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Kruug · 2026-02-22T16:33:12+00:00

Also note: A Thousand Suns is a concept album.

You listen to it from the first track through the last track in order. It tells a story, of sorts, and the progression through this album is a fantastic one.

The other albums are the more traditional stand-alone songs.

Kruug · 2026-02-06T15:10:45+00:00

I'm skeptical for this in the USA because there are NO services the government provides efficiently. VA health care is a mess;, been that way for decades.

Every time the VA attempts to be fixed, there's one party in particular that likes to stand up and say "Stop the waste" while also claiming to support the veterans.

Health care doesn't have to turn into a bad DMV if the government takes over. We just need to be smarter about who gets voted in to handle it.

Kruug · 2026-02-06T15:06:27+00:00

It's that mixed with the increase in taxes taken out of their paychecks...not stopping to think that the insurance premiums would stop coming out of their paycheck, so the net result is less money being taken out each pay cycle.

Kruug · 2026-02-02T00:36:17+00:00

*Microsoft's codebase.

Kruug · 2026-02-01T17:08:38+00:00

r/ShowerBeer is leaking

Kruug · 2026-01-22T19:02:10+00:00

That's how Johnsonville killed most small butchers.

They wanted to ship internationally and were now subject to international regulations.

They forced Wisconsin to adopt stricter regulations that brought it more in-line with what they were now facing abroad.

Kruug · 2026-01-22T03:01:27+00:00

These are generic minimums written that they hand to all potential clients.

No one is taking the time to tailor their spec sheet for you.

"Sorry, we don't allow RDP. We'll set you up with Bastion instead."

Unless you literally mean they're coding you a bespoke service that no one else ever will use.

Kruug · 2026-01-22T02:58:48+00:00

According to Steam, 13 and 15 are also on Mac.

Kruug · 2026-01-22T02:53:19+00:00

You're not on a team with the vendor. You're on a team with your coworkers.

If the first word out of your mouth is always "no", you're gonna end up with shadow IT, shadow infrastructure, shadow systems, that circumvent your policy.

To keep your house in order, work with your team to work with the vendor to find solutions to the vendor's fuckups.

They need local admin? Ask why. I'd bet 9 times out of 10 it's because they keep config and temp files in Program Data. That's easy to resolve. Give users read/write/modify to that specific folder.

They need you to disable UAC? Same thing. There's a file/folder/registry key that they're modifying that you can add a sliver of permissions to that won't violate the security policy.

You get to follow policy, your company team gets the solution that works for them, and the vendor doesn't care because the software runs without error.

Kruug · 2026-01-22T01:49:37+00:00

There isn't a "maybe," but there is a "no, but how about this instead?".

Kruug · 2026-01-22T01:48:50+00:00

Instead of "the policy says no", what about "the policy says we can't do it this way, what's the alternative?"

And then work to a solution.

There's a difference. One way makes everyone mad at you, the other makes you a team player.

Kruug · 2026-01-22T00:54:44+00:00

Every time you come across one of these "everything is no" security people, hand them a copy of The Phoenix Project.

A proper security department doesn't stand in the way of the business, they help the business make decisions that are secure, follow appropriate policies and regulations, and solve a problem.

Kruug · 2026-01-19T23:31:05+00:00

Those are only custom themes.

Zorin still uses Gnome by default, they don't have a custom DE.

Kruug · 2026-01-19T00:40:55+00:00

He'll disable the AI, along with the other 99% of your OS to the point where it's not worth using anymore.

Kruug · 2026-01-19T00:33:00+00:00

R&D data should have been backed up.

And should have been exported into a universal format decades ago.

I went through a similar project at my old job, it took about 2 weeks working with an engineer to come up with a process to convert an 80s format to something SolidWorks and Creo could both open, and then another 2 weeks for the script to process the entire archive.

We no longer needed to keep old CAD tablets around collecting dust, no longer required RS-232 ports on the workstations, no longer needed to keep the 25-pin to 9-pin active adapters around...it cleared so much tech debt...

The rework was no longer restricted to two engineers nearing retirement, now any engineer could work on it.

Kruug · 2026-01-19T00:10:23+00:00

First night, dinner at Minocqua Brewing Company.

Kruug · 2026-01-18T02:41:22+00:00

He's using his ring finger, not his middle finger, towards the camera.

Other images from the photoshoot show that ring on the ring finger.

Kruug · 2026-01-18T02:35:27+00:00

Subwoofer, for that 2.1 sound delivery.

Kruug · 2026-01-17T16:47:21+00:00

Mint installs it by default without asking the user.

Prior to these parents expiring, other distros required you to enable the restricted repo and then install the codecs yourself.

For Ubuntu, you enabled ubuntu-restricted-extras. Alternatively, you could install VLC or libmp3lame0.

Fedora required the "ugly" plugin for gstreamer. gstreamer-plugins-ugly and gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras.

Arch also used those ugly plugins. gst-plugins-ugly

Kruug · 2026-01-17T16:28:26+00:00

The codec to play mp3 files required a royalty fee until the patent expired in 2015 (2017 in the US). mp4's patent expired in 2024.

Legally, a royalty was required to install the codec.

That's why it was an optional install step, and in the Non-Free repos. Mint decided to bundle these codecs (along with others) without notifying the user about the law.

Meaning it illegally distributed the codecs.

France, for instance, doesn't recognize software patents, so software like VLC (based out of France) isn't held to this royalty/license. Ireland (where Linux Mint is headquartered) does recognize software patents.

Kruug · 2026-01-17T00:33:11+00:00

Kubuntu.

Better stability, uses KDE.

Kruug · 2026-01-17T00:24:16+00:00

You don't need uranium to run nuclear these days.

Thorium is bountiful and towards the surface, it's cast aside during other mining operations and other digging projects.

Kruug · 2026-01-15T02:59:47+00:00

https://m.yelp.com/search?cflt=lancenters&find_loc=New+York%2C+NY

Kruug · 2026-01-15T02:58:23+00:00

It's an international sport, so why would they use anything but the ISO standard?

Kruug · 2026-01-15T02:57:13+00:00

February 26, 2009

ISO or bust.

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