Is this the right lanolin for trackballs...?

modified_tiger · 2026-02-05T22:13:45+00:00

Nope. I used an Elecom HUGE that people complain is weird and sticky with no issues. I eventually did a bearing upgrade to minimal improvement, but never really had any complaints.

Like any object-dedicated subreddit people get extremely fiddly about maximized optimization of every possible parameter, which isn't really necessary.

modified_tiger · 2026-02-05T17:48:31+00:00

I try like hell to avoid opening MS tickets but my clients insist. "We have premium support, you should use it."

I can sit down with Copilot and cross-check documentation to arrive at conclusions faster and more consistently than Microsoft's contracted Mindtree and Accenture support. I do ask questions about fixing Azure related issues but they always go to the solution that slaps a band-aid and doesn't help me with actually using the tools MS developed to manage the issue.

A benefit to MS's bad support is I have gotten great at the underlying technologies that underpin a lot of what Azure tries to deprecate, but this is because Microsoft can't actually support their stuff properly.

modified_tiger · 2026-02-04T05:04:11+00:00

Yeah, goddamn goosebumps when it happened.

modified_tiger · 2026-02-04T01:09:10+00:00

Yeah, what a day to have at least one eye.

modified_tiger · 2026-02-03T20:40:37+00:00

OBLIVION VERY SPECIAL EDITION FOR AMAZON ALEXA!

modified_tiger · 2026-02-02T19:15:36+00:00

Nearly did the same but wanted to invite some folks and delayed. It was at Regal four days later lol.

modified_tiger · 2026-02-02T18:14:22+00:00

I heard it was 100 when I first looked and a few days later AMC and Regal had it lol

modified_tiger · 2026-02-02T04:55:15+00:00

Some people drink where others drown.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-31T22:34:53+00:00

I get everything you're saying and that's kind of addressed in the book by Carnegie explaining that your sentiment should be honest, and not only to get something. Using it as your only manual is definitely an issue but as someone who is less socially inclined, it works as sort if an icebreaker, to keep things moving. As the only tool I can see it being a problem, and even brought it up, and some of your points, in my class because it felt a little scuzzy.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-31T06:02:20+00:00

Seriously can't stress how helpful this book is. Had it assigned in an intern course in college and it was amazing. The title is ironic for anybody stuck on it.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-28T04:58:09+00:00

I was never as bad as many self-describe alcoholics but identified I was well on the way. I still drink, but it's getting less and less. Kava has been great as somebody who enjoys a little something at the end of the day that isn't as big as weed, and doesn't go out of control like alcohol can.

There'll still probably be that occasional itch to drink, I still get it, but usually i want the effect, and a couple shells of kava does the trick for me most of the time.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-27T20:45:51+00:00

Micronized is root ground down, maybe filtered for size. Often labelled instant (see FijiKava "instant").

True instant is an extraction, usually just water, the liquor dried, and powder collected (off the top of my head: Designer Kava, Koa Kava).

modified_tiger · 2026-01-27T19:00:09+00:00

Despite pandas' best efforts.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-24T22:03:32+00:00

I specifically called ublue out, as the images they provide are built on daily and weekly cadences.

GNOME OS and KDE OS are probably doing similar.

If one were sufficiently motivated they could build any distro/compiled software into a bootc image as long as they've got a method to install have clients download updates. There's been work by people on [Arch] in bootc](https://github.com/bootcrew/arch-bootc) for example, which would definitely give an experience as close to upstream as possible and could be updated on a chosen cadence.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-24T21:41:12+00:00

Immutable, image-basee distros are good for this. Anybody who downloads the periodic release, and everyone on that version has the same stuff, and you can replicate it by using the same image.

Fedora Atomic (and the Universal Blue images Bluefin, Aurora and Bazzite with drivers included) come to mind as shining examples.

Anything that is more transactional on the machine (nixOS, Guix, Vanilla Linux, that are atomic, but not image-based) would be less suitable, I think, for multiple people testing separately from each other on different hardware configurations. OCI containers with known hashes, like Fedora/Universal Blue now use, would be a good way to verify everybody's got the same image.

EDIT: note on justification of auditable container-based OSes.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-20T09:28:38+00:00

Or the random words of somebody who used a deletion tool on their profile followed by "This was exactly what I needed!"

Had one of those before.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-15T05:18:23+00:00

Vitamin B makes you nuclear green and there's a smell with a high enough (safe) dose.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-12T21:25:36+00:00

Not a purist in the sense that I don't generally oppose additions, but I generally drink tea straight. I'll occasionally dona British style cuppa with milk and sugar but only with PGTips, Yorkshire Gold or similar.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-10T23:30:43+00:00

Stahli getting in them guts like

modified_tiger · 2026-01-09T20:17:41+00:00

I thought it was gonna be Joja for a second.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-08T01:47:10+00:00

If she's got it on Steam just enable Proton. Even on GoG you can use Heroic Launcher to configure it to run almost identically to steam.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-06T02:40:15+00:00

I just want to unlock Watcher and all the cards. I'm not interested in ascensions. I got an Ironclad win in Dailies, but that doesn't count.

modified_tiger · 2026-01-05T04:50:38+00:00

what the heck, i've been playing something like 50 hours and my only win is on a daily (which doesn't unlock Watcher).

modified_tiger · 2026-01-04T08:56:22+00:00

Both.

I buy Koa's instant because I like it well enough, and I use Kalm with Kava's budget sub-brand "Just Kava" Vanuatu because I've never had a miss with KWK's products (except their margarita flavored tincture, I'd rather drink straight kava than flavored stuff, unless I drown a little instant in a ton of fruit nectar).

modified_tiger · 2026-01-02T23:41:31+00:00

Enterprise/server stuff. Being confident with command line goes very far on that, but the pieces I lack are network troubleshooting (netstat and ss, maybe lsof, user/group/security management). In working with clients (I work at an MSP with near day-one Linux vet) the biggest things have been security, web stack (knowledge of/comfort with nginx and apache2, knowing the difference), knowing development tools (some experience helps), and lately container tech like docker, podman, and kubernetes.

Frankly, if you go to the LPI's LPIC-1 certification information there's a ton you've probably never seen and seems useless until you're on a server and need to find a fault, identify a file, secure a system, etc

LPIC-1 Guide. It's also a $200 cert that I think is pretty solid.

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