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For years now, I do not buy/create assemble a new computer, because I am totally overwhelmed by the options available to me....

What are CPU designs which are not fetch/store but operate directly on RAM?...

By posting another question here I realized, that I really enjoy games which are ‘short’ (Play start to finish in around one hour) and have lots of replay value....

Inspired by a similar question on reddit:...

Contra is back. A real, honest, bitching 2D Contra....

I want to configure a Raspberry Pi 4 as a web (application) server....

When watching movies, I always try to differentiate between my personal enjoyment and the inherent merits of the movies. There are a lot of bad movies, which I totally and thoroughly enjoy watching, and some really great movies, which I don’t enjoy that much, but still can respect/appreciate....

I am not a member of the Anti-Snap crowd (although of course the server sources should be open source), but there is obviously a lot to improve. Flathub/Flatpak should also take note!

There is a similar question on the site which must not be named....

Nice to have common name for Silverblue and co....

Surprisingly often I see guys in the gym, which have a totally jacked/trained upper body but untrained legs....

I almost always read in the news/press that dentists recommend to brush teeth two times a day for 2-3 minutes....

Recently I stumbled over an article, about how to customize your shell prompt. What really surprised me, is that it lacked one of the most basic tips I learned nearly 20 years back: Always display a timestamp in the prompt, to be able to check how long a process is running or when it ended. (Don’t need it daily, but every so...

What are your ‘defaults’ for your desktop Linux installations, especially when they deviate from your distros defaults? What are your reasons for this deviations?...

I am playing around with Fedora Silverblue and openSUSE Aeon and I really like the painless updates....

At the moment I am using Debian Bookworm and I can setup/configure 100% of my setup automatically everything via Ansible. (Only thing left after the Ansible script is login to my online accounts/email which I would rather not automate.)...

Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history…

I got a cheap netbook style laptop for traveling some weeks ago (HP Stream 11" with 4 GB of RAM and a N4120). Didn’t expect much more from this hardware than opening a few browser tabs and doing some retro gaming via Steam....

I bought a HP Stream 11 laptop with an N4120 / 4 GB Ram and 64 eMMC / sd card reader for traveling and one of the main selling points for me was the sd card reader to extend the internal storage easily....

After years of using Gnome 3/4 with a modified setup on Debian, I returned to Xfce, and am quite impressed by the state of Xfce 4.18....

Found on hacker news.

Back then I played Warcraft 3 ladder games and I hit my skill ceiling quite fast because my micro was simply too bad/slow. I still very much enjoy real time strategy games. Is there any real time strategy game that is played competitively with an active community where micro is not that essential? (Ruling out Star Craft 2.)...