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Found a very sick bee on entry paving. It enjoyed a little sugar water (was thirsty) but sadly did not survive. The kids were very upset, they were really rooting for him.

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Today in 1987, 36 years ago: American hard rock band Guns N' Roses released the album Appetite for Destruction.

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"Due to the sensor being obscured the car no longer has brakes. This feature was added in build 2028 patch 1.51"

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The funniest thing is it covers all the optical sensors so it screams at me for five minutes warning that the safety systems are disabled.

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Car absolutely caked in condensation after the storm this morning. It looked like ectoplasm. I don't *think* it's haunted.

Crazy thunderstorm here. Intense light show. Easily the most intense this year.

I got an XPS 13 from Dell back in 2017 to play around with, I liked that thing but the battery died off so I put it in the recycling pile. Someone else surrendered a 15" model with the regular 1080 display and a miraculously healthy batter and I'm throwing Slackware on there for some fun.

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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
functionallyparanoid.com/imita

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This is him a few years ago sitting on his favorite perch and watching them go by.

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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.

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"We have liquidated all employees that were not having fun"

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