I’d never heard JB Weld called steel stick, so I had to click!

PC-7 is another brand that’s identical to JB.

Probably. Why wouldn’t it?

Burn it to a disc or put it on a bootable thumbdrive with Yumi and find out.

It isn’t clear what question you’re asking.

I’ve never seen machine that won’t boot to a WinPE disk, that’s the point of WinPE.

And this has been the case since the early 70’s

Same thing that happened to them before - when they were Service Stations.

Everything.

Others have addressed a lot of this - I think your best approach is to to use a structured learning process, like 30 Days of Linux. I’ll drop a link when I can find it again.

I think the biggest risk for a new user is running commands as root that you don’t fully understand.

Fortunately distros today default to creating a user account during setup so the average user doesn’t run as root by default.

Edit: Link to Linux Upskill Challenge

You could do this in a VM before switching.

All of them?

The dialog also indicated class - this is straight pulp fiction/noir stuff.

Tarantino understood how to re-imagine noir for a 90’s audience.

I haven’t seen it mentioned, but the title alone tells us so much about what to expect.

“Pulp Fiction” is a type of novel published on the cheapest paper available, marginally better than newsprint - pulp paper.

These were novels that were published cheaply and quickly - so we’re not talking about the novel of the century, but simple entertainment - fast paced, stylized, sensational.

All that also connects to the Noir genre of novels - gritty, dirty, dangerous, hard characters for whom killing is easy. The heyday of Noir is about 1920-1950 and includes authors like Dashiel Hammet (Maltese Falcon) and HP Lovecraft.

I’m sure Tarantino read many of these kinds of novels growing up - you can see the influence: Pulp Fiction is a 90’s take on the Noir genre.

All that said, I haven’t seen it in years. I don’t find it compelling enough to watch again. That’s not a criticism in any way - I saw it in the theatre when it came out and laughed my ass off at parts. We talked about it for days afterward, trying to understand it.

Mayhem

Even without a VPS Tailscale will work fine after the router resets.

The more open ports, the larger the attack surface.

That’s all.

And today with the script kiddies out there, port scans happen all the time.

I’ve had a consumer router become almost useless from all the attempted connections on an open port someone found that I had up for a week.

Months later I’d still get hits on that port though it had been closed.

Yea, Tailscale would work even if the router was fully reset.

And durability.

Without a secondary internet connection this isn’t possible.

The router is the connection - its the gateway (a term we don’t hear much these days).

You could setup an independent connection via a cell modem - becoming a secondary connection. This is common for remote locations or even small businesses that need a failover just for management.

You could even have it on a single machine and have a vpn there. Then you could RDP/VNC to that one machine and manage things from there. I’ve done the VPN this way with Tailscale. One machine has it (I’ve even done it with a Raspberry Pi), then you can RDP/VNC to other machines from there.

But there’s not much I could see you doing if the gateway is down anyway.

Its not “targeted at old school”, it’s an open, extensible protocol.

If devs focused on extending the protocol instead of building an app to handle things like this, it could do it, everywhere.

There are currently over 100 extensions.

Haha, beat me to it!

I’ve seen them go outside in shorts and t-shirts when it breaks 0, and washing their cars when it breaks 32.

Why would they?

Oswald never shot anyone - he couldn’t have.

Still staggering to me that XMPP isn’t the default, since it was used in many chat apps in the late 90’s.