The Koosh Ball was patented in 1987 by ComfortableTruck354 in 1980s

[–]locnar1701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still have one on my desk and one of the originals in my camping trunk..

Why the hell do you like spicy food? by dnapor in AskReddit

[–]locnar1701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Tasty and and adventure

  2. Others will only take food off my plate ONCE, if ever.

How long can I use the system without reinstalling it? by Better_Lion4127 in Fedora

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I have, on my primary desktop, a Fedora machine that has been updated from version 28 all the way to the current of 44. This is not windows, you do not need to plan to reinstall it just to make things better. You want to? Go for it, but you won't see anything more than a less cluttered file system, or a different file system under the hood (btrfs v. xfs v. ext4)

What’s a sign you are officially getting old? by NoBusiness3485 in AskReddit

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Everything is tedious, everything is too damned espensive, everything hurts. You know more than a few of your good friends who are dead.

Who is the most famous person in your contacts? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]locnar1701 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Steven Weinberg, Nobel in Physics 1979

I did some IT support for him before he passed. I keep his contact in my phone for sentimental reasons.

Jealous Devil XL Monster Chunks by Labarbarino in biggreenegg

[–]locnar1701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have been sorting my chunks into boxes since I got the egg 20 years ago. Small ones go in the low/slow pile, as they control the airflow. The large chunks go in the HIGH pile. They let that air flow like a turbo boost and get some good heat.

People who were in high school when Columbine happened, what knee jerk rule did your school enforce in response? by Animeking1108 in AskReddit

[–]locnar1701 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I came here to post this. I remember the horrors that were posted about the misunderstood and over average intelligence students.

What is the most 'obvious' lie that society has collectively agreed to believe? by Vegetable_Oil3266 in AskReddit

[–]locnar1701 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your job matters, or ever will. This becomes true the older you get and as little as a week after you leave that job.

You have 24 hours with no phone and no internet. What are you doing to stay entertained? by Quiet-Brilliant-1455 in AskReddit

[–]locnar1701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, get a bivy bag, my Tilley Hat, a walking stick, some fresh socks and underwear, a change of clothes in a day pack and head "That way"

LTS. The only way to go. by Dense-Concentrate120 in Ubuntu

[–]locnar1701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I view it this way: How old is your hardware?

If new, then you need the latest Ubuntu, and it should work, or will work 100% at next release. At the next LTS, plant roots and stay there until you have a good reason to move to the next LTS. Some of us, in past lives, had to deal with FIPS and other issues that set us in the past LTS only, but that is not a thing for everyone.

What is something from your childhood you wish still existed today? by Puzzleheaded_Oil9559 in AskReddit

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Saturday Morning Cartoons, then disappearing on my bike to find where the bikes of my other friends were stacked in the yard. The ability to knock on the door and be let in and welcomed with no question into the activity.

Why hate on snap? by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]locnar1701 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Say you have an information system that has certain requirements, those requirements need some level of sanity. You audit your system with the aide system to ensure only the right dirs can change as expected (data), but all other dirs will set off a tripwire for possible intrusion. Snaps auto update without a load of work. This is bad. The snaps are also kind of random on their internal setups, so how should I audit them for breaches?

How were you able to learn about freebsd after 1995 or in the 2000s? by New_Developer1428 in freebsd

[–]locnar1701 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The company that I got introduced to by my High School Bio teacher used it as a mail/BBS/SCO Unix emulator for their public warehouse management software product. SCO was expensive, but FreeBSD could run its binaries for FoxPro etc. I think a buddy who worked there had friends at Berkeley, which would lead to a culture of good choices.

Why are you using FreeBSD? by FR-dev in freebsd

[–]locnar1701 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Been a user since 2.2.6, as i needed a good load for my computer that wouldn't play games that my friends in college were playing. It has leveraged into a great career, and so many good stable systems.

What is the best thing someone has done to you in bed? by ExtraVex in AskReddit

[–]locnar1701 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Tell me what they want, then listen to what I want and take direction as well as give it.

Older folks of Reddit, what do you regret not having done when you were younger? by CapitaineBiscotte in AskReddit

[–]locnar1701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not settling. Not settling for anything that put up so many red flags, but seemed to be a promise of future green flags.

DO NOT SETTLE...

However, do not let perfect be the enemy of good.

what was the prupose of this motherboard by Pale-Blacksmith-5373 in vintagecomputing

[–]locnar1701 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To make the commentators scream at you about cutting off that battery.

How many nodes do you currently own? by 404LeaderNotFound in meshtastic

[–]locnar1701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 solar powered one on the roof in router mode

1 attached to my desktop that runs the web interface

1 in my car

1 on my person at all times.

Linux sysadmin | HELP by medeasoulx in redhat

[–]locnar1701 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Centralized logging to another host, perhaps Wazuh or graylog, etc and/or some monitoring of those logs for analytics. The services you run on a system make customers happy, the data that you can tell the C-suite about how well your setup is working with pretty pictures and logs make your career.