If you don’t want to give the sever away (including the ability to use it) then don’t shut it down or otherwise make the game unplayable.

We are reasonably confident that mathematical limitations apply to both the inner and outer universe. However they don’t understand the mathematical limitations enough to understand how little they matter. Pi is pi everywhere - that doesn’t change anything.

There are truths we can’t prove true - again it doesn’t say anything about all the other trues we can prove.

Cage is not what I want from a kiosk. I want window management, I just want a few fixed windows in fixed positions. Sometimes I want to rotate between a few windows. I’m running Magicmirror now which gives what I want, but it is too slow and too locked into the everything is a web app model.

I’m sure the likes of Bambu will never support this, but lots of other makes likely will. Some will jump all in right away (it is cheap and a useful feature for their customers), others will jump in when forced. Some of the cheap ones will never jump in because that is $.50 they don’t want to spend.

I have a pi3 with a 20" touchscreen that I’m using. Raspbian booting to magic mirror. It works, but Magic Mirror is slow bloated/slow that I’m not happy with it. I’m about ready to make my own QT based signage - I suspect it will be much more performant as well as more flexible. Still it is a lot of work and so I hesitate to bother (even if version one could be done in a day - I have enough other projects).

Paychack to paycheck is about your spending. Until you get well over a million per year you will find more to spend your money on than you make. Odds are if you look hard you can find someone make less than you who still manages to live.

the above isn’t all bad. You should save for a rainy day and retirement - but not too much. You can’t take it with you when you die (a few religions disagree - if you believe in one disregaurd this) so you should plan to spend it all before die. You don’t know how long you will live so try to spend most of your paycheck.

there is nothing wrong with wanting more. you have already got good advice about college. just be prepared it won’t suddenly make you have more than you spend, that requires a different life change.

mostly a lot of work. If you can’t do it yourself then hire someone - for a quatrer million per year.

that of course is why nobody does it- those who try can get bored before they get far. Or they get a day job and run out of time.

When I was in germany a few years ago I’m sure I came off as a monolingual person - none of the people tried to speak spanish to me though to they have no idea I can - and I didn’t get any much needed practice.

FreeBSD - it won’t be easy, but I’ve been a BSD guy at heart for decades… You will learn a lot and eventually be able to create better systems, but it will be years before you should risk putting anything important on a system - as a noob you have a lot to learn the hard way. Once you think you know FreeBSD you should try the other BSDs, and things like gentoo linux: you will really learn how this works.

You can follow the advice of the others and get a system going sooner. It isn’t a wrong choice, but you won’t learn as much and if something doesn’t work the way you want you are stuck since you can’t dare change anything. As such I have to advice against it despite all the time/effort my advice will cost you.

You can start with used but modern x86 - the n100 line - has very low power usage and will long term be a better investment. A pi is about the same cost once you get the accessories needed and uses as much power to get work done, but can do less work. (If the computers are idel the pi wins)

Not when the target is expected to know that. Spelling it out is for when the reader might not know.

I had found that. A lot of projects are early releases that have not been touched in years - is that because they are stable or because the author gave up before making them useful? Which is why I want not a list but an opinion from someone else doing this.

What local print shops do you have access to. For many paying the $1/page they charge is cheaper than a printer, but if you print a lot that would be 100 times more expensive. The question then is what do the locals offer and how much is the convience of your own worth. Thus find those options first - they might change your requirement when you discover what they can do for you. Color and large sheets are the most likely places you can go cheap. They also likely have quantity discounts to large jobs go to them.

Maybe. if you can get it under UTV\ATV rules. I’m not sure what those are but you get a loteof options. It wouldn’t be street leagal, butiin some cases you can drive on a road between off road trails - check local laws. If you want to sell this have your lawyers look as theremay be other exceptions - could you call this a farm vehicle if you add some accessory?

Good for you. Just don’t forget that money saved when you die was wasted time at work when you could have retired early. Of course you don’t know how long you will live so some leftover is guarenteed - but don’t overdo it (unless work is you life I guess)

I don’t think you would feel wealthy at that level. You would quickly find many things to spend the extra money on and so you would still be just as short at the end of the month. You wouldn’t notice a bigger house, nicer car (the most likely things to spend the money on), or whatever else you buy. You might save a little more, but you would find plenty to spending money on - just like everyone else.

The worse case would be if you income suddenly jumps that much - the vast majority who that happens to spend more than the change thinking they don’t have to worry.

At some point everyone does hit a limit where they no longer can think of anything more to spend money on. That point is different for everyone, but I suggest it is probably more than 10 million/year. (even your big name CEOs mostly don’t make that much!)

Thanks for the reminder, I need to do that again.

They exist, but hard to find. Most people doing this are hobbyists doing the conversion for their own fun. They might help you with your project but for liability reasons they are just helping.

A V8 has a lot of low RPM torque so if you drive with a light foot it can do very well. Most of the energy from an engine is used moving the car, not engine losses. A smaller engine is always going to do better at the same load, but the difference isn’t going to be large if everything else is equal (which it often isn’t)

Most people who are cheap enough to do without the amenities still want them and so will buy a used car with all the amenities over a new car at the same price without.