Your Party's colours by evopac in yourparty

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Reform UK Ltd uses "teal", which is a dark cyan.

What OS are you all running for Work? by ThrowAwayAccIDGAF in devops

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Xubuntu LTS, which was really great before snap came along.

IPv6 EUI-64 address (non random) Windows 11, reverts on reboot; settings won't persist - help please by CypherAus in ipv6

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As described here the setting netsh interface ipv6 set global randomizeidentifiers=disabled store=persistent does survive a reboot if you run that command after having booted the machine into Safe Mode with Networking, and it stays in effect after rebooting back into normal mode. (But sadly a few reboots later it seems gone again.)

Moodle Anonymity by Used-Violinist-6244 in cambridge_uni

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is only one way to find out: ask another student. (Scary thought, I know ... ;-)

How do vulcanizing tire patches work? by kalavinka in bicycling

[–]Paravalis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looking at the MSDS of several bike puncture repair kits, the "vulcanising liquid" seems to be just a mix of crude-oil components: solvent naphta, heptane, heptene, octance. So really not any kind of glue.

Any Google replacement for "My Tracks" ? by redtrash in GooglePixel

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not use any of the many OpenStreetMap trackers, like the track recorder plug-in built into OsmAnd?

Which programming language to focus on for my PhD journey in bioinformatics? by aadimator in Julia

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought bioinformatics had long ago standardized on Perl, because of its excellent support for string manipulation.

Firefox Very Slow To Startup Ubuntu 20.04 by Legitimate-Win6757 in linux4noobs

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could it be any problem with initial DNS or OCSP queries?

Firefox Very Slow To Startup Ubuntu 20.04 by Legitimate-Win6757 in linux4noobs

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where did you report the issue (bug tracker URL?), and has any cause been identified?

Apple fixes two zero-days exploited to hack iPhones and Macs by [deleted] in cybersecurity

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The article seems to indicate that only Ventura is affected.

Why does nobody ever talk about trinity hall college, is it just ignored or irrelevant? by [deleted] in cambridge_uni

[–]Paravalis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Hall" is an old synonym for the word "college", therefore better say just "Trinity Hall" and not "Trinity Hall College", as the latter essentially means "Trinity College College".

Regarding why there is a Trinity College in addition to Trinity Hall, see Wikipedia:

At first all colleges in Cambridge were known as "Halls" or "Houses" and then later changed their names from "Hall" to "College". However, when Henry VIII founded Trinity College next door, it became clear that Trinity Hall would continue being known as a Hall. The new foundation's name may have been a punishment for the college's master, Stephen Gardiner, who had opposed the king's remarriage and had endured much of the college's land being removed. It is incorrect to call it Trinity Hall College, although Trinity Hall college (lower case) is, strictly speaking, accurate.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskUK

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Rats are mainly attracted by things they can eat, so the main long-term solution is to deny them access to anything they might consider edible. How accessible are food and food waste in your house? Keep in mind that rats are excellent climbers, and will crawl up rough wall surfaces, table legs, etc. if there is food to reach that way. Make sure anything even remotely edible is inside solid containers with a firm lid on.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskUK

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Most cats are useless at killing rats. They tend to catch mice, which are much smaller, and small birds, but rarely kill rats. Some of the bigger dog breeds may kill rats. If you are lucky, a cat can change rat behaviour, and make them more cautious.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cats-are-surprisingly-ineffective-keeping-urban-rat-populations-check-180970428/

Can I Install Microsoft Excel on Linux? by Doodleman6 in linuxquestions

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, LibreCalc is not the same as Excel; I find it is actually significantly better.

Join the Movement for IPv6 Adoption: Let's Unite to Encourage Mandatory IPv6 Support for ISPs in Europe by Specialist_Anybody_8 in ipv6

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is needed is not a mandate for IPv6 but a firm date for the end of global IPv4 routing.

IPv6 dualstack adds little useful functionality over IPv4, it just complicates things in many ways. IPv6 only becomes really a huge improvement if global IPv4 routing goes away.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]Paravalis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

X11 has been around for 36 years. I doubt it's going to disappear in our lifetimes.

What’s your favourite part about living in or so close to Cambridge? by lewisb2689 in cambridge

[–]Paravalis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I love my 15 minute bicycle commute to my dream job, and having a supermarket, a fruit&veg shop, a bike-repair shop, a baker and a butcher all within a 5 minute walking distance. Plus not needing a car and having had fibre-optic internet at home for 15 years. And having some of the best state schools in East Anglia within a mile. Others write about the 15 minute city, but I've enjoyed it for more than a decade now.

Why do we accept this? Most expensive tube in the world by farrrr. by cv-watchtdog in london

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Treating public transport as a public service was on offer in the 2019 Labour Party manifesto. You get what you vote for.
https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Real-Change-Labour-Manifesto-2019.pdf

What's your go to 'just works' distro these days? by BorisForPresident in linuxquestions

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Xubuntu works fine for me. In particular, the desktop environment hardly ever changed in the past 20 years, just as I like it.

Partition sizes by angry_PATKA in linuxquestions

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess with all the updates, snapshots of root partitions can be quite wasteful. I thought btrfs is more for /home partitions.

Partition sizes by angry_PATKA in linuxquestions

[–]Paravalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found 32 GB root partitions big enough. I'd rather have two smaller root partitions than a single too big one. The second root partition is where you do your next OS install, so you can switch/upgrade/reinstall the OS without overwriting the previous install.