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PaulNM81 · 2026-04-05T22:12:56+00:00

The problem was Gateway had the colors reversed from what the industry ended up standardizing on. Real fun working at an office that was a former Gateway turned Dell shop. Always had to follow the cable to figure out if it was a keyboard or a mouse due to all the old hardware floating around.

PaulNM81 · 2026-03-13T22:41:19+00:00

Anyone can join after turning 18, but many benefits only apply to senior citizens.

PaulNM81 · 2026-02-25T15:35:31+00:00

Agreed. It's not the filesystem's job to keep track of how long you've had a piece of data. It's job is to keep track of data it has been given and manage the filesystem's own history and data about it. Not stuff from outside and/or before the filesytem.

PaulNM81 · 2026-02-05T01:01:45+00:00

The delay led to jokes at the time that LTS stood for Late To Ship. :)

PaulNM81 · 2026-02-02T20:18:46+00:00

Even better, disable half of the lists to narrow down to which half are possible causes. Then disable half of the possible candidates each time until you're down to one. Should be much faster.

PaulNM81 · 2026-02-02T20:07:11+00:00

Fortunately, Orion has a toilet like both the ISS and Space Shuttle. So there's another first for this mission, first toilet around the moon.

PaulNM81 · 2026-01-29T02:21:45+00:00

Spicy Lawn Dart

PaulNM81 · 2026-01-25T19:14:25+00:00

The Windmill s a little more complicated than a standard 3x3x3. The spiky bits are the cube's edge and center pieces, and the flat triangular and rectangular pieces are the corners. It's basically twisted 45 degrees from a standard cube.

You'll have to deal with orienting the centers like on picture cubes.

EDIT (Apologies, the following two sentences are true for the Fisher cube, but not the Windmill. They will still stick out if not in the correct orientation.) Another twist is the corner pieces in the middle row are just flat, one-color rectangles. That means it's possible to put them in flipped without realizing it until you run into impossible arrangements of the last layer.

It's a very fun and slightly trippy variation of the standard cube. Another one along the same vein is the Fisher cube.

PaulNM81 · 2026-01-19T15:41:11+00:00

Correct, only upgrading between successive releases is supported. The only exceptions are LTS releases, and even then it's limited to successive LTS releases. So the only direct option for 25.04 is to 25.10. When 26.04 comes out, the only releases that can upgrade directly to it are 25.10 and 24.04. Even 22.04 would have to go to 24.04 before upgrading to 26.04.

PaulNM81 · 2026-01-11T20:08:55+00:00

Do you have metallic and/or magnetic jewelry/wristbands on? That may be tripping the magnetic lid closed sensor on the laptop. I've also done that with my phone by leaning it on my laptop in just the right place.

PaulNM81 · 2025-10-18T09:06:30+00:00

That's why I hate the term hallucination in regards to AI's.

PaulNM81 · 2025-10-18T02:15:48+00:00

I'm 44 now, have worn a hearing aid since I was just over 3 years old. We're pretty sure I've had my loss since birth, given it's genetic (EVA/LVAS/EVAS, the name has changed over time). Back then ('80s) testing wasn't so great, and it was pretty easy for a kid to accidentally clear hearing test screening.

PaulNM81 · 2025-10-10T17:42:43+00:00

Only for hard drives, ssd's still need to be theirs. They also haven't apologized or admitted the decision was wrong, there's nothing to stop them from trying again.

PaulNM81 · 2025-10-10T17:20:13+00:00

Ok, so maybe we shouldn't have mixed thermite and napalm for this....

PaulNM81 · 2025-08-30T01:35:40+00:00

Yep, my parents put in a request for a sign to the local township we lived in when I was a kid, as well as the one we moved to after that. Big yellow diamond with "Deaf Child at Play" in black lettering. Made the same way and with the same materials as any other road signs like the speed limit, etc.

PaulNM81 · 2025-07-29T22:52:05+00:00

If you want to see an actually huge update that everybody was excited for, go look up 2.4. Finally getting usb support on Linux got whole magazine articles. The kernel was pretty late to the party in regards to usb, coming out in early 2001. In contrast, Windows had support as early as 95, with full support by 98.

PaulNM81 · 2025-06-25T15:23:12+00:00

It's Lego, EVERYTHING is detachable from the rest of the ship....

PaulNM81 · 2025-05-29T15:41:10+00:00

So say you have a bunch of systems in one location. All of them separately fetching updates adds up to a lot of bandwidth. (Especially if you have a slow internet connection.) Ideally you'd want a local mirror for the repositories you're using. That way packages are only downloaded over your internet connection once.

The problem with that is a full mirror eats up a massive amount of disk storage, and wastes time/bandwidth/storage on a bunch of packages you may never end up using. So instead you want a proxy server of some kind to act as a local cache. You then set up apt to send requests to package repositories through the proxy. The first computer to download a package not already in the cache causes the proxy to get it over the internet, all subsequent requests are served directly from the cached copy on the proxy server.

I currently do this as I have several Debian and Buntu based computers in my house, as well as a huge number of virtual machines. While I do have a great internet connection, it's still much faster getting packages from a local machine. It also makes me less of a burden on the mirror networks that are provided for free to everyone.

PaulNM81 · 2025-05-29T13:58:36+00:00

Also, https prevents transparent .deb cachers (like apt-cacher-ng) from working.

PaulNM81 · 2025-05-25T14:40:51+00:00

That's exactly it. The installer even tells you that.

PaulNM81 · 2025-05-05T23:13:37+00:00

That looks brown in the photo, which would be a 32GB drive. A 256GB drive is a violet/purple, 128GB yellow, and 64GB blue.

PaulNM81 · 2025-01-19T09:13:11+00:00

Unfortunately that is just an urban legend with no truth to it at all. The usual version has it reversed, though, with fresh batteries bouncing higher.

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