my pro tip.

I see what you did there.

Torvalds uses it too I believe, so you’re in good company (Debian for me, though my heart belongs to Slackware).

I’m not sure they’ve had bugs as severe as CVE-2023-4863 though?

VNC? You have your choice of servers, and clients are ubiquitous.

A big gotcha is that you need to be careful with encryption/security, as in classic UNIX style VNC does one thing (remote desktops). It’s easy to forward over ssh though.

You can also use VNC to share, which is not what you want; this depends on the type of server/settings. But you can definitely create a new virtual X11 session and access it remotely.

As they say, it costs a lot to be poor.

Huh, it’s not like there are any security issues with it…

San Francisco’s current trolly bus fleet are from New Flyer, a Canadian company, though they use German motors.

Huh. I was expecting the comments to be a little more of the Fuck Cars crowd.

In my city there was a whole kerfuffle because people were fined for parking in their own driveway due to it not actually being a driveway, as there was no garage, despite having a curb cut. It sounds like this sort of thing has been changed under the new mayor.

The difference between a cheap bike and a nice bike is similar to the difference between a Chromebook and a decked out ThinkPad or Macbook IMHO.

You’re absolutely right: most folks just browse the web, and a Chromebook is enough. But the other products do have value.

Whenever I mess with my bike brakes, I only do one wheel, then a few rides later allow myself to do the other. That way if I botch it I should have another brake that sorta still works.

I don’t think it does—I think OOP is doing the math and then inputting the sum.

The thing that fascinates me is that every single digital microwave I’ve ever used behaves the same way, and allows the “seconds-place” to be 0-99.

My best guesses are

• There’s some ASIC that’s been around forever and everyone uses it (a cockroach chip like the 555)
• The first digital microwave did this and all subsequent ones followed
• There’s actually some implementation reasons why this is way more sensible.

Writing it in software, there are different ways that folks would probably implement it, for example, “subtract one, calculate minutes and seconds, display” seems reasonable. But nope, every one I’ve ever used is just the Wild West in the seconds department.

In CA and we pay north of $40k in daycare alone for each kid.

I’m a little confused – debt and balance aren’t the same thing, at least that’s my understanding?

My understanding (and quick searches seem to agree?) is that cc balance is how much you owe on your card; cc debt is how much you carry over to your next statement. You only pay interest on the debt part.

My cc balance climbs every month and then goes to zero when I pay it off, so I don’t pay any interest.

There’s even an extend.mode on some POE switches that’s good for 250m or so, but it drops to 10Mbps. That’s possibly enough for a POE camera with one client, though.

Nice, I use Amcrest cameras with Frigate and I’ve been happy. No app, no cloud, and I have them on a VLAN with no Internet access.

We just bought a combo heat pump unit and I love it. Dirty goes in, clean and dry comes out. Not cheap though.

A big complaint from others/reviews is that they take too long. For us it’s not really an issue because we like our machines (washer/dryer, dishwasher…rsync backups, whatever) to work while we sleep.

Recent purchase, we’ll see about reliability.

Not a historian, but folks on The Internet have characterized the Soviet program as a series of milestones, with the US program a series of stepping stones in support of a single goal.

This makes sense with the cartoon, where the Soviets were first in basically everything except walking on the moon.

Not sure how much merit it has, but it’s kinda interesting.

Bookmarked, thanks!

I bought a Rockchip SBC (Orange Pi 5+), and when it worked it was awesome…but man, the software support (mainly kernel space) is just not there. Exercise in frustration to get everything working at the same time.

Currently running armbian. I don’t think HW acceleration is working, and I don’t think HDMI out is even working, but for my use case it’s a stable config…for now.