The old hauppage TV tuner cards work great with Linux. I actually have some old-school hauppage (old 4:3 TV signal) tuner cards and they work great under a modern Ubuntu install. I also use a couple of hdhomerun units (which do hd) and they don’t really require drivers and also work fantastically with Linux. With Linux the drivers are (mostly) part of the kernel. If they don’t work, it usually means that they’re very new. Linux driver support is leaps and bounds better than any windows support, which is usually discontinued and forgotten about.because the companies go out of business and have closed-source drivers. Linux drivers are open source and if they don’t work, the community fixes them even if the company goes under or hasn’t been around for decades.

Windows 11 isn’t even backwards-compatible with 7-year-old CPUs! Run a 32-bit or 16-bit (dos) exe on Win11/x64? Think again. Windows drivers are always a pain in the butt. Load up an old driver for your favorite peripheral? Probably won’t work.

I’d only use sshfs if there’s no other alternative. Like if you had to copy over a slow internet link and sync wasn’t available.

NFS is fine for local network filesystems. I use it everywhere and it’s great. Learn to use autos and NFS is just automatic everywhere you need it.

Your FBI agent has been assigned to you. His name is Jeff.

Nvidia is gonna get the lion share of that $500bn, you know… Don’t be stupid.

Big lasagna and some flowers and emphasize that they’re for her. Tell her that you are a good shoulder to cry on if she needs it. Call her at home after a week and maybe after 2 weeks and say that you’re just checking that she’s ok.