天空вℓσи∂ @skyblond@qoto.org

AND GNOME DON'T HAVE TRAY ICONS.

No wonder Linux desktop can't beat Windows.

Today I was planning for my new Intel NUC. It comes with a 500G NVMe SSD (the bare bone version is out of stock) and 2x8GB RAM. So I'm planning on the disk layout.

The nuc13 can take one 2280 NVMe, one 2242 M.2 SATA SSD (NGFF), and one 2.5 inch SATA disk. Of course, I'm using openSUSE TW, so I got Btrfs out of the box. The question is what profile to use.

My first plan is to use 3 disks in raid 1. But then I found out the NGFF disk is really slow and hard to find quality ones. So I moved to 2, one NVMe and one SATA.

And then there is secure boot and LUKS things to handle. I want to use TPM to seal the LUKS key so I don't have to type password too many times. And if I'm going to add disk in the future, I should first let luks handle the disk, then add the mapped device to btrfs. Not mention the TPM issue. The TPM support is still under experimental stage, so every time there is a kernel update or bootloader update, the TPM can't unseal the key and I have to deal it manually.

Based on my current poort knowledge with those components, I think I'd just stick with the stock ssd, set up encryption and backup, then call it a day.

Despite I hate Windows, but this part Windows wins. Setup bitlocker is not that hard. And a system upgrade will not break it. And I need to see if I can get secure boot working on intel nuc with linux. If it's not working, then I have to type password anyway.

没想到还有黑胶！

心动了

仿佛一下子遇到了人生中半数以上的美好（好奇怪的比喻

Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no no no

Llama3 is released!

I hope I have more drive to download all models

My colleague's laptop is called "firecracker", now my laptop can be called "firehazard"

Talking about battery...

I knew the battery was swollen again when I realised that the touchpad on my laptop wouldn't press down.

I like Razer's laptop. It's powerful, lightweight, and it looks cool. But the battery. Ahhh! Why?

Gonna order a new one and hopefully the old one don't burn down my house.
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Cute!
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And I start doing some "investment". Gold is one part of the plan and it's already growing in value. That's a good start, I think

Then I got the hard question: When should I sell it? Too early I'll lose some profit, and too late I'll probably lose more.

Gosh, making money with money is so hard.

Recording everything to homebank and then notice I spent a lot of money this month.

I assume it's normal? Since a lot of things can be better and those expenses are one-time only. I don't have to buy a new nuc and monocular every month. And I expect the expenses in the next month will drop back to normal. I hope.

And just notice all my keyboard and mouse are Bluetooth only. I need to find a usb keyboard to install Linux.

Maybe I should subscribe to SLED? So when the system breaks, I can yell at them instead of blaming myself and try to fix it desperately?

Ordered an Intel NUC13ANHi7. Gonna make it as my current workstation, well, for work.

Razer really needs to think about their cooling system. Room temperature is currently 25C, and the fan is screaming at full speed, and the CPU is still overheating.

And when the laptop constantly overheats, the battery is going to start swelling up, like a balloon, but much worse. I have replaced the battery 2 times and really don't want to do it again. Especially the part of dealing with the broken battery, the energy in those broken batteries is really scary.

I just hope there is an app that can hijack the keyboard and screen to automatically convert my clear text into encrypted text before I send it, and decode it automatically when I receive it. No need to fancy e2e that kind of stuff. Just encryption.
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I know there are a lot of things to watch out for when talking about encryption and keys. But in my humble opinion, simple encryption can prevent at least 50% of the unintended leaks. For the rest, you got fancy tools like E2E, rotational keys, etc.
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Someone introduced Beeper to me: https://www.beeper.com

It can support 14 different IM apps and manage them in one app.

It's technically good, but I don't trust it, 1) not all IMs are e2e encryption, 2) if this beeper account gets hacked, then all of my messages are doomed.

It does have an option to self host, but at least for the Android app you need to register an account.

I'll keep an eye on it.