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I actually went back and had a look at a few of the top results and I have a feeling a lot were AI written Sandtraps. Several were very similar "Install your favorite Linux then "

Makes it had for a newbie who doesn't know what they don't know so can't ask the right question.

The Mint install works fine now, I made a lot of mistakes and took a while to get head around the folder structure and permissions but once I am more comfortable next time I'll try something a little more headless I think, though playing around I reckon I'd be happy with Mint as a daily machine (if only my job wasn't coding Windows apps :/)

Could be, dunno yet how to tell these things but the issue was a port was not open. Once opened the server was seen fine!

Hah! Apparently in the long list of UFW commands I was running, the first one didn't run or I missed it, can see the server now at least, just need it to see the files!
Entertaining but the wife is getting impatient :/

Thanks, I decided to see what happened with a Mint Install (Before I saw your reply) so as a Toe-in-water thing to learn more about the OS and see what stuff was like. I only Kitty into a Linux server for work and do some basic tasks on it occasionally so was interested.

An ... interesting experience... trivial install, easy enough to understand the UI, entirely failed to get a Plex server working though... Nothing on the network can see it (Local works fine) which doesn't make much difference because Plex has nothing to server since it can't see the folder with movies on it due to, I believe, ownership issues (The files are on a portable USB drive)

Still fiddling but most help documents descend into arcane command line arguments very quickly and are generally "wrong" in that they suggest editing files that don't exist in folders that aren't there.

Still.. a learning experience :) (Easy enough to kill it and tried Debian if I can't work out chown!

What part of this do you think is hard?

Not hard... essentially worthless however....

The articles are saying "Here is a list of almost all known versions of Linux, these are good for you to use" when you query what the best option is.... Hardly narrowing down anything. Likewise saying "Use your favorite.. then install the product you want to use" is also useless information if you are asking the question I was.. I have no favorite obviously since I know nothing about it.. and OBVIOUSLY I am going to install the produce I just asked about installing...

The pages I was looking at answered the question "How do I install Linux?" by saying "First, Install Linux"

Not to say there aren't better sources, but all the first ones I found where along that theme

Yeah Ubuntu came up in a few searches, I'll read more about that, Desktop was 25gb which was a bit excessive given the age of the PC, will look at server, ty

Interesting site but not without flaws, first recipe I looked at was essentially just "use a off the shelf bottle of curry paste to make a curry and cook some rice. Cooking time 315 minutes"

Gonna check through it though, seemed to have a nice variety, with a lot of cultures listed

A full day 4wd course drive costs about 550 (Brisbane) A few laps on a 2 course 4wd track in Melbourne is about 320

Not exactly the same i know, but those fines seem pretty weak in comparison.

I use a technique where I play a scene out in my head. Always the same scene, always the same outcomes and the same process.

For example "Walking down a beach, see a small shell, pick it up, turn it over and notice the interesting pattern, put in pocket, go to the sea shell stored a few feet down the beach waving at a people, sell the shell, take the money and buy a small rock statue, take the statue home and place it on the window sill... etc"

The trick is make it memorable and not specifically related to your own life so you can't get side tracked subconsciously ("Oh no! I forgot to buy sea shells!!"). I find a narrative works well, and the whole thing tells a story.

The way to get started is when you are EXHAUSTED and ready to fall asleep anyway, and to repeat the same scene/steps every night from that point on. Eventually the series of images and events will tie to "sleep" in your mind and I rarely get past the first few parts of the sequence.

Essentially counting sheep! same idea really. After a while you may get bored of one story and make up another. I've gone though a half dozen over the years I guess.

Probably beyond the reach of most people, for example if you aren't prepared to cull the chickens at some stage you'll be feeding an aging flock that isn't producing eggs for years. Feeding then properly is expensive unless you let them free range and feed them scraps which will in turn reduce the eggs they are likely to lay

Homesteading and being self sufficient can be very expensive

How bout we just stop buying shit from colesworth?

You say that, and I agree they are bastards, but what's your option?

We grow a lot we eat, but that can actually be more expensive. aldi? Not any cheaper if you target sale items elsewhere and with dietary allergies they just don't sell everything we need.

We are rural so iga types who are 25 to 125 percent more expensive.

Just trapped by large corporates it seems

Firefox, Android. Using jerboa on Android it doesn't happen