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tychosmoose

@ tychosmoose @lemm.ee

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  • I want to push my city council to use libre office

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  • Honestly even most Excel users would be fine transitioning to LibreOffice Calc. I was very impressed with how most of my spreadsheets just worked on recent Calc versions. Formulas and charts were mostly all fine. Even pivot tables worked. I had one formula that had to be changed (it was specific to Excel, but there was an equivalent option in Calc), and one external data pull that I had to figure out. That was across 4 pretty involved spreadsheets.

    The main problem will be users who are so ingrained with the specifics of navigation that they can't easily adapt to a new menu system. The same happened when Microsoft changed from the old toolbars to the ribbon. And that will be an issue across all the apps.

  • Looking to upgrade my NAS need advice.

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  • For DIY consider a setup that supports ECC RAM to help prevent corruption. Any good server motherboard should do.

    Unraid is pretty easy to get going on. That's probably the direction I would take in your situation.

    Also, if you're not doing 3-2-1 backup now might be a good time to consider an off-site backup plan. That 4-bay Synology at a friend's house with a VPN path would be an option for critical data. You could give them some partitioned space on there and on your new NAS to compensate for the power usage. Setup Borg or Restic and it'll be encrypted on the remote NAS, and benefit from incremental and dedupe to minimize bandwidth usage.

  • GNU Taler (a swiss FLOSS alternative to Visa, Mastercard and Paypal) begins operating in Switzerland as Version 1.0 releases

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  • Two of the things that I think are new vs the current system are:

    Wallet: anonymous holding of currency without a custodian. You can't hold fiat currency digitally today without a bank or other entity providing that service.

    Transfer: moving fiat currency anonymously and under your own direction without intermediaries. You can't make a digital payment or transfer in pure fiat currency today without that custodian providing the service (often through fee-based payment network). As a result, your identity is known when that transaction happens.

  • New to this. How oily should my pan be between uses?

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  • I do the same as you after most uses. Scrub with dawn, rinse, dry. Done.

  • New to this. How oily should my pan be between uses?

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  • It depends. If you need to season/reseason then smoke is good. Heat to just above the smoke point and hold it there for a few minutes.

    The point of seasoning is to polymerize the fat, which only happens above the smoke point. You get a dry brownish polymer coating on the metal. It shouldn't be wet or tacky. If it's either then there was either too much oil or too little heat.

    If you already have a good season on the pan and scrubbed it clean, it's fine to lightly coat with oil for storage if you want. I generally use detergent and a very stiff brush, and wooden spatula for burnt on bits. Then towel dry and that's it. But if it's very humid or if I won't use the pan for a while, then I do heat it a bit to ensure dryness and then coat with a tiny bit of oil.

  • Coconut cup, the Baltics, 19th century AD

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  • Cool!

  • Coconut cup, the Baltics, 19th century AD

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  • Where did they get the coconut? That's a temperate zone.

  • Rb3011 and 2.5Gbps Internet connection

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  • A good problem to have, right?

    The switch between two routers wouldn't be my choice. Even if the ISP router supports link aggregation you are spending more money and not getting full bandwidth on any single device connection.

    RB5009 series would be my pick for this. Same price as RB4011, but it has a 2.5Gbps uplink and a 10Gbps SFP+ to connect a switch behind it. You could start out with the RB3011 as a switch and link aggregate if you want.

  • The Grand Canal, Beijing, Qing-Dynasty China, 1870-1880

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  • I don't have a source to offer, but remember reading that the primary purpose for building, maintaining and expanding the canal network, all the way back to its origins in the 4th or 5th century BC was to deliver grain to the capital. So when the capital moved to Beijing, new sections were built for the same purpose.

    So I would guess that these are general purpose cargo barges that could transport grain to the capital, and other commodities & goods (and political power) inland.

  • Wiki-Dose @lemmy.zip
    tychosmoose @lemm.ee

    Thaddäus Haenke

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thadd%C3%A4us_Haenke

  • Absolutely unhinged snack suggestion

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  • Loose yolks. Heh

  • Vehicles vs Cheese

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  • It's Munster on the list, a washed-rind cheese from France. Muenster cheese in America is probably somewhere down around a used Ford Focus.

  • Recommendations for a good photo printing application?

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  • Latest release seems to have been in March 2025. The version you get would depend on how you installed it. For Ubuntu/Kubuntu it looks like maybe they point to the Snap store? I have no idea how well that works and personally would avoid it.

    Did you do that, or, download a deb or install "printer-driver-gutenprint" via apt?

    In another comment you said you have the Canon proprietary driver. I think you would need the CUPS driver for this to work.

    I didn't do this recently enough to remember what the process looked like. But in your situation I would probably try to uninstall everything print related, reboot, and then start with sudo apt update -y && sudo apt install printer-driver-gutenprint and see where that gets me.

  • welp, Patreon just destroyed my stable income after a decade on the platform - what now

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  • True. I should have said that there was enough information there to satisfy my interest in the matter. Which was small.

  • welp, Patreon just destroyed my stable income after a decade on the platform - what now

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  • This house is quite photogenic

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  • Recommendations for a good photo printing application?

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  • The Gutenprint plugin has support for a bunch of Canon printers. I haven't used it in a while but I remember it supporting borderless prints with CUPS drivers. Maybe not for all printers? Worth a look at least.

  • Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

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  • today we are all buttholes

  • Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

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  • I thought so too, but the article really delivered. I didn't know I was living in The Butthole Era. I suspected it, but I didn't know it.

  • How do I securely host Jellyfin? (Part 2)

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  • Ah, got it. That plan should be great. You can segment your own wired+WiFi network with that hardware, and even do Wireguard from the hAP ax2 to get whole-network egress via an outside VPN service at a good data rate, if you want.

    The other devices you might consider as the router are the GL-iNet Slate series. They will be slower as a VPN router, but they're pretty small and light. They come with a skinned OpenWRT, but in most cases you can install a build of the unmodified OS if you want.

  • Everyday Carry. What essentials do you carry on a daily basis? @sopuli.xyz
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    Simple items

  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues

    www.theverge.com /2024/8/14/24220357/sonos-layoffs-august-2024-app
  • dailygames @lemmy.zip
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    Glad this one went well

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