unless you can find that exotic device that may or may not exist in the first place and afford it. I mean, is running it on your existing laptop really the show stopper requirement?

There are server motherboards that have slots for 1TB of RAM, if that would help? They are not cheap but maybe you could find one second hand.

Well, there is the inside club that did pretty much this

It was never about tariffs. It was always about manipulation of the market.