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Be the change you want to see.

Also, loop me in. I have almost no free time at the moment but I'm building up a list of FOSS projects to work on when I retire.

I'd never heard of MX or AntiX so I just snagged those, thanks for seeding.

It also reminded me that I hadn't been seeding for a long time so I left those seeding. I also snagged the torrents for my main flavors (Debian, Mint), got the latest versions, and left those seeding too. Thanks for the reminder!

Debian 13 is 3.71GB, Mint is 2.8GB.

I haven't used CachyOS much but I sometimes recommend it to noobs since it looks "slick" by default and (I think) typically has good GPU support. I went ahead and grabbed that one too, just to have it around, and it's 2.83GB. Currently seeding as well.

While it's over your 4GB limit @ 4.4GB, I pulled+seeded the latest Kali as well. Also nice to have that one around when it's needed. The USB drive I carry around with it is probably 5 years old so I should probably update that anyway : )

If you ever do, have your volume control handy. It's all ear blasting SFX and tiny little muted whispers of dialog. Every time somebody talks you need to turn up the volume by 200% and every time something happens you need to turn it down to 5%... it was infuriating.

Hey, me too.

I keep looking at the market and having the same thought I've been having for years : "This makes no sense... the market has no basis in reality."

Ugh, SonarQube with the cognitive complexity check.

"Instead of having 50 lines where all logic is right here, I'mma need you to break it up into 10 separate functions so it's a massive pain in the ass to figure out what the fuck is going on"

I understand the reasoning but sometimes it's way more confusing to split up complex logic instead of just having it all in one place.

Doh : (

At least we have a valid excuse for not adopting fingerprint biometrics... Minor bright side, I guess.

I;m thinking about thos Beans

That's the one. Are you a fellow lizard person that sheds your skin regularly like me?

Every time work pushes to use 100% biometrics I have to argue and get an exception.

I've got form of eczema where two to four times a year all the skin on my hands flakes and falls off... There are weeks when I have no fingerprints.

They've only brought up facial recognition once and I said it didn't work reliably due to my skin color and facial hair. I have no idea if that's true, never tried it, never will, but they didn't pursue it any further.

I always enjoy throwing out the "if you force that, there will be about two months a year where I won't be able to login... That's up to you, but you have to document it so I can forward it to my manager and make them aware". Unfortunately they haven't forced it yet.

"Stephen, what are you doing?"

This website comes up in my news feed occasionally and it's always the most absurdly click baity misleading headlines.

"Doctors say you MUST have this one thing or you will die within days!"

... water, it's water.Dumb shit like that. It's been frequent enough that the URL is burned into my brain as "fuck that website".

Sorry, just felt like the need to rant : )

This one is old enough that the back is easily removable and battery easily replaceable. I went through three in it's life of daily usage. It was the lack of updates that made it unusable day to day. It was crazy "slow" too but a factory reset helped a lot.

I popped fdroid on it yesterday but there was no version of termux there that will run on Android 5.0.1.

I found another terminal emulator that seems to work. Don't recall the name offhand but I'd never heard of it.

...fdroid wasn't trivial because the phone has certs so old that it couldn't communicate with the repos until I manually downloaded and installed a newer cert.

Fuck around and find octopus?

I still have my previous phone... S5 that I used for seven years until it couldn't get updates and I "needed" some apps that wouldn't run on the old android version (I don't remember what they were at this point or if there was a way around it).

It's been sitting on my desk for the past 5 years waiting for a purpose. The battery is shot but it still "works". Maybe this is that purpose because I was specifically looking for something like this a few months back ...because I thought it would be funny to have that phone as a server.

No, silly, 25 years ago was nineteen seventy... Wait.

26 years later and my brain still default counts back from 2000. Stupid brain.

Same here. The magnet is at the top of the ... pole? The steel shaft that the table rides up and down on. It's just below the upper motor housing so it's well away from the drilling area and doesn't collect ferrous chips. There's also an allen key stuck to the magnet that I assume is important... probably for some type of maintenance on the drill press that I've never done.

Great info, thank you!

I'm sure it varies by locale but are there specific certifications / licenses for this?

We've been talking with an entity that owns a tower about getting permission to place a meshtastic node on one of their towers and, for some reason, it's generally frowned upon for some rando to just spider monkey up there : D

I'd considered going through a cert class for fun, if nothing else, but my Internet searches didn't turn up much reputable looking information. I've got a pretty strong background in rock climbing, SAR, and the associated rope work, but obviously those aren't the same.

I do use Valentina quite a bit at home because my local store has 1L bottles of the regular and black label / extra "hot".

One of those lasts at least a year so I keep it in the cabinet and continually refill a smaller bottle. They've also got 4L jugs but I haven't been brave enough to go that far ... Yet.

Thanks for the heads up!

For some reason I can't get into audio books so text it is :)