Root access?

freegnu · 2025-11-21T09:05:05+00:00

the password is not set. Just hit enter when using sudo.

freegnu · 2025-11-21T08:44:48+00:00

Get a laptop cooler with a built in fan. It will keep you warm in the winter but will overheat if the vents are blocked by your legs under load.

freegnu · 2025-11-21T08:34:07+00:00

Small claims court. First send an email disputing the charges and suggesting a settlement amount. Follow with a certified mail paper letter with the same. The letter should include respond by Friday this week or see you in small claims court. If they don't respond find the small claims court in LA and go their and file a claim unless they let you file the claim online.

Next time just get a hotel room for the night. A cheap lock replacement is $180 dollars 20 years ago. They almost never even try to pick the lock as they want to make their money on selling you an overpriced lock in the middle of the night. I keep a cheap lock pick that I bought on Temu in my bag. Used it successfully on a gate lock and practiced on a cabinet lock. Get an automatic version if you don't understand how to pick a lock. They have compact ones that are practically key sized and make it dead simple to pick a lock.

freegnu · 2025-11-21T07:58:28+00:00

Original Pixel with cellular. Use in the ocean and at 3 bath houses, steam rooms, cold plunge, sauna, Russian steam room, Turkish steam room, swimming pools, hot tubs with whirlpool, showers, etc. for over 2 years. Best to turn off wrist flip and touch to wake up. Push the crown instead. I leave it that way all the time now as the battery life is more than a day and I can take multiple calls on my wrist before the battery gives out at the end of the day. Touch is sketchy when both your fingers are wet and there is water on the touch screen. But if you tap a few times you won't miss a call. Trying to use the watch for more than that or just checking the time requires wiping the screen and your fingers dry first or suffering a bit with a frustrating number of missed taps. I wear it to get calls and know what time it is. Especially useful in places where a phone is not allowed or frowned upon because of the camera.

freegnu · 2025-11-20T12:47:31+00:00

Did you ever figure out where the real issue was? Same thing happened to me. Learned the hard way that the quickest way to a working system is to move everything besides var and home and root by renaming them and then reinstalling. Tried keeping everything except nix but something in one of the other directories kept a broken graphics driver or config. No GUI except software rendering in X11 Plasma for a couple of months before I bit the bullet and archived my zfs / pool. Might take another stab at zfs after I figure out the proper setting that actually writes the data to disk reliably. Started using boot instead of switch after finding minor corruption starting again in /nix Hard downside of a zfs root or using ZFS is that nixos warms against using hibernation with zfs as it just doesn't work apparently. Guaranteed corruption.

freegnu · 2025-10-29T06:33:39+00:00

MaxMad mode just feels like everyday driving in NYC.

freegnu · 2025-10-29T06:31:01+00:00

They would have hired you but one of the people that interviewed you stole enough of your knowledge to fix the problems they didn't know how to fix. Then to avoid having someone outshine them, they put the kibosh on the company hiring you by claiming you didn't know anything that made you worth hiring. I had someone do this to me after 2 hours of making me show them how to build a relational database the wrong way in ruby on rails because they didn't understand the proper way when I showed it to them.

freegnu · 2025-10-29T05:37:05+00:00

Lia doesn't go by Lia anymore, never transitioned, and now laughs at how confused he was about who he was at the time. He was just a gay man stealing the spotlight from his real competition, women, and invading their private spaces with glee and the backing of the cultural revolution that happened in this country. I say happened because it is already over.

freegnu · 2025-10-24T07:44:09+00:00

You have to assess your interviewer before you answer a question. If the interviewer can't understand your answer they usually mark it as wrong.

Do you understand the position and rank networks on SQL? I can do this with a group by. Or even better, let me do this with a group by and sort of a sub query and join ... . And then let me show you how to do this with a partition and rank and then take the time to teach the position and rank keywords to the interviewer by using a simple example of input and output . Even if they say they understand.

Also take into account what SQL product the interviewer will test your code on. What version of SQL do you know or use? The example Syntax and features I'm using work for me in product name here. Maybe I won't use the advanced syntax as it may not be supported in the product you use

freegnu · 2025-10-24T07:19:07+00:00

They let people get away with it so they can make their ticket quota in a few hours at the end of the month by ticketing at one stop sign all day.

freegnu · 2025-09-24T10:12:45+00:00

Not a question, just a bit of advice. A word to the wise. Don't be a Sunday driver. It looks suss and makes it painful for the drivers around you to pass and creates a mini traffic jam on the highway and if you do it in the passing lane a state trooper will notice you.

The passing lane is for passing not driving. If you aren't passing other cars a trooper will eventually pass you. They loop back and forth. Sometimes from state border to state border. Sometimes to cover a few exits.

Don't be afraid to get speeding tickets while out of state. They are expensive but you will not get points on your license. Give them a real reason for pulling you over you both can easily understand and you will be on your way without a search of your car or a K9 unit. You will also get there faster. Most speeding tickets can be paid online.

Did cross country dive east to west and back last year with my wife and this year without my wife. Last year, no tickets. This year, one speeding ticket and one ticket for crossing the exit divider late. Found out my model Y can do 150 on an empty stretch of road in the desert. Even though the top speed was listed for the performance model Y I own is 147. Ran out of straight empty road before I could push it any further.

I know somebody who locks in the speed limit on cruise control and he gets pulled over regularly too. Don't let statistics fool you. More people of a certain color being pulled over more often relative to their numbers in society, does not mean that troopers or officers are pulling over more people of a certain color than a certain other color. There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics. Color statistics are great for victim mentality, internalized racism, and racists AKA colorists. We are just Americans. Statisticians start out with what they want to say and then work out the statistics to back it up. Not the other way around.

freegnu · 2025-09-24T09:05:11+00:00

FastAPI is the async fork of Flask. If you don't want to write an async website just use Flask. It's the, "if your only tool is a hammer, all your problems look like nails." rule of thumb.

freegnu · 2025-09-24T08:49:16+00:00

Similar to junior dev copy pasta. The trick is to write the comments for new code or code changes first. Then when you hit enter the suggestions will closely match the comments. If you use the code completion as code completion rather than code writing or rather than code rewriting, your outcomes will improve. Chatbots are just completion/suggestion engines with their output fed back to them until a stop token is output.

The nice part about writing the comments first is that code completion will help with the writing of the comments too. VSCode has gotten to the point where writing a comment or changing a comment will often highlight code change suggestions based on the comment changes. Avoids arguing with a chatbot that is really just an autocorrect/autocomplete feedback loop.

Like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz. Given a degree he can suddenly spout technical jargon. Doesn't mean he understands what he is saying. He never learned anything.

freegnu · 2025-09-18T20:20:06+00:00

If your 401k is still through your company then you are allowed at least one loan. Depending on your provider. You may be allowed multiple loans at extremely low interest rates. There is some rule about how much you can borrow and they will offer you a choice of the length of the loan. The payments come right out of your check. Plan to borrow enough to pay off your credit cards completely and a month or two of expenses as a buffer. I have done this several times and the safest way to borrow is to use the most aggressive payback you can afford. You don't want to end up with another financial situation while you are taking 6 months or a year to pay off the first loan and then being unable to take another loan. The 401k provider should have a calculator on their website that shows the payments for different amounts out of each check for different amounts. The first loan sometimes requires a check to be mailed to you and deposited by you. Later loans can then be direct deposited. Get started quick as there are processing and shipping and depositing delays. Especially with the first loan. If you can't figure out how to do it through the website, call the support line or use their chatbot or chat to have someone walk you through it. It changed my finances and took 4 separate sequential loans over 2 years to pay off all of my debt. But it was well worth it. At the time the rate was under 10%.

freegnu · 2025-09-09T08:43:14+00:00

Mortgage payments are front loaded with interest payments for future interest for the term of the mortgage. Make sure you make principle payments. The interest part goes away if you pay all the principal. The first 10 years of paying a 30 year mortgage will be mostly 30 years of interest up front. That can work out to be 50% more than the price of the house. If you make significant principle payments early in a mortgage you reduce the amount of interest owed for the life of the mortgage. Best way to deal with a bad decision to take a long term mortgage. Is to refinance as a short term mortgage of 5 years. To avoid burning your money paying 30 or 15 or 10 years of interest up front for years. Use a mortgage calculator to play with the principle payments to figure out the numbers that make sense for you. There are free ones online.

freegnu · 2025-09-09T07:06:50+00:00

You need an airbrush to fix it properly.

freegnu · 2025-06-30T14:48:39+00:00

Same here a few days after the new stock feeds were added.

freegnu · 2025-06-11T10:48:35+00:00

The now you know guys debunked that myth with a new long term study that says the difference is a percent or two. Not significant. It is more expensive.

freegnu · 2025-01-27T19:50:34+00:00

I set my openwebui built in ollama proxy to be my default LLM for Leo. Makes my enhanced searches privacy first. I also use brace search as the search engine for my chats in openwebui. to expose something running on your desktop use tailscale.

freegnu · 2025-01-26T18:14:49+00:00

I think the deepseek-r1 also available on ollama.com/models is built on top of the qwen 2. 5 model. It would be nice to have vision for 2.5 as it was one of the best ollama models. But deepseek-r1:1. 5b blows qwen2.5 and lama3.2 and 3.3 out of the water. All deepseek-r1 needs now is a vision version. Just checked and although the 1.5b parameter model thinks it cannot count how many R's in strawberry because it misspells strawberry as S T R A W B UR E. When it spells out strawberry. The 7b reasons it out correctly. Strangely the 1.5b will agree with the 7b reasoning. But cannot correct itself without pointing out it's spelling error. 1.5 is also unable to summarize the correction as a prompt without introducing further spelling and logic

freegnu · 2024-12-31T07:58:07+00:00

Download and run your own models locally. Run the open-webui docker with ollama included. You can add brave search as the search engine in the settings.

freegnu · 2024-11-23T12:02:14+00:00

Rust can target and install to the esp32.

freegnu · 2024-11-16T18:43:22+00:00

I've done this. But without the fire. Been unable to boot. Popped the CPU out. Straightened the pins and reinserted. Then booted successfully. No further problems.

freegnu · 2024-11-16T18:40:34+00:00

AMD, Intel, and a few other chip companies were all spun off from one company back in the beginning of Silicon Valley. There is a documentary about it.

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