VisionFive 2 isn't going to blow the doors off anything but it is very stable with Fedora 40. Also, I can't speak for the Mars, but the VisionFive 2 has NVME and it works fine booting from it with the patches that were accepted for 6.11.
Hopefully it does well and we see some newer versions of the board.
VisionFive2 is one of the better riscv boards at the moment. It's not super fast, but it can boot from sd card at least from 6.8. No PCI-E so most the USB is absent, as is NVME, etc. There are patches to get all that going that apply neatly to 6.9 and If I'm not wrong they've been accepted for 6.11, so it's on the way. u-boot is all set. and grub 2.12 works fine. you can u-boot -> grub 2.12 efi -> linux just fine. It won't break any speed records, but it is a nice stable riscv device with upstream support landing.
2017 Pixelbook with Fedora is a great machine. As the deadline was encroaching for updates (before it was extended) I converted my partners as well, and she's perfectly happy with it.
I was never a Cage fan. Most of my exposure was my SO quoting Moonstruck, which admittedly he is entertaining in. Then I saw this list a time ago and have since watched several of them. Most of the ones I've watched have not been a disappointment and he's really grown on me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/ffyvir/nicolas_cage_made_29_directtovideo_movies_in_the/
I do like B movies and mst3k stuff, so maybe I'm not the person to be recommending movies, but having said that:
Mandy and Color Out of Space are my favorites. Mandy is nightmare fuel incarnate and I love every minute of it. Color Out of Space comes in a close second. Mom and Dad is amusing, as is Willy's Wonderland (not on the list above, https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/willys_wonderland) where Cage doesn't say anything through the entire movie.
Pig is good, but sad. I don't like to watch it. I didn't love Joe, just unfun as the page above says. Jiu Jitsu was trash, I think also came along after the list above.
He and Pedro Pascal are great in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
Chips in brains controlling people makes me think of Syndicate Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrruSboN1bQ
There was a weapon in the game you could use to take control of people too. https://syndicate.lubiki.pl/swars/html/swars_weapons_early.php#persuadertron
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I lost all respect for the DD-WRT devs a little over a year ago when I hit some problems with my routers rekeying wireless clients. I used to update weekly and so it was pretty easy to narrow down the exact build that broke it and flash back and forth to confirm. Rather than even admit there might be a problem they started making ridiculous claims that my neighbor must be attacking my network. I've seen posts as recent as ~two weeks ago where people are still trying to get them to acknowledge a problem even exists let alone do something about it.
I started using pfsense for my router and stock firmware on wifi routers in ap mode behind it. I've filed a few bugs against pfsense. They've all been addressed, so while it wasn't the cheapest switch ever I've been satisfied thus far.
If curious https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=334737 is a newer thread someone started about the issue.
I got my Amateur Extra and my girlfriend went and got hers and she bought a KX2. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised since she likes hiking and camping so much. She's been working on her tent and radio setup and bought a super light antenna mast she can put up in a few minutes. We need to get some time, and things need to cool off a bit, but we'll have some fun for sure. I have enjoyed listening to people making contacts on the ISS and satellites overhead via amsat; it blows my mind these little things are bouncing signals around: https://spacecomms.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/just-launched-ao-91-will-be-a-great-bird/
Slow scan TV and digital stuff like FT-8 bouncing literally around the world are fun to play with at home too.