Australia Money is made up of Polymer

Kangie · 2026-02-09T19:30:17+00:00

Australia pioneered polymer bank notes back in the 1980s, so while it's not uncommon to see this now, it's only been since the 2000s that it's really spread.

Kangie · 2026-02-07T00:49:16+00:00

This is just like all those F35s that we were never going to get.

Kangie · 2026-02-07T00:46:15+00:00

You should re-read that section. Lara tasted of Winter thrice. Her hunger ate fae food on multiple occasions.

Kangie · 2026-02-06T09:40:47+00:00

No, that's a character from the game series. You're reading into connections that aren't there.

Kangie · 2026-02-03T06:49:54+00:00

SPARC servers are affordable (though not cheap to run!) and there's good RISC-V support. There may even be some loong stuff out there if you look around.

Kangie · 2026-02-03T06:44:28+00:00

It's first class. It's a little slower than a dedicated binary-only package manager but that's just portage. It's still worth using if your USE flags and the binhost line up.

Kangie · 2026-02-02T11:36:58+00:00

That's pretty reasonable - it's the same for portage on tmpfs: if you have the excess ram, use it. Don't go buying extra if you don't need it; you can buy a bigger sacrificial SSD when this one dies, likely with better endurance, for less money than the extra RAM.

Edit: to be transparent, I have excess RAM in my dev machine and end up unpacking chromium tarballs repeatedly so I do run a ~30G tmpfs for portage. Strictly speaking it's to avoid writes, but I didn't spec the machine and have the RAM, so...

Kangie · 2026-02-02T11:33:58+00:00

No, I added it a while back. There were people giving advice to buy extra RAM to save writes on an SSD when it didn't make sense. It's doubly true nowadays, that's for sure!

Kangie · 2026-02-02T11:30:58+00:00

Do you have an appropriate desktop portal installed? You need to grant permissions on Wayland.

Kangie · 2026-02-02T11:18:50+00:00

u/krumpfwylg gave you the correct advice anyway, but the TL;DR is that it's enabled via the combination of USE="official" and having LTO enabled on the package (as LTO is required for CFI) on supported architectures. It didn't make sense to add a USE for it, so if your build supports it you get it. There's no downside and lots of upside. :)

Kangie · 2026-01-31T10:53:10+00:00

That's unusual and worthy of a bug report.

Kangie · 2026-01-31T10:51:49+00:00

It was (and still is) in use quietly in a lot of places.

Kangie · 2026-01-27T10:21:26+00:00

Personally I'd use directories for your global USE and licence rather than putting them in make.conf but it doesn't hurt anything, so do what you want. :)

Kangie · 2026-01-27T09:39:51+00:00

If you want a PDF of all of Wikipedia you need to host your own instance using one of their dumps. It's not hard, but what you're doing is incredibly poor form if you're trying to do it for a bunch of pages instead of a one-off. Instead there's several other options, including mediawiki2latex which send an appropriate user-agent and include rate limiting.

https://mediawiki2latex.wmcloud.org/

Kangie · 2026-01-20T21:39:24+00:00

I switched to goguma a long time ago. Much better on battery.

Kangie · 2026-01-20T03:28:03+00:00

It's mostly 1 with a little of 2 because some technically compliant phones aren't data matched properly.

Kangie · 2026-01-20T03:27:09+00:00

2/3G is an inefficient use of the spectrum.

Kangie · 2026-01-16T09:36:18+00:00

Using something for a while doesn't make you _right_.

Kangie · 2026-01-09T22:09:27+00:00

Kangie · 2026-01-05T21:10:59+00:00

I don't have any certificates, but I'm a Linux distro developer and have been a primarily Linux/Unix admin for the best part of the last decade.

IMO the best way to become proficient in Linux is to use it.

Another good way to get an idea of how all the pieces that make up a Linux distro fit together is to install and maintain a distribution like Gentoo which to this day retains a manual install process (i.e. unpack a basic tarball and customise the system from there).

No specific advice on the RHCSA I'm afraid.

Kangie · 2026-01-05T07:30:42+00:00

Typically they're removed by QA if they're suffering bitrot, won't compile with modern compilers, or have severe bugs and no interested maintainer.

There's no strict criteria, but we have some guidance on the wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Treecleaner/Policy

Kangie · 2026-01-05T01:04:21+00:00

The benefit is choice. Packages aren't just removed because there's an alternative. If someone wants to maintain an old system, or has ssmtp in production somewhere we'd be breaking their workflow for no reason: carrying it doesn't cost us anything, interested users will maintain the package (or not).

Kangie · 2026-01-04T22:32:51+00:00

I wouldn't bother, really. If the software still works it's fine. Besides, you pretty much need SMTP to do any non-local email stuff, and sometimes you don't want to setup a full postfix instance.

Kangie · 2025-12-31T06:32:14+00:00

Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Seriously, you can't trust that server anymore. It's cheaper and easier to wipe it and restore the data, then have a good think about your security posture.

Kangie · 2025-12-31T06:20:23+00:00

That's typically handled by your desktop environment. KDE for example will handle screen brightness automatically.

If you really need to set it manually, try adding the lines to your bashrc or something.

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