yet another small town famous for the wrong reasons

I found out how to close vim but I could never quit

I forced myself to learn vi around 1995 by making it the default editor in pine. Since I was using pine for email and newgroups it was sink or swim. The first couple of days were rough …

The randomness of mod assignment could be a good thing. A mod with no subject matter expertise (real or imagined) would be less likely to be biased by their personal opinion.

I’d probably set up a separate channel and publish there. Let others know it exists and they can add it to their setup if they want. It’d still be affecting airtime but not spraying the default public channel.

testilying

zero self-awareness

It doesn’t feel like it was made with the idea of being anything more than a clean product that gets the job done

I mean, “clean product that gets the job done” is fine with me. Let people theme/customize and it’s win-win IMO.

it paid $6.3 million in sales tax to the agency but received $1.9 million worth in services.

Hard to argue with their decision from a financial POV.

I spent over 100k sats on 2 pieces of landfill trash

Was this money that would have otherwise been spent on psychiatric meds?

What’s the point of it all?

He’s obsessed with the delusion that only he can make deals. Only the best deals, the likes of which no one has seen before. Strong deals. 'Uge. Bigly deals.

I am reminded of the quote that “a clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower”.

What does this mean in nontechnical speak?

Sorry, that section was unclear and I have edited it to clarify. A normal LoRa board one would buy for mesh purposes usually has easy connection points for common connection types: usb, battery, antenna, etc. Some may not. In the case that you want to add or change a connector soldering would be the way that’s done.

Does that mean it’s possible to build radio receivers by ordering the parts and assembling them yourself, Ikea style? If yes, then how can I go about doing this?

Depends on what you mean by “build radio receivers”

• The LoRa boards that work with Meshcore/Meshtastic are so cheap and plentiful that folks usually just buy the board and assemble it in the case of their choice with battery, antenna, etc, of their choosing. {Most boards available at retail have factory-installed connectors for easy attachment but in some cases one might need to solder.}
• you might mean “build a LoRa board from components” but a person who could do that probably wouldn’t be asking the question <- not trying to be a jerk, can’t think of another way to put it pre-coffee.

{edited to reword section about pins}

They do this by running a script/app that sends the user’s comment history to OpenAI with the question “analyze this content for evidence of specific political ideology sentiment.

To me the problem is what they are looking for not how they are doing it. Thought experiment: in what way would it be qualitatively different if they hired a team of people in Upper Elbonia to do the same thing?

vi, since it’s ubiquitous.

apt just quietly “keeps back” the package. It doesn’t fail, it doesn’t break the system, and it doesn’t trigger a rollback. It just waits for me to notice. Since I wasn’t looking at the list of upgradable packages

Depends on what quietly means. To me it means “with no indication”. Any written warning is quiet, I guess, if one is not reading it.

I prefer it over stock debian and normal mint.

I normally run debian but I ran LMDE for a couple years and thought it was nice.

timebanks

For those interested in the idea, Skinner’s Walden Two describes a community with a form of time-banking. Everyone’s time is valued equally but less desirable* jobs accrue credit faster.

• the ones that people aren’t signing up for.

In 2024 the state committed $750 million in low-interest loans to help Corpus Christi develop a seawater desalination project, which the city then canceled in 2025

[insert meme of shoving stick into own bicycle spokes]

Andy is my least favorite thing about Meshcore.

For simple read-only: one could set up Calibre to pull RSS feeds or other resources and convert to ebooks. Sync to ereader and enjoy. Delete after reading or archive at will.