I’d recommend a full battery calibration before running the command one more time, if you haven’t already (charge the battery fully, leave it on the charger at 100% for a while, then fully discharge until it shuts itself off, leave it for a bit, then fully recharge while off). If the calibrated values line up with a full:design ratio of ~80%, especially with a 10-year-old battery with almost 700 cycles on it, my take is that’s pretty great.

That said, I think the best way to get an accurate feel for the health of an old battery is to put it through one full cycle of normal use and time how long it takes to die.

If you’re genuinely worried about this, you shouldn’t be using untrusted machines for remote access.

Apache Guacamole might be a good option. “Clientless” (browser-based), supports various mfa, uses ssh/vnc/rdp on the backend.

However, if the data on that machine is sensitive, or if that machine has access to other sensitive things on your network, I’d suggest caution in allowing remote access from untrusted machines on the wider internet.

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Heyr himna smiður - a medieval Icelandic hymn, set to music by Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson

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powertop is a cool tool that can analyze your machine and provide a list of suggested power optimizations

That’s awful, I’m sorry :(

Is your ISP’s infrastructure based on RFC 1149?

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DNS is what you’re looking for. To keep it simple and in one place (your adguard instance), you can add local dns entries under Filters > DNS Rewrites in the format below:

192.xxx.x.47 plex.yourdomain.xyz
192.xxx.x.53 snapdrop.yourdomain.xyz

What is your root filesystem installed on - lvm, zfs, or bare disk partitions? Are you booting with grub (legacy/bios) or systemd-boot (uefi)?

Can’t beat an X230 with an i5 for that use case, and you can still find them for around 100 bucks. Swap in an X220 keyboard, maybe a new battery, coreboot it, and in my opinion you’ve got the perfect laptop. I’ve daily driven that setup for the last 5 years and it’s been great.

Altruistic behavior in social creatures improves the fitness of the group, and has positive evolutionary pressure. Strong, cohesive groups pass on their genes, so actually pretty probable!

ssh predates the specification, exists somewhat independently of even the idea of a desktop (not common to see xdg env variables like XDG_CONFIG in a headless environment, for example), and uses the homedir/.ssh directory on both the client and server side of a connection. I think it’s less to do with security and more to do with uniformity for something as important as ssh - ssh doesn’t need to change to use the xdg spec, and xdg doesn’t need to allot anything special for ssh when it’s already uniform across the unix spectrum

If you can find a cheap used micro-form-factor pc with hdmi output (eg thinkcentre m93p), that’s a great sustainable way to go. Stick debian on it, get a cheap tiny bluetooth keyboard/trackpad, stream via web browser. Bonus if it’s got a dvd player, for the ultimate utilitarian foss htpc.

For donating compute/storage/bandwidth to community archiving, this is a great place to check out: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

Just my opinion, but I think they’re a great project to support.