I put in my 2 weeks the other day. It lasted less than 8 months but they were miserable ones.

I don’t have any alternatives lined up yet, hoping to switch into something devops.

I mostly like my LG tv, and it’s nice that I can use it without agreeing to their T&C or logging in. It does really piss me off that if I wanted to change picture settings (brightness, color, etc) I’d have to turn their adware settings back on.

Nothing wrong with well water as long as it’s clean. In the US, it’s not like you’re actually hauling/pumping it by hand. You dig the well deep enough and let natural pressure do the work or you install an electric pump.

You can host docker volumes over NFS, but the actual container images need to exist on a filesystem that supports overlay (which NFS does not) unless you want things to be slow as shit. And I really do mean miserably slow. A container image shared over NFS will take forever to spin up because it has to duplicate the entire container filesystem instead of using overlays, and then it’ll blow up your disk usage by copying all these files around instead of overlaying them. It’s truly unusable.

As someone who has seen Murnau’s Nosferatu quite a few times, I appreciated Eggers’ ending. The original really kinda ends when Hutter returns home. You get a couple of comedic scenes with Knock causing a ruckus in town, but basically the plague is a backdrop and Ellen just stumbles into discovering Orlock’s defeat. Then it’s over.

Meanwhile, Eggers added a real sense of dread and drama to Wisborg’s plague. The physical + mental toll of the plague is reflected in a more interesting way.

I did get taken out of the moment briefly at the end:

From that same discussion thread:

We plan on supporting any token/nft/coin for tipping, awards, curating, less captchas, etc. Each subplebbit owner should be able to create their own tokens or nfts to monetize their effort and incentivize their users to participate. Avatars will also be curated NFTs.

The protocol does not use blockchain for data, but the web service itself looks like it would use crypto and NFT to manage aspects of user identity, spam prevention, and monetary incentive.

There’s a JTAG port in the base of the cortex for pushing firmware updates. Problem is, we lost the signing keys back in the neolithic. Thag got crushed by a mammoth before we had a chance to invent written language and write documentation.

A puffball won’t blow you away in the taste department, but they have a good texture. Maybe good foragers can afford to pass them by, but I’m not a good forager.

Actually made me sad this summer: There was a big puffball growing on a neighbor’s lawn. Knocked on the door to ask if we could take it, and they said to let it stay so they could see how large it got. Then they never picked it and I had to watch it rot away.

This is the way.

Sliced, breaded, and fried puffball makes an excellent fried chicken alternative for food like sandwiches or pasta dishes. I’m always a fan of puffball parm.

Sometimes the freeze might be in the display manager. Eg xorg or your wayland compositor has crashed.

In that case, you can use keyboard controls to change tty and fall back to a text interface. I think it’s ctrl + alt + Fn$number, where $number will correspond to the tty you want. Most graphical sessions launch on tty2, so you would use crtl + alt + F1 to switch to tty1.

From there you can log in and use terminal commands to launch a new gui session, or to try and debug what went wrong. Generally, I’ve only had freezing issues on Linux when my GPU is dying. There was also a period where my work computer didn’t have enough swap space. It would freeze whenever I tried to compile code during a video call.

I can go to China, buy a book full of propaganda, fly to the USA, and read it with no issue.

I can tune my radio to a shortwave broadcast from Mexico, and there’s not a damn thing the FCC will do to stop me.

I don’t even fucking like TikTok. It’s an amalgam of all the worst dark patterns developed by corporate social media. Of course, nobody in government gives a fuck when Zuck does the exact same thing. I think it really comes down to the fact that as a foreign company, ByteDance can’t play the same election fundraising games that American companies do.

'Es shot? Dump eet.

I used to browse certain subreddits for negativity bait. Eventually I decided that I didn’t want to immerse myself in a negative mindset so often.

The trick for me was to recognize those moments when I was on auto-pilot and navigating to those spaces because I was bored and it was a reflex. I would remind myself that I know it’s bad for me, and then force myself to do literally anything else. Go to some other website. Vacuum the floor. Put on some music and go for a walk. Eventually I lost that reflexive instinct, and now I have no desire to go back to those places.

I’m not going to pretend that what worked for me will work for anyone else, nor will I say that I’m now a better person for avoiding those spaces. I’ve probably replaced that habit with an equally pointless one, it’s just nice to not always view things from the context of tearing others down.

Eh, maybe. Back during feudalism, emancipation of serfs was also considered theft from the nobles who owned the land (and thus the serfs who worked it).

Sometimes governments implemented programs to reimburse the nobles for losing “their” serfs, and sometimes not. Now that we’re a couple centuries removed from that drama, we generally accept that the destruction of feudalism was a good thing, regardless of whether it was theft.

There used to be a similar bug in the Roku jellyfin app.

If you can recreate the subtitle issue using test file 5 from this repo, it might be worth submitting a bug report. https://github.com/ietf-wg-cellar/matroska-test-files

Just use docker/podman containers: They’re way easier to use and correctly configure than jails.

Podman quadlets will even spin up containers as systemd services. You could automatically assign solitary confinement containers to new inmates on the fly.

No. 404 media is written by people. I’ve personally been impressed by their reporting over the last year.

You could use your SDR to record yourself on a random simplex frequency instead of the repeater. Dial down your transmit power to minimum so you’re not blasting everyone. After all you only need the signal to reach your SDR. Key up, start with your callsign and announce a microphone test. Then say a short sentence or two while listening to your SDR.

Choose a clear frequency that’s slightly off from national simplex and I think you’ll be fine.

Looks like a briar pipe of some kind. I don’t really know my pipes but I think it could be a churchwarden or a sherlock style.

There are plenty of online shops that would sell similar pipes. It’s a question of how close to the photo you want it to be. I think a high quality briar pipe can run a few hundred dollars. However, you should be able to get something for 30-80 USD if you look at entry-level options.

I sometimes enjoy smoking from my long stemmed 18th century replica clay pipes, which I purchased from pipeshoppe.com. Historically, clay pipes were cheap to produce and somewhat disposable. Even today a fancier clay pipe can be had for <50 USD. However, their current selection of wooden pipes is a bit sparse so you’d have to look elsewhere to match what’s in the photo.

I always assumed that it was to quickly delineate what people say in their capacity as a citizen vs what they say in their capacity as a representative of their government.

“Sarah Carter, from the Canadian embassy, says to avoid the all-you-can-eat buffet” could be interpreted as a personal opinion. “Canada says to avoid the all-you-can-eat buffet” is clearly an official statement.

Plus, sometimes the news may be reporting on a memo or announcement from a government entity which was crafted by several people and has no author listed.