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Kazriko | @kazriko@alcatir.com

The usual. Software developer, former BBS sysop. Atari XE, Dos, OS/2, BeOS, Windows 2000/7 former user, Linux/FreeBSD/Haiku/OpenIndiana current user. The various places I post are listed: https://arkaic.com/

@pro A Standard Pi 0 is $5 and is basically the same thing as a $25 Pi A from the original line processor-wise. Of course, nobody uses Pi 0's anymore because everyone wants the wireless from the 0W. The newest thing is the Pi 02W which is as powerful as a Pi 3A, but for $15 instead of $25. It's impressive how much computing power you can get for $15 these days. That thing would give mainstream 2007 computers a run for its money, at less than 1% of the cost.

@pro Self hosting is one of the things I consider pretty important for computing. There's a lot of positive things to say about Rust, but the sheer mass of LLVM and its requirement is the one thing that makes Rust based OSes hard to self-host. CollapseOS is one thing that really focuses on making systems self hosting, but they barely count as "useful computers" by modern standards.

@Caernon I have a garage full of old monitors here (mostly 1080p.) It might be hard to get one to you though, but if there's a good way to send one...

@anime Yeah, I've caught up to what Mangadex has now, and it's pretty crazy how all the characters got twisted up in the comic.

@anime Certain parts of it are reminding me of Aggretsuko.

@anime 38 chapters in, and I'm sure she'll be alone forever, haha. Both of them have overly high standards, and they'll never find someone who will meet their standards and still be into them. https://mangadex.org/chapter/f6c08276-e8df-44f4-beeb-4beb00262e3d/9 I'll have to see if anything happens further in.

@union @Coyote I haven't looked at the details of that row, just talking about how the mass of the tank itself might be different. I'd have to do more research to see about the mass of the contents.

https://youtu.be/ZqlbkSsXf24 Russia's targeting the fringe right, China's targeting the fringe left, both are pushing them to the same authoritarian position.

@union I would think that you need something far more solid to keep smaller molecules from escaping.

@atoponce @Zergling_man @ademalsasa I didn't have the kid change over to Dvorak. Figured he could decide that for himself later.

@Zergling_man @ademalsasa @atoponce I never fully tested my speed with Qwerty, but because I learned Qwerty without proper typing style on old Atari computers, I topped out at somewhere around 75wpm on it. My wrists were also murdering me by the time I got to college. I easily hit 110 now with Dvorak without trying too hard, and my wrists usually don't hurt anymore.

I could probably get similar results on the wrist pain by typing qwerty properly, but it was a shortcut to getting proper typing form, relearning to type in an entirely different layout where I couldn't use looking at the keyboard as a crutch.

@wmd @ademalsasa @luka I find that to be quite a pain. I understand why they want to do it, this way they only need one API call to access the data, but it ends up sending way more data, and having far more round trips between the web browser and the server. I prefer making it so my pages contain the initial data, and only update via Javascript.

@atoponce @ademalsasa I've been using it since about 2000. The college where I worked, most of the IT staff used it, and many had keyboards that had no letters at all. I can switch to Qwerty just by looking down at the keyboard though, because I touch type only in Dvorak though.

@zaitcev (In order to destroy all Russian tanks with Javelins, you'd basically need every javelin missile ever manufactured, assuming about 33% of them fail or are used on non-tank transport. And many of those have already been fired in other theaters.)

@zaitcev What I mentioned to others in the early days when I looked at the sum total of Javelins that had been shipped to Ukraine vs the total number of tanks that Russia had on paper was that they only had enough Javelins to take out maybe 5% of Russia's tanks (they only had about 1500 missiles at the start of the war, and ended up getting another 4000ish over the course of the war.) Of course, they've gotten a bit more since then but I doubt it's enough to take out the remainder. Add the other anti-tank weapons they received that were Swedish-made (NLAWs) and they're still likely at less than 33% max. And we've seen some of those get wasted by firing at too short of ranges to the tanks, and not fully arming themselves before hitting the target. Of course, not all of Russia's tanks that they had on paper were fully operable either. They're now fighting in a much more wide open, less forested area of the country, so shorter range weapons like the NLAW are far less useful in that area. That's why they're asking for longer range weaponry that can be operated beyond the horizon. Biden isn't wanting to send them anything over 75 miles range because he and the state dept are worried that it will escalate things with Russia. (Even 75 miles could escalate things, because they can reach targets within Russia.)

The battle for the Donbas region's natural gas fields is much tougher since it plays to Russia's artillery strengths.

My Jellyfin server is definitely not up to spec for best practices. Garuda Linux? Lazydocker? Yeah, this stuff would never hold up in a corporate setting.

Attempts to use AirBNB to travel was pretty much a disaster. I think I'll just stick to normal hotels from now on.

@fribbledom Is the head of the household there? I'd like to talk to you about your car's extended warranty. Would you like to buy raffle tickets to support your local police. This call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes. (Generally, when the phone rings it's nothing important, just spam.)

@splitshockvirus Is this a redundant btrfs file system? If it's not redundant and your disk is having errors, then there's no source for good data when it encounters an error while doing a scrub. If it's redundant, then it will go check the other copy and move it to a different spot in the drive. Other file systems aside from zfs and btrfs will just quietly corrupt your files rather than catch that there's a corrupted sector

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