My experience was Slackware in 1993. Some kid in another dorm was running it on his computer and he gave me an account on it. I’d dial into the University network and telnet to his server to mess around. I believe the kernel was 0.9x something.

Over the years I’d used Linux in various forms: built a router using Linux at a job, installed Slackware on my desktop at home using floppy disks, ran Redhat on most of our infrastructure (web, samba, ftp, sendmail, openvpn, …) at another job, run Arch Linux on my desktop at home along with Debian in my home lab.

Is this better than PrivateBin?

Mass Effect! FemShep is amazing!

Playstation 3 for The Last of Us

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Fun game, though unlike the first one, I wasn’t immediately excited to keep playing for some reason.

I’ve been using restic. It has built-in dedup & encryption and supports both local and remote storage. I’m using it to back up to a local restic-server (pointing to a USB drive) and Backblaze B2.

Restores for single or small sets of files is easy: restic -r $REPO mount /mnt Then browse through the filesystem view of your snapshots and copy just like any other filesystem.

Mass Effect – particularly Mass Effect 2 – left an impression, but The Last of Us is and will always be the game that has stuck with me the most/longest.

Home Assistant! You can host it inside a VM.

I played the whole story on my MSI Titan DT 9SF (Nvidia 2070) running Arch Linux. It played very smoothly. There were a few issues. It may have crashed on my a couple times. But overall the experience was good.