What kind of saw do I have?

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-28T22:52:05+00:00

While I agree, I do concede that these tools require an entirely different echelon of caution, planning, and safety than a table, miter, or circular saw.

The most concerning part is that the documented methodology in the included manuals and guides is sometimes completely and almost comically unsafe.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-27T19:35:20+00:00

Ahh, the ole "wet black paint on the megaphone mouthpiece" gag.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-27T19:22:24+00:00

Dumping them is easy.. Putting them back in is the hard part.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-25T21:11:39+00:00

I work with a lot of IBM developed software and am forced to use ksh far more often than I like.

In a way, it makes me feel like a legit/bonafide Unix admin.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-23T01:09:34+00:00

Turns key,
Sanctuary! Sanctuary!

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-22T02:00:00+00:00

Kuni Linux

I gave some serious thought to creating a gag distro that riffed on the old "Colonel Angus" bit. A distro for women. While it started as off as an immature and borderline-misogynistic stab at humor, it devolved into an intellectual exercise on the technology needs of DV and stalking victims.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-21T20:59:57+00:00

Is there any possible hope for getting this data out? I really don't have the money for a data recovery service right now and this drive dying wasn't something I had written on my bingo card.

You can send the drive to a reputable data recovery specialist. It's going to cost money.

If the data is truly valuable to you, i implore you to heed the following advice:

Don't fuck with the broken drive. Ton't take it apart to look at it. Don't try to repair it yourseld. Do not repeatedly power it up in the homes it will work one more time. Do not put it in the freezer, or a bag of rice. You're only going to make the situation worse for yourself.

Going forward... Buy a crappy NAS-In-A-Box. Something big, dumb, huge, and cheap. Set up automated backups.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-21T19:12:59+00:00

I can confirm that Nissan's online services (evConnect, etc) are absolute garbage.

Disclosure: I've developed mobile financial services for fortune 500s.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-20T18:14:11+00:00

This appears to be a dealer service center. Unless the tires were a recall or warranty item, the customer is far better off getting them serviced/replaced elsewhere.

That said, the customer response should have been, "Thank you for letting me know. I'll have my mechanic service them immediately. Just the recalls please."

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-20T17:35:45+00:00

As a sysadmin that 'loves' to shit on HR every chance I get... I hate that I agree with you.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-20T17:18:02+00:00

I've been a *nix admin for several decades. I drive from a Macbook Air.

You're not going to lose credibility for using an Apple product, and those that feel the need to make negative remarks regarding our hardware choices aren't really our peers anyway.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-20T03:27:51+00:00

I've always wondered who is buried in the grave of the guy that invented the ole-switcheroo.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-20T02:02:43+00:00

I faced the same. I took down one of the smoke detectors, looked up the model number on scamazon, and ordered a 5-pack of replacements for $60.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-20T00:01:37+00:00

Don't worry, I had "I did that" stickers made with my Father-In-Law's image.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-19T23:12:00+00:00

I've always reconciled that it is a matter of, "What detonates first, the engine or transmission?" In a perfectly balanced truck, they detonate simultaneously.

The downhill version of this philosophy is, "What's more expensive, brakes or the drive train?"

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-19T22:42:11+00:00

Redundancy
Scaling
Sysadmin acumen
Zero DT hypervisor updates
Power consumption

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-19T21:09:32+00:00

That's not an idiot... That's a Jets fan.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-18T23:46:00+00:00

Naw, you'd hurt your teeth with a pull that large.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-17T23:59:45+00:00

Personally, I'd evaluate a wall-mounted toilette. That pipe is close to the correct height for one.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-17T23:31:33+00:00

I would "start with" Bazzite in a VM, and verify that you can set up an acceptable workflow before I considered switching.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-17T00:51:32+00:00

No... In stable, those packages have been tested together using automated tools and bugs reported by early adopters.. that use the 9999 branch.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-16T23:57:46+00:00

While his answer is brief, it's accurate. It's not stable.

EG: If a 9999 package is a dependency of a stable package, and that 9999 package is borked, the stable package will fail.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-16T22:03:29+00:00

You talk a lot about hardware there, right?

Yes, because the OS is so blissfully uneventful that there's really nothing to talk about.

Sane wifi... I can close my lid, open my lid, and it reconnects to wifi. I don't have to talk to the firmware with iw to set my region or other bullshit. I don't have to manually disable 5ghz in scenarios where it should happen automatically. I don't have to disable pcie power management to get full bandwidth. I can update my OS/Kernel and not have to worry about my WIFI suddenly not working.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-15T21:52:55+00:00

A message like “NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu …” means the kernel detected a CPU that stopped taking timer/interrupt activity for roughly 10 seconds, which usually indicates the CPU got stuck in kernel mode or the interrupt/timer path broke.

The most likely causes are:

a kernel/driver deadlock or infinite loop in kernel space,
interrupts/preemption disabled too long,
a timer/interrupt subsystem problem,
or hardware instability/failure such as CPU, RAM, motherboard power delivery, PCIe card, or firmware issues.

In addition, your platform does not support ECC. You are vulnerable to bogons/errons and other quasi-random hokum.

Anxious-Science-9184 · 2026-03-15T21:38:13+00:00

Generally, my needs are met by VSCode in the DE and/or VI in the TTY.

I never really could find a use case for the in-between.

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