I bought a refurbished SFF PC and put a PCIe NIC in it. Installed opnSense.

Cheap as chips. Supremely powerful.

I’m not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.

FUD

I still double-check my CIDR’s/netmasks and expected ranges with a tool (some online one or other). Easier to avoid silly mistakes or typo’s

TL;DR: it depends entirely on the DHCP server software.

Generally the safe/reliable policy is to assign a smaller DHCP range (or ranges) and allocate static assignments outside of the DHCP range(s).

Assume your network is 192.168.1.0/24.

Specify 192.168.1.128/25 for DHCP, which means all DHCP addresses will be above 192.168.1.128.

This leaves you everything below 192.168.1.127 for static assignments.

But then they can’t force you to watch claim that you watched the ad at the start of the video for that sweet advertiser revenue.

It was literally the tag line for Windows 98 I think!

The gag was that it just (barely) works.

No-one who buys a PC with windows preinstalled gets any choice at all… and had the preinstalled malware cme with it.

DFQOH

I can’t work out what this an acronym for. Please help!

Yes it is. Pick a newbie friendly distribution. Say Ubuntu.

IMHO Windows is only “user friendly” because it’s preinstalled on most PC’s.

User friendliness comes with experience.

Amazing. I get there’s some atlassian bullshittery behind that.

There’s also a draw.io (diagrams.net) plugin for intellij and probably eclipse.

I’ve used coreos happily on homelab bare metal.

PXE booting it with cloudinit/ignition automation for provisioning.

It’s make for an excellent VPS.

adequate: of a quality that is acceptable but not better than acceptable

The default theme is also adequate for my needs. I don’t even change the wallpaper from the default.

Themes apparently require better than “adequate”.

GNOME is entirely adequate for my professional needs, which is… entirely adequate.

;-)

They do!

See their Era, Mood, Ridge, Terra cases.

But the OS crashing as a result of that systemic failure may actually be the most reasonable desirable outcome compared to any other possible outcome.

In which case this should’ve been documented behaviour and probably configurable.

Hmmmm.

More like standing there and loudly shitting your pants and spreading it around the stage.

Except “freak out” could have various manifestations.

In this case it was “burn down the venue”.

It should have been “I’m sorry, there’s been an issue, let’s move on to the next speaker”

Poorly written code can’t.

In this case:

1. Load config data
2. If data is valid:
   1. Use config data
3. If data is invalid:
   1. Crash entire OS

Is just poor code.