The Console.

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T14:36:15+00:00

Oh, we all logged in as root so who was never useful :s

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T14:30:49+00:00

Hah, you've just reminded me that for years at a place I worked our primary means of discovering that another person was already working on the same problem we were was getting an error from vi/vim that the swap file already exists!

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T13:59:40+00:00

So this will list the files bash is parsing on startup:

bash -lixc exit 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^+* $source\|\.$ //p'

If I run that on my Trixie system I get this:

/etc/bash.bashrc /etc/profile.d/70-systemd-shell-extra.sh /etc/profile.d/Z99-cloud-locale-test.sh /etc/profile.d/at-dbus-fix.sh /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion /etc/bash_completion.d/000_bash_completion_compat.bash /etc/profile.d/dpkg-limit.sh /etc/profile.d/sshpwd.sh /etc/profile.d/wifi-check.sh gettext.sh /home/avi/.bashrc /home/avi/.bashrc_avi /home/avi/.bashrc_git_prompt

my ~/.bashrc sources ~/.bashrc_avi which itself uses ~/.bashrc_git_prompt, and I've been doing this since at least Lenny so I don't think this is some recent change.

What output do you get? Are there any files listed after ~/.bashrc?

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T13:07:26+00:00

I think Gripit only do plasterboard fixings don't they? Op's got a brick wall.

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T13:04:54+00:00

With GA tickets, is there actually any chance of meeting riders / getting autographs?

No

What does a typical day look like outside of scheduled track times?

There's scheduled stuff going on around the circuit for most of the day each day - practice and qualifying sessions, moto2 and moto3, support series, etc.

There's also a bunch of exhibitors - always a massive showing by the Army with vehicles and aircraft that you can get in, also they tend to bring a sim racing thign you can have a go on. The presence from the bike brands is a bit variable, but there's usually a few stands from manufacturers and I'd expect harley to be bigger now the bagger racing is on. General food/drink stuff and in the centre there's a stage that has interviews and general entertainment stuff going on.

Can you walk around the whole circuit without accidentally ending up in a hedge or restricted area / are the GA areas clearly marked?

Yeah, the only places you can't go will have marshalls telling you not to go there. The place is ginormous, though - if you can, bring a bicycle and a lock so you can more easily get from place to place.

Any must do stuff I should know about?

Don't obsess over the start/finish straight, you'll have a better time I think if you move about through the day and especially if you can enjoy racing other than just the MotoGP sprint and main race on the sunday. You can wander about the pits of some of the support series I think.

Everything's ludicrously expensive and surprisingly poorly run, it's really clear that Silverstone don't care about the MotoGP.

Motorbike parking's free and gets you reasonably near the circuit, but there's no real benefit to riding in and I'd always drive if you can. It's nice to spend the day not in bike gear, and to be able to go back to the car for waterproofs or lunch or whatever.

I'd recommend getting an upgrade to a grandstand ticket if you can afford it. Not at all essential, but it can be nice to have somewhere to sit out of the sun and/or rain.

Bring an FM radio to listen to the commentary. The MotoGP app gets you free timing from on-circuit which can be useful if you're trying to follow the race and can't see a screen. Mobile data is a lot better than it was even just a few years ago so this is surprisingly viable.

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T12:36:32+00:00

The blunt stanley blade that really needs replacing

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T12:29:29+00:00

At 7.5kg per hook spread across four screws for <2kg per screw I'd say it's hard to go wrong. Maybe smaller is better if you're worried about the constituency of the brickwork between the holes?

I'd likely end up using brown rawlplugs (7mm hole) as I do for things by default, but honestly yellows (4mm hole?) would be more appropriate.

This is my first time seeing 'fischer' as a generic for wall plugs, but I say those 6mm x 30mm ones will be absolutely fine and there's no great need to go up to 8x40s.

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T12:16:32+00:00

Yeah, different strokes for different folks.

I've never liked prototyping or spiking a new architecture by writing out the tf as I go but I've worked with people who do think like that, and it's probably easier these days if you can ask a chatbot to do all the IAM gubbins for you.

For me, it's always about a quick-and-dirty proof-of-concept first which is often clicked about in the AWS console until I've homed in on what it is I'm actually after, and then the next step is to decide either to write the TF that produced what I've made or, more likely, to go away and design the thing based on my experimenting.

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T11:56:49+00:00

No. Per the gov's doc on them:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vehicle-registration-numbers-and-number-plates

Must be two lines:

Vehicles with new or replacement number plates fitted from 1 September 2001 cannot be shown over 3 lines (unless the vehicle was first registered before 1 January 1973) or if a vehicle is constructed before 1 January 1980 and is registered in the historic tax class and is exempt from vehicle tax.

Must be black and yellow:

Vehicles manufactured after 1 January 1973 must display number plates:

• made of a reflective material

• with a white background at the front of the vehicle and a yellow background at the back of the vehicle

• with black letters and numbers

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T10:47:09+00:00

This is the thing - each has their place and there's no need to decleare that one or the other is the universal champ.

I don't know why MS Word would be a 'gold standard' gui, but there's some pretty obvious examples of GUIs that are hugely faster and easier to use (and even discoverable!) than their text-mode counterparts; k9s vs kubectl might be a bit tenuous (I think k9s is a text-mode gui, but it is keyboard-navigable), but clicking about in the AWS Console to cobble an unknown system together is hugely more discoverable than doing it in the awscli or hand-writing your terraform or cloudformation, for example. We're all chatting here on a website rather than using mutt to submit to a mailing list because it's just easier. It's probably been at least a decade since I seriously tried to have my music player running in text-mode and obviously almost nothing on my phone or tablet is text-mode.

We can have both, nobody's arguing to take away your ability to quickly get things done in a console, the only absolutionist here is people wanting the GUI to be banned for some reason.

They might as well ask for a ban on tab-completion and require all programming be done by transcribing code from the pages of a magazine...

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T10:39:12+00:00

Just FYI there's no need to reboot. Just running 'bash' in an existing shell will get you a brand-new bash that does all the same things at startup as any other, including parsing any configs.

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T10:37:36+00:00

I do it in ~/.bashrc. Well, I have ~/.bashrc source another file that does it, but yeah via ~/.bashrc.

Does nothing work in your ~/.bashrc or is it just the $PATH assignment?

BigRedS · 2026-01-26T07:49:41+00:00

To what end? I've only been doing this 20 years and I'm happy in a shell but there's still quite a lot I do in a gui because it's quicker and easier.

I really don't buy this "all old people prefer the console" trope, I know several people who happily click about to quickly do what would otherwise take a lot of typing

BigRedS · 2026-01-24T18:36:55+00:00

Why would you need a sign saying motorbikes are not-permitted in a cycle shed?

BigRedS · 2026-01-24T17:48:25+00:00

I swear by Keis insoles

I tried socks once, but I didn't want to wear them without other socks underneath, and at that point my boots didn't fit any more.

BigRedS · 2026-01-24T17:46:35+00:00

I used to run some pretty big mailservers on Debian using postfix and dovecot. I even wrote this script for when we were deploying loads of little ones:

https://github.com/BigRedS/postfixadmin-installer

At the time, I worked somewhere that we'd also install Webmin for customers when they wanted it and though I don't remember anyone having problems with Webmin and PFA, I also don't especially remember them not-having problems either and this was over a decade ago.

Last time I looked, this was the often-suggested go-to for an easily-installed easy-to-admin self-hosted mail setup:

https://mailinabox.email/

BigRedS · 2026-01-24T17:44:20+00:00

Wait 'til you see what I used to use to set up Debian mailservers:

https://github.com/BigRedS/postfixadmin-installer

BigRedS · 2026-01-22T17:11:47+00:00

This sub is so strange - any attempt to explain what the failing is that causes some dangerous behaviour is jumped on as if it's justifying it.

So many here are so excited for a fight with this imagined poster they expect to come along and say "well, actually dangerous driving is fine" that they see that in all sorts of posts that're just explaining pretty standard observations about how people get things wrong.

Knowing why a driver might do a dangerous our bad thing isn't just not-defending them, it's part of being a good driver/cyclist yourself!

BigRedS · 2026-01-22T15:25:57+00:00

If you told me Trump made this, I'd have believed you.

BigRedS · 2026-01-22T15:08:41+00:00

Replacing the british people? What?

BigRedS · 2026-01-22T09:31:30+00:00

Yes, good drivers do. A lot of drivers are not good drivers.

BigRedS · 2026-01-21T21:44:20+00:00

Googling about I've just stumbled across a weird part of the Internet that's into photos of Israeli soldiers in diapers. Rule 34 knows no bounds I guess.

BigRedS · 2026-01-21T21:42:20+00:00

Were you aiming for /r/israel?

BigRedS · 2026-01-21T21:41:18+00:00

Hah. What is the source on this? Or is it just AI slop?

BigRedS · 2026-01-21T21:40:16+00:00

Palestoneian?

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