I installed Brave browser just to run Facebook in. Can't keep it much more segregated than that. I do the same thing on my phone.

Some states are trying to ban older cars right now. I know it is all over, but this is one place Blue states are torquing me off, because they seem to be the ones pushing some of this crap.

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I don't know, but that's kind of cool. It looks like with a driver, it will connect to MS Access. I still have to touch a legacy access database from time to time. Somewhere along the line, Access quit working over a RDP connection for me. I just wrote my own simple front end for it using .net, but the one thing I would like to do is kind of a pain for me to write. I could do it, I just don't want to. lol.

On the other hand, I don't mind getting a license for a good product just to support them, and it looks like the only options they have are subscription based. That leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I miss the good ol' days.

Anyway, thanks. Just installed the Linux ce version. It connected to MySQL and seems to do all the things I use Workbench for. So far, it's only asked me for my password when I connect to the database the first time!

On Windows, I used to work off of a usb thumb drive for portability. My Logitech mouse, and whole system would randomly dramatically slow down. Moved to Linux Mint. Working off the hard drive I had no problems. I needed some data off that thumb drive yesterday, and fifteen minutes after I plugged it in, random slowdowns just like on my Windows machine. Not going to lie, on Windows, I always blamed it on the Logitech mouse.

To be fair, timers are hard.

It's offers a syntax similar to a no-build VUE. This gives you a more standard, modern way of doing things that a lot of people already know how to do. And it does it without generating many thousands of files and dependencies just to create a "hello world" page. Most anyone that could figure out VUE code should be able to look at AlpineJS code and figure out what is going on. I could very easily use vanilla JavaScript to do everything. Good luck on you figuring any of it out in a timely manner if you inherited any of the code.

I'm mostly doing database CRUD with it. I'm really impressed with how easy it is to make a somewhat complex form with a minimal amount of (mostly clean) code.

That said, I do not really like the inline coding that they push in all the documentation. I much prefer separating the code using Alpine data(). It's much easier to debug.

No build with AlpineJs is now the future. I've been saying for many years that creating a "hello world" page that generates tens or even hundreds of thousands of files is kind of nuts. Every one of those files could be a security issue.

I dug up an article about it: https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/audiophile-banana-blind-test/

I saw a video a while back where they routed audio through a banana, and nobody could pick out the audio that went through said banana. I can't find it, but here is a guy expanding on that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fmCy686IC8

This seems to be Linux's Microslop. Not only did they add it to Systemd, they banned users on Reddit for just talking about it. I laughed when Microsoft banned users for using the term Microslop. Not so funny now, I guess.

I did finally get Cinnamon to restart one time. There were some minor issues, but it started back up and was usable for a few minutes. After that, it hung up so hard that only a reboot fixed it. One issue on restart was that the start menu was kind of wonky, like a web page that had lost its css file.

For anyone following this, I found the following link to be helpful.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/143838/how-do-i-restart-cinnamon-from-the-tty

OK, I just did some testing, and it was not exactly what I was expecting. For one, it's kind of hard to intentionally use a lot of memory. The best thing I found was opening a large amount of tabs in Firefox. I maybe could increase my swap space, but I never hung my system up. I shut down the vm and used about 18 gig of ram. I then started the vm.

The deal is, Stacer isn't exactly accurate when the VM starts. For some reason, memory usage (on Stacer) drops when the vm starts up. Checking the system resource monitor, memory usage briefly jumped to 28 gig in it. It never reflected this on Stacer. However, without the full 16 gig of ram allocated to the vm, Windows boots up, and then shuts back down after a brief period.

I stopped and started Windows numerous times. It would actually make Linux stutter as the memory maxed out, but it never froze up to the point I had to reboot to fix it.

The swap space did about max out during some of this. I do think I will increase the swap space a little.