That’s why you use a good SSD and a USB enclosure. But yes, used thin clients are usually cheaper and you get more bang for the buck.

After a few years of homeownership you usually have everything for stuff around the house in the tool room.

I’m just noticing that having a tool room sounds unusual, seeing it written down.

Actually, several hours of cursing and trying are an excellent substitute for up to three minutes of manpage reading.

Well, it IS a not very reasonable take that seems to be grounded in a certain unwillingness to deal with new and unknown yet things. How do I solve address overlap in RFC1918 and various VPNs reliably without IPv6? This starts to become a problem when I think about my self hosted music server accessed through a wireguard tunnel and I’m at a friend’s house. Not too outlandish problem for the crowd around here, I’d guess.

Ditching a tool for another one because of where the source code is currently stored on? That sounds a little like the people’s liberation army vs. the the liberation front of the people.

I mean, you do you, but please try not to use that as an argument when discussing open source in a general audience.

I don’t think the general move over to free-er software and less silos is supported by this kind of more outlandish zealotism.