Its almost exactly what I want, so I put a reservation in. Will see if it comes out and with what specs at shipping.

Would like 4x4 instead of RWD. And a large towing capacity would be nice.

Website says 1400lbs hauling, 1000lbs towing.

Specs site says a 5ft bed.

https://www.slate.auto/en/specs

Getting it up and running was as simple as swapping my AMD RX580 for the Intel Arc A770. The drivers are open source and built into the kernel and Mesa. It picked up and started working without issues.

Its ran every game I have smoothly at max settings. I haven’t had to turn down the graphics settings on a game yet. Though to be fair, the most graphic intensive game I play is No Man’s Sky.

Only issue I encountered was when I first got it I had to tell No Man’s Sky to use the Xe Vulkan support, instead of trying to use the old Intel HD version. Since then I’ve reinstalled No Man’s Sky a few times. Newer updates properly detect the Vulkan support.

I was impressed enough with its performance that I bought a second to upgrade my wife’s computer. She has been using that system to do modeling in Blender and hasn’t had any issues with it that I’ve heard of.

I have been quite happy with the Intel Arc card. If they are still making them when I do my next upgrade I will likely get another.

For Linux I would recommend AMD or Intel GPUs. They are less hassle getting up and running.

I’m currently running an Intel Arc A770 and its been running great. Was a lot more affordable than recent AMD or Nvidia cards.

I run Slackware on most of my systems.

Servers run Slackware, hosting Linux Containers running Slackware. Containers run my domain, web hosts, file server, and game servers.

Desktops run Slackware.

Laptop is a MacBook Air, so runs macOS.

Yeah, in 2025 doing encrypted email is a painful process. Every option is a hack on top of a 43 year old protocol.

Here is a howto from Mozilla on pgp with Thunderbird. It isn’t a pleasant process.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-howto-and-faq

Communication between the email servers is normally encrypted with TLS. The email files themselves are rarely encrypted. Most providers that do encryption of email are using local server managed encryption, so the email providers would still be able to access it.

For proper end to end protection you would want to setup PGP between you and your recipients, and encrypt the email before its sent.

No thanks, I’m good with my Analogue Pocket and Steamdeck.

Samba 4 implements Active Directory, last time I looked it was up to 2012 functional level. Samba provides a cli tool, samba-tool for managing Samba. So you don’t have to use other tools for managing it, but it is often much easier using Microsoft’s RSAT than the cli tool.

Seriously, I keep looking for a small electric truck, but all I find are SUVs with pretend size beds.

Reported in Apple Maps as incorrect name. Won’t change anything, but it needed to be done.

Probably not. Windows isn’t overly smart about that. If it’s activated it should stay that way.

With OEM computers, the license is only for the hardware it came with.

OEM license keys can not be transferred to new computers.

Even if you get the key installed and activated, you are not legally licensed for that install.

You must have a retail license key to have transfer rights to new systems.

WSL version 1 is an API translation. WSL 2 runs Linux in a vm.

Great Teacher Onizuka

I like dragon slaying.

the background is the windows 10 default light through windows logo. The start menu is the same style as windows 10 mobile when using continuum.

Like this screenshot I found.

https://dev.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4BaSC7SumgnrGvxaTfkW6Q.jpg

Thats not Windows 8. Windows 8 start menu was full screen and purplish.

Looks more like Windows 10 Mobile on a dock.

Cold war from when Ohio invaded Michigan’s land and got the president to back their claim over it. Federal government ended up letting Ohio keep it and giving Michigan the upper peninsula in exchange.

That is Gort. Klaatu is the humanoid alien.