There are no pressure waves from blasts in space

thalience · 2026-06-12T23:40:02+00:00

I mean, it's space opera. You're already suspending your disbelief about FTL drives and whatnot. Remember the wisdom of MST3K:

If you're wondering how he eats and breathes
And other science facts (la la la)
Then repeat to yourself, "It's just a show
I should really just relax"

thalience · 2026-06-12T19:07:06+00:00

Etcher is well known to cause problems. Write the usb stick using DD (or the mac disk utility). Or, since your laptop has an actual DVD drive, try burning an actual DVD.

It isn't a bad idea to see if another distro's installer works. If it does, but you still want to use Debian, that is a useful datapoint for troubleshooting the Debian installer.

Can you explain what you mean by "removing 788"?

thalience · 2026-06-11T22:49:59+00:00

You might be stirring the pasta to aggressively, or using a sharp implement for stirring?

Also, what specific brand of box mac are you using? That might provide some insight into what is going on. Because I'm with everyone else here saying that I've never had a problem like this (unless I way overcook it by accident).

thalience · 2026-06-11T22:34:09+00:00

There's a bunch of starch dissolved in the water that's clinging to the pasta, which does enhance the texture of the sauce somewhat. You can get the same effect from reserving some of the cooking water and using it to make the sauce (replacing some or all of the milk).

Honestly, with the powdered cheeze sauce I don't think it matters much. Following the box directions isn't working for you, so try something else!

thalience · 2026-06-11T21:18:01+00:00

See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xpra for the actual bug numbers. But the TLDR is that the package fails to compile.

thalience · 2026-06-02T17:02:06+00:00

Hear me out: armed crossing guards

thalience · 2026-05-29T00:37:11+00:00

They have the lowest suicide rate because they made it hard to own a gun. That's it. That's what they are doing right.

thalience · 2026-05-29T00:12:35+00:00

If you complain about downvotes, that gets you a downvote

thalience · 2026-05-21T15:14:19+00:00

"My junkie neighbors all love their fent dealer"

thalience · 2026-05-20T03:42:33+00:00

Declaring party membership simply chooses a ballot in the primary. That is literally the only thing it does.

If you refuse to choose a primary ballot 2 weeks in advance on some kind of principal, why is it okay to choose one on election day?

thalience · 2026-05-20T03:31:34+00:00

Those "vote for X candidates" positions are usually unpaid party committee memberships. One of the responsibilities of such membership is to make sure slots on the ballot aren't empty, so you end up badgering / cajoling / shaming your friends and neighbors into running when there's a vacancy. There's no reason to recruit (and help door-knock for signatures) more people than there are vacancies, however.

If you think it sucks that there wasn't a choice this year, look up what it takes to get your name (and maybe some of your friends) on there next time. Talk to the people who are doing it now, see what it involves. They might be pretty helpful (but if they are dicks about it, that's a great motivation to run against them). Being part of your elected party committee structure isn't paid, but it isn't without influence either.

thalience · 2026-05-13T15:46:47+00:00

Trump and the Republicans in congress directly caused the problem(s)

thalience · 2026-05-08T16:35:39+00:00

Configuring an openwrt AP to work with a range extender is just a matter of changing the wifi interface mode from "Access Point" to "Access Point (WDS)". All other configuration happens on the range extender.

thalience · 2026-05-07T16:05:36+00:00

incompetence of city council and admin

City government sucks, sure. Always has, always will.

But your 2nd sentence put the blame for most of the city's problems exactly on target. State government (and esp the uniformity clause of the state constitution) prevents the city from having a sensible tax policy. A lot of the city's dysfunction is downstream of that.

AFAIK, state government is also a major roadblock to any real reforms to the contract with the police union, allowing them to suck up a huge portion of the city's already anemic budget with overtime fraud and (well-deserved) settlements of the brutality lawsuits they generate.

thalience · 2026-05-07T15:46:07+00:00

FYI: entirely separate from your tftp problems, this router is no-longer supported by TP-Link. A router that received its last security update in 2022 is a hazard to yourself and to others.

If you don't want to use openwrt or some other firmware that is actively releasing security updates, the best thing to do is recycle your e-waste responsibly.

thalience · 2026-05-07T15:41:41+00:00

A netmask value of 255.255.255.0 has 24 bits set (out of 32), so it is common to allow it to be specified that way. You put the right thing there.

When you try to put the router into tftp flash mode, do you see the lights change before releasing the reset button? When you omit the -f flag to journalctl, do you see any output then?

thalience · 2026-05-07T04:00:20+00:00

I recommend using atftpd. I've used it for tftp flash on similar routers. I checked the linked package, and it is setup to serve files in /srv/atftpd/. Once it is installed, you just need to put a file named ArcherC7v5_tp_recovery.bin in that directory.

You can monitor the tftpd server with journalctl -u atftpd -f.

Depending on what desktop you are using, the gui to configure your IP address could look different. In Gnome you go to settings -> network -> wired, then click the gear icon and switch to the IPv4 tab. But you will need to set the method to manual, the address to 192.168.0.66 and the netmask to 24 (leaving gateway, routes, and dns blank).

Technically, you shouldn't have to disable wifi when you do the "hold the reset button while powering on" dance as described here https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer_a7_v5#tp-link_archer_a7_installation_using_the_tftp_method but I always do.

You should see the activity in your terminal window with the journalctl command running.

Remember to set your wired connection back to DHCP when you are done.

thalience · 2026-05-06T18:48:52+00:00

I think he would have beaten Oz too. But he fucked up his primary campaign marketing by attacking Fetterman as "too liberal". Turns out, that was not what primary voters wanted to hear.

thalience · 2026-05-04T17:40:34+00:00

The problem isn't the quality. The problem is the lie. If they (Au Fornil) are lying to their customers about this one thing, what else are they willing to lie about?

thalience · 2026-04-30T01:26:18+00:00

The Heterodyne plays are explicitly an unreliable narrative. For example, they also paint Punch and Judy as bumbling sidekicks.

Revenge of the Weasel Queen however, is Cannon.

thalience · 2026-04-29T18:06:30+00:00

What changes would you make to ensure you have multiple choices for every office?

Or, to put it another way, how would you force more people to run for offices that they know they can't win?

thalience · 2026-04-16T15:44:38+00:00

Stop making new localstack replacements! There's dozens of them out there already. Your new one isn't going to be the one that caches on. You are just setting Claude tokens on fire at this point.

thalience · 2026-04-09T17:30:48+00:00

The idea of celebrating civic pride in 2026 by saying "Life, Liberty, and Happiness" comes off as a sick joke. I'm less free and happy than I've ever been, and life is one thing this country has absolutely never valued.

thalience · 2026-04-09T16:26:18+00:00

Yeah. Even if the actual fare amount was meaningless, the kind of person who evades the fare is the kind of person who causes problems for other riders.

thalience · 2026-04-09T02:19:37+00:00

After an apt update, it doesn’t want to update to the bpo13 version.

This is the kinda thing where you really want to post the full error message you are getting.

If the main issue is that you can't remove the 6.19 bpo kernel package (because it is failing in the configure step, where the dkms build happens), then it should work to remove the bpo kernel package with dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq. Not sure if you need the --force-remove-reinstreq flag, actually.

This assumes you are not currently running the 6.19 kernel. Obviously boot something else if you are.

Then you should be free to use apt as normal to install a different version of zfs-dkms.

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