Haha yeah that was the counter example I was thinking of. I agree completely — you could make a Gentoo from source beginner distro, and I think you could make it reasonably “idiot proof,” but it would still be a bad user experience most likely (too much time spent compiling).
If your distro can’t be forked into a “beginner distro” then it’s fundamentally flawed IMHO.
To be clear, I’ve used Arch as my daily drivers for a while, and while it’s not the best fit for my needs (I use Debian mostly), there’s nothing that I experienced that was incompatible with a “beginner” distro.
You can also drop cache for debugging by running something like echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop-caches
But remember that the kernel knows best — this RAM will automatically be freed up when needed and you should never run this except for debugging (or maybe benchmarking).
We breathed a huge sigh of relief when our kid got vaccinated (first dose at ~1yr old). I just can’t fathom voluntarily not doing that.
I have one SSID with pihole (which I use), and one without. Works pretty well, if you’re ok with a VLAN-aware network.
Ah, good point!
Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon seems like it’s trying to compete with the Air.
It’s on https://www.thefarside.com/ today as one of the “Selections of classic The Far Side comics.” Comic says ©1984, but doesn’t give a specific date (an image on reddit suggests 4/6/84).
Sounds like it was a 2 petawatt pulsed laser, with picosecond pulses, so 2kJ/pulse. Staggering amount of power and energy for a pulsed laser!
Note that it’s not CW, so the average power will be much, much, much less than the pulsed power. Too lazy to find the rep rate to see average power.
man rot13 ;)
I recently started using voice (SSB) on the HF ham bands, and have made contacts on 15, 17, 20, and 40m. No real DX, but made one foreign contact ~1000mi away and another domestic ~2000mi away.
I live in a city and it’s challenging to get a good antenna setup, so it’s always a compromise where I am.
Nothing very impressive by ham standards, but it’s fun.
Oh I wasn’t complaining, I was making a bad joke (the cartoon is a stalemate).
One of the coolest parts of The Expanse IMHO was that The Mormons commissioned a giant space ship, and it didn’t feel forced or far-fetched.
Ugh, Lemmy is full of stale content.
(Edit: it’s a joke. Stalemate/stale content…I chuckled at, and upvoted, the post.)
I’ve been super happy with it. Knock on wood it’s been super reliable. I have a single ZFS drive, take snapshots with various retention policies, nothing fancy.
Another fun thing is to set up a reverse proxy on it as an endpoint for services on your local (home) network which can only be accessed by VPN. For example, my Jellyfin service isn’t public facing, but I didn’t want e.g. my parents to need to set up WireGuard. So instead they can point their TV to a raspberry pi on their network to access the service — even a first gen RPI can handle Jellyfin reverse proxy over WireGuard for moderate bitrates!
“Necessary, but not sufficient” sums up the role of a degree for a lot of jobs.
Remind me again, what color was Obama’s scandalous suit?
I’m not mad at the huge amount I pay in taxes. I’m mad about what I get in return.
WireGuard, and an external HDD. Run at a remote location for off-site backup.
I do this with a raspberry pi 3 at the in-laws. I copied the data over locally before setting it up, and after that it’s just nightly incremental rsync, which is fine even over my slow (35Mbps) upload.
Sounds like he was a mantis and was posting while copulating.