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"I thought it would be fun to document how I make my OpenBSD 7.3 system look and feel as close as I can to my current Ubuntu 23.10 (daily) system."
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery - Functionally Paranoid
https://functionallyparanoid.com/imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery/
I like to take my eldest out to look at the trains at a nearby yard, it's a nice drive, but every once in a while I'll experience the local thing of someone sitting on my bumper because the speed limit isn't enough for them. Slow down a bit, there's lots to look at.
One of the interesting symptoms of the decay of Twitter is how utterly useless and broken the trends have become.
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She asked us if maybe we knew tools that could help with collaboration on presentation documents for low-bandwidth situations. And while of course we know a lot that could help, to add insult to injury, a handful of her students use chromebooks, which sets a hard limit the tools the class uses, the limit being google slides.
The accessibility push of google to put chromebooks into student's hands, seems to have the effect of shifting the cost from buying the terminal, to paying the ISP.
I enjoyed Dirk Verbeuren's (Megadeth's current drummer) blind play through of Mr. Brightside https://youtu.be/tbUYVcaF_l0
Out on the dog's AM walk and the humidity is oppressive. He's 1/3rd husky and really doesn't like it. Stopped to look at me and folded his ears back so I turned around and brought him home.
Of particular interest is the part about acrylic windows and the fact that Rush - an engineer - ignored everything he had been taught.
The New Yorker essay on Oceangate is really good, for those of you that enjoy a long read.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen
Happy Friday all. I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
It's amusing to me that if you choose 'Update and shutdown' AND the updates require reboots you'll still encounter the phenomenon of thinking that you chose 'restart' instead. It's logical behavior, and yet...
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In a difficult situation, my wife once told me: “People tell me I’m tough because they don’t see me cry but believe me, if I’d think it’d help, I’d throw myself to the floor and cry all day and night.” Most people only leave the house on their good days. It’s not easy to know how people are really doing. At the same time, telling people about a hardship sometimes reveals a dozen of people in similar situations. It’s weird. Like a whole underground of hardship beneath the veneer. If you’re not doing well, I hope your situation improves and that you can find the people you need to talk to. Because life can be hard.
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There's a lot of debate about the relative merits of remote work, but I will tell you this: People absolutely use it as a means to hide when they're needed.
Although my favorite part of this interaction was "can you use your admin account to fix it?"
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