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Installed Ubuntu #Linux on an old Core i7 Dell XPS laptop with 16GB of RAM from 2019. Installation was relatively smooth. Only issue I ran into was with TPM and disk encryption. I'll have to research that later. But so far it's very peppy and feels like a new computer.

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 08/09/2026

🌡️ Fan ON – bedroom is 23.1°C

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 08/09/2026

possibly a brief outage.

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 08/09/2026

❄️ Fan OFF – bedroom cooled to 18.8°C

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 08/09/2026

dentist was piss easy.... I felt pain when they yanked it out! didn't want them to stop, just got on with it

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 08/09/2026

day off work, now going for surgery on my tooth! 🤦‍♂️

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 06/09/2026

new job starts tomorrow!

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 05/09/2026

🌡️ Fan ON – bedroom is 23.1°C

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 05/09/2026

❄️ Fan OFF – bedroom cooled to 18.9°C

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 03/09/2026

I am now doing everything I can to host services for myself and get out from other people’s computers. I find it incredibly rewarding. Nothing is exposed to the open net (I’m running tailscale) and things are working great.

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maddie @handle.invalid · 04/09/2026

give me 2 years and im buying a dumbphone and using open/freebsd

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 04/09/2026

just spend $3 and get a vps, better specs and unlimited blogging? 🤦‍♂️

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 04/09/2026

and most expensive? holy smoke just looked

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 03/09/2026

but outdated 🤦‍♂️

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 03/09/2026

when you bringing pds back online? 😂😂

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 03/09/2026

so the website shit itself, didn't pick up the downtime on the PDS though. we will be updating our PDS shortly, downtime expected. This will only effect eve.snowpulse.net @alhockley.net - send me details for earth.snowpulse.net so I can update that too?

earth.snowpulse.net

https://earth.snowpulse.net

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 01/09/2026

finally upgrading my raspberry pi from bullseye to bookworm! #raspberrypi

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 30/08/2026

currently look like an elephant man!

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 06/03/2025

It’s time to return to IRC

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 26/08/2026

apparently heading to the UK! gutted I've got work tonight, or I'd drive to the country side or beach. 📸 was a storm other day.

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 26/08/2026

I've not be as active lately, been chilling out on IRC! irc.vibetalk.net (ssl) 6697 if you don't do SSL, then plain port 6667 #IRC

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 25/08/2026

why do kids insist in stealing other people's minecraft accounts? karma is coming to bite you 💪

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 25/08/2026

grabbed myself a budget vps in the UK for $3 a month! my son insisted I hosted a EuroTruck Simulator 2 server for his convoys. #Ets2 #convoys #scs

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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 24/08/2026

Back on my bs

A pebble duo beside a pixel 10a with GrapheneOS installed

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 24/08/2026

got a ETS2 server online for my son!! #Convoy #ETS2

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PDSls @pds.ls · 23/08/2026

to complete support for the Spaces (alpha) API, it is now possible to create, manage, and delete spaces, including adding and removing members

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 23/08/2026

mum has all channels for £40 a month!

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 23/08/2026

Mr Firestick where are you? Sky want £100 a month from me.

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 22/08/2026

🌡️ Fan ON — bedroom is 21.6°C

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 22/08/2026

❄️ Fan OFF — bedroom cooled to 18.9°C

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 20/08/2026

so, I've remembered I have two servers still at my mums house. 1 x dell optiplex with 1ghz cpu, 512mb ram, 120gb hdd running debian hosting xen domains? 1 x compaq 733mhz, 256mb ram, 20gb hdd running windows XP I am tempted to recover one and run netbsd or openbsd #netbsd #openbsd

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Reticent @reticenty2k.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

shadPS4, the PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD, is now on version v0.18.0!

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Grom 🧑‍💻 @grom.xin · 18/08/2026

cloudflare doesn't protect you. You can hide behind them, always a way to get real IP.

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Vilkva @vilkva.com · 17/08/2026

AI IS BAD CODERS NOW CODE WITH AI SO CODE IS BAD!

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