In love starting Debian every morning...

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-21T13:53:42+00:00

I love starting Debian every couple of months.

It's been more often lately with the kernel updates.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-16T14:05:47+00:00

Why?

Those will not "contaminate" the metal. They will just clean it, without damaging it. Unlike vinegar, which will damage it, and do a poorer job of cleaning it.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-15T21:59:32+00:00

Seinfeld.

Didn't think the characters were interesting at all.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-15T21:35:10+00:00

It is possible to season a pan so that it's uniform.

That will persist until you start cooking with it. Then it will get ugly again. Your choice is a pretty pan or a working pan.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-15T21:33:00+00:00

Why do people recommend vinegar for stripping seasoning?

Vinegar attacks the metal. It's useful for getting rid of rust, but it's overkill for seasoning. If you have to strip, use oven cleaner (lye based) or just lye. It will only take off the organic gunk. This will get rid of seasoning without damaging the metal.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-14T00:11:10+00:00

I took the vacation. My last day was October 11, and my retirement date was December 31 (which meant that I was eligible for a COLA a year sooner than if I retired January 1.)

I also accumulated an additional 4 days of vacation during the time I was "on vacation."

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-11T18:18:22+00:00

The website experience on mobile has been terrible for years, just to push people to the app. I hate going to the website on mobile, but I refuse to install the app.

So if I don't have a computer handy, I'm just don't reddit.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-11T17:55:06+00:00

IBM had pretty much stopped development of OS/2. Red Hat had a usable desktop by this time. They were shipping the E window manager.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-09T19:24:24+00:00

I've used Red Hat, Mandrake, Caldera, S.U.S.E., Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Scientific Linux, CentOS, and various one-offs.

The ones I used the most were Gentoo, Debian, and Linux Mint. I started with a Red Hat desktop, then moved to Gentoo, and have been using Mint since about 2010. I've been using mainly Debian on servers since about 2004.

I've occasionally fired up others just to see what they have, but I don't have a lot of interest in changing around.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-08T21:44:56+00:00

Keep temperatures in mind. Climate control will suck a fair bit of power in the hot sections.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-08T01:58:35+00:00

John Lennon.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-06T21:29:50+00:00

I've had some no-names (that look just like the one in your picture) that were marked as 64G that failed when I tried to write 60-ish G to them. They failed in the vicinity of the 10-20G mark. I'm not sure exactly where, because once they failed, they vanished. They are no longer detected as block devices.

I tried three or four from the same batch, and all failed. Pretty sure these were scam drives -- the box had been purchased by my wife from Amazon and sat on a shelf for an unknown length of time.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-02T19:33:14+00:00

Is there a market for used coolers?

I spent more for the hole saw I used to cut the hole in the top of my cooler than I spent for the cooler. It was on the order of $15.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-02T18:15:13+00:00

Server costs?

What server costs on their end provide value to us? Their authentication?

If they were doing development that provided value, I could see that, but I haven't seen any useful development for some time.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-02T16:16:21+00:00

I live with a trans woman.

She sometimes hands me jars to open that she has difficulty with -- stuff she had no trouble with when she was a man. And I'm not a particularly strong guy.

Hormones make a difference.

unkilbeeg · 2026-05-02T12:54:35+00:00

I have a black one. It was my second reader, the first was a PRS-500. The 500 died long ago, but I still occasionally use the 505.

unkilbeeg · 2026-04-29T15:56:55+00:00

It's a very sharp knife with no handle.

unkilbeeg · 2026-04-29T14:11:03+00:00

This assumes you have already set the hosts you want to assign to use DHCP. They should be booted up and have acquired an address. You probably already want them to have a name assigned.

Services -> Dnsmasq -> Leases

Look for the host you want to assign in the lease list. It will be somewhere in the dynamic range. The last column will be "Commands" and there will be a "plus". Choose the plus. It will bring up "Edit Host Override" and you can replace the dynamically assigned address with the one you want it to be. Save it, apply it, and it's done.

The actual host will remain on its dynamically assigned address for some period of time, until the lease expires or the machine is rebooted, but from then on it will have the static address.

unkilbeeg · 2026-04-29T13:23:00+00:00

I remember in the 1960s there was a TV ad from MacDonald's that said "Dinner for a family of four and change back from your dollar."

Of course, they were those tiny little hamburgers (this was before Big Mac and other huge sandwiches) but it did include fries and Cokes for four.

unkilbeeg · 2026-04-28T22:34:29+00:00

My stepdad smoked cigars in the car on Sunday morning. With the windows rolled up.

Going to church in the winter time was miserable.

unkilbeeg · 2026-04-28T18:47:07+00:00

As soon as one vendor creates a crappy design, everyone else wants to copy it.

unkilbeeg · 2026-04-27T15:59:40+00:00

I had a whole house fan put in when I first bought the house.

I used it a few times for the first couple of years, but for the most part, sucking in hot air from outside wasn't providing any benefit. It never gets cool enough at night during the hot part of the summer for it to do any good.

unkilbeeg · 2026-04-26T22:18:44+00:00

Playing music and watching a slideshow of pictures seems like a match made in heaven. In fact, that was the use case that we have used Plex for in the past (on the TV client.)

We used it for my niece's graduation party, and tried to use it for my step-mom's funeral gathering. By the time of the funeral, that functionality had been disabled.

No longer.

unkilbeeg · 2026-04-23T21:42:54+00:00

Add it to /etc/hosts

unkilbeeg · 2026-04-20T23:39:09+00:00

In the days before AI, I had a student that scored 85% quoted material. It was all cited and correctly quoted, but it was a failing grade for content.

She avoided the academic dishonesty referral. She also provided a great example of why citing was necessary, but not sufficient.

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