You could always go for a Debian stable host as long as it supports your hardware and then use kvm/qemu to run virtual distros and see which one fits you the best.

I try to always keep 30L to 50L of water safely stored in the food cellar.
If you store it properly it can stay safe and drinkable for years, I replace it about once a year though.

As someone who mixed his own vape fluids and slowly lowered the nicotine to ~1.8mg/ml and then went cold turkey first on nicotine and then also on vaping. The craving for a cigarette full of tar is still there once in a while when drinking or when completely stressed out.

Most of the time it’s my brain wanting “5 minutes of fresh air” while working on a problem or thinking back about a good time such as a beer, a smoke and good company during a backyard bbq. I can do those things without the nicotine, and I do.
It’s rare now though, especially compared to how it was when I was still vaping nicotine.

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Flatpaks share dependencies so after your first half dozen or so then the overhead for the rest isn’t very large. They simply reuse that 1+Gb you installed for the first batch.
With that said, I also prefer native applications from a .deb or .rpm when possible and for no proper reason other than being used to doing it that way.

Here’s another one putting the blame on them not investing in OpenAI:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/how-chip-giant-intel-spurned-openai-fell-behind-times-2024-08-07/

At the same time Intel is definitely entering the race, and more competition is always nice:

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also appeared at the Intel event, where he announced that his company will use Intel’s relaunched foundry to make future chips.
In 2022, the US government passed the CHIPS Act promising $52 billion to reinvigorate domestic chipmaking and secure silicon supply lines.
According to a Bloomberg report, Intel is in line to receive $10 billion of that money.

• https://www.wired.com/story/intel-ai-reboot-future-us-chipmaking/

Or this piece about creating an open-source software competitor for Nvidia, among other things:

Also importantly, Intel is spearheading a consortium of heavy hitters that are developing open-source software which can interface with all AI chips.
Such software would eliminate Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) biggest competitive advantage: its software, which enables its chips to be easily managed simultaneously.
Intel’s consortium also includes Arm (NASDAQ:ARM), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, GOOGL), and Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO).
It expects to unveil a finished product by the end of this year.

• https://investorplace.com/2024/06/the-sleeping-giant-awakens-intels-ai-push-signals-a-comeback/

Corporate / Enterprise AI solution with quite a customer/partner list:

[…]customers and partners, including Bharti Airtel, Bosch, CtrlS, IBM, IFF, Landing AI, Ola, NAVER, NielsenIQ, Roboflow and Seekr.

• https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1689/intel-unleashes-enterprise-ai-with-gaudi-3-ai-open-systems

They’re starting to release tools to use Intel ARC for AI tasks, such as AI Playground and IPEX LLM:
https://game.intel.com/us/stories/introducing-ai-playground/
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discrete-gpus/arc/software/ai-playground.html

https://game.intel.com/us/stories/wield-the-power-of-llms-on-intel-arc-gpus/
https://github.com/intel-analytics/ipex-llm

Personally I wouldn’t count Intel out of the game just yet, gonna be interesting to see what happens during 2025-2026.

I say the solution is one step earlier. Backups and snapshots.

Use BTRFS or ZFS filesystem on your install and use snapshots to be able to rollback if things go bad.
Here’s an example on how to set up BTRFS with automatic snapshots:
https://github.com/david-cortes/snapper-in-debian-guide

For backups Borg is popular:
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

Here’s a good read regarding the different versions:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/choosing.en.html

3.1.5. Could you tell me whether to install stable, testing or unstable?
No. This is a rather subjective issue. There is no perfect answer as it depends on your software needs, your willingness to deal with possible breakage, and your experience in system administration. Here are some tips:

Stable is rock solid. It does not break and has full security support. But it not might have support for the latest hardware.

Testing has more up-to-date software than Stable, and it breaks less often than Unstable. But when it breaks, it might take a long time for things to get rectified. Sometimes this could be days and it could be months at times. It also does not have permanent security support.

Unstable has the latest software and changes a lot. Consequently, it can break at any point. However, fixes get rectified in many occasions in a couple of days and it always has the latest releases of software packaged for Debian.

Personally I mostly run Debian Stable and on the one machine where I don’t I run a completely different distro altogheter (Fedora). If I didn’t run Fedora I would rather use Sid (unstable) than Testing.

The community seems to have been removed from lemmynsfw.com so I recommend you check with that instance admin:
https://lemmynsfw.com/c/lemmynsfw

So it’s a lightweight laptop but lacks the battery time to work on the go. (6 hours)

I imagine the youtube link is about the following:
Discord is firing back against MapleStory devs over copyright infringement and users are caught in the crossfire.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/social-media/discord-is-firing-back-against-maplestory-devs-over-copyright-infringement-and-users-are-caught-in-the-crossfire

All those wives and girlfriends in denial even though the rape is documented with photos and video. Kudos to Gisèle for making the trial public.

It still amazes me, when I read these child free articles from across the pond, that the world can be so completely different.
In Sweden a working parent is allowed to stay home to take care of a sick child and get almost 80% of your salary from compensation, statistics from 2022 says that men use 40% of that sick child leave.
It’s not 50/50 yet and we still have some “old school” husbands saying they’re baby sitting when taking care of their own kids. They are usually shamed about it nowadays though.

When my wife and I are in high energy and do lots of fun stuff we say “Thank goodness we don’t have kids, this would’ve been impossible!”, when we are tired, sleeping in and spend a weekend doing the absolute minimum we say the same.

In some cases they look for generic virtual hw devices, in other cases things like available cpu flags or BIOS version.
There are ways to hide it though:
https://github.com/zhaodice/qemu-anti-detection
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/how-do-i-hide-the-fact-to-windows-that-it-runs-in-a-vm.115627/

I consider June 2025 to be summer. :)

Kinda similar in size to the new Sony Xperia 10 IV and Sony Xperia 10 VI. It’s a step in the right direction, but I really want them to shrink down a bit in height too.

You could always find some nice online cooperative game to play together, should give you stuff to talk about. Or choose to read the same book at the same time and talk about the latest chapter. Or use one of all those “watch tv together apart” sites that was created during covid. Or follow the same recipe and eat dinner together. With a little creativity you can do quite a lot of activities together apart.
What I wouldn’t do is agree to be in a relationship with someone you’ve never met, or loan them money for that matter.

After browsing through Subscribed/New I usually check out All/Top 12 hours and All/Active. If I still feel the need to doomscroll I might venture into All/New. My Subscribed list isn’t moving very fast…

It’s even easier to simply visit the community, if you aren’t subscribed you get a big nice block button in the sidebar.

No idea to be honest, been a long time since I ran Windows at home.