Thanks for being a voice of sanity. While I don't care for defending celebrities on the internet, I also don't care for purity testing, and since I have been a booster of his work and ideas on occasion, wanted to do a bit of due diligence and had largely come to the same "smoke but no actual fire" conclusion

On that last point, I was really curious so I suited up and checked it out: https://kiwifarms.st/search/39060321/?t=post&c%5Bcontent%5D=post&c%5Busers%5D=larossmann&o=date

He has only posted on exactly one thread, funnily enough about him (but not started by him) and all of the comments I read have been talking about various bits of content, but I did not see anything that I would consider out-of-character or promoting hate in my opinion.

Is this a good look? Not great for sure, since Kiwi Farms is definitely an edgelord paradise. But oddly enough, its at least consistent with his ethos, since he always talks about being bipartisan.

Ooof, the other answers here make me think the answer is too many!

I have 6 consumer TVs ranging from 14" to 29", including one 28" 16:9 SD Trintron, which is a novelty for OG xbox... And 10 computer monitors from 15" to 21" (Sony G500, pride of my collection)

Majority were either free or under $10 usd, the only one I really paid through the nose for was the Sony monitor at ~$120 usd... and before the prices went mad for TVs at least in the last couple of years

However, people still sleep on PC CRT monitors, I have paid less for all of the above than some people pay for a PVM/BVM, and while none of the ones I have can natively do 240p, they can make a really good, clean emulation setup with a bit of scaling trickery and VGA conversion. Hell, one can take component or RGB directly via BNC if you can feed it a 31khz signal

Yeaaaaahhhhhh... unfortunately anything less than "Mamdani publicly executes Slumlord exploiting tenants for profit to set example to others" is not uplifting news, just more Hurray for Minor Inconveniencing the Orphan Crushing Machine

That is certainly a take, but an app is just one attack surface for interacting with a service, and is not inherently secure or insecure; who you trust with your data is the far more relevant part here.

And that also doesn't matter when you are forced to interact with a government service or essential utilities provider who then subsequently puts your data into the hands of the same high profit, low value shitware companies that have these agencies/organisations locked-in. What are you going to do then? Move to the woods?

No, it won't stop until there is real accountability with teeth. Punish these fuckers for their incompetence with actual jail time for directors, otherwise fines are just the cost of doing business.

Do you have any other sources beyond the one tweet bandied about to back this up?

I don't disagree with your statement, I'm just genuinely curious because I haven't heard much about his personal politics beyond that

Do you have any other sources beyond this one tweet (the very same one the poster you replied to mentioned)?

I'm genuinely curious, because I haven't heard much about him beyond that

Counterpoint: HR for any company of a certain size is probably using AI or some sort of automated system to process job applications, so all doing them manually accomplishes is making one of you tired...

Unless this is a single-shingle Mom & Pop store and you are literally handing a paper application directly to the owner, save yourself the armwork and give them all the consideration they give you.

Don't get me wrong, the system is broken, HR is a disease, and AI is a grift.

My only regret is that I have only one upvote to give this post.

Just because I have the skills to setup a cluster of mini-pcs doesn't mean I want to spend my one-precious-fucking-spare-hour a day making the thing work.

See also: a builder's house, a mechanic's car etc

Well if you make me actually explain it, I'm going to sound like an asshole

Too late muchacho... you're already giving real big superiority vibes here

You figure the 9070 just has that much extra longevity here, or just that much more power?

As always, it is price dependent; the 9070 series is a decent jump from the 7800 in a few areas, so if it is within say an extra $50 I'd consider it. The XT model is only like 5% more performance on top of that as well.

Really appreciate the distro advice as well. I haven't had a home linux since whatever version of fedora was around like 15 years ago.

Happy to opine since I have been on the Windows > Dual boot > full Linux journey myself in the last couple of years. Regardless of distro, you're in for a treat; any of the modern distros are pretty good now. I'm a KDE Plasma stan as well, but thats a personal taste thing haha

Looking to do some gaming, but don't really care about it being ultra settings at 100FPS. Mostly single player stuff and do appreciate it looking pretty though.

Definitely spend the extra for the 9070 then, price comment withstanding, as it will last you awhile.

Also looking to do a bit of dev work. Usually running IntelliJ or whatever other Jetbrains product fits the language I'm working in.

I don't do much coding these days since I stick to my crayons, but looks like most of these are cross-platform. It's also worth mentioning that there are plenty of cool tools like Distrobox as well, which allow you to easily run any Linux distro + toolchain as a container to provide a sandboxed, mutable environment, so immutable distros aren't a dealbreaker either.

This is why I like Bazzite so much for dual use, because if you are at all gaming, all of the baked in QoL features make setup easy when I have had many issues with other non-gaming distros in the past, and the rest has tools to make it work somehow. Immutable distros mean you can't really screw up the OS either.

I would say it's a good build but I'm biased as this is near enough to the previous iteration of my own build (7950x/PS120SE/7900xtx/NR200P).

I'd disagree with other posters about it being tight; this is the biggest ITX case at 20L and the entire thing disassembles to make it easy to route cables. Your build will fit perfectly, and the NR200P can take a 3 slot GPU of at least 320mm, as per my own experience. Be aware you will most likely need to intake from the rear of the case though, where there is no dust filter.

The only notes I would have is, to echo another poster, go for the 9070 XT or even 9070 if it is within 20% of the price; and don't cheap out on the mobo. Go for a B650 or even B850 at least, since as a general rule, connectivity now and in future will be limited by your motherboard. The Asrock B850i isn't far off your choice currently: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9hqNnQ/asrock-b850i-lightning-wifi-mini-itx-am5-motherboard-b850i-lightning-wifi

Conversely, the only reason I transplanted my setup to the Lian Li Dan A3 is I wanted something with a teensy bit more room (26L) and more air flow paths (its basically all mesh). I will say that the slight step up to mATX brings a lot more options and negates the ITX tax. The NR200P is a GOAT case though and I plan to hold onto mine.

I don't see any info about your use cases, but for distro, I would recommend taking a look at some of the "gaming" distros if that is even a slight ask; I myself have gone Mint -> PopOS -> Fedora and now landed on Bazzite, which has been a surprisingly good all-rounder for both work and play. It has done gaming better than any other distro for me, and even though it is marketed as an immutable gaming distro, it has a plethora of ways to install general use software. Check out Framework's guide (or any of the multitude of others floating around) for an easy to follow setup: https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Bazzite+Installation+on+the+Framework+Desktop/415

It's right there in your copy-paste my dude, "BY DEFAULT".

The jackass(es) who actually was at risk went the extra step to enable IP address logging, which means that when Proton had to comply with a lawful court order, they actually had data to give.

Proton is a company like any other that has to comply with laws in the country they operate in, but unlike a lot of other companies, they don't log data UNLESS YOU ASK THEM TO.

Moral of the story is, like has oft been repeated, know your threat model and plan appropriately.