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How is this expected to impact other operating systems like GrapheneOS? I’ve really enjoyed a pretty solid experience on Graphene.

They do! Check out https://play0ad.com/ if you haven’t. A free, open source variant that’s pretty complete.

https://tagpro.gg/

I’ve played 3300 hours over 12-13 years. It’s a free capture the flag web game that is typically 4v4 and around 4-10 minutes per match (6 min with a slaughter rule of 3 caps and an OT for ties).

There are 3 types of power ups: tag pro, juke juice, and rolling bomb. There are a few special tiles: boosts, bombs, spikes, gate switches, gravity well, and speed. There’s a lot of maps that rotate every month by committee vote.

It’s a good ratio of team tactics and individual skill that keeps bringing me back. The community is solid and they just slowly keep improving the experience. The community isn’t huge so there’s more popular regional times to have matches.

Maybe a Lemmy hug will get an infusion of new players :) Come check it out!

There’s a principle of charity OP is missing.

1. Maybe this person next to you didn’t do the important parts of their job because they were in a public setting with you spying over their shoulder. Doing anything proprietary in that situation is a huge no-no from OpSec.

2. Maybe they are mandated to use AI as part of their job. I recently left a company that was mandating its use.

3. Maybe there’s a language barrier and AI is solving a communication problem reasonably well.

4. Maybe this person was already awful at their job and AI is just lipstick on a pig. People can be bad at their jobs, or pick jobs they don’t care for and do the bare minimum.

Judging the quality of someone’s character while being boring on a flight is likely more reflective of OP.

Fullmetal Alchemist was awesome. It gets really intense and pretty graphic. I haven’t seen it in over a decade but might be time for a rewatch!

For a Homelab, I cannot imagine going with anything other than older used SFF boxes for my router. I’ve been running PfSense and then OPNSense on them for over a decade.

[Mini PC] Very DIY, would feel afraid of misconfiguring the device and exposing myself to security issues

The risk is there for every router software, and the form factor won’t change that. The OPNSense software is pretty solid and the tutorials are less likely to lead you astray. You will learn a lot with a deep dive on OPNSense. So I’d say just go for the used hardware. The nice thing is your entire OPNSense config is a single file making it easy to back up and restore. If the hardware it craps out on you in 5 years, you take your OPNSense config (regularly back it up with one of the plugins) and a new mini PC and you are running again.

A general PC will crush most routing tasks. The only concern is encryption but anything newish should be fine. Multi gig connections and 10G inner network has been great on my Optiplex.

2. Does anybody have any suggestions for PoE capable switches and access points that play nicely with OPNSense - I’ve been considering MicroTik but I’m not entirely sure what to look for.

They should all be fine. OPNSense is your router and firewall, and IMO it doesn’t really influence my downstream hardware choices (switches, APs, etc.).

Not sure how the used market is in UK. Last year I decided to go 10G so bought a used Brocade ICX 7250 48x PoE+ RJ45 8x 1/10 GbE SFP+ Gigabit Switch for $78 on ebay. Its been so nice! 48x PoE ports and 6x 10G ports. It takes a detailed walkthrough and some head scratching to get it running well so I wouldn’t really recommend it specifically without a bit of experience. But it is easily the best bang for your buck. Throw in 10G SFP+ PCIE module into all your important machines and use passthrough DACs and you’ve got a flexible 10G setup for $200-$300.

I am not familiar with FritzBox so not sure how that changes the calculus.

Sure, but it’s also proven to be more cost effective to just manipulate people and shift their costs. Some moron was arguing against California’s billionaire wealth tax bill because billionaires might have “liquidity problems” lmfao.

I regularly hear it’s great. Has anyone moved from KeePass? I haven’t read anything that makes me think I should move on from KeePass. I have maybe ~4-5 clients and merging databases has been very easy since no client is offline for too long.