I just want to use my player of choice, and play a locally hosted file. I don’t want to deal with the visual compression artifacts or choppy sound that comes with streaming through a poorly coded player, I’d rather run a full bitrate file through VLC on my own rig that’s tied into my surround sound system in peace.

Better yet, launch it in a VM with an antivirus

Ok bud.

Huh? All I was saying was that someone who’s brand new to Linux is going to be up to their eyeballs in their new system to barely comprehend the very concept of an init system, especially on the more polished, user friendly distro that do a good job of keeping those mechanisms under the hood.

Not very keen on sarcasm, are we?

Or have any clue what systemd does out of the gate, especially on a more user-friendly distro having never used linux

You must compile every single software package from source, but only after you’ve examined every single line of the code yourself!

1995 called, they said you’re doing it wrong, and RMS is going to be very mad at you.

Yup, those little inline filters. Even building the circuit for $5-10 in RadioShack parts was pretty simple.

Cause people like porn. I’ll be honest, when I downloaded some music video or something that ended up being porn, I usually wasn’t too disappointed, with the exception that I now had to go find what I was originally looking for again and wait for it to download. Shit used to take forever back in the day.

I’ve been using it in a windows VM. Unfortunately for my work, I need the formatting of Excel and Word to be legit that I can’t for the life of me seem to replicate in Only or Libre. That and PDF rendering always gets a little wonky somehow.

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We have the NFPA 70, aka the National Electric Code, which is free to access as long as you sign up for an NFPA account and allow their email spam. A physical copy of the book is about $50, not terrible.

California has their Title 24 Part 3 (California Electric Code) readily available online for free, no account needed. Want a printed copy? $200, loose leaf. Granted, loose leaf let’s you swap the pages as they’re updated in the interim years (the code cycle is every 3 years), but $200 is ridiculous.

The reason I bring this up is inspections. An inspector is not going to sit there while you Google a particular code to prove them wrong, especially when half the results are from forums of people debating the code. But an inspector will sometimes change their tune when you grab the official code book, flip to the relevant code (thank the maker for reference tabs), and point it out along with conditions and exceptions. I’ve had inspectors reconsider a field ruling explicitly because I had my code book with me (and was able to efficiently navigate to the relevant section). Problem here is that since the code is updated every 3 years, the CA code lags the NEC by 2 years, and our jurisdiction uses the most recent publication, this cycle gets expensive quickly. While it’s a seemingly trivial amount when your business is off and running, it’s yet another expense that makes starting a business tricky.

Ah I’m not talking about modern tracking pixels, but that actual html (js?) code from yesteryear

Off topic, but I wonder if those old visitor counters from the web 1.0 days still work

Probably anything within the Kali Linux suite or any security-centric distribution. If possible, boot it up to a laptop hooked to a phone hotspot or any network outside your home network, route through a VPN, determine your WAN IP, and go to town.

Something is odd here, who is your ISP? I’ve only seen MoCA used to create a network for cable/satellite STBs through the coax in the building, or for a phone company connection creating a MoCA bridge to provide broadband from a demarcation point in an apartment building where only a phone line is available in lieu of DSL. What is the make of your existing router?

Probably have to do customer sheet selection and flip them over, but for 1000 pages that could be a pita

See if there’s a way you can print “booklet” style, it’ll make it where you can fit two pages on a sheet in landscape format, then cut each page or bond it. Just a thought.

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