EdTheDev

Let's continue my #Linux #microblog.

My latest install of #LinuxMint now spends it's time pretty much 100% as a headless remote #devops environment that I SSH into to edit my chat bots. I have rejected the beautiful Linux Mint desktop environment it shipped with.

Rather than Linux Mint at my new speedy desktop, I choose to connect remotely from... Linux Mint on my pokey little laptop, or sometimes my powerful Dell Latitude work laptop running Linux Mint.

I've also added two clever little Dell Optiplex Mimi towers, running - let me pause while you guess - did you guess Linux Mint and Linux Mint? Exactly!

One of them is a guest workstation for my wife or one of the kids to join me for coding jam sessions. Linux Mint is a great fit because it is sleek fast and easy to use.

The other is a dedicated headless chat-bot server. Linux Mint is a great fit for it, because I happened to have the Linux Mint boot media sitting ony desk when I built it.

Apr 11 at 1:47amWeb
Show threadEdTheDev7h ago

It is time for another #linuxmint #microblog

There's been a string of scary local user privilege escalation bugs recently across most Linux distributions.

Even though my Linux laptops are all single user, I decided to do something about it anyway.

I double-checked that security patches are set to auto-update, and system recovery checkpoints are being created automatically.

This cost me approximately 5 minutes of clicking around in two settings windows.

In the meantime, I guess I've missed out on some pretty annoying Windows 11 issues, if the news is to be believed. But I don't know, because I no longer have any Windows machines in the house, to compare.

Anyway, to me, it's no longer the year of the Linux Desktop. My year of the Linux Desktop was last year.

This year's theme has been not thinking much about my PCs, while they quietly do exactly what I need them to.