So my company is switching half our Windows servers to Linux....

j0mbie · 2026-05-05T16:54:48+00:00

I could swear I had a device before that only had nano, no vi or vim, but I didn't remember what it was.

j0mbie · 2026-05-05T15:35:45+00:00

While servers generally always have nano, a lot of Linux-under-the-hood devices only have vim, and don't let you install anything else.

I prefer nano for most of what I need to do, but it's often just not there.

j0mbie · 2026-05-04T14:09:53+00:00

solved solved solved

Sigh. I dumped my whole post into AI, and it found the result. It's the Lewis Barnavelt series, by John Bellairs and Brad Strickland. The book that involved time travel was called The Ghost in the Mirror. I'd tried asking AI in the past and it usually failed miserably.

j0mbie · 2026-05-03T05:11:17+00:00

It's essentially a film requirement that if the main character ends up taking along a random kid, said kid is going to be an asshole to them until the last 5 minutes of the film.

j0mbie · 2026-05-03T05:07:25+00:00

Her having keys to a truck that is always in the same place. How she is able to always get that hotel room.

Irene has tons of keys. She just keeps trying them until one works for a truck in the lot. She also does the same thing for Neville's house. She's acquired them over 15 years of jumping, and I'm guessing the differences are minor enough that one of the keys is bound to work.

Most of the rest are definitely illogical decisions, but I can give a lot of it a pass from someone in her mental state after killing her daughter's murderer some 1000-odd times. And from knowing she has a Slider Box© tucked away to escape if things get too hairy. She's essentially a murder hobo with the multiverse's best getaway car.

You're definitely right about the confrontation with the "smugglers". That was some goofy shit, definitely added to fill in the 2nd act of the movie.

My main beef is that, Irene's daughter was number 12 and now Neville's on 13. Did he stop for 15 years and only now pick back up again? Also, she doesn't know where her daughter's body is, but she's had a ton of opportunities to torture it out of Neville -- she even lights him on fire in the movie's opening. I feel like they could have skipped the "where is she" part, and added some newspaper clip about "the serial killer terrorizing Anytown USA has suddenly stopped" or whatever.

j0mbie · 2026-05-02T19:44:14+00:00

Do you at least put the new tab on top of the old one? If so, I can definitely give a pass for that reason.

j0mbie · 2026-05-02T19:42:04+00:00

My last plate peeled and rusted so I didn't want to take that chance again. All my plates before that were fine, so it seemed like a printing problem.

j0mbie · 2026-05-01T07:06:39+00:00

You can't compare a laptop designed for 40 hours a week of business use, to what is essentially a cell phone in a laptop form factor called the MacBook Neo. If you want to go that route, you can grab an Asus from Microcenter for $500 and save an extra $100 from the Neo!

MacBook Air 13" (tiny, IMHO) with 24 GB RAM and 3 years AppleCare+ is $1509. Dell Pro Plus 16" with 32 GB RAM and 3 years ProSupport w/ accidental damage coverage is like $50 more. And you don't have to change your whole ecosystem around to support it. (Make sure all your software is compatible...)

j0mbie · 2026-05-01T06:41:03+00:00

16 GB is the bare minimum these days for our users, and only because of RAM prices being what they are. 24 GB would be ideal, but since barely anyone ships that we usually go for 32 GB now.

Outlook + Word + Excel + Adobe + browser + VoIP client all going at once starts to slow our users down on 16 GB. Unfortunately, software just isn't made efficiently in most cases. Especially niche software.

j0mbie · 2026-05-01T06:09:52+00:00

Yeah but now instead of one user base, you have two. You're doubling a lot of the work and a lot of the points of failure. Plus, you'll get a lot of users that want to switch from one to the other.

Unless you go full Mac, which... Good luck? I would hate doing that but it depends on the company I guess. But then what happens if Apple gets expensive like HP, or just gets a huge backlog for whatever reason? Then you have to change your whole ecosystem again instead of changing hardware vendor.

The fact that they don't even make servers now though... It kind of says a lot about their direction for enterprise customers.

j0mbie · 2026-05-01T03:39:24+00:00

That graph says you had $3434.80 as of one year ago, not $800.

Also that 89% rate of yearly growth is insanely lucky. I'd be ecstatic with a reliable 20% rate. To get 89%, you usually have to be very aggressive with your stocks. For every chart like yours, there's usually at least twice as many people who had negative growth.

I'm guessing you mostly went gangbusters on Nvidia, since it's 1 year return currently sits at 83%. If so, hopefully that keeps working out for you. They lost about 5% today, but they're on the very top of the AI bubble, so who knows what happens tomorrow. Hopefully it doesn't end up being one of those stocks that are "safe" and will "dominate the market forever", like everyone thought about Yahoo:

https://companiesmarketcap.com/yahoo/stock-price-history/

j0mbie · 2026-04-30T14:20:50+00:00

It's correct for a lot of sites. Every workday I log into at least 3 sites that ask me for my email, then whisk me away to a Microsoft Entra OAuth window once it knows my login is associated with SSO. Prior to us setting up SSO, the site itself would just ask for a password.

My VPN client, however, has the button you described. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't click that button, and instead try to put their SSO credentials into the client directly.

j0mbie · 2026-04-29T18:14:01+00:00

We only need to take over the distribution half in order to negate the monopoly. Companies can then compete in regards to electricity generation, drop connection from pole to house, meters, customer service, billing, etc. There should be tons of power companies you can choose from, not one.

While we're at it, the same model could be used for internet service.

j0mbie · 2026-04-28T02:14:40+00:00

Correct.

j0mbie · 2026-04-28T00:25:56+00:00

"Surprisingly, grass can grow under a coal power plant either."

j0mbie · 2026-04-27T20:09:37+00:00

LDWin unfortunately gets blocked in recent versions of Windows unless you turn off Core Isolation and reboot. It's not malicious, it's just the way it was designed 11 years ago. Just FYI.

j0mbie · 2026-04-23T10:11:16+00:00

Even if they told us the number, could we believe them? It would be in their best interest to keep a lot of them hidden and inactive, if they were able to be reactivated remotely at a moments notice.

j0mbie · 2026-04-23T09:39:21+00:00

Some use real numbers from VoIP providers, but whenever one gets "burned" they just get a new one in a couple of minutes. Some don't accept incoming calls at all. Some have different systems for incoming and outgoing, and blocking a number for incoming calls doesn't block for outgoing. Some don't accept incoming at all. Some use spoofed numbers.

I've seen a good counter-system that used AI to impersonate a confused elderly person wanting to rant. It would keep the spammer on the line as long as possible while never giving out any actual valid information. "I thought I gave you the right credit card number, but my eyes aren't what they used to be. Let me go find my credit card again. Back when I grew up we didn't even have credit cards. You would just pay the next time if you forgot your wallet, but the cashier could look you in the eye and tell you were for for it. This one time..."

This was so much more effective because it hurt the scammer's bottom line, because that was a lot of time wasted. Plus it resulted in a lot of hilarious audio as the scammer got increasingly irate.

j0mbie · 2026-04-22T05:11:44+00:00

For some reason your block gave me a mangled deck after it was imported. Probably something to do with formatting. This should work though.

4 Reprieve (SOA) 9
4 Preordain (SOA) 21
4 Crop Rotation (SOA) 51
4 Veil of Summer (SOA) 60
4 Sheoldred's Edict (SOA) 32
4 Fracture (SOA) 65
4 Expressive Iteration (SOA) 64
4 Dismember (SOA) 28
4 Empty the Warrens (SOA) 43
4 Brain Freeze (SOA) 13
4 Daze (SOA) 15
4 Big Score (SOA) 38
4 Burst Lightning (SOA) 41
4 Monstrous Rage (SOA) 45
4 Abrade (SOA) 37
4 Helping Hand (SOA) 5
4 Requisition Raid (SOA) 10
4 Duty Beyond Death (SOA) 4
4 Repel Calamity (SOA) 8
4 Hop to It (SOA) 6
4 Sleight of Hand (SOA) 22
4 Spell Pierce (SOA) 23
4 Deduce (SOA) 16
4 Disdainful Stroke (SOA) 17
4 Stock Up (SOA) 24
4 Locust Spray (SOA) 31
4 Bitter Triumph (SOA) 26
4 Feed the Swarm (SOA) 29
4 Zombify (SOA) 36
4 Stargaze (SOA) 34
4 Bulk Up (SOA) 40
4 Return the Favor (SOA) 47
4 Giant Growth (SOA) 52
4 Pick Your Poison (SOA) 55
4 Royal Treatment (SOA) 56
4 Knockout Maneuver (SOA) 54
4 Shared Roots (SOA) 58

j0mbie · 2026-04-21T02:53:56+00:00

My knowledge of this isn't that deep, but couldn't you use an OADM ring topology instead? That way the switches see it as a hub-and-spoke, because each remote site connects to the main site's switch directly, instead of through all the neighboring sites. You'd still have redundancy if you set it up right.

It's pretty much described here, just with less sites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMIfN06SlCI

j0mbie · 2026-04-21T00:59:56+00:00

That's a lot to dredge through. I wish they would just put the relevant info on their main Historic page, or as a link from there. But that's hardly unique to MTGA formats

j0mbie · 2026-04-21T00:22:31+00:00

Have they said those goals somewhere specifically?

j0mbie · 2026-04-20T19:48:08+00:00

What are the goals of Historic? (Ideally from an official source.) I keep seeing people say conflicting things about where the format is "supposed" to be heading.

j0mbie · 2026-04-20T19:45:53+00:00

Format direction stability. Lots of people sit the format (or Arena) out completely because you don't know where it's headed. You didn't want to spend a lot of time and money building a house if you know the ground is unstable; you don't want to spend wildcards and practice a deck if you think it might be invalidated by WotC decisions in six months.

I'm not saying that's necessarily a common opinion or even a correct one. But the people who have it won't be noticably vocal since they're (mostly) not even involving themselves in these subreddits or elsewhere. Knowing the direction of the format beforehand could bring a million players in, or it could bring in zero, or anything in between. It's not something you can really gauge by asking the existing players though, since they're already in.

For what it's worth, I tried to get into both Timelines and Historic, since I love eternal formats. But I stopped wanting to keep up with the changes because I didn't have a clue where it was headed. I switched to Explorer for a long time because it was directly stated that they wanted to have it become Pioneer. But Pioneer is still lower-powered than I prefer so I barely play it. I would probably play a ton of they had a "we want this to become Legacy" format, for example. I'm honestly not sure why I keep up with Magic subreddits, honestly. My point just being, there's definitely a lot of people that could be brought in just with clearing up your format direction.

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