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re: College Laptop

Posted by TAMU-93 on 4/2/26 at 4:41 pm to
You should check if her department has required software and recommended specs. An engineering student might need a laptop that runs CAD while a business major might only need a browser and Microsoft Office. Those two students are going to have different hardware requirements.

ETA: If there's no specific requirement, I'd consider the Macbook Neo which is $499 with the educational discount.

re: Texas Longhorns Face Backlash

Posted by TAMU-93 on 3/31/26 at 12:17 pm to
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if this is a real article, they sure did their best to make it look like 100% pure AI slop


They didn't even bother to crop the Gemini watermark on the AI generated photo.

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Equestrian and Meat Judging, that’s what A&M does.


All hat and all cattle :pimp:

re: What are you reading?

Posted by TAMU-93 on 3/17/26 at 8:56 pm to
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

re: Dune 3 Trailer

Posted by TAMU-93 on 3/17/26 at 1:17 pm to
Why is everyone whispering?

re: Making the switch tomorrow

Posted by TAMU-93 on 3/14/26 at 4:19 pm to
It’s a little ironic to praise Apple for protecting your privacy while leaving 16,000 posts on a public forum mentioning your age, hometown, family, routines, hobbies, and travel.

Apple may build a secure device, but it still has to be used securely.

re: Dungeon crawler carl

Posted by TAMU-93 on 3/13/26 at 1:19 pm to
I love the humor in the series. It is genuinely hilarious. I gave up after the third book because the core ‘descend, fight, loot, level up’ structure repeats in every installment. The plots change, but the experience never really does, and for me, it got tedious.

re: What are you reading?

Posted by TAMU-93 on 3/6/26 at 10:03 pm to
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
I'm genuinely curious. How does Docker's efficency stack up?

I've posted this before. Here's what's running:
Arr Stack
- Prowlarr
- Radarr
- Readarr
- Sonarr
Caddy
Jellyfin
Plex
qBittorrent
SMB Server
UniFi Controller

With four streams going, it's using 3.25GB RAM and 5.10GB SSD. The i3-3200 is peaking at 12% usage.

I have mine running in an LXC. I used this install script - LINK
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Just got a landline attachment for my garage squat rack


re: What are you reading?

Posted by TAMU-93 on 2/23/26 at 2:29 pm to
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin

re: What are you reading?

Posted by TAMU-93 on 2/10/26 at 12:17 pm to
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell

re: What are you reading?

Posted by TAMU-93 on 1/24/26 at 5:17 pm to
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World by Selena Wisnom

re: PLEX Servers

Posted by TAMU-93 on 1/13/26 at 9:22 am to
That's right. Remote access requires the host to have Plex Pass or the user needs Remote Watch Pass. That change happened maybe six months ago. I switched to Jellyfin for that reason.

re: Home Firewall

Posted by TAMU-93 on 1/10/26 at 10:09 am to
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Such a ubiquiti sheep thing to pay for


That's a hot take. CyberSecure is a Proofpoint ET Pro IDS/IPS rules subset with Cloudflare content filtering. That's good value for $100/yr. You're going to pay $800/yr for that through OPNsense.

re: What are you reading?

Posted by TAMU-93 on 1/6/26 at 12:39 pm to
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed by Erik Larson