I usually keep a second kernel (LTS or my own manually built package) around in case of driver regressions like this. Occasionally you'll see issues in the firmware package as well, Intel WiFi in particular seems to experience more regressions than you'd expect. If you want to help get things like this fixed faster collect log data and file bug reports before you downgrade so they can filter upstream to the driver maintainers.

I watched it again a few years ago and it's still pretty good

I moved my elderly mother to ChromeOS and I no longer have to deal with the IT burden of supporting whatever she installed or broke this week. Move your parents to Linux if you truly enjoy being an on call unpaid helpdesk

I work from home, I haven't worn pants other than Thai fisherman wrap and tie pants in like 3y

Well his great great great grandchildren's yacht collections aren't going to pay for themselves you know

Early fascism is pay to win, rich people love it

Just stay awake until you're exhausted, problem solved

I've had the idea for a while to use an LLM to gather metadata about books for me as well as generate tag lists for themes, plot, writing style, etc for everything in my ebook library. You could also generate non spoiler plot summaries and produce recommendations for similar books.

I leverage btrfs or ZFS snapshots. I take rolling system level snapshots on a schedule (daily, weekly, monthly and separately before any package upgrades or installs) and user data snapshots every couple of hours. Then I use btrbk to sync those snapshots to an external drive at least once a week. When I have all of my networking gear and home services setup I also sync all of this to storage on my NAS. Any hosts on the network keep rolling snapshots stored on the NAS as well.

Important data also gets shoveled into a B2 bucket and/or Google drive if I need to be able to access it from a phone.

I keep snapshots small by splitting data up into well defined subvolumes, anything that can be reacquired from the cloud (downloads, package caches, steam libraries, movies, music, etc) isn't included in the backup strategy. If I download something and it's hard to find or important I move it out of downloads and into a location that is covered by my backups.

SpaceX has a very robust management system that manages musk and keeps him out of the day to day. That's the most impressive thing about them IMO. Tesla used to be better about this as well, but with the whole eDumpster (aka cybertruck) fiasco that system seems to have largely fallen apart.

Titanium has been abandoned for years. Swift backup is what I switched to, or DataBackup on GitHub if you want a free option.

Check out netbird and tailscale if you want secure remote access

But think of the opportunity cost here, you'd be wasting a chance to run over a child or a poor person!

Not that I'm aware of

Blue state blue country and we were expected to recite the pledge every morning of k-8 (I don't recall it being a thing in high school.) I remember kids whose parents were politically active being punted out of class for not participating. About half of us would just follow along with "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah" at the cadence of the pledge.

We call those externalities, the taxpayers will handle them if we ignore them long enough that they become a crisis