Yep, I’ve got a stack of 5-10 year old optiplexes (optiplexi?) running proxmox.

I assume they’re referring to her being an outspoken socialist as an adult.

In the US, many public universities allow access to the public, including use of computer terminals that will allow access to paid databases. In many cases, you could bring in a usb stick and save copies of articles downloaded from such databases, or at worst you could pay a small fee to print some stuff out. AFAIK, that kind of access varies state by state though, so you need to call university libraries near you to find out.

Who but Caravaggio can make a fruit still-life look menacing?

I’m a college professor in the humanities (religious studies, history). Got into linux about 5 years back, partly because it comports better with my lefty politics than the alternatives, but also just because I’ve long been a closet computer nerd. I currently run a couple of proxmox servers on old optiplexes I grabbed off ebay. Full *arr stack with jellyfin on docker, a Tails VM for TOR stuff, NAS (omv on a vm), some other dockerized stuff: linkding, radicale, alexandrite (a self-hosted lemmy client, which I’m currently writing this on), various backup utilities.

It’s basically just a hobby for me, though the switch to linux has also totally changed my academic workflow, e.g. I do all my writing in nvim + latex now, use syncthing to sync my home desktop, laptops, and office computer, etc. I dig divesting myself from corporate computing to the greatest extent possible, appreciate the privacy benefits, and generally just enjoy the community-driven spirit of the whole thing.

I think sad literature is good for you sometimes. Makes you think about what matters.

If you think that book is somber then you should read his Bewilderment. Totally fucking crushing from beginning to end.

Wow, what a shitty hack job. What the fuck happened to the Intercept?

Although judging from reactions I’m seeing online, the liberal hot-take is that UFOs are a strictly Republican thing now and that questioning whether the gov’t is hiding knowledge of UFOs is akin to being an anti-vaxxer QAnon disciple. Dana Milbank’s shitty take in WaPo today exemplifies this trend. So fucking annoying.

That should be the most interesting congressional hearing in a long time, almost no matter how it goes.

With that minimal self-hosted version, do you know if you can log into it using the firefox extension on linux? The only client they mention is the iOS one.

This link should work.

Even they could only ignore it for so long.

The Sky Lamprey is angry.

Admits? Acknowledging that destroying capitalism is key to addressing the climate catastrophe is like admitting the sky is blue (or orange and smoky, as the case may be).