That was back before tariffs and any goodwill whatsoever dissolved.

They won’t sell it to you, they’re just making sure they aren’t beholden to the same ram shortages the rest of the world is.

At this point, if I didn’t build it and install the OS, it isn’t secure enough for my home.

I am are you ?

As hills go, man. I’m not sure I would’ve died on this one, sheesh.

I give the warning before I’m handed the laptop. I’ve done three in the family, all Linux Mint XFCE, I never hear any complaints. Shit just works.

A dns server knows what and where things are. That’s its only real job, to tell who’s asking where say, http://eff.org/ is.

“Ay homie, where’s https://eff.org/?”

over here - 173.239.79.200

“thanks, bud!”

The issue is, the dns server you use by default is under the control of whoever your provider is, and as a result, they get all of your dns lookups like the example above as well as every porn site, every piracy site, everywhere.

Installing your own, or simply moving to one your provider has no business with like 9.9.9.9 can help keep your dns queries more private, go a step further and use encrypted dns, as many providers supply, and you’ll be even further covered.

Installing your own, however, comes with the added perk of being able to apply your own dns entries. Suddenly local addresses can have custom names without ever touching a hosts file. Neat! Use DNS certs and you’ve got local SSL!

I would go find something applicable to feed you for a dns 101, but my old resources don’t exist. I just know stuff from years of doing it and failing over and over until things work.

Weed in a tobacco (wooden) pipe tends to be a fruitless cause, imo. You make a lot of mess and gunk and the high temps weed burns at runs the risk of burning through the bowl.

Trust me, I love me some devil’s lettuce, just trying to make sure you don’t spend $100-$150 on a nice pearwood churchwarden then burn a hole through it lol.

I go to bed to sleep (and to spend time with my SO)

I wonder what single people are doing on their phones in bed.

is that a stray sock?

It opened the door to pihole and unbound, then dns certs, man… everything’s so nice now lol

I hosted shit for about ten years before really understanding how local dns worked.

Imagine a primitive society that discovered literally every major modern scientific achievement, but somehow missed the wheel. That’s basically how my first setup went lol.

“We just couldn’t believe he would be capable of this.” ~ Everyone interviewed

Ay, you poopin in there!?

My first suggestion is to head to youtube. Pipe knowledge is rather universal. Hobbiton Piper is a great person to start with, as is Timberdrifter and Muttonchop Piper.

There are many different pipe blends and types, but primarily they’re split between Aromatics, English and Virginias or Virginia blends. Oriental and Balkan blends I’d consider more niche. Personally, I like Virginias and the blends therof, VA/Perique and Burley is my jam, but I’d suggest starting with Aromatics.

As for types of pipes, stick to Corncobs starting out, they’re not only my personal favorite to smoke, but they’re cheap and you can have one for every day of the week for not much dough. Grab a nice briar once you’re sure you’re into the hobby.

Then all you have to do is find a calm spot and a good book, and away you go.

Little of A, little of B.

Pipe tobacco.

Love the hobby, rusticness of it, ‘the art’, if you will, but man is the entire community full of grumpy old incensitive conservatives. There are exceptions to the rule like a few dudes at my local shop, but for the most part, I keep to myself about it.

Every week Trump loses the entire party or the entire party fails, yet here we all sit in the same hellscape.

DON’T DO * AT 3AM

* CAME TO MY HOUSE

God, I miss the random, stupid youtube fads pre-Ai lol

“here comes the new boss, same as the old boss.”

Won’t be the last time. Once forced Android verification lands, you’re gonna see a lot of fediverse and darkweb peeps only accessing this side of the web from laptops and second devices, until Firefox and Linux go to shit on PC and we lose any and all privacy everywhere.

~5-10 years-ish?