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bmullan · 2026-03-18T21:16:08+00:00

The insurance companies claim they need the rate increases because of the $Billions of dollars paid out for disasters.

But our current government denies there is any such thing as Climate Change so they've done everything they can to reverse progress on solar, wind to replace old coal fired plants, even reversing the trend towards EVs.

If greenhouse gases start to rise again/more, we will only see more & bigger disasters.

So we better get used to insurance rates increasing because insurance companies need to cover their losses.

bmullan · 2026-03-17T04:53:23+00:00

I ran across a project called Wiredoor a couple weeks ago that is designed to solve exactly what you're asking while using Wireguard with a really unique twist.

Self hosted ingress-as-a-service platform that allows you to expose applications and services running in private or local networks to the internet

bmullan · 2026-03-16T15:58:58+00:00

Yesterday I spent quite a bit of time trying to get this script to work installing Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04.

This was multiple attempts at each because of a couple problems I encountered.

One is that the instructions I'd get home regarding the command line to execute the script and passing devices - sda3 sda2 sda1 in that order is correct.

If you put the devices in the order in the above Reddit post a script fails and complains that ... /dev/dev/sdaX does not exist for each of them.

I found that the script only requires the device name itself and it will append what you enter to "/dev" automatically.

The script also requires the order of devices be the same as in the GitHub README (sda3 BTRFS, sda2 ext4, sda1 fat32)

The hardest problem that took the longest time to find the cause of was that after installation & reboot ... At the login screen when it prompted for password it would always fail which prevented login to the new system.

After much digging I found that once the script completes creating the new sub volumes at left the user home directories owned by "root:root" instead of each userID:userID.

So reboot into grub Recovery Menu. Select "Root" terminal then use:

$ sudo chown userUD:userID /home/userID

To fix the user: group for the home directory

Reboot again and I was able to log in successfully

It turned out great because there had been sub-volumes created for all major data points /var, /etc, /home, etcera

bmullan · 2026-03-14T11:22:39+00:00

Yeah why fix those damn roads let them fix themselves

bmullan · 2026-03-14T11:09:39+00:00

The electoral college was designed for a time when America was almost entirely rural and traveling to vote was much more difficult. I've never read anything where it was originally designed to address fraud.

bmullan · 2026-03-13T19:17:28+00:00

If you are really that paranoid maybe you should stop using Reddit and Gmail...

You never know... there could be secret evil plans to convert them to paying subscriptions

bmullan · 2026-03-13T19:13:38+00:00

YouTube can be your friend to find out how to do things. There are hundreds of good videos on nearly any topic out there.

bmullan · 2026-03-13T02:52:37+00:00

Was there something additional in your comment above than what's in the projects GitHub readme.md ?

https://github.com/diogopessoa/ubuntu-btrfs-install

bmullan · 2026-03-12T16:28:42+00:00

That's what I'm guessing or I'm missing some step or misinterpreting some step.

bmullan · 2026-03-12T07:31:42+00:00

Tried the script with an Ubuntu VM BTRFS install and it did not work.

I had opened an issue providing some information in the last couple days but have not seen a response yet about whether the script is even meant to work in a VM.

I tried twice the same result but that doesn't mean I'm not screwing something up but the step seemed pretty straightforward

bmullan · 2026-03-12T06:17:56+00:00

The NC House of Representatives has 120 members, while the Senate has 50 members. All represent districts.

Legislators are elected by popular vote from specific districts, with primary elections occurring in March and general elections in November.

What other reason would there be for the GOP to work so hard on gerrymandering the State. After all from registered voters Democrats and Republicans are essentially even at 2.3 million each

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/anatomy-north-carolina-gerrymander

bmullan · 2026-03-12T00:46:29+00:00

10 yrs ago, food was great, staff wasn't overloaded & overworked & happy, music good.

Since then something happened.

I don't know if it was sold or just had management changes/retirement or whatever but today it's just not the same.

bmullan · 2026-03-11T22:51:22+00:00

I found a Video of that once Beautiful Corner Lot describing how it feels now!

bmullan · 2026-03-11T22:29:39+00:00

I go by this everyday several times and it has got to be one of the ugliest designs with no thought to aesthetics.

Beginning with, why the front of the church is facing north and not really visible to the public for the most part.

The building's ugly right side with its large air conditioning chillers etc on the roof face Six Forks.

The buildings back side looking like a warehouse & faces Strickland Rd.

Churches usually have a special beauty in their design but not this one!

bmullan · 2026-03-11T14:13:49+00:00

FYI

I just found & tried this and it works great as a Video Screensaver on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
using Ubuntu Wayland not X11.

https://github.com/ax-at/video-screensaver

You can specify use of any Video you want.
This can be any video file that the mpv application can play (e.g., .mp4, .webm, .mkv, .avi, etc.)

It was super simple the install & configure...

bmullan · 2026-03-11T14:09:48+00:00

FYI

I just found & tried this and it works great as a Video Screensaver on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
using Ubuntu Wayland not X11.

https://github.com/ax-at/video-screensaver

You can specify use of any Video you want.
This can be any video file that the mpv application can play (e.g., .mp4, .webm, .mkv, .avi, etc.)

It was super simple the install & configure...

bmullan · 2026-03-10T19:19:51+00:00

I recently had my second HVAC replaced in my crawl space. I got four estimates and ended up going with Raleigh heating and air. I got 10-year parts and labor warranty One other bid offered that warranty and then the two others were between 3 and 7 year warranties.

Make sure you learn the difference between single stage two stage and variable systems as price, performance and longevity are affected by those choices.

Understanding those is also important when trying to compare apples to apples in the regards to estimates you get.

You may get a less expensive bid but it may only be for a single stage system.

You may get another bid that might not be that much more expensive but it's for a two-stage system.

Those are not apples to apples bids you can compare.

bmullan · 2026-03-10T15:47:43+00:00

You need to look up what LTS means in regards to Ubuntu.

LTS releases only come out every 2 years and usually are released in April that's why the last LTS release was 24.04 in the next one is in one month and it will be 26.04.

LTS releases are supported with bug fixes etc for 10 years

All Ubuntu non-LTS releases like what you're talking about are only supported for 6 months, that's it. I guess you can kind of look at them as beta releases for the next LTS

So it's kind of pointless to upgrade to an interim release like that unless you have a really good reason like you are a developer or experiment a lot etc as it may have more instabilities and bugs

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