beginning??

have you been in a coma the last nine years?

just give 'em time. it’s still a bit early in the game for that play

iirc, they did do a limited regional test of subscription windows back sometime during win7.

rufus doesn’t help with preloads that you don’t want to or can’t, for whatever reason, overwrite with a ‘clean’ install.

since you’re buying parts, you can specifically look for boards with 6-8 (more than that will require a ‘specialty’ board). 8 isn’t impossible to find. start a build on pcpartpicker, go straight to motherboards and filter 8 or more ‘SATA 6Gb/s Ports’, then sort low-to-high on price. you should find a msi pro am4 and an asus prime am5 that are quite reasonably priced and have multiple reputable vendors selling them.

otherwise you’re looking for an expansion card to add to a board you’ve already got or to expand one of those above for even more.

of course, you need the drive bays to hold them all, too. which can be harder to find at a reasonable and affordable price than motherboards and controller cards.

must be a name–what he calls the shroom in his diaper.

one.

just one.

the whiny orange turd in the big house behind it in the article photograph… who has never even seen it or knew it existed before now.

and even when you do know what you’re doing, you’re probably choosing not to host your own. at least not one that faces the public. a private mail ‘server’ that consolidates mail for you from multiple providers (and sends mail back out the same way) is different.

i have an old wood desk at the office. it just resonates and amplifies noise when i set a desktop form factor external hdd (with its attached rubber feet) on it. it now sits on a couple old-school foam rubber mouse mats.

don’t expect a 19 year old laptop to perform all the tricks something more ‘modern’ can do, such as transcoding video for a streaming media server. also note that a t5600 is not a ulv chip (draws as much as 34w under load, on its own)–so probably not a candidate to run ‘lid down’ without some outside help for cooling.

it’s not fast, it’s not power efficient, it has slow networking (10/100 and 22-year old ‘g’ wifi), and lacks usb3 for ‘tolerable’ speed on extra external storage space—but it will be ‘ok enough’ for learning on.

if you go with something like yunohost or even dietpi, you will pretty much restrict yourself to what it can run and do and how it does it. if you want more ‘control’ or to install things they don’t offer themselves, you’ll need to ‘roll your own’. a base (console only) debian would be a great place to start. popular, stable, and tons of online resources and tutorials.

i use dietpi, which is built upon a minimal debian.

office back in the 9x days you could just use all 1’s.

that’s the one i remember… and the picture of it next to the release countdown at microsoft’s offices.

i think the only things these days for ‘unactivated windows’ (home, pro editions) is inability to ‘customize the desktop’ (change wallpaper, theme…) and occasional activation nags.

it doesn’t quit working or shutdown (iirc enterprise or server trials do that after they expire, though) or quit getting updates or anything like that.

they actually still ‘win’, because you’re still using their platform.

if FHFA had anything ‘criminal’ on her–that wasn’t made-up bullshit, they’d have already filed criminal charges or presented that ‘evidence’ to a grand jury for indictment.

yea, they probably will. i think a lot of people still clinging to a pc but not ‘needing’ windows-exclusive applications would seriously look at a tablet as their only ‘pc’ if it acted and worked a bit more like one when they want or need it to be one. it’s something both google and apple are working on, they just ain’t quite there yet.

“we need a break. we totally underestimated their will and determination. we’ll totally come back and take the rest as soon as we’ve fully resupplied and have more and better-trained troops to toss into the grinder”

read the article. please. it’s not about forcing any ol’ doctor to perform these procedures… it’s about when a doctor denies the procedures for their own personal reasons and opinions–even when it’s a treatment option for something else. someone very near and dear to me had to go to a different state because she’s (“only”) in her 20s and nobody around here would even consider it–even though another pregnancy might kill her.

must be tuesday already (it is. in asia)