https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2DgRr2DGM

Jeff Bezos is a

Linux Mint on desktop, laptop, and home server. Doesn’t hurt to have the full install on the server, and I have a monitor hooked up anyway - but makes maintenance easier with everything the same distro. Batocera on the retro gaming pc.

Android on phone, but if there was a distro for my phone I would use Linux there too. F-droid for apps where possible, but Play store for some essentials.

I used to live in an apartment block where the common door locks would get bad, so I put some graphite on my key every time I went in or out for a week, and that made them good as new for the next year at least

So many people I know have no concept of maintenance - if something is not working correctly they’ll just keep using it, and when it breaks put it outside to rust (doors that don’t open, gates that don’t close, bikes that don’t shift well, mowers that won’t start…)

I was given a leather ottoman last weekend which came from a $10k plus sofa set, which had sat in a sunny room for 8 years without any maintenance. Almost a full tub of conditioner and about 2 hours of labor went into that piece and now it looks and feels amazing

A few years ago I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and while I understand the mental health journey of the protagonist, I really liked the basic conception of Quality which has at least some alignment with Zen - whatever you are doing, that’s what you are doing, so do it with focus and care

I use the Video Background Play Fix extension in Firefox for Android

I found the same about engagement - every post had 5000 comments but only the top 100 could generate actual conversation, everyone else might as well be talking to themselves

I browse by new, so I often see the spam advertising and bad faith garbage (Logic_&_Ethics anyone?) so I just block liberally

I literally don’t know what I’m missing

ETA: I also don’t have a language set, so if I see a foreign language community with no English posts or comments I’ll just block it

2 instances

175 users

515 communities

I thought reading The Grapes of Wrath was like watching Requiem for a Dream - I’m glad I did it once, and I will never do it again

“People say the word orange doesn’t rhyme with anything”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kfl3N9nesRg

https://genius.com/videos/Eminem-rhyming-with-orange

aBundleOfFerrets Says Humans Will Reach the Singularity Within 3 Years

Thanks, I was more worried that there was something completely wrong security-wise with that approach!

Genuine question from someone with a single page static site - why is Cloudflare a useless suggestion?

1. On-prem
2. Self-hosting

And I’ll argue it’s on-prem even if you don’t have the physical server in your building

It tells you right there in the log: “DRDY”

If it is powered on but blank screen, you can try terminating the user session from a terminal

https://linuxiac.com/how-to-terminate-user-session-in-linux/

I did the same thing, set up OpenWRT perfectly, then changed the local range from 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.0.0 to suit some legacy connections. Everything works, except I can’t change settings on the router, so for now I leave it alone

I love that the best example they can find is a couple who spend only 140 days a year in France, despite the rules allowing 160 days a year. They obviously only go there for particular seasons: They’re not residents, they’re tourists

They’re also not actually prevented from continuing to do it, and despite how important this is said to be to them, it was just “too much hassle”

:o