Living offgrid in a campervan since 2018 w/ pibble+boxer Muffin.
LIKE dogs, books, thoughtful people of all flavors DISLIKE bullies, sh1tposters, partisans, noise
90% of the time I use web interfaces, but I often have spotty connectivity while boondocking. So I need a client that can get/send gmail POP3 in narrow windows of connectivity.
I started with thunderbird but something (can’t remember what) wasn’t working well. Ended up with Evolution. It also syncs well to google calendar and google tasks.
What do you guys use for Windows to Linux remote access?
Putty
I want to see desktop
Some kind of VNC setup
fruits typically are made to be consumed, in the sense that it benefits the evolution of the plant
I suspect some fruits are made so that only particular spreaders can/will eat them. Like some flowers are shaped to allow certain pollinators and exclude others.
My father switched to linux (Mint, I think) in his 70s. I was in another state so he did it solo. He had a few questions but otherwise it was smooth sailing.
I don’t have numbers for brown rice, but when I cook 1c of dry white rice I see
The IP also requires less water. Both the energy and water consumption are important in my case because I live in a campervan offgrid.
nowadays Mint is Ubuntu with sane default settings that will run out of the box
There’s also an official version of Mint based on Debian (LMDE)
What’s on your “Everyday Carry” USB stick?
Do normal people who don’t do this stuff for a living use Linux now, outside handheld gaming devices?
I run into folks using linux fairly often in tech hobbies. Ham operators, DIY solar folk, people dorking around with a RasPi, etc. And some Normals who want a lighter experience than Win.
Last dedicated windows box I ran at home was Windows NT 4, IIRC. Last time I had to use it at work was Win7 (?) before I retired. I do have a Win7 virtual somewhere around here I spin up every couple years to run something obscure I can’t get to run in WINE.
Was it mainly a hobbyist thing at the time
Yes, I’d say so. Lots of tech geeks were playing with it but no Normals. Getting audio running was not always pleasant…
When I was in the army the S1 desk jockeys were using dedicated word processors with 8" floppies. Get off my lawn! :-)
Wireguard self hosting
I parsed this as Wireguard self-loathing and thought “that’s a little harsh”. :-)
warning: some non-linux included below
I do spin up other distros in a VM from time to time to see what’s what. Most recently NixOS since people won’t STFU about it. :-)
In the past I’ve aliased rm to a wrapper that showed PWD and the files to be affected, slept a couple seconds in case I wanted to abort, then shredded smaller files, rm’ed big files, or placed in a Trash dir for certain kinds of files (.conf, .cfg, etc).
I might try to find or rewrite it.
I have made countless mistakes since the 90s, mostly involving rm. The most recent one was yesterday when I was trying to rm files in a directory with lots of other unrelated files.
I don’t remember the exact failure, but I was shooting for something like rm *lng and typo’ed rm *;ng (those chars are next to each other on the kb). This happily rm’ed * (d’oh!) then errored on the nonexistance ng. :-(
“You’re not the boss of me” :-)
Agreed. I haven’t read the article yet, but my first thought was “how am I going to turn that off”
genmai cha, as is
ambient
Examples from Eno, the OG: 1/1, An Ending (Ascent)
What are everyone’s thoughts on bots like piped bot and tdlr bot
I don’t mind them. If I did I’d block them.
Any meaningful difference that improves my use. I’m a pragmatist, not a distro zealot.