I have several options here : OrangePI, used Android TV box, mini PC, thin-client and laptop.

currently just installed dual boot Linux on my old mini PC (Celeron 1007U, 8GB RAM, 512GB HDD)

just happened, a few days ago I installed dual boot of EndeavourOS and OpenMandriva replacing Windows 7, on my potato mini PC. (Celeron 1007U, 8GB RAM, 512GB HDD)

Hardware support really sucks, as many hardware manufacturers only care about supporting M$ Windows.

There’s a way to force them to provide drivers for Linux, let’s say the trade commission in any country forces all devices to have drivers for Linux.

I could tell from my POV, there is a need for foreign labor in Japan. It was even announced at the Japanese embassy (in my country) most of the labor needed to care for the elderly.

another example just a few months ago https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/02/59f0c75e44f4-indonesian-bus-driver-to-be-1st-to-work-under-new-japan-visa-status.html

You can also take a look at r/japanlife, most of them are foreigners from western countries.

My laptop did not go to sleep

Some people have similar experiences regarding sleep issue, including system just went blank on wake up.

From my experiences on Linux Mint in two different laptops, the sleep issue related to Linux system cache. By default, many Linuxes use these settings, vm.dirty_ratio and vm.dirty_background_ratio are about 5 to 20 percent of the available system memory. This is fine if your system has less than 4GB of memory installed, but if your system has 8GB or more of memory, this can cause problems later on.

So I have this “can’t wake up” issue on my two differents laptop, the first laptop has 8 GB of memory and the second laptop has 16 GB. And both laptops are running on Linux Mint.

In search of a solution, I came across this conversation https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/25/39

I also found some possible system cache related issues on various distros.

So I tried what Linus suggested, and I use lower values than suggested. And it worked!, the “can’t wake up” issue on both laptops just gone in instant!

tbh, I never bothered to tell others about climate change and its consequences to our lives.

Back then I told my relatives, and they just looked at me like “are you out of your mind?”

not sure about apps, but dnscrypt-proxy has this option

I used this when I found out one of my coworkers was using my work laptop to play online games.

I have Linux Mint installed on my laptop, I just don’t trust M$ Windows with their AI crap.

There are good reasons why you should limit yourself from using cloud based services. Even you are paying for the service, they can change ToS however they want.

And free cloud services the worst of it all, because they want to take all your data., they don’t even care if it’s a confidential company document.

oh great news!!

I remember some people kept mocking Linux desktops for lack of HDR support, which was strange because they were also using Linux for application development purposes.

sounds like M$'s real face : Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish

not a fan of PDP, but the video has been viewed 2.8 Million times in less than 24 hours. nearly beat his 3 Million video views from 3 weeks ago

yeah it looks good, at least Linux gains more attention

Yes, I guess it’s better than you landing in the United States and a few days later, ICE flies you to El Savador.

My next issue is that sometimes it just hard-freezes. Zero warning, under no load, I can’t even move the mouse. Linux on the desktop

You may want to consider fixing the system cache value.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/25/39

I use lower values than Linus suggested.

The threat of tornadoes, destructive winds, and damaging hail will peak from Wednesday afternoon, April 2, into early Thursday. Then comes the deluge — perhaps a foot or more of rain, adding up to what could be some of the heaviest three- or four-day totals ever recorded in what is normally a moist region notorious for flooding.

the current outbreak is the third highest

I also saw there is a possibility of winter storms coming this month

I would suggest you start with Studio Ghibli/ Mr. Miyazaki’s works

• My Neighbor Totoro
• Princess Mononoke
• Spirited Away
• Pom Poko
• Castle in the Sky
• Only Yesterday

You may also want to watch Makoto Shinkai’s works

• 5 Centimeters per Second
• Your Name
• Weathering with You
• Suzume

According to EFF in the article

Do not wipe your phone

You might think the most protective options are to completely wipe your phone before traveling, use a burner or travel without a phone. But the EFF’s Cope said that could actually raise suspicions.

“People are damned if they do and damned if they don’t,” Cope said. “If you cross the border with no data on your device, that itself can be seen as suspicious.”

Instead, if you want to seem cooperative but do have data or texts stored on your phone that you wouldn’t want to be accessed, Cope suggests deleting that information selectively rather than wiping your whole device.

only small parts in northern

Satellite image of the month September 2024

https://www.mundialis.de/en/satellite-image-of-the-month-september-northern-aral-sea-kazakhstan/

and yes there’s a project to replenish Aral Sea

Desert Rebirth: Kazakhstan and USAID’s Aral Sea Restoration Partnership

I would like to try Solus along with other Linux, unfortunately Solus uses systemd-boot rather than GRUB. 😔😔