Mumble is fantastic.
I designed and implemented a very complex voice system for an old guild. Like 100 people, 8 groups of 15, group leader’s private chat, priority speech all that. It worked so well, and never failed.
This was many many years ago, to be fair.
I wish it’s positional audio was more supported.

Well, non-flammable vents for one thing

However, the international response to Trump’s call for the dispatch of warships has so far proved vague and reluctant, with countries unwilling to commit to a military response that could prove treacherous for their navies.

This is the correct response.

So these “os reporting age bands” laws are useless then.
Cause either the parents are being responsible, at which point there are many parental tools for network and device control.
Or they aren’t being responsible, and the kid can easily bypass it or just buy their own device.

So that means that kids can’t buy computers?
Can’t buy a cheap used raspberry pi or old laptop/desktop in order to set up as a server?

IDK. It puts them at the forefront of this fight.

If governments successfully prosecute distro maintainers (if they can) for this, then distro maintainers are liable.
And distro maintainers would then have to pursue non-compliant users to cover that liability, or fold.
Which is a huge loss for open source.

Or, there would be a huge legal fight and it turns out that the licence of a distro protects it from its users actions.
Which would be awesome and a massive win. It also makes sense. Nobody is suing an OS maintainer because it was used for a data breach.
And then the governments have to pursue the actual users. Which… is gonna be useless wrt these laws

Someone high up in the chain made it the messaging, tho.

MRFF has received over 200 calls from more than 50 military installations across all the services since Saturday reporting similar disturbing pronouncements from their Christian zealot commanders.

https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2026/03/mrff-inundated-with-complaints-of-gleeful-commanders-telling-troops-iran-war-is-part-of-gods-divine-plan-to-usher-in-the-return-of-jesus-christ/

Soubds like it’s pretty unified messaging

And it’s still faster for my linux install to boot.
LUKS password for disk encryption, then user login to a usable desktop with network connectivity.
Windows takes ages to get to a login screen (bitlocker is disabled, so no decryption excuse), logging in is a breeze with fingerprint reader (certainly faster than typing in a password), then it sits there for ages looking like it’s ready to be used, but the network stack isn’t ready and it is just unusable until that comes up.

I’m so happy when I get a day of just working in Linux.
It just… Works.

I’ve had one issue in the past year and a half, dual booting from the same NVMe.
After fixing the boot partition issues from a liveUSB, the actual solution was disabling fast-boot.
It’s been solid for a year now.

But I always shutdown my laptop when I’m not using it. And any windows updates that require restarts, I make sure it fully reboots into windows again.

What’s your vector, Victor?

All official reporting indicates a well mannered race between candidates.
The correct and best leader has been chosen fairly by all citizens.
And all opponents now also agree, as do their voters.

It’s actually Teams Copilot for Office now

The person in the middle would be supporting twice the weight of the person over the hole, and they would have to do it twice.
The person over the hole and the person not over the hole just has to hang on.

When the middle person is over the hole, the people at each end support half the weight of the person over the hole.

The length of the pole doesn’t matter, as long as the person in the middle is in the middle of the pole and that the pole is more than twice the length of the hole.
If the pole was significantly long enough, then the force on the middle person could be reduced significantly, but it will always be more than the weight of 1 person.

Discord is going to be the age-verification-service for gaming, if they can get laws to follow fast enough.
They have the gaming community, they have chats/friends/DMs/VoIP.
If they release a dev toolkit that implements in-game chat, in-game VoIP, friends list and age verification… All while not being tied to steam? Imagine if they offered a system for in-game purchases and gifting purchases to friends (oh yeh https://gam3s.gg/news/discord-adds-in-app-purchases-for-in-game-items/ )
They are positioning themselves to offer a huge range of features, easy navigation of legal minefields, and no distribution-platform tie-in - while also offering out-of-game functionality of all of that (likely leading to player retention for games that leverage it properly).

They are positioning themselves to be a market-leader/industry-standard for game social networks. Everyone that has ever used discord is the product they are selling, and they are now releasing the features and tools for companies to leverage that.

I hear the 3rd best is tomorrow, and that fits with my energy levels

It’s beautiful!
Once you get something running proxmox you will fully go down the rabbit hole!
You will be thinking about k8s clusters, DNS and domain management, redundancy & availability, services for this, that and everything!
Before you know it you will have a rack of 8 servers doing various things, 2 UPSs, a standby generator and a backup 5G wan connection!

Or, you know, as much of that as you want.