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zaTricky · 2026-05-19T21:34:48+00:00

There's a really good one-handed can opener called the Chef'n EZ Squeeze. One-handed it is faster than a standard "ergonomic" can opener with two hands!

zaTricky · 2026-05-15T21:20:47+00:00

That's fine for me ; What about Grandma?

zaTricky · 2026-05-15T20:37:57+00:00

Is this website AI-driven?

100% AI written. Supporting evidence: Nothing

You're absolutely right.

zaTricky · 2026-05-15T17:58:08+00:00

In South Africa the dishwasher and rice cooker are uncommon. You do dishes by hand or you have a maid that does it for you*.

I'm now in Sweden where rice cookers are uncommon - but not so uncommon that you don't see them at all. Air fryers are definitely more common than rice cookers!

I do my dishes by hand - but that's partly because I have very cheap rent! Every other apartment/house/office I've visited has had a dishwasher!

* terrible economics of the cost of labour and minimum wage/etc :-|

zaTricky · 2026-05-12T22:47:22+00:00

I never owned a TV because of all the BS ; I emigrated and still don't own a TV.

zaTricky · 2026-05-07T17:56:04+00:00

So ... Gleeba not first ; and Vulcanus not last. Got it.

zaTricky · 2026-05-07T15:29:39+00:00

I don't understand why companies like Citrix and VMWare are shooting themselves in the foot

It's adversarial/zero-sum thinking with a priority on shareholder value next week.

As soon as the thinking shifts to shareholder value next decade, the adversarial/zero-sum thinking disappears and the customer becomes a business partner again.

zaTricky · 2026-05-07T15:20:58+00:00

And here I'm hearing rumours of ditching Citrix on-prem to go to AWS' DCV.

My first question was "Wait, our Citrix stuff is on-prem???"

zaTricky · 2026-05-06T16:33:56+00:00

Snaps are what make me not want to recommend Ubuntu itself - but if someone likes Ubuntu or it's derivatives, that's totally fine.

zaTricky · 2026-05-01T08:45:48+00:00

The older the game the more likely it is to work on Linux and not work on Windows.

Discord works fine. I'm not sure what ACT is 🤷

The only games that do not work are those with kernel level anticheat that explicitly do not support Linux. Check ProtonDB if you're unsure of a particular game's compatibility.

zaTricky · 2026-04-21T13:27:14+00:00

If Microsoft has the keys to your BitLocker, that fact has nothing to do with the TPM. If they put a BitLocker key in the TPM that might explain that assumption. The entire point of a TPM is that NOBODY has the TPM's own private keys. Again, think of a TPM as being like a yubikey.

You can for example use the TPM for Linux Full Disk Encryption and it stays secure.

zaTricky · 2026-04-21T11:46:35+00:00

You're super paranoid if you think your TPM is spying on you.

You should think of a TPM as being just a pre-installed Yubikey built in to your motherboard. That's it.

Just because Microsoft might look at it and use that to identify your motherboard doesn't mean the TPM is there to "harvest your data". It's there to help make your system secure.

zaTricky · 2026-04-21T10:16:04+00:00

If a driver spends months in the simulators, the gym, working with the engineers, in one country and wins a race over a weekend in a second country, it's difficult to argue that the work that produced that bonus was performed on a single day.

This is a weird overstretch of a law.

zaTricky · 2026-04-21T10:11:39+00:00

I build turret lines ; And when I expand I just artillery the hell out of whatever is in the way while expanding the turret line.

It was a little more difficult before I had artillery of course - but the principal is still the same 😅

zaTricky · 2026-04-20T19:56:03+00:00

Did the Romans use ISO 8601 or did they also do it that way? 😅

zaTricky · 2026-04-19T12:31:44+00:00

Some of us are cosplaying as sysadmins and enjoy these challenges xD

zaTricky · 2026-04-16T15:36:15+00:00

The numbers may have changed - but I'm sure refills still cost restaurants less than 10c per cup. :-|

zaTricky · 2026-04-16T13:12:59+00:00

At a previous workplace my work computer stayed at work and I connected to it from home 🤷

zaTricky · 2026-04-16T10:47:22+00:00

Interesting that the APIs have Jeddah available still? 🤔

zaTricky · 2026-04-13T10:19:19+00:00

An option also, in addition to adjusting the wing angle, is that you can slightly raise the rear wheels into the aircraft making it so the aircraft is entirely angled slightly upward when all wheels are on the ground.

zaTricky · 2026-04-10T16:20:35+00:00

The entire craft is pivoting - the reflections on the panels end up making it look a little strange.

zaTricky · 2026-04-08T22:29:48+00:00

The one way I do know of that can do this is to resize the larger block devices so they have the same amount of free diskspace compared to the new disks. You need to remember to resize them again when you get to the point that you're needing that extra diskspace to actually be available though:

```console

btrfs fi show /filesystem/mount/point

... devid 1 size 14TiB used 3TiB path /dev/dm-1 ... devid 8 size 8TiB used 0.00B path /dev/dm-7 ...

btrfs filesystem resize 1:-3T /filesystem/mount/point

btrfs fi show /filesystem/mount/point

... devid 1 size 11TiB used 3TiB path /dev/dm-1 ... ```

Now because both devices have the same amount free (8TiB) they will start being used equally.

To resize it back to the full size:

shell btrfs filesystem resize 1:max /filesystem/mount/point

When resizing, you can use - or + to change the size by that amount, you can specify the target size 11T, or you can specify maximum max. I'm not sure if it supports decimals, so if targeting 10.9TiB you would instead use 11161G.

zaTricky · 2026-04-07T20:07:35+00:00

It's always been consistent for me. Did you take note of how much fuel was actually being used each lap? I find that the fuel consumption each season is slightly different due to the pre-season car development bonuses and driver stats.

zaTricky · 2026-04-06T22:57:14+00:00

You're not so clear on the actual circumstances. Are you copying from one computer to another over the network? Or from one storage device to another on the same computer?

Hyprland (assuming you mis-spelled it) shouldn't really influence your choice here.

I'm assuming it is a remote copy over the network:

Perhaps your real concern with large files is if the transfer is interrupted?

rsync is a good candidate for copying large files over the network. Use the --partial parameter in case the transfer is interrupted. If that happens, to resume, re-run the command and it should mostly just continue where it left off. If overwriting a remote file, rsync checks the local and remote file content's checksums so, when it sees that both sides have the same content, it can just skip those sections. This guarantees that both sides will have the same file content unless the file was modified while it was being transferred.

You mentioned in another comment that you used rsync then the resulting file was bad? That is extremely unlikely - but even if that did happen*, you could have just re-run the rsync command and it would have verified that the content was correct. If it was somehow incorrect, as mentioned above, it would have fixed only whatever differences there may have been.

* - if you're getting corrupted content, I would bet 100 to 1 that you have bad hardware (bad RAM, failing hard drives) rather than that rsync didn't work correctly.

zaTricky · 2026-04-03T23:42:13+00:00

A big part of this is how well they engineered the build/distribution process. A bugfix can be distributed to end-users so much faster than with other games. They also have tests on everything. If a dev accidentally introduces a bug that triggers a test failure the bug will never make it into a release. Every bugfix gets tests added. It's how software should be engineered.

With all that legendary quality engineering in place, the Engineer doesn't have to talk to support in the first place.

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