Be the change you want to see.

Also, loop me in. I have almost no free time at the moment but I’m building up a list of FOSS projects to work on when I retire.

The cars don’t miss the people outside of the car 100% of the time, unfortunately.

I’d never heard of MX or AntiX so I just snagged those, thanks for seeding.

It also reminded me that I hadn’t been seeding for a long time so I left those seeding. I also snagged the torrents for my main flavors (Debian, Mint), got the latest versions, and left those seeding too. Thanks for the reminder!

Debian 13 is 3.71GB, Mint is 2.8GB.

I haven’t used CachyOS much but I sometimes recommend it to noobs since it looks “slick” by default and (I think) typically has good GPU support. I went ahead and grabbed that one too, just to have it around, and it’s 2.83GB. Currently seeding as well.

While it’s over your 4GB limit @ 4.4GB, I pulled+seeded the latest Kali as well. Also nice to have that one around when it’s needed. The USB drive I carry around with it is probably 5 years old so I should probably update that anyway : )

Doh : (

At least we have a valid excuse for not adopting fingerprint biometrics… Minor bright side, I guess.

I;m thinking about thos Beans

That’s the one. Are you a fellow lizard person that sheds your skin regularly like me?

Every time work pushes to use 100% biometrics I have to argue and get an exception.

I’ve got form of eczema where two to four times a year all the skin on my hands flakes and falls off… There are weeks when I have no fingerprints.

They’ve only brought up facial recognition once and I said it didn’t work reliably due to my skin color and facial hair. I have no idea if that’s true, never tried it, never will, but they didn’t pursue it any further.

I always enjoy throwing out the “if you force that, there will be about two months a year where I won’t be able to login… That’s up to you, but you have to document it so I can forward it to my manager and make them aware”. Unfortunately they haven’t forced it yet.

“Stephen, what are you doing?”

No, silly, 25 years ago was nineteen seventy… Wait.

26 years later and my brain still default counts back from 2000. Stupid brain.

Same. I quit whatsapp the day after facebook bought it. Switched to signal and never looked back. The few people I talked with on whatsapp moved too.

O! Thank you for this picture.

I was in somebody’s Y (I think? I don’t know teslas) a few weeks ago in the front seat and I pulled the mechanical door release across multiple different stops around town before he told me I was supposed to push the electronic “open door” button.

That spurred me to think “wait, if I pulled the mech release by default and it’s pretty obvious/intuitive, what’s all the hubbub about getting trapped in a car because the manual door releases are so difficult?”

I didn’t realize it was about the rear door handles rather than the front until right now. Granted, the front manual door handle is fairly different than “most” cars but I still found it pretty obvious… more obvious than the need to push a stupid little button to open a door.

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