The problem with a beginner using NixOS is that it teaches them, well, NixOS. Using just about any other distro will teach them transferrable skills; i.e. suffering , until they embrace ansible;)
Unless that other distro is Guix, in which case Stall man smiles upon you and I wish you the best with your ultra libre Pentium machine.
The article linked above seems to roughly agree:
Earlier this year, Ms. Hochul committed $1.5 billion in state aid for a host of municipal services. The state budget, which has not yet been finalized, is also expected to include a host of policy changes and revenue increases that will funnel another $4 billion to the city over the next two years.
The largest share — about $2.3 billion over two years — is expected to come from the city’s delaying certain pension payments, a change that requires state approval and buy-in from municipal unions.
The mayor and governor also expect another half-billion dollars to flow from the new tax surcharge on second homes worth more than $5 million that Ms. Hochul recently announced. But the city comptroller recently argued that number might be overly optimistic, and New York City’s byzantine property valuation system means that the new tax would come with substantial implementation challenges.
The city is expected to save another $1 billion over two years from several changes, including the state’s expected agreement to delay a class-size mandate in public schools (despite Mr. Mamdani’s support for the mandate as a candidate); more school aid from the state; and the assumption by the state of a larger share of death benefits for families of police officers, firefighters and emergency medical workers.
Obviously spin is how the electron feels about being observed
Personally I have never had an issue with the build quality. I think that's more of a reviewer gripe than a real world issue.
They occasionally have great sales too. I've seen prebuilds for $650 with previous gen boards. With the pro launch I wouldn't be surprised to see prices for the older models drop over the next month or two.
It's bigger in both dimensions.
Great, now how about action against the murderers caught on film.
That's fair. Once you understand some basics though it's not too bad. There's a UI just like any router you might already be used to. The most confusing part for someone who is new to this would probably be setting up the VM hardware plumbing, and understanding that a passthrough means that hardware is unavailable to the host.
If you want a dedicated device, sure. Image it with OPNSense and it'll basically just work.
You can also take any desktop you already have, fire up an OPNSense VM, pcie passthrough your WAN NIC + WiFi card, bridge to a separate LAN NIC, go through the setup, and there's your router.
How are "public shareable links" handled? Are you just saying links generate nicely when your version is exposed on the www or is there some kind of centralized back door for public access?
Shamelessly stolen from reddit.
Obligatory actual direct link (it's just a common sense subdomain): noai.duckduckgo.com