I love those two…eeerr…demons…more than anything else!! 
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Those are Shisa1. The traditional protectors of households and places in Okinawa, Japan. The left one is the female of the pair, and she has her mouth closed to keep the good kami (spirits) in. The right one is the male of the pair, and he has his mouth open to scare away the evil kami. I bought them when I was living there, and they have been under my computer monitor ever since.
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My T14 got a separate /home drive today:
And after installation:
[tim@paladin ~]$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
nvme0n1 259:0 0 953.9G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 200M 0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 650G 0 part /
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 303.7G 0 part
nvme1n1 259:4 0 476.9G 0 disk
└─nvme1n1p1 259:5 0 476.9G 0 part /home
root@paladin:/# df -h / /home
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p2 639G 14G 593G 3% /
/dev/nvme1n1p1 469G 3.1G 442G 1% /home
Still need to reboot into a live environment so I can get rid of the partition on nvme0 that WAS /home
Kinda surprising to me given that I have a Kingspec m.2 SATA drive that is BY FAR the fastest SATA drive I’ve ever used, but the performance on this is abysmal for an NVMe drive. Better than SATA still…but not good. But it WAS cheap for a 512 GB NVMe, and it is a 2242 dramless in the WWAN slot (pcie 3.0x2), so couldn’t be THAT fantastic at best. Still, good enough for me, doubly given the price I paid.
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My beloved Zowie EC1-A halfway died a few days back, and I’ve been searching like a madman for a replacement.
Initially I wanted a wireless, but no wireless mouse really has a shape like the EC1-A. I have rather big hands and I like ergonomic non-mirrored designs - so I jumped back to wired mice.
The new EC1 looks great, but it’s clear Zowie no longer runs the ‘mouse game’ the way they used to. Many cheaper mice simply offer better performance. Exept for the shape. That darn shape.
I remember when I first got the EC1-A, after many years of “computer hiatus” using laptops, that I specifically liked the Zowie because it looked like my old timer favorite mouse: The Microsoft Intellimouse 3.0.
Boy, I had atleast three or four of those. CRT screens, CS 1.6 and smoking inside during lans. Those were the days - and can you believe it, Microsoft recently released a revision!!
So right now I’m really excited to receive my new Intellimouse Pro and have a full “Chewie, we’re home” moment 
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New desk
Manual height adjustable from Amazon. Was going to go with a Husky workbench like @MrToddarama but the local HD’s can’t figure out whether they have them, and with how my last online order from them went, wasn’t willing to order it from them. This is a bit smaller with a thinner desktop, but it holds my monitor mount fine.
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Just out of curiosity, is there any specific reason why you have opted for such a big partition for root?
Yes, the reason being that’s the size of the drive. /boot/efi is the size it needs to be, /home is on an entirely separate drive, ergo…/ is all that’s left since this isn’t a server, so /var /usr etc. have no point in being separate partitions.
Yeah, but considering no matter how many packages “almost literally” you will be installing, you would never come anywhere close to filling up that root partition, to me it looks like “waste” of disk space.
It’s a waste of disk space regardless of what I do with it. Anything more than a 64GB drive is going to be wasted because I simply don’t keep that much information on my local systems. A few I keeep some VM’s, but even THOSE are still rarely more than 256GB used in total. However, the plateau for performance is now at 1TB, and that happens to also corresponds with the best price/GB currently, so I purchase 1TB SSD’s.
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You could shrink that root partition from a live USB and use the freed up space for storage if you would like to.
Yeah, but store what? I have a 12TB NAS at my house that keeps all my backups, music, movies, etc. I literally have no use for local storage beyond configuration files, and the few games I keep on there.
So, how bad am I at collecting stuff? Here’s my disk usage on my NAS, yeah, it feels useless most days:
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Right!
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You could develop a habit of keeping some space for adding another distro (for testing, or playing or…). Yes, that’s how I ended up with my multi-boots! 
you can also test alternative file systems in that space!
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Testing other distro’s is why I have…ummm…more laptops than is actually necessary (ok, it might have ballooned up to 8 currently, 9 if you count the Chromebook). 
Other filesystems I have no need to test. Until some filesystem comes along that’s more mature and stable than ext4, I’m sticking to ext4. Given my usage, all the fluffery that things like btrfs give you are utterly useless to me. f2fs is interesting, but nowhere NEAR stable and tested enough for me to touch with a 15’ pole yet.
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I’ve been trying it some on the nvme drives for a couple of distros - no difficulties yet. Also, I use ZFS for the data drive setup - as it IS better than ext4! Otherwise, completely understandable - ext4 is surprisingly capable (and tested!) and compares well against almost any feature set in the alternatives I’ve seen…
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Lamy Fanboy here…
So ya, I know.
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As we are coming upon the “oh god it is fscking hot” season in Thailand, our air conditioning unit in the bedroom decided to give up the ghost. So instead of purchasing the sink for the kitchen we are building, we had to buy a new air conditioner.
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Thailand don’t have a winter season this time of year? You are on the northern hemispehere, aren’t you?
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Thailand is in the northern hemisphere, but is pretty close to the equator. They’re closer to the equator than I am in Phoenix, and we’re already hitting 90*F here.
I am sorry but it is hard for me to relate when yesterday I had to endure that annoying snowing here in central Europe. 
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