Hahahahaha, oh yea, the Year of the Linux Desktop - been hearing that since 2000.

Look, Linux is a brilliant server OS, brilliant embedded/dedicated device OS. But as a desktop it’s very problematic. It can be a great desktop OS, if you have very clear requirements, and know those requirements will never increase to include things from the Windows world, especially for end users who frankly have little tech understanding of any OS.

The very first issue they’re going to run into is Excel. None of the open-source competitors come close, and any business/analysis will use it.

Oh, just RDP to a virtual desktop? Then why bother with Linux, which merely adds a layer of complexity?

The support issues/costs will skyrocket.

What they did a few months ago made more sense - use it in a small group, one with nominal requirements. Run that for a couple years, then expand a little. This gives IT time to flesh out issues and ensures they only get a small set of issues, affecting a small group, at any one time. It also allows for changing distro or shell with far less effort.

I’ve done this multiple times with other types of systems - run the new in a small group, not replacing the old entirely. Over time we identify pain points, develop work around or new architectural approaches, so when we finally full switch over and retire the old system it’s a minor change.

All that wood is quite weathered - I’m impressed it’s stayed up that long

Roger Moore as Bond - he wasn’t the best Bond, just that he played that character for like 30 years, starting with The Saint in the 60’s.

Once you see him there, it’s hard to see him as anything else.

Yea, always keep spares of caps

Boy, I missed an obvious one!

“Walk without rhythm, you won’t attract the worm”

Or, for a more obscure musical quote from the late 90’s: “Let the rhythm hit 'em”.

I thought a couple had Lineage support?

Been a while since I looked though.

Hahahahahaha, oh boy

Usually I’d agree it’s an asshole thing to do, but sounds like OP’s ex was clear they “didn’t want to talk 24/7”.

There’s probably more to this story.

Funny anecdote: I’ve had more luck getting dates from World of Warcraft.

Because common interest, and engagement without an agenda.

It’s just that many supposedly “fine dining” establishments phone it in with baked because they’re easy and customers accept it.

It’s the low-labor, hard-to-fuck up way to make potatoes that so many “fine dining” places default to.

Note the quotes.

All the unfinished projects are testament

Ye Olde French Bath.

Better than nothing, gets you pretty clean

Get a Lenovo Yoga, install the OS of your choice.

I forget the model, but there’s a Yoga where the keyboard separates from the screen.

HP also makes a pc tablet (forget the model numbers) with no keyboard - businesses uses them as POS or client-intake systems.

Both if these will blow away any “tablet”, as you can run a full OS and use apps of your choice.

Fuck RCS.

Twenty years too late for a “protocol” that is bound to hardware - something we decided was a bad idea forty years ago, and part of why TCP/IP became the standard.

XMPP is a far better protocol, and has had all the features of RCS for 20 years.

I will never use RCS.

The local hardware is limited (That’s the export control).

But I believe the consumer-accessible signal from satellites is also limited on accuracy.

Hahahahaha

Just use the OptiPlex for everything. The RPi lacks the horsepower, and storage capability.

I’m currently using a 7 year old OptiPlex SFF as a NAS, backup point, media converter, and media server. I’ve upgraded the storage drive to 8TB.

I do have another old NAS I use only to duplicate my data store locally (I keep 3 local copies of data, and a cloud backup).

The OptiPlex draws 15w at idle, about 85w when converting video. My NAS draws about 5w at idle. I initially tried serving media from the NAS, but it’s performance is frankly abysmal. Instead I run Media Monkey, Jellyfin, and another media server on the Dell, which has no problem streaming to my crappy Samsung TV (not using an app, just the crappy built-in DLNA client) It works even better with decent devices, like my phone, laptop, iPad.

Your biggest concern with that Dell is the power consumption. As I said, mine happens to draw 15w at idle - I got lucky

What are the specs on your OptiPlex? Is it a mini tower or SFF? That would help more than just telling us the model.

Depending on your sensitivity to failures (drives die) I’d get 2 data drives for the Dell and mirror them, using the current drive just for the OS.

You’ll need to direct that port for the given service in the router control panel.

For your current server you have a port forwarding for that port already. Just add a port forwarding rule for the new service.