Loving this new series from James Corey. I know the latest book just came out but what are folks' thoughts on it? Use spoiler tags for those who haven't finished it yet!

I'll admit I was rather ignorant growing up and the first time I had a conversation with someone and I pronounced Iran as "I ran" everyone roasted the shit outta me and shut me down, which like fair whatever. But my point is the pronunciation is secondary if you get the concept; that's kinda the point of language and accents in general. If we have to pronounce every country or place as its residents call it then we should roast and ignore every English speaker that says "Germany" instead of Deutschland.

I'm looking for a USB-C docking station for the days I work from home and possibly to hook up my personal laptop too. These machines are an M1 MacBook Pro and a Framework 13 running LMDE, respectively.

The docking station must:

1. Connect to the laptop via a USB-C cable of at least 3ft/1m in length. Critical as I am trying to hide the dock beneath my desk.
2. Have two HDMI/Display Port outputs.
3. At least one USB 3 Type A port, to connect to my KVM.
4. At least one USB-C port for power supply. (idc about data for this port)

Bonus if it has Ethernet and/or Micro SD card support too, but not necessary.

For some reason, I can't find anything matching 2-4 while having a cable longer than about 1ft. Is there some technical limit to USB-C cables preventing a dock from matching all the above criteria?

SPOILERS FOR ALL OF SEASON 3

::: spoiler Spoiler So what did you think of this season? My personal take was that they should've left it at the end of season 2. I was so frustrated with all the decisions of pretty much every character. Why did Usagi ultimately decide to go back without so much as a word to her husband? No offense to Arisu, but why would he chase after her upon seeing her run off with the professor dude. Why does the professor so desperately want to experience death?? Especially after the trauma he experienced of accidentally killing a student? And who the HELL approved that experiment!?!? /rant :::

Police stand idly by as a man forces his way into a Chantilly, VA, USA family's home without identifying himself or serving a warrant. The husband of 20 years is kidnapped, driven around for hours, before finally being deported to Honduras.

I'm currently using Beeper to conglomerate the plethora of chat services that my friends and family use: WhatsApp, FB Messenger, RCS/SMS, and Discord. I use Signal separately because I read that Beeper needs to decrypt incoming messages before reencrypting and routing, so I felt adding a bridge for Signal defeated the purpose of using Signal.

I've also read that Beeper is essentially just Matrix with a bunch of bridges, so I looked into self-hosting Matrix and standing up those bridges myself. I would feel comfortable integrating Signal into a self-hosted instance where I control and can encrypt the middleware.

What would you all recommend as a viable, self-hosted alternative to replace Beeper? I've been trying to set up Matrix but running into a lot of headache with no simple way to self-host it. Yes, I've tried the Ansible set up and I get countless issues. I've heard an XMPP server might be a better solution as it is more lightweight and battle-tested? How do XMPP gateways compare to Matrix bridges, and would they cover all my needs?

Anyone know of a good Android client for music on jellyfin? I'm currently using finamp but would like a client that works with Android Auto and can sort/filter playlists

Hey all.

I've booted Linux Mint Debian Edition and Arch on to a couple old machines including my old laptops. The performance is still rather brutal because these machines are so old and their battery lives are rough. They are also bulky and uncomfortable to carry around.

So, I've been thinking about getting a more modern laptop and putting Linux on it but I've been out of the laptop market for so long now I have no idea what's good and what's not anymore. Any recommendations?

I think I've heard decent things about Chromebooks but how's the hardware of those? Are they relatively locked down and don't play nice with Linux? I'm just looking for a machine for daily use (browser, light coding, remote connecting to my desktop for heavier stuff)

Thanks in advance

EDIT: Thank you to everyone for responding, I did not expect so much discussion! I've certainly changed my mind on Chromebooks and will look into the options recommended below in the coming months. Thanks!