I hate modern AI, but that is what we need it for. Maintaining old code bases, and not turning it into a text editor/AI API (unless that was the original intention).

Edit: I have to add more words. Maintaining code bases includes compling and testing the code on a variety of hardware. Running tests against that code. Responding to questions. It is a massive amount of work.

Yes.

Source: Am Systems Admin (engineer/architect/your mom)

Other options are LUKS with Tang and Clevis, or LUKS with SSH and Dropbear.

Sorry, I have no details.

Edit: Tang/Clevis are local software and a network server that provide keys. If stolen, won’t boot.

SSH and Dropbear make it so you can login to provide keys.

They used to, in many places, lead to a sewage treatment facility. That has been changing.

Unless you mean the ocean. Then yes, same place.

It is complicated. There are several options, each with tradeoffs in functionality, compatible software, and performance.

A simple method is to use one system as a desktop, and SSH into the others as “headless”.

Other options include making a K8s or HPC cluster (there are other cluster types).

Spreading a single set of communicating processes requires a low latency interconnect. Something better than Ethernet, like Infiniband. But many programs don’t support that.

What features do you want?

What should my first configurations and preparations

Write on paper your goals. Write on paper a list of your systems and what needs to speak with what.

Then pick the most important or simplest device and get it connected the way you want.

I beg to differ. The best part is they cannot be compelled to testify against you (and vice versa). (In the USA.)

(We didn’t do anything, I just don’t like being compelled.)

kept him alive until a heart donor became available earlier this month.

Bit important info to bury. Dude lived.

At home, colors Whatever color the purpose is.

It us wild that there is not a need. Distribution is (or was) the issue. Very sad humans refuse to feed others.

Remember, not all land is the same. Some is too dry to grow human food. Some too wet. There are also other things that land is either too or not enough.

For the out of the loop, but also lazy;

Android app that reveals installed apps which may be leaking your location data.

Interesting. I find the raw numbers more interesting.
The biggest losers, NY and CA, lost ~200K people. The biggest gainers, TX and FL, gained 2M and 1M respectively.

Doesn’t seem like an exodus as much as a concentration. (More going to a small number of states from a large number.)

You put lots of time and effort in. Now it will be discarded due to decisions of others.

Sad and/or disappointed feelings are normal.

Take care of yourself.

Look up what system vendors will sell for that CPU. If they sell 256 GiB, then you are likely good.

I don’t find I ever upgrade after the first couple months. I would max it out or get multi CPU boards wherI cannot afford to max it out.

Good on you learning new skills.

This is why other sysadmins and cybetsecurity exist. Be nice to them.

Phrasing.

A Linux maintainer wants to keep quality high. Objects to adding complexity to codebase.

Right or wrong, we want the maintainers focused on quality and maintainability.

One can unknowingly be an asset.

I disagree that she cannot give her wealth away.

Many wealthy hold stock and take loans to pay their lifestyle. They can similarly take loans to fund charities.

Taylor Swift could fund charities. She could highlight charities to support. (She may already, I don’t know her.)

Edit: I do not believe her “worth” as a billionaire includes potential, but rather what she currently owns.