qjkxbmwvz

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I think it has a lot to do with disposition and convenience. I'm lazy, and I don't like to drive if I can help it. But I live near enough to public transportation that we'll spontaneously decide to hop on the subway and grab dinner on the waterfront.

It's not the money that's preventing us from hopping in the car to go to some new beach for dinner, it's the convenience.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean...it depends on the job? I go on walks during working hours all the time to clear my head and think about a problem I'm working on. I don't try to hide this from my manager.

At 28 years old, it's safe to say Leo doesn't use KDE.

Happy birthday!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

That's how I started using Linux


big book with CD, I think it was "RedHat Linux Secrets 5.4" or something. 2.0 or 2.2 kernel.

Honestly, it was fantastic. And almost all of it is still relevant today. (Some of the stuff on xfree86 and the chap/pap stuff not so much.)

But it gave a really solid (IMHO) intro to a Linux/*NIX system, a solid overview of coreutils, etc. And while LILO has been long replaced, and afaik /sys didn't exist at the time, it formed a good foundation.

I'll refrain from commenting on any init system changes that have taken place since then.

Just use your $200+ Fluke to check the batteries, problem solved.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You can also take a fairly selfish view and come to the same conclusion. Like, I don't want to see homeless encampments, or really sick and untreated people, or panhandlers, or (...) while I'm walking around in my city. I can solve this problem by 1) moving to a nice suburb, or 2) having my tax dollars go to fix a problem that affects me. 1) is off the table because I want to live in the city, and 2)


while it helps the greater good


also helps me directly. (2 can also be addressed in a draconian fashion, which is not what I'm advocating at all.)

I think one problem is looking at things as zero sum. It's not. If you are healthy and housed and fed then you're not


to be very crass


an eyesore, you're adding to the fabric of the city. I want street musicians who are playing for fun, not because they're trying to make enough to afford dinner.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 49 points 1 month ago (14 children)

I think an issue here is that taxonomic and colloquial definitions don't always agree.

Spiders are colloquially bugs, but they're not taxonomically "true bugs" (which is itself a colloquialism for Hemiptera). Tomatos are colloquially vegetables but taxonomically fruits...but afaik vegetable is a purely colloquial term anyway.

And as someone else in the thread mentioned, colloquial berries are not always taxonomic berries.

So...colloquially, "plants" sorta means, "macroscopic multicellular living non-animal thing," but taxonomically it's something else.

No, I don't see any handcuffs...

...it's a myocardial infraction.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 35 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't be surprised if he thinks the bad guys won the American Civil War, too...

The Picosecond Pulse Labs bias tees hold a special place in my heart.

If you have a TV, you likely already have the receiving device. Antenna can cost, or you can play around with wire length and orientation.

It's mostly so that I can have SSL handled by nginx (and not per-service), and also for ease of hosting multiple services accessible via subdomains. So every service is its own subdomain.

Additionally, my internal network (as in, my physical LAN) does not have any port forwarding enabled


everything is over WireGuard to my VPS.

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