So long as you're using the spinning rust hdds, the noise of the CPU cooler won't make much difference. Mind you, this PC will be a bit too loud for the living room like this.
If you're already going for spinning rust hard disks, why limit yourself to the 3 TB ones? IMHO, these days, spinning rust only makes sense at 8 TB+ per disk.
They were technically shipped internationally, but it was within the EU. The appropriate websites by my own government tell me I don't need a phytosanitary certificate in this case.
Though, to be honest, none of this would have even crossed my mind if you hadn't pointed it out.
For basil? Nothing special. Fill a 12cm pot with standard potting mix, sprinkle some basil seeds on top, top that up with a very thin layer of fine soil (minus the larger particles), water, place on window sill, wait. Once they start sprouting, I like to remove a few sprouts to keep it to maybe 2 to 3 plants per pot. No need to repot basil, but you may want to repeat the process every other month if you want a steady supply. I found that basil grows much bigger and stronger outside in the sun than on the window sill, but unless you need a lot, that's not really necessary.
Well, I've only got the climate right here to work with, which is very much not tropical… but I suppose I can just bring them inside once it gets a bit chilly.
I'm currently maintaining a laptop with kubuntu (for someone else), and I honestly cannot recommend it.
They have kind of messed up the updates in their Plasma flavor, Discover routinely just fails to do the updates with a completely meaningless error message. I suspect the underlying issue is lock contention with the background service "unattended-upgrades.service", but I'm not sure, because, again, that error message is ridiculously unhelpful. Also, said unattended-upgrades service does not seem to actually be doing any upgrades.
On the last install, also, the attempt to upgrade from Ubuntu 24 to 26.04 LTS, the upgrade failed in a spectacularly fashion that left the system mostly bricked in ways that could only be solved by a fresh reinstall. During the process, a few error messages made it look like the problem was hardware faults on the SSD, except when I then tested the SSD from a rescue disk using dd, smartctl, and iotester from https://github.com/guidow/iotester, I could find absolutely no indication of any faults on that drive whatsoever…
Granted my opinion on kubuntu may be a bit colored, because right this moment, I'm quite frustrated with it.
Also, installing massively important software like Firefox or Thunderbird through snaps instead of packaging them properly is just asinine.
Unfortunately, your existing /home and the ntfs partitions you could remove are in completely non-contiguous regions, so you cannot easily just combine the space. If I were you, I would switch to LVM piece-meal. Ideally, you'd have some other medium were you can temporarily store the current contents of /home while your repartition the drive. Then combine sda2 and sda7 into a volume group and pull just one logical volume out of it for the new /home.
Otherwise, create a new volume group with only sda2 in it (just overwrite the existing ntfs filesystem) using vgcreate, create a logical on top of that using lvcreate, make a filesystem in that using mkfs.ext4, I would add the -m 0 parameter for a non-root filesystem, mount that somewhere under /mnt/, move or copy over all the contents from /home to that mountpoint, taking care to replicate file owners and permissions (I would just use cp -a), then once this is done (and you've double-checked that it is because at the next step you can lose data if you're not careful), umount /home, extend the volume group to include sda7 using vgextend, enlarge the logical volume for the new /home to the maximum using lvresize, enlarge the ext4 filesystem in there to the maximum possible using resize2fs, finally editing /etx/fstab to use that new logical volume as /home and remounting /home.
This is so ugly it's impressive and amazing. But it is ugly.
The worst thing about it is the liberties they took with the layout. What the fuck is the Print Screen button doing in that place? Escape above the arrow keys, are you kidding me? Escape is in a very easy to find corner of the keyboard all on its own for a reason. And where is the right Ctrl button? No AltGr button?
Seriously, the Comic Sans and the baby toy color scheme are the least of the atrocities shown here.
You still don't need to turn the AC up to the point where some people start freezing.
IMHO, it's not the slightest bit unreasonable to just expect everybody in the office to be able to deal with any temperature between 20C (68F) and 24C (75F) without complaining.
So long as you're using the spinning rust hdds, the noise of the CPU cooler won't make much difference. Mind you, this PC will be a bit too loud for the living room like this.
If you're already going for spinning rust hard disks, why limit yourself to the 3 TB ones? IMHO, these days, spinning rust only makes sense at 8 TB+ per disk.
What, this one is ten years old already?
Damn.
They were technically shipped internationally, but it was within the EU. The appropriate websites by my own government tell me I don't need a phytosanitary certificate in this case.
Though, to be honest, none of this would have even crossed my mind if you hadn't pointed it out.
For basil? Nothing special. Fill a 12cm pot with standard potting mix, sprinkle some basil seeds on top, top that up with a very thin layer of fine soil (minus the larger particles), water, place on window sill, wait. Once they start sprouting, I like to remove a few sprouts to keep it to maybe 2 to 3 plants per pot. No need to repot basil, but you may want to repeat the process every other month if you want a steady supply. I found that basil grows much bigger and stronger outside in the sun than on the window sill, but unless you need a lot, that's not really necessary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil
A plant that sees heavy use in Italian cuisine, for pasta sauces, pizzas and pestos.
Sure, tomatoes, peppers, basil, carrots, garlic, lettuce…
The ones in the picture there. Camellia Sinensis.
Well, I've only got the climate right here to work with, which is very much not tropical… but I suppose I can just bring them inside once it gets a bit chilly.
Gnome is highly international, and has been for most of its existence.
I'm currently maintaining a laptop with kubuntu (for someone else), and I honestly cannot recommend it.
They have kind of messed up the updates in their Plasma flavor, Discover routinely just fails to do the updates with a completely meaningless error message. I suspect the underlying issue is lock contention with the background service "unattended-upgrades.service", but I'm not sure, because, again, that error message is ridiculously unhelpful. Also, said unattended-upgrades service does not seem to actually be doing any upgrades.
On the last install, also, the attempt to upgrade from Ubuntu 24 to 26.04 LTS, the upgrade failed in a spectacularly fashion that left the system mostly bricked in ways that could only be solved by a fresh reinstall. During the process, a few error messages made it look like the problem was hardware faults on the SSD, except when I then tested the SSD from a rescue disk using dd, smartctl, and iotester from https://github.com/guidow/iotester, I could find absolutely no indication of any faults on that drive whatsoever…
Granted my opinion on kubuntu may be a bit colored, because right this moment, I'm quite frustrated with it.
Also, installing massively important software like Firefox or Thunderbird through snaps instead of packaging them properly is just asinine.
How can Gandalf be younger than Legolas?
Unfortunately, your existing /home and the ntfs partitions you could remove are in completely non-contiguous regions, so you cannot easily just combine the space. If I were you, I would switch to LVM piece-meal. Ideally, you'd have some other medium were you can temporarily store the current contents of /home while your repartition the drive. Then combine sda2 and sda7 into a volume group and pull just one logical volume out of it for the new /home.
Otherwise, create a new volume group with only sda2 in it (just overwrite the existing ntfs filesystem) using
vgcreate, create a logical on top of that usinglvcreate, make a filesystem in that usingmkfs.ext4, I would add the-m 0parameter for a non-root filesystem, mount that somewhere under/mnt/, move or copy over all the contents from/hometo that mountpoint, taking care to replicate file owners and permissions (I would just usecp -a), then once this is done (and you've double-checked that it is because at the next step you can lose data if you're not careful),umount /home, extend the volume group to include sda7 usingvgextend, enlarge the logical volume for the new /home to the maximum usinglvresize, enlarge the ext4 filesystem in there to the maximum possible usingresize2fs, finally editing /etx/fstab to use that new logical volume as /home and remounting /home.Normal keyboards have a shift key on both sides. For good reasons.
Ha, I totally missed the missing shift key!
This is so ugly it's impressive and amazing. But it is ugly.
The worst thing about it is the liberties they took with the layout. What the fuck is the Print Screen button doing in that place? Escape above the arrow keys, are you kidding me? Escape is in a very easy to find corner of the keyboard all on its own for a reason. And where is the right Ctrl button? No AltGr button?
Seriously, the Comic Sans and the baby toy color scheme are the least of the atrocities shown here.
The nerd inside me automatically wants to correct that to
That avoids starting up one addidtional process.
(Unless the file already exists, and you just want to update its mtime, of course.)
I wouldn't want to put the air intakes of my Thinkpad directly on the grass like that. It's bound to suck in dirt.
What's that Dr Pepper clone called?
You still don't need to turn the AC up to the point where some people start freezing.
IMHO, it's not the slightest bit unreasonable to just expect everybody in the office to be able to deal with any temperature between 20C (68F) and 24C (75F) without complaining.