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For us slow kids in the back, can you link to a .ISO-file of your favorite Debian?

Ubuntu found me (finally, with the tutorialhelp of a localLLM) in 2026, and I don't trust most of the opt-outs.

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You are kidding, are you not? https://www.debian.org/download

Guy who can set up a local LLM but not navigate to debian.org

Times are changing! Remember when it was easy to set up WiFi, but difficult to call your doctor and get an appointment?

Now my friends don't have trouble calling doctors, but can't set up port forwarding (not like any games require it anymore).

In the US, my experience is that it's more difficult than ever to get an appointment with a doctor.

Here in NL as well. I attribute it to population ageing (babyboom generation), but AFAIK that issue is much less severe in USA than other countries which suffered in WWII. China is going to have the issue severe due to the one child policy. That population is going to get reduced a lot (not taking into account migration).

In my EU country, making an appointment got extra steps asking about one's mental state, namely depression or loneliness. One wonders if this age of social atomization, people (probably mostly those elderly) are making unnecessary appointments just to have someone to talk to.

That may be part of it but my guess is that since patients tend not to proactively mention depression and loneliness to their doctor, the doctor's office wants to know in advance whether they should be referring you to a mental health specialist.

Local minecraft server definitely requires port forwarding at the router... as I've learned to my chagrin that Starlink doesn't support port forwarding... Goodbye self hosted minecraft. Did it for nearly a decade and cannot anymore.

If you're gaming friends can use it, IPv6 should work.

>can't set up port forwarding

After October 2026, nobody should be port-forwarding IMHO.

I am next to learn about the "tailscale options" of this new world.

Wish us all luck.

Why not?

See: October 2026 had 3% of all online security exploits (at least) published.

"Tailscale" is the modern upgrade for exposing localhosts to the world; I do not know how to implement this, but after last month I no longer port forward for crypto/gaming servers (after decades of doing-so with zero [detected] intrusions), and intend to learn more about the topic.

I just wanted a human recommendation; don't trust the LLMs at all.

Thanks for the link (above).

The other day, I sent a friend a link to my project. He asked, “When can I use it?”

I was confused because the project was already available, with detailed setup instructions, an `llms.txt`, and everything else needed to get started.

Then he showed me a screenshot of him asking ChatGPT about it. Apparently, ChatGPT was using some outdated cached information or something, because it gave him a wall of text explaining that the project was still “coming soon” and wasn't ready to use.

If he'd just opened the landing page, he would've seen that the project was already available.

There literally is a huge "Download" button on the debian.org homepage linking directly to the ISO. Is it even possible to make it easier?

Honestly didn't even know if it was something [genericized, or specific?] like "fedora" or "ZFS" (where there are multiple wrappers of it) so thanks for all the help from everyone.

Now I have learnt something.

Try here...

https://distrowatch.org/index.php?distribution=debian&releas...

Thank you for this human recommendation.

I am definitely still learning.

seriously? how'd you set a local LLM up if you don't know how to figure that out?

By using a LLM, maybe ?

While I have your attention, can you constrast this human comment with your [presumably] human-derived username?

–ProbablyNotMachines

seriously: I am a bluecollar electrician that has absolutely no clue what I am doing. I have several machines because I constantly >BRICK< OSes...

As I only really learn visually (i.e. I love GUI environments), LLMs have enabled me to (quite dangerously, I might re-enforce) finally explore Linux (from MacOS for ~40 years).

I have tried for a long time (to adopt any Linux) – the fact that an LLM also won't be a sassyb when asking simple questions... is one reason I am so comfortable with my/our future(s).

you aren't exploring anything if you have no idea what you're doing! you're playing pretend while not actually doing or learning anything. what's the point?

Isn’t that exactly what exploring is?

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