dipshit musk yankin’ servers out again.

used to be one in rhel… system-config-date or something like that.

wordpress.com, the hosted wp service, is a pretty solid. still comes with matt, though, but that drama doesn’t really affect you as a wp.com user.

anyone who comes to me about hosting wordpress, i send there. i don’t wanna deal with it, nor do i really want that hackerbot magnet on my boxes.

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he’d be reaching way down underneath that mountain of flab he’s got.

and these toons always make him look way better than he is in person. he’s one ugly mofo, especially once the spraypaint is sandblasted off.

for linux and the most basic of basic tasks, i’d look at peppermint. it’s what i put on all the old crap here with ‘marginal’ specs that choke on windows. debian stable xfce based. base install is pretty sparse, not even a browser is included initially. a utility pops up after first boot to facilitate installing a browser, media player, and a few other things if you want them, or the entire debian stable repository is also available. one thing of note. with only 2gb ram, it’s gonna be tight, whatever he runs on it.

his use case is screaming for a cheap chromebook, though. so at least consider that instead. an old laptop like that might make someone a nice little pihole or something, if it’s not ready to be put down for good.

old dutch was always what we had when i was a kid. mom wouldn’t settle for anything less. it had to be old dutch chips in the box.

it is a minnesota company but their canadian operations is huge, with manufacturing facilities across the country.

yoplait canada is not owned by general mills anymore. they closed on the deal to sell it back to the french company they bought it from just last week. src

hold on my remote control is updating and restarting

just throw a slipper at it. that’s what mom would do to me (her ‘remote’) when i was a kid.

omg i never heard of these. smaller than my flip is closed… over a half inch shorter, quarter inch narrower, and just about the same thickness. will have to remember they exist when i ‘have to’ switch to a “smart” one.

when gramma’s house got wired for internet last summer, we were able to dump the mobile hotspot she was using at home for internet (which was practically unusable because the signal there is basically non-existent the last few years) to get our bill “down” to “only” $130. 3 handhelds and an adapter thing you can connect normal phones to. a whole 8 or 10gb of pooled data included in that. vzn is really generous here.

it’d be $46 with these guys for the same lines and gigs ($36 total a month for the handhelds, and $120 a year for the adapter), but we might have to get new gear all around except for mine (volte flipper bought at retail, unlocked and supposed to work with all three carriers). i like that new feature where we can try the carriers out and easily switch a line (or all) from one to another if one isn’t working where we need it to.

what does the cid come up as when calling a landline with name&number cid? just ‘wireless’ and number or somesuch like some cell phones, the billing name (like others–what we don’t want. we use a line as a business line), or can you customize the names that show up with the number?

start?

i’ve only ever had 'dumb’phones because the lowest cost is most important to me. everybody’s needs are different. your issues with them are all ‘non issues’ for me.

i just get by as i always have. work and home for the internet (and i’m rarely far from either), a book when i’m out for extended periods instead of doom scrolling at every idle moment, and i don’t do any ‘personal business’ online–at all. about the only thing i ‘miss out’ on is ‘app exclusive’ deals at stores and restaurants and things like that. nbd.

i do work on other people’s 'smart’phones regularly (software, interoperability, configurations, etc), even though i’ve never had my own.

if i still lived in the city (haven’t in over 20 years), i would probably have a cheap one, though–mainly for transit schedules and such. varying from your daily routine was always a pain with pocket schedules.

with US Mobile

been looking at them for awhile to cut our phone costs. how do you like 'em, and which ‘network’ do you use?

so, what? half the work hours but at double the rate of pay so it comes out the same?

probably read more. cuz that’s free. i can’t afford to do much else.

we used to go back and forth all the time on fishing trips up north. even bring back produce (wild berries picked from the islands on the other side) without going through customs. we always did have both fishing licenses, though. catch both limits that way, regardless of where on the lake you got 'em.

A lot of jaywalking,

this is one i do not do. ever.

if i’m gonna get run over–and if i survive, i’m not working again. ever… not have it be ‘my fault’ and not get a dime.

i expected some nut to propose this. surprised it took this long, actually.

I know i would go crazy eating the same bland flakes

make it the total raisin bran variety and i could probably handle it for at least a month or two.

something done by many services, sites, and games.

but yea, i get it. the problem of asking someone to login to a service that they (bw) are holding your key for, in order for you to get into where that key is held.