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I mean, maybe test the water supply? Odds are there’s something very wrong with it these days

They'll have to after it gets out they killed their kid, and someone beats the teeth out of their skulls

According to Cory Doctorow, Rupert Murdoch owned newspapers have made over 100 editorials attempting to smear Lina Khan at the FTC. A cursory google search seems to corroborate this assertion.

I'm inclined to agree that there's nothing 'election year' about these cases, and that real work is being done to claw back some measure of control from these monopolies.

No. Being valued at $39M is not a success story, it’s a mental disease.

The time it took you to write this would have been better spent reading the article:

Because Android isn’t technically “installed” on the Switch, but rather an external microSD card, you can switch between the default system and Lineage at any time.

Running Lineage is a big deal for those of us who have a switch laying around that no longer have a use for it.

• It can be an android tv device replacement
• Buy a $20 goose neck tablet mount, and now it's a way to play streamed steam games or use the android tv jellyfin client to watch/play stuff without using the main TV
• Bedside clock/radio with loads of extra features
• Dedicated HomeAssistant remote

Or, the basic use case - Play emulated games on a neat handheld package with a decent screen on a plane or something, without needing to carry or buy another device.

Chef Boyardee and Heinz Tinned Spaghetti.

If I’m doing a grocery shop alone, I can’t be trusted not to buy some. Sometimes I bring some home. Sometimes it doesn’t make it.

Oh yeah, I like it cold too. I know I’m a monster.

Newpipe has to be the choice for android. Also, Tubular is a pretty neat fork that adds sponsorblock and return youtube dislike

I’ve got a family member on one running mint.

I’ve run debian and fedora on the late 2013 model. Trackpad gestures used to be handled by libinput-gestures (found on github), and would handle tap double tap and swipe up to 4 fingers - though I think there are some gestures that are just handled by some window managers these days

Edit: added link

Having kids makes you think differently. It makes you think about longer term plans, and immediate plans. It makes you yearn for stability. It makes you more succeptible to scare tactics. It makes you less likely to rock the boat.

It made me personally accept shittier situations personally (work) for the percieved benefit of ensuring stability for my baby. You can imagine how that extrapolates across an authoritarian society.

Even knowing it would probably be fine to advocate for myself, to push for what I deserved; knowing that it was purely biology pushing me to make the choice, I still picked percieved stability. I just couldn't bring myself risk being fired.

Counter-intuitevely, we think of parents as being primed to defend their children from any and all attacks and threats. That works monkey to monkey, but at scale, it breaks down. Being parents makes both men and women more vulnerable.

As for immediate effect: I'd be a lot easier to coerce if you had access to my family.

Edit: It also makes you busy as fuck. Ain't nobody got time for nothin' when they have a kid. Certainly not for uncertain outcomes, like resistance groups or political disident work

S3 is what people actually think of when they think of sleep mode, or modern standby. The running state of the operating system is stored in RAM, in low power mode. All context for the cpu, other hardware like disks and network is lost and those devices are completely shut down - bar the RAM. Basically, you close the lid at the end of the day, and you're nearly at the same charge level the next morning.

This saves a lot of power. On my older 8th gen intel cpu laptop, it loses maybe 1-2% charge per day in this mode.

My new 13th gen laptop still has deep sleep, or standby (s3) as a hardware function, but it's technically not supported. It actually doesn't work when enabled, and just falls back to s1 (sleep, everything's still on, just in low power mode). It loses about 2-3% per hour in this mode

S4 (Hibernate) does roughly the same as S3, but the OS state is stored to the disk instead of ram, so that can be shut off too. Now the device is completely powered off, losing no charge while 'asleep'.

S5 is off

S4 sleep takes much longer to wake up from than s3, so was less desirable. In the modern computing world (especially end user devices), commonly there's full disk encryption going on, which adds a layer of complexity to resuming from disk, as you would when waking up from hibernation (s4).

Making it resume without putting in a decryption password for example (using a TPM), isn't simple, and breaks a lot when you do system upgades

When my daughter was 10 months, she wriggled off the sofa and bashed her bottom lip. I rushed to pick her up to make sure she was okay, and as I did, a tiny trickle of blood welled up from her split lip.

She was perfectly fine, made loads of friends at the hospital. But in that moment, if there was a cliff next to me, I'd have jumped off of it.

If someone else hurt them, or dropped a bomb on them, the whole world wouldn't be safe. I can't imagine what's that guy is feeling.

Calibre is the way to go. It’ll convert quite happily to epub, html, whatever. I just converted the Linux From Scratch book pdf in to epub and mobi for my kindle.

If you just need to edit a pdf and change some formatting on a line, try LibreOffice Draw!

Just in case it’s not clear from the replies - you can edit pdfs in libre office draw. Text, images, arangements, whatever. It’s all editable.

Sure, but you always download the latest bugs.

-known issue: audio skips every 10s

I found out the other day that LibreOffice Draw has a full pdf editor built in.

I know adobe makes many more products, but boy do I like telling people they don’t have to pay for Acrobat!

You’re welcome.

I got burned by this too. I feel your pain.

Dad figured out that if we hosed the concrete driveway, it made a better seal, and handeled bumps and impetfections better.

It was a glorious 3 minutes before the water started to seep in to the concrete quickly. The Typhoon nosedived and tore its skirt.

0/10 would not hovercraft again.

Lining up the wires, ensuring they’re straight and making sure they’re trimmed to the same length will help avoid crossover too.

You can help straighten them on the square edge of a table, just press them between your finger and the table at the part that’s stripped from the insulation, then pull them over the edge applying pressure the whole time.

You can also look for the newer cat 6 connectors. Lots of brands have an insert that you can slot the wires in to before putting them in the housing, which helps a lot.

Example here: https://www.amazon.com/W-NECTOUN-100-PACK-Connectors-Ethernet-Connector/dp/B0B1DHQCP7/

Ubuntu GUI/apt fail

Back when I used ubuntu, Unity was stuck with old gnome packages. This meant that the version gnome-terminal packaged with ubuntu (up to at least 18.04) didn't have text reflow on window size changes.

You could add the upstream sources, upgrade the specific text reflow package only, and then disable the sources.

I forgot to disable the sources, or typed dist-upgrade (this happened multiple times...). Broke the whole desktop/lightdm setup with half upgraded packages, and half removed packages (for preparation to install new versions). Way easier to reinstall the os than to disentangle. Unity was a mess then anyway.

Moral: Actually read the package change summaries when doing updates/removes/installs, and [ y/N ] means actually check what the fuck you think you're agreeing to.

BtrFS snapshots for idiots

I've also run automated snapshots on my btrfs partition, then run out of space doing multi-hop system upgrade on fedora (dnf has a plugin that creates a snapshot every time it kicks in.

You can imagine there were many changes happenning per snapshot, and I effectively could have rolled back 4 major fedora versions... Til I ran out of space.

I couldn't get a replacement drive in time, and I had an hour to rebuild my laptop before needing to be on a customer site, so sadly I couldn't preserve my drive for later investigation. My best guess is the high-water-mark was configured incorrectly, and somehow it was able to 'write' data past the extents of the filesystem.

Rollback did work for my home partition, but I had to mount it from another OS to get it to work - so no data loss!

By that time I'd already reinstalled the os to the root partition/subvolume however, so I couldn't determine the exact cause of failure :(

Moral: Snapshots are not backups, and 'working' is not 'tested'

When opening from the liftoff client on iOS, it doesn’t work for me:

You might check your BIOS clock time too, if the certs are ‘expired’, it might be the future, or more likely, the past. Certs have validity timers that specify start and end.

It’s more likely that your BIOS is just old, and you’ll have to keep secure boot disabled from now on.

Buster's slightly concerned he's about to be replaced with bookworm

I love VR. I have so many hours in some of the slower paced fps titles that it's almost matched my video game time total for non-vr games on steam.

The one thing I learned for sure is that I don't want anyone else telling me when I have to put on the headset and when I'm allowed to take it off.

Never will wear a vr headset in the workspace.

I found a copy of 1995's 'Desktop Toys' on archive.org, and ran it on linux with wine literally yesterday.

Windows 11 has an incompatability with 32 bit progams apparently.

I see your point, but I think we're in better shape than you estimate.

That said, we could always be in bettar shape, and as more is created, the less complete archives can be.

Same. There is also a handicap rail through my sternum.

No, and it’s not available on the official Play app store for Android either.

You can install it via APK or the F-Droid open source appstore. I haven’t found anything to replace it on iPhone at all.

https://newpipe.net/

Thereby fulfilling the monkey’s paw curse

Yeah, and the toys sold at bad-dragon.com are plenty firm

I've given up smoking, vaping, and recently caffeine. Leave me this one vice!

And a treasure map

I'm not sure that's a fair comment - I'm on lineage and I'm still getting rom and android security updates, but not vendor ones. On an OP9 for context.

As shocking as this might be, I think he's agreeing, and offering supplimentary proof

Amen. Also they tend to draw less power than your average cheap desktop, so it’s a great middle ground between pc and sbc

You could do it in 6GB of RAM with windows subsystem for linux.

I bought strawberry nesquik the other day and made a litre of it in a mason jar.

This is also true for UDP and ICMP connections, in case anyone reading wasn't sure. This is how you're able to ping stream and browse from behind your regular firewalls

So I’ve implemented Obsidian Git, and it works really well. The only trouble I’ve had is on iOS (I’ve got m it on android, fedora, debian and windows) where it’s bot supporting merge changes.

I’m considering moving to logseq and implementing the same.

The other alternative to self hosting is ‘SyncThing’. After I introduced my dad to obsidian, I saw how he did his synchronization with it, and it looks like a lot less overhead - fairly compelling

Happy to share some notes on my setup and his if you like

I ran Fedora 33, and upgraded it in place through to fedora 36. Ran pretty well the whole time.

I had snapper running for btrfs snapshotting, and did a double hop release jump to 38. Somehow I messed up my high water mark config for snapper in the mean time, and ran out of disk space mid-install without realizing. Symptom was firefox crashing. So I rebooted. Borked.

I agree with all of your complaints about it, and there’s plenty to dislike, but it’s still probably a good landing point for new users.

For me, it was the right amount of itjust.works at the right time, coming from debian (an update in 2018 killed my gdm, and I rage switched to fedora). Next stop is Gentoo!

Your feeds look like my feeds. I approve

“It [AFP] noted that AI tools – including large language models (LLMs) – gave the AFP an opportunity to find useful information in large, lawfully collected datasets.”

Literally everyone knows you can’t trust the output of these things. You can’t even get it to solve math problems with any degree of consistency without specifically training a math module. Who trained the AI module that finds connections in homocide cases?