Mine are frequently quickly saved from a meetup or acquaintance and so I save them how I can remember them…

Contact name : “John from work lunch likes fishing”

Contact name : “Rosa (married to Shawn from the garden)”

Contact name : “Bar: Has a roofing company don’t remember name - does free estimate. roof roofing roofs shingles”

Thank you for posting this. I tend to get a lot of my opensource project info from Lemmy so people who take the time to post it are awesome.

Just updated my home instance. Can confirm that 10.11.7 is available in the Debian repos and the update went perfect. I got a new kernel in the same update : D

I’ve been dreading the new computer as well. I built the original incarnation of my current one in … holy shit, late 2013. I was thinking 2016 but I just looked up the order and it was 2013. I did it pretty damn “top of the line” because I wanted it to last ages. I have occasionally upgraded or replaced drives, GPU, RAM, power supply, but I’m still on the original board+CPU.

It’s still great… running Linux and occasionally gaming.

That’s mostly correct. If we want to be super technical, I’m not “logging in” to my router, just using it as a Tailscale network bridge to gain LAN access so I can SSH from my phone to my server. But, in general, yeah.

I currently don’t allow any direct access to my server from the internet. The only way to access it is Tailscale. I have Tailscale installed on both my desktop (always on) and my router (also, always on). The reason I installed it on the router is because my desktop is also full disk encrypted. So, if there’s a power outage then both the server and desktop will reboot and both will be waiting for LUKS unlock, rendering my desktop useless as a Tailscale jump point.

Since the router boots automatically then it will always start back up and allow Tailscale access after an outage and therefore I can use it to access my LAN and SSH to the server to enter the password.

Basically the same setup you’ve got with the RPi - having a node that comes online automatically after a power outage, automatically starts Tailscale, and allows LAN access. You use an RPi, I use my router. (I briefly did the exact same thing as you, with an RPi, until I found I could install it on the router : )

I used Mint for about a decade. When I upgraded the drives on my desktop RAID from 2TB to 14TB the newest version only recognized 999GB. After some troubleshooting I begrudgingly tried Ubuntu, same thing. I figured Debian would be the same since that’s Grandma but I tried anyway. It worked perfect so I’ve been on Debian for a few years now and haven’t noticed any big differences so here I’ll stay.

Love me some Debian

Damn it! Western Bumblefuck is one of my favorite camping places and you’ve gone and told the whole world.

A lot of people seem to think I’m we’re crazy for not getting a new phone every year or two. Previous one lasted 7 years, this one is at a bit over 5 years… It’s fine.

Yeah, I did western Tennessee to northwest Washington in 2 days.

… I regretted it, but I did it.

StackOverflow was my inclination for searching this last week because it pops up the massive cookie banner on EVERY single page load for me. I enabled both the “Cookie Notices” and “Annoyances” lists at the same time - one of them handled it and I think it was Annoyances if I’m remembering correctly.

Try enabling that one too if you haven’t already.

EDIT: Just realized I need to enable the social widgets list too : D

Been awhile since I used this since I rebuilt my home server a few months ago but it was solid when I was running it in the past (as a pod in k3s)

I need to add this to my list to re-add…

That’s where you draw the line?

(Also, say hi to your chickens for me)

Your comment made me realize these could be a great digital attack vector. I assume they have wifi? And I doubt security was top of mind in the software development…

My company is pushing LLM code assistants REALLY hard (like, you WILL use it but we’re supposedly not flagging you for termination if you don’t… yet). My experience is the same as yours - unit tests are one of the places where it actually seems to do pretty good. It’s definitely not 100%, but in general it’s not bad and does seem to save some time in this particular area.

That said, I did just remove a test that it created that verified that IMPORTED_CONSTANT is equal to localUnitTestConstantWithSameHardcodedValueAsImportedConstant. It passed ; )

My exact answer as well. Saved me some typing - thanks :)

I was positive this was going to be the onion.

… I really wish this was the onion.

Aha, the separate breaker box is the part I wasn’t thinking about. I’ll need to do some thinking on how I could make that work for me. Thank you for the info.

Out of curiosity, how do you have that setup (at a high level)?

I’ve got a bluetti system for emergency power (12kWh, 6kW AC output) but I need to plug things directly into it. It’d be nice to feed it directly to my house wiring but … selectively. That is, I wouldn’t want to power the HVAC but it would be nice to not have to shuffle the fridge/freezer plugs from the wall to the inverter.

Dedicated circuit(s) with a manual switch from mains to inverter, I’m guessing? But then we get into all the extras required to do that safely and avoid back feeding the grid.

Granted, they have systems/setups specifically for whole house power but I don’t want to feed the whole house, just the important circuits/appliances.

Seems the Debian chain (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) hide it by default but there is an option to enable it. It’s one of the first things I do because I use it a lot.

I think they’re all using Nemo (depending on desktop)? Not at home to check it currently (Debian 13 at home, Mint on bootable USB drives).

… Don’t trust me on Ubuntu, I haven’t used it since the telemetry debacle.

Helix was mentioned in a few posts but no link so here : https://helix-editor.com/

If you love the terminal, it’s fantastic. I like it better than NeoVIM but, admittedly, I didn’t spend a lot of time trying to get to know nvim. It’s much better than VIM for code because it was built for that, not “just” a text editor that got forced into IDE service. (Not to denigrate VI/VIM, I love them, but Helix is more powerful for dev related tasks). If you hate the terminal… keep moving, nothing to see here.

For a more common IDE (not terminal), I’ve been using Theia for the past 6 months or so : https://theia-ide.org/ If you click that link you’ll see “AI” vomited into everything, for example the first two sentences :

The Theia IDE is a modern, AI-native IDE for cloud and desktop built on the Theia Platform. The Theia Platform is a framework for building custom, AI-native tools & IDEs.

From what I’ve seen, there’s no AI integration in the base and it’s only added via extensions. It is extremely similar to VS Code but is not a fork. Now… whether or not it was ““developed with AI””, I don’t know. I kind of got the feeling that they sprayed “AI” all over the website to try to cash in on the hype and get new users.

Even if that’s the case (chasing the hype train, no actual LLM inside), that’s likely to be a major turn off for you which I fully understand.

It took three years but we’ve almost rooted it all out.

There’s still one ancient product that will (theoretically) decommission in mid 2028. It makes enough money to cover the Oracle licensing but isn’t worth reworking to migrate.

Knowing how decom goes, I’m sure it’ll still be running in 2035 with that one last client who “can’t move to the newer, better, easier project because… Reasons (I don’t wanna)”