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I’d never heard of MX or AntiX so I just snagged those, thanks for seeding.

It also reminded me that I hadn’t been seeding for a long time so I left those seeding. I also snagged the torrents for my main flavors (Debian, Mint), got the latest versions, and left those seeding too. Thanks for the reminder!

Debian 13 is 3.71GB, Mint is 2.8GB.

I haven’t used CachyOS much but I sometimes recommend it to noobs since it looks “slick” by default and (I think) typically has good GPU support. I went ahead and grabbed that one too, just to have it around, and it’s 2.83GB. Currently seeding as well.

While it’s over your 4GB limit @ 4.4GB, I pulled+seeded the latest Kali as well. Also nice to have that one around when it’s needed. The USB drive I carry around with it is probably 5 years old so I should probably update that anyway : )

This one is old enough that the back is easily removable and battery easily replaceable. I went through three in it’s life of daily usage. It was the lack of updates that made it unusable day to day. It was crazy “slow” too but a factory reset helped a lot.

I popped fdroid on it yesterday but there was no version of termux there that will run on Android 5.0.1.

I found another terminal emulator that seems to work. Don’t recall the name offhand but I’d never heard of it.

…fdroid wasn’t trivial because the phone has certs so old that it couldn’t communicate with the repos until I manually downloaded and installed a newer cert.

I still have my previous phone… S5 that I used for seven years until it couldn’t get updates and I “needed” some apps that wouldn’t run on the old android version (I don’t remember what they were at this point or if there was a way around it).

It’s been sitting on my desk for the past 5 years waiting for a purpose. The battery is shot but it still “works”. Maybe this is that purpose because I was specifically looking for something like this a few months back …because I thought it would be funny to have that phone as a server.

Same here. The magnet is at the top of the … pole? The steel shaft that the table rides up and down on. It’s just below the upper motor housing so it’s well away from the drilling area and doesn’t collect ferrous chips. There’s also an allen key stuck to the magnet that I assume is important… probably for some type of maintenance on the drill press that I’ve never done.

Thanks for the heads up!

For some reason I can’t get into audio books so text it is :)

I recently finished Dungeon Crawler Carl and someone suggested this as related. I’m going to have to check it out after I finish the Hyperion cantos (I just recently discovered Endymion)

It’s always fun trying to find the next one when the previous goes out of range on road trips. Yes, we could look it up on a phone, but it’s more fun to guess each station genre as quickly as possible.

“Country, Christian, Christian country, classic rock, country, WAIT this might be NPR…”

Same. I love that it has no online features.