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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Ubuntu is good, actually. It has basically the widest out of the box hardware and software support of any distribution, a decent default UI and an easy installer. Its downsides are that it has a reputation as baby’s first Linux so you don’t get any hipster cred and some people don’t like that it uses snap as a package format for some things, including Firefox.




  • I’ve had small Debian servers such as a RaspPi or a NUC that I’ve never updated after the initial setup and they were still working perfectly when I finally turned them off to move. If you don’t want to update a Linux system, don’t. Maybe setup auto security updates if it’s going to be exposed to the raw internet and running some open servers.



  • As a point of reference, I built a 32TB Synology last year. I took me an afternoon to get it done, plus set up Plex media server, all the arrs and friends, a backup server and a couple other things. Since then maintenance has consisted of remembering to hit the “update containers” button once a month or so. I should probably automate that part but just haven’t bothered yet.




  • The bluetooth connection definitly works:

    $ bluetoothctl info F4:6A:D7:9A:42:3A
    Device F4:6A:D7:9A:42:3A (public)
    	Name: Xbox Wireless Controller
    	Alias: Xbox Wireless Controller
    	Appearance: 0x03c4 (964)
    	Icon: input-gaming
    	Paired: yes
    	Bonded: yes
    	Trusted: yes
    	Blocked: no
    	Connected: yes
    	LegacyPairing: no
    	UUID: Vendor specific           (00000001-5f60-4c4f-9c83-a7953298d40d)
    	UUID: Generic Access Profile    (00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    	UUID: Generic Attribute Profile (00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    	UUID: Device Information        (0000180a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    	UUID: Battery Service           (0000180f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    	UUID: Human Interface Device    (00001812-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    	Modalias: usb:v045Ep0B13d0501
    	Battery Percentage: 0x64 (100)
    

    I don’t have another device to plug the USB port into, but it can at least get power from it.




  • I’d absolutely allow something like that at my table. Something like this isn’t going to have explicit rules, so even in a serious RAW (Rules As Written) game, the GM is going to have to come up with something. It’s just that we all have dice and may not have the right setup for tokens, etc.

    Really, the simple way to do it is have arrows #1-5 be the cursed ones. The player then rolls a D10 to see which ones are pulled, rerolling on repeat “arrows”.



  • It’s alway weird to me that even though Ubuntu has the largest Linux desktop market share, no one admits to using it.

    Anyway, I use Ubuntu because I was doing a lot of ROS development when I last built a machine, and getting ROS running properly on other distros can be a pain.