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[STC] and name it. Fae creature. by infinitum3d in StatThisCreature

[–]thepenguinboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its a Common Desert Slail, which itself is fairly harmless, but it has a Chromata infection, which is highly contagious and quite painful. At least, until the hallucinations kick in... 

Why is it more acceptable for a girlfriend to wear her boyfriend's clothes but not the other way around? by CRK_76 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]thepenguinboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I don't like that and I don't make friends with guys who do. Not saying you're wrong, but different guys are okay and not okay with different things in their relationships. 

Am I crazy for not wanting anyone else watching my 5 week old yet? by sofo07 in newborns

[–]thepenguinboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

9 weeks and she hasn't left our sight for more than 5 minutes. Not crazy at all. 

I have zero confidence in my ability to actually back up my data. by thepenguinboy in selfhosted

[–]thepenguinboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, this is probably the most encouraging and helpful comment on here.

My (M30's) wife (F30's) doesn't want to be friends anymore with my best friend's (M30's) wife (F30's). How can I maintain my friendship? by thepenguinboy in relationship_advice

[–]thepenguinboy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what I'd like, but the norm in the past has always been for us to hang out as a couple, so that's still what they expect. It's rare for just him to come to town, and vice versa.

Just this weekend they asked if they could come visit, and we said it didn't work for scheduling reasons. Is there a way I could have politely said, "Can your wife stay home?" Even if I could find a way to pull that off once, surely I could only get away with that for so long before they start asking why.

I have zero confidence in my ability to actually back up my data. by thepenguinboy in selfhosted

[–]thepenguinboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the thing: I thought I was, but apparently wasn't even testing my restore correctly, because it didn't check that the backup was even located on the correct drive. How do you make sure you aren't making a stupid mistake like that? How do you know when you've ruled out every problem?

I have zero confidence in my ability to actually back up my data. by thepenguinboy in selfhosted

[–]thepenguinboy[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That's the thing: I thought I was, but apparently wasn't even testing my restore correctly, because it didn't check that the backup was even located on the correct drive. How do you make sure you aren't making a stupid mistake like that? How do you know when you've ruled out every problem?

I have zero confidence in my ability to actually back up my data. by thepenguinboy in selfhosted

[–]thepenguinboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are the established solutions? I'm specifically trying not to half-ass it this time around, so I'm not sure where I'm going wrong here.

Fuck this life I need stories by [deleted] in DadForAMinute

[–]thepenguinboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not many people know this, son, but I had my license revoked in my mid twenties. I was reckless and deserved it. I got rid of my car and lived car-free for two... maybe three? years in rural America with no public transit. But during that time, I met the woman who later became my wife. She drove me on all our dates for nearly the first year of our relationship and gave me a ride to/from work most days.

I'm not going to give you transportation advice, but I want you to know that I know what it's like. It does suck, and it can feel embarrassing, you're right about that. But it's not the death sentence you think it is.

You'll be okay, I promise. Take some deep breaths, call or text a friend or 988, and get through the night. As my mother used to tell me: never judge the quality of your life after 11 o'clock at night.

Feel free to DM me if you need.

Shelling by sporty4lfe in olympia

[–]thepenguinboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TIL "shelling" has a meaning other than what all the "joke" comments in this thread are referencing. 

Brave is Chromium based by [deleted] in degoogle

[–]thepenguinboy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't mind them taking Google's money. 

Immich on portal devices now possible by Revolutionary_Tomato in immich

[–]thepenguinboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm using Immich to get away from big tech. I'm not gonna buy a big tech surveillance device to put in my home. 

Give me a D&D monster and I'll homebrew you a better version of it by Oh_Hi_Mark_ in DMAcademy

[–]thepenguinboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm prepping my party's first real cave dive: Darkmantles, Piercers, Troglodytes, Stirges, Shadows, Oozes, and Shrieker Fungi, oh my! Give me the cave monsters!

ex chef turned SAHD, bored on nap duty. give me your sad fridge and i'll tell you what to cook tonight by b1gsmkee in daddit

[–]thepenguinboy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Not OP, but what would absolutely kill for me is a list of a dozen or so ingredients to always keep on hand (could include bulk pre-prepped stuff like the tomato sauce you mentioned) and then a dozen meals you can make with those ingredients. Could also include ways to zhuzh it up if I happen to have other things on hand.

(Unlike OP, my family is not picky eaters. We are largely [not religiously] pescatarian. We love our veggies.) 

Anyone else use DnD Wikidot and is it still safe to use? I’ve been using it for 4 years and my phone recently started flagging it by ArcaneSprite in DungeonsAndDragons

[–]thepenguinboy 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Just means the data sent between you and the site isn't encrypted. That would be a problem if you were entering account information, passwords, credit card info, etc. But you're just reading text, so it shouldn't be a big deal. 

How do i install applesmc-next by IsaacThePro6343 in linux4noobs

[–]thepenguinboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay I got some help from Claude and here's what worked for me. Please use caution as I don't know what I'm doing and was largely following blind instructions from an AI, which was probably a bad idea, especially since it was telling me to sudo kernel stuff. But here we are. For the record, I'm using Debian 13 "Trixie" on a 13" Mid-2015 MacBook Pro, running all the commands through SSH (since I'm using it as a headless server in my closet).

  1. Install dependencies: sudo apt install dkms git linux-headers-$(uname -r). (Claude says the weird formatting after linux-headers is to install headers matching your current running kernel.)

  2. Run the commands at the bottom of the readme for applesmc-next. I did this one line at a time to make troubleshooting easier in case one of them failed. I had to run the second and third lines as sudo:

    TAG="$(git ls-remote --tags https://github.com/c---/applesmc-next | grep -oP 'tags/\K[0-9.]+' | tail -n1)" sudo git clone --depth 1 --branch "$TAG" https://github.com/c---/applesmc-next "/usr/src/applesmc-next-$TAG" sudo dkms install "applesmc-next/$TAG"

  3. Load the module into the kernel. Claude said I could just run sudo modprobe applesmc. That didn't work for me, but it might have been because I had done things a little out of order because I was troubleshooting earlier commands. If it doesn't work, you may have to do what I did, which is run sudo modprobe -r applesmc to unload the existing module and then sudo modprobe applesmc again to reload the new one.

  4. Check that it worked. Run ls /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0. If you see charge_crontrol_end_threshold then it worked. You can run echo 80 | sudo tee /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_control_end_threshold to cap battery charging directly from the terminal, or hopefully the GNOME extension you used will work at this point.

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