corsicanguppy

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

corsicanguppy ,

Just pining for the microgravity.

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Board ( www.inquirer.com )

"But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he is a danger to democracy and unfit for office.”...

corsicanguppy ,

He’s going to RBG us.

If Pres Biden ends up resigning during his administration, early or late, almost anyone else in the country is still a better replacement than Mr Trump. Actual mobsters may be better at running the country than Mr Trump.

corsicanguppy ,

I suspect the make-up and shoe were a metaphor for fronts and personalities, but that may be a little deep.

corsicanguppy ,
  1. Don't switch horses mid-race
  2. Deal with this after we've secured democracy
  3. You may not BE a Russian spammer working to elect the orange degenerate puppet by sowing discord and making people not vote, but that just means you aren't getting paid for it.
corsicanguppy ,

If he cared about the country, he would've

... worked to ensure WE HAVE A DEMOCRACY by not switching horses mid-race, and schedule every next step after DEMOCRACY IS SECURED .

Sorry to shout, but it's hard to be heard over the bleating of the Russian bots.

corsicanguppy ,

AoC needs to be VP for like 4 terms before being prez. Hammer home some decency and yeeeears of success so the fat old white guys can't ignore her like they do with VP Harris. Also, AoC as a VP for almost a generation as the nation's conscience kinda makes me happy.

Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab?

Hi all. I was curious about some of the pros and cons of using Proxmox in a home lab set up. It seems like in most home lab setups it’s overkill. But I feel like there may be something I’m missing. Let’s say I run my home lab on two or three different SBCs. Main server is an x86 i5 machine with 16gigs memory and the others...

corsicanguppy ,

I don't prefer proxmox, but I will say that when you have even a machine with 8 or 16gb RAM, virtualizing a workload on it just makes sense. At that point the cost is 12% resources, and the benefits IMHO farrr outweight that.

corsicanguppy ,

Psst. There's a psychological phenomenon that makes polarized fans more loyal. Nickelback enjoys this part.

And I've got like 7 CDs on my shelf.

corsicanguppy ,

Canadians know this is for American cops.

corsicanguppy ,

No, comrade.

corsicanguppy ,

corsicanguppy ,

My wife got the air pods pro 2 I think. Can't tell one from the other. She preferred the Samsungs so she got those and gave these to me because I liked them

And I do. It's the only piece of apple tech I have.

For me they for REALLY well. And I want people to be happy like me so I'm thinking all of the usual things you've been asked or recommended before. Because I want you to like yours like I like mine.

You know: try different tips, go watch a YouTube to confirm it's fitted right, etc. All ye things you've done or thought of doing, try it again with an open mind. And then sell them off, but yeah.

I hope, since this is probably a ways ago, that your current earbuds are working well. Phones seem to be incapable of a headphone jack, despite my startac-7800 fitting one in, so it's got to be fucking radio earbuds all the way, so you gotta find some that fit and make you happy.

corsicanguppy ,

I love that you've set that boundary there and stick with it. Admirable.

corsicanguppy ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouya ?

Wow. Okay, I misread it before, but still tell me more. What's your story ?

corsicanguppy ,

Ink stinks, but I'll condone the toner. Inkjets are so unreliable compared to lasers. Good luck, but I worry you're stacking the deck against yourself a bit with the ink and would hate to see you lose here.

corsicanguppy ,

3055 was good.

1012 and ilk were also good, from the same era. I still have one of those running.

My LJ4+ lasted 21 years, the first part in an office setting and the latter a retirement in my home (and about 12 house moves). For its 19th I got its RAM filled. Woo! But we decided "as a household" that we didn't need a reliable energy pig printer for a few pages a month. It made the lights flicker and the UPSes report a brownout. But it was a good printer.

Now we have an m404n and it's everything today it needs to be.

corsicanguppy ,

All true. All good points.

I'm running out of places to buy a phone that offers a jack, though.

But my home rig is a USB sound dongle to wired earbuds usually. Occasionally a set of ANC buds for the bad days.

corsicanguppy ,

I always wanted to be the cool hipster with cabled headphones and getting mad about phones without audio jack.

I'm triggered for I think I'm in this comment. But I'm less 'cool hipster' and more 'cantankerous nerd'. But allllll the rest is true.

corsicanguppy ,

iPhone 4, nexus5, samsung7, samsung10, and all I can say is the Samsungs aren't like the nexus5 but at least they're not apple, whose keyboard and features I just hate. Good earbuds though.

corsicanguppy ,

Second this. When I sit at my desk, the phone's on the Qi pad. I don't need it all the time, and it's fine to stay there 30 min. When I sleep, same thing. I actually use a smaller charger brick so it charges more slowly overnight. I don't know what it's a better charge for the battery if it stays lower temp but it feels right.

corsicanguppy ,

I learned 'cable macrame' from my networking mentor. I can wrap a cable so fast, and it's not gonna tangle.

corsicanguppy ,

A few more squares and we have the bingo board ready to go

corsicanguppy ,

Fast, and easy to edit. It was a fantastic start page.

corsicanguppy ,

My latest day-job employer has made the switch from Apples (and s20fe) to pixels. The staff - mainly nerds - is actually generally pleased with the switch.

If the embarrassment that is Purolator (our national postal service offshoot courier 'service') was adequate last week, not only would they break a 20-year streak but also I'd've had my shiny company pixel by now and could pepsi-challenge it against my wife's shiny new company iphone.

corsicanguppy ,

Their phone virtual-keyboards enrage me. I just can't take them any more.

corsicanguppy ,

$100k is supposed to be a lot? Really?

It's definitely more than. 50k or 25k but I'm thinking with $1m house prices it's not what it used to be.

corsicanguppy ,

Running npm install would give me a mini heart attack

It should; but more because it installs things right off the net with no validation. Consistency of code product is not the only thing you're tossing.

Shot in 1.6 seconds: Video raises questions about how trooper avoided charges in Black man's death ( apnews.com )

Julian Lewis didn’t pull over for the Georgia State Patrol cruiser flashing its blue lights behind him on a rural highway. He still didn’t stop after pointing a hand out the window and turning onto a darkened dirt road as the trooper sounded his siren....

corsicanguppy ,

Your restraint shows a great deal of character. I don't know I'd have the same fortitude in the same situation.

corsicanguppy ,

Immediately thought the skeptics would say something like "any journo not paid by the IDF cannot be counted on to deliver the news the IDF wants and is therefore a threat to IDF morale", or something like that, to justify shooting these negative elements.

I'm sure the real cognitive dissonance will sound something like that.

corsicanguppy ,

The NCIS two-hackers-one-keyboard video is the metric by which all other suck is measured.

corsicanguppy ,

Only two? We passed 2 a few years back. I've seen 8 but if the average isn't 4 I'll be surprised.

corsicanguppy ,

I quit my startup like that.

We were making it: we were eking by and just starting to turn the corner when one of the partners did some legal wrangling to grab power. FineYouDoIt.jpg because I'd had enough already and prepped my next job.

Hopped a plane. Hopped another. Hopped another. Three people on the planet knew where I was: Mom, GF, and guy who bashes bags at the local airport who saw my name on the flight manifest and checked my connection. Went to the waiting apartment to start the next day. Never looked back, didn't answer email except when Cop friend emailed and asked whether I was missing. Nope, so case closed.

corsicanguppy ,

Only one country can stop the belligerent invasion of this sovereign nation, and Germany isn't it. The only way that's going to happen is through absolutely massive and cruel sanctions and trade blockage.

Enough is enough.

Capitulating to the monster paying your salary isn't really a choice. The people of Moldova, Georgia, Lithuania and Romania, among others, need the invasion stopped and reparations imposed or they know they'll be next.

corsicanguppy ,

Russia [...] made a realistic proposal for a ceasefire just a few days ago. Germany[,] along with the rest of the West[,] immediately rejected it.

"Let us have some of what we stole" isn't a solution for a peace that lasts. You should be allowed to know better than this.

corsicanguppy ,

Did they actually use the phrase "hide the evidence or we could get caught", or was that just how I picture the conversation?

Why can't news say "wanted to hide evidence to avoid punishment"?

Boebert faces first election Tuesday since switching districts and the vaping scandal ( apnews.com )

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert faces voters in Colorado’s GOP primary election Tuesday after she fled a tough reelection race to run in a more Republican-leaning district, harried along the way by accusations of carpetbagging and still bruised by an embarrassing video....

corsicanguppy ,

Wow. It's like the asshole quadrifecta.

corsicanguppy ,

It's not the product, it's the cavalier consumption of unsigned add-ons despite knowing better.

corsicanguppy ,

Fraud, theft, and bad spelling.

Trump?

corsicanguppy ,

I built and maintained Open-source software.

I worked for SCO during the time when the rabid halfwits were weaponized by IBM to vilify everything SCO did or didn't do via Pamela-the-ex-IBM-employee's 'totally impartial' website. SCO was, and remains, the best job and work environment ever.

My software was surely used by nefarious types. But by that time, I was done with it: I code it, I build it, I distribute it, and then it belongs to the world. You can't have it any other way, really.

And, one day, find out what really happened with SCO/IBM.

corsicanguppy ,

I want to understand what Skippy says, but when 'literally' is the best adverb available I just don't want to hear any more.

corsicanguppy ,

Months before. By the time it comes around, the only thing we're doing is calling the cab to the posh airport hotel (because fuck yeah) and bugging out.

corsicanguppy ,

Quick reminder: only for 4 months of the last 44 years have the Dems held the admin, house and Senate, that triumvirate that lets them do anything positive without selling everyone out for the smallest of handouts.

corsicanguppy ,

Both are massive security risks.

Carry on.

corsicanguppy ,

Um, sorry. We'll be more polite.

corsicanguppy ,

The CF is an armed force. It's a force that is armed.

Primarily it's brought out for prisoner search and sandbags. So, so, so-so, so, so many sandbags.

corsicanguppy ,

The Clovis people would like a word.

But they're wiped out. Violently.

Weird how that's not in the stories though.

corsicanguppy ,

But nntpd is still out there. Rebuilding Usenet will suck. But it's not impossible. Start from the net2 sites again.

Old mail RFCs included an instant message channel. I'm sure I saw code in either sendmail or uw-imap for it too.

I like the fediverse, but the old ways are still valid for their particular payload.

corsicanguppy ,

Same as when the education level goes up. You know too much, I guess.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • test
  • worldmews
  • mews
  • All magazines
    •