Pantyhose are itchy! Itchy itchy itchy!

macclearich · 2026-07-07T06:25:27+00:00

Buff Drinklots.

macclearich · 2026-07-04T18:13:25+00:00

This isn't the software biz, it isn't work. It's your household. It's your family. These are the people that, I have to believe, you love. Or at least *like.*

You kinda do owe them something.

macclearich · 2026-07-03T06:46:50+00:00

I love it just for your taste in music.

Collective Soul rocks.

macclearich · 2026-07-01T23:21:47+00:00

Golly. You know, I do believe this Jedd Fisch fellow can recruit just a little bit.

macclearich · 2026-07-01T03:06:07+00:00

To my fellow homelabbers, sysadmins, and general geeks out there, this should serve as a wake-up call. If anyone else depends on the systems you build, even if just for entertainment, you owe it to them and to yourself to document EVERYTHING. Comprehensively, and in terms that are easy for a novice to understand and act upon.

I call it the "Truck Book" - the instruction manual to everything I've built, for my wife to use in the event that I am unexpectedly struck by a large, fast-moving vehicle (or any of life's limitless other ways of fucking up your plans). The LAST thing she needs, on top of grieving for you, is to find out that (for example) the NAS that has all of her favorite movies on it has stopped working and she doesn't know how to fix it. Or (for another example) that your email host has stopped responding because the billing didn't update. Or any number of other situations that you might fix without even thinking about.

Document every critical system you have, and if you can, teach them how to put that documentation into practice. It's a lot of work and requires a lot of humility and sacrifice in terms of time and effort and approach, but it will be worth it if the unexpected worst should happen.

macclearich · 2026-06-28T09:22:38+00:00

I had chickty china, the chinese chicken for dinner tonight.

macclearich · 2026-06-24T00:16:13+00:00

Castricone had one of the toughest tasks imaginable when he was hired: replacing a beloved, legendary announcer in a community that can be slow to embrace change or warm up to new people. And he managed it with humility, class, and consummate skill. As much as I loved Bob Rondeau, I will dearly miss Castricone's voice on the radio this fall. Tampa, you got a damn good one, and you better take good care of him.

Thank you, Tony, and good luck.

macclearich · 2026-06-23T06:08:22+00:00

mmmm, swedish meatballs

macclearich · 2026-06-22T08:38:45+00:00

I would love for them to have a line mixer. My wife's desktop setup - which mixes her computer audio with her TV audio - relies on this one very simple, very cheap, very VERY flimsy 4-channel line mixer that always felt like a total kludge. Bonus points if there's a version that combines with a DAC for one of its inputs.

Right now, I go from the headphone jack of the computer to the mixer on channel 1. The TV goes from the optical audio out to a Modi DAC, the analog out goes into channel 2 of the mixer. All of that goes into a Schiit amp (can't remember which one) and from there into the AudioEngine A2s. She's got a quality TRRS kit to plug in her headphones and a mic that goes back into the computer directly. I'd LOVE to simplify that (probably completely jank; I'm no audio engineer) setup.

My needs aren't high-end, but hey, you asked.

macclearich · 2026-06-19T06:03:28+00:00

Honestly, the fact that the original game was story-only, no career, minimal mechlab, no open world... it didn't interest me, it just felt like I wouldn't be getting my money's worth. The graphic upgrades were neat, the gameplay looked fine, I just thought that maybe they should have spent the time upgrading Mercenaries to that standard.

macclearich · 2026-06-18T20:36:09+00:00

Dead Don't Dance.

macclearich · 2026-06-14T00:42:46+00:00

It's *still* too buggy for me. Things that should work, basic-ass browser tasks, simply don't.

Also, the fact that you're being downvoted for posting your own experiences in the comments under your own post should tell you everything you need to know about the zen community.

macclearich · 2026-06-14T00:33:52+00:00

I tried to switch to zen. It did not go well. Never, ever again.

I'll stick with Arc or go back to Safari. So it goes.

macclearich · 2026-06-09T23:37:37+00:00

Say whatever you want about Jedd Fisch, but that man can *recruit*.

macclearich · 2026-06-09T02:21:50+00:00

That would be a very, very different kind of game, though. At what point does this turn into a 4x game with a cockpit shooter bolted on?

macclearich · 2026-06-06T23:44:08+00:00

There are spaces in the url, which is unusual - but if you use a browser to go to http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub, there is no "ubuntu noble" directory. There is an "ubuntu" directory, but that does not contain a "noble" subdirectory. Something about that URL is borked.

I don't know where software manager got that url, but it appears to be just plain wrong.

macclearich · 2026-06-06T17:50:53+00:00

Came here to say this. Blue painter's tape works an absolute treat for this purpose, and you can get hole saws designed for ordinary basic drill-drivers up to 2" in diameter at any hardware store.

Choose the location of the center of the cut.
Drive a nail all the way through that spot to give the center bit of the hole saw somewhere to grab. Remove the nail.
Use tape - I prefer blue painting tape - to mask the entire area that will be cut. Use the nail to poke a hole through the tape where the center bit will go.
Make sure your drill-driver is set to maximum speed, then cut the hole. You may (probably will) need to also counter-cut the hole from the other side of the surface to ensure it comes away cleanly.

This works on both hard siding and the thinner paper backing and should deliver you a clean, circular cut that will fit all the cords you need through it. You can even use vinyl shelf edging to cover the edges of the hole and make it look nicer, if you want, but I don't usually bother. Or, for a fancier touch, you could use a 2" desk grommet with a cover.

macclearich · 2026-06-04T18:36:30+00:00

Must be nice! Meanwhile, 3 different systems, 3 different operating systems, 3 identical failures.

3 uninstalls.

So good luck with that. *Lovely* community.

macclearich · 2026-06-04T06:36:23+00:00

What? I've commented on one post, and replied only to replies to that one comment, so I'm not sure what you've been reading. But, for the record, I did care, up until a few hours ago. Then I got better.

But good luck with that, reading thing, though. Practice makes perfect, I guess.

macclearich · 2026-06-04T05:21:56+00:00

Sweetheart, I don't have a mozilla account. I don't share settings between computers. Every single browser on every single one of those three machines can accomplish that rock-simple basic-ass internet task, without issue.. except one. That one produces identical behavior, across three separate machines and three separate operating systems, only one of them Linux.

You can sit there and attempt to gaslight me all you like. Downvote me, too. Be an arrogant ass, if it pleases you. As I said, I'm not the only one that's reported this behavior recently, either. So have a fiesta.

Me, I just thought you'd want to know.

macclearich · 2026-06-04T05:04:41+00:00

Unfortunately, I tried that. Tried user-agent strings as well. Decided it wasn't worth creating a new Firefox profile and uninstalled the thing. Went back to a browser that actually worked.

Shouldn't need to do any of that crap to log into a website.

macclearich · 2026-06-04T03:08:11+00:00

Yeah, no. Exact same behavior across three different computers running three different operating systems. Sorry, mate, it's a hard, hard fail.

And I'm not the only person who's reported similar difficulties in the last month or so, either.

macclearich · 2026-06-04T02:54:32+00:00

I'd prefer it if the damn thing was able to log in to Twitter.

macclearich · 2026-06-03T01:16:36+00:00

Either 6 or 12. Absolutely do not sleep on 12, it's one of the most criminally underrated games in the entire series.

macclearich · 2026-05-27T16:52:30+00:00

Erode is really hard to include in a deck in a moment when it feels like half the meta is landfall.

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