tychosmoose

@tychosmoose@lemm.ee
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Better to represent it as a 64-bit unsigned fixed-point number, in seconds relative to 0000 UT on 1 January 1900. It's how he would have wanted it.

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No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!

Keep the tv dumb. Don't connect it to the internet.

I like to check rtings.com for model specs and comparisons. Like, some panel types work well in a bright room, some work better than others when you are watching with a bright light source behind you. The warehouse clubs (Costco, BJ's, Sam's) tend to have good deals on midrange tvs.

Then pair it with a streaming stick of your choice. A generic Android TV stick/box would work.

Obligatory: Debian.

But I'd be tempted to put Proxmox on it and then run containers for each function. Then you get purpose-crafted solutions for each use case, but can easily plug new functions in or shut them down based on what you decide later.

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OsmAnd will do that. If you edit the destinations you can manually specify their order. Click sort there and choose door-to-door to get the most efficient routing.

The app takes some getting used to, but it works very well, and can act as a front-end for contributing to OpenStreetsMap.

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I like LibreOffice Draw for this.

Cacik! It's a Turkish chilled soup with yogurt, cucumber, mint, garlic, etc. Very refreshing in hot weather.

I tried draw.io, but ended up liking LibreOffice Draw better for hand-drawing.

If you want to get a live map of the connections on your network you may want to check out netdisco.org or librenms.org. Both are open source network management tools that have mapping.

AT&T is the same. And the last time I looked they don't give you enough address space to host your own subnet. You get a /64 instead of a /56. And it's slower than ipv4.

Every few months I try it out, complain and then switch it off.

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Went through a lot of playback apps over the years, and Plexamp is definitely the best of them all. Reliable downloads, good quality, eq settings.

Induction is where it's at for temperature control. Gas is good, but a lot of the heat is lost to the sides of the pot/pan, and to the air around.

Traditional electric radiant cooktops use resistive heating elements that work much like the old coil electric burners that have been around for 70+ years.

Induction works by putting out a strong switching magnetic field that heats the metal molecules of the pan. Handles stay cool because there is no excess heat blasting the sides of the pan like with gas and radiant electric. It does cycle on and off, but it does that quickly. It heats the pan much more quickly than gas (water boils in a quarter of the time vs gas), and you can drop the heat more quickly too. And the cooktop as a whole stays much cooler than other types. Simmer and melt settings let you maintain very low temperatures as well.

If there is a down-side it's that you must use pans that heat up in the magnetic field. So aluminum and glass/ceramic are out. You need induction-ready cookware. If a magnet sticks to a pan it will work.

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See what's using the space. This will list any dirs using >100MiB:

sudo du -h -d 5 -t 100M /var

Looks great! I just had a very disappointing black bean burger out at a restaurant the other day. Might need to give Kenji's recipe a try.

Blue Valentines - Tom Waits

107 Steps - Björk (this one is best after watching the movie "Dancer in the Dark")

Gone Away - My Brightest Diamond

Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday Or Gloomy Sunday - Sinéad O'Connor No comparison vocally, but if you like Sinéad the second has a lot of emotion.

A Night Like This - The Cure

Traveling Light - Leonard Cohen

So. Much.

Wasted

Space

For flexibility and size I like external m.2 enclosures. I have some from Sabrent, Orico and Rosewill. Of them all the Rosewill is the smallest, has the nicest build quality, and seems to dissipate heat the best.

So I would recommend a Rosewill 9SIA072GJ92919, and add an NVMe SSD of your choice.

I think your MacBook is Thunderbolt 2, so you won't get full speed but it should still be plenty fast. And this enclosure will give you TB3 speeds if you upgrade your PC later.

Interesting. In NC here. Not sure if there's a difference regionally. I was seeing that kind of RTT on ipv4, but ipv6 was slower. I'll need to give it another try. The last time I did was at my last place where I had the BGW210. I have the BGW320 now and haven't tried on that. Maybe that, or changes in their routing since then will make a difference.

You will not have a problem maintaining a boil on induction. The cycling isn't nearly as slow as with radiant electric. And the top heat output is generally much higher with induction.

Definitely true. A badly warped pan may have trouble. A pan with a slight wobble doesn't prevent heating in my experience. But induction elements do need to sense a pan to work.

I use LibreNMS, which is a fork of Observium. It is primarily SNMP polling, so if you haven't worked with SNMP before there can be a bit of a learning curve to get it set up. Once you get the basics working it's pretty easy to add service monitoring, syslog collection, alerting and more. And since it's SNMP you can monitor network hardware pretty easily as well as servers.

The dashboards aren't as beautiful as some other options but there is lot to work with.

Newegg is unfortunately not as good a source as in years past. I have two good friends who got burned by them with very suspicious defective product return problems. When it happened I read about many more similar complaints.

Monit for simple stuff and daemon restart on failure. LibreNMS for SNMP polling, graphing, logging, & alerting.

Copy on write is the difference. As I understand it, a btrfs snapshot takes no space when it's created (beyond the file system record). The filesystem is always writing changes to file chunks as a new copy of the chunk, which is then recorded as a replacement of the old chunk (which is still present on-disk). So a snapshot tracks all of these later changes, and the file system keeps the old file chunks preserved as long as you keep the snapshot. That's why you can mount a btrfs snapshot. It just shows you the volume through the lens of all of these saved changes.

When you delete a snapshot you are then marking these preserved chunks as free space. So that is also quick.

True, but wouldn't those scattered devices already be down because of the power outage? If they are in a different room they would probably need to be on a different UPS anyway.

It can help to download your local map for offline use. The default basemap doesn't have details like house numbers, but the downloaded maps should.

Monit works for me. Good basic monitoring solution that can also restart a service/interface.

I also use LibreNMS to do alerting for a variety of conditions (syslog events, sensor conditions, outages and services via nagios). But this is more work to get set up.

Did I read right that it doesn't use systemd?

Your water boiling comment really hits home. I moved not long ago and went from a house with an induction cooktop back to one with gas. Forgot just how long it takes to boil water, even on a big burner!