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@checkervest I remember in England after the 80s they really started taking conservation seriously.

@checkervest Some guy with a clipboard doesn't like the look of them

Resulted already. I remain disease free. Hooray!

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Radiology marathon complete for another six months. Not being able to eat anything for so long does my temper no good at all...

One year ago to the hour. Leaving a hectic AMS on a rebooked flight to Atlanta. My day started at 6am and I would be home almost 24hrs later due to delays, snowstorms, Ukraine war, and problems with baggage handlers.

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Choosing a Mastodon instance is easy once you understand each instance’s values, customs, belief systems, and inter-instance alliances and feuds dating back 1,000 years.

Sure, I'll just vomit these packages all over your machine. Good luck sorting it out, admin.

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Pinning being ignored by default in unattended-upgrades sure is a nice surprise

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So much breakage happens this way and you just end up missing Slackware

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We have some GPU compute that I have to manage outside config management because they're so fussy. There's a weird thing I've found absolutely consistent in package managers, be it deb or RPM, and it is that if you have multiple sources you will at some point get a shit sandwich in your dependency graph. Without fail.

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nobody seems to be asking the real questions about ohio

is the train okay?

Decided to watch HBO's The Menu. Not half bad. I thought it was very much in the same territory as White Lotus but it avoided the soapy elements of that show. Plus it's a lot darker.

@noracodes Big things that made the first title. Back in the day the Linux 64bit build was the most stable.

@bnys That looks awesome. I have its big brother.

A good 70s documentary on the STS atmospheric flight tests (basically the plane bit of spaceplane) showing the 747 piggyback flights.
youtu.be/1uIWYDffqus

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