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philbaker1

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#GenX tech enthusiast and weather nerd. I have interests in amateur radio, home theater, MST3K and Formula 1.

Above all: Diversity, equity, inclusion and representation for everyone. ♥

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philbaker1, to random
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I'm this old.

Netscape browser logo that became animated when a page was downloading.

passthejoe, to guix
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I'm as intrigued by as I was by , but ultimately I'm not sure the complexity is worth it for me.

Even has a ratio of complexity vs. benefits that fits well with my work (and play) flow.

, and all hide enough of the nitty gritty behind the scenes — updates happen without me needing to know it.

And traditional is so familiar and reliable, it's hard not to tap it for just about any use case.

philbaker1,
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@passthejoe I’m also intrigued by NisOS. But the barrier to entry is too high for me. I’m already overcommitted.

AlmaLinux just works for me. And it keeps my RHEL familiarity level up for my day job.

Still on my todo list: migrate my home NAS/Plex server from Ubuntu 22.04 to FreeBSD.

philbaker1, to random
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Ugh. Looks like 16 (East) has suffered a failure. Not sure how serious yet. This is the last image, timestamped 13 May 0016Z.
https://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/status/messages/

GOES East status update from NCEP SDM: ...GOES EAST SAT IMAGERY STOPPED UPDATING... NESDIS reported the following via Email: "All products delivered to AWIPS, GRB, PDA -Issued: May 13, 2024 0100Z; Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 12, 2024 0019Z; Date/Time of Expected End: TBD..Details/Specifics of Change: GOES-16 All Products and derived products All Scenes delivered to AWIPS, GRB, PDA. Suspected Source of Anomaly is the Satellite/Instrument".

philbaker1,
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No official status update yet, but a 0201Z image just arrived. Hopefully just a hiccup.

philbaker1,
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First thing that went through my mind... was this outage related to the solar storm? I don't feel qualified to even speculate. But the solar flux this evening isn't as high as the past two days.
https://www.spaceweather.gov/

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@ai6yr I’m guessing not(?), since the effects of the CME are waning. Who knows. This is the first GOES outage I can remember, but at least it appears to be brief.

philbaker1,
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@ai6yr remember -> remember in a long time

philbaker1, to memphis
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Well lookee there. I stepped outside and there it was. In the middle of .

philbaker1, to windows
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The melodious sounds of a new (work) laptop, straining under weight of 11 and the requisite anti-virus software. Nice toasty air coming out of the vent. 🔥

Dell laptop fan running at near full speed.

philbaker1,
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@elaterite It does. It typically lasts between 1 and 2 hours per charge.

The fan on my ThinkPad (running Fedora) hardly ever runs either. Cool and quiet. :)

philbaker1, to random
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"Dean is the second Boeing-related whistleblower to die in the past three months."
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/02/1248693512/boeing-whistleblower-josh-dean-dead

philbaker1, to linux
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In these days of "COMING IN HOT WITH THE BOOSTS!" Linux podcasts, I miss Dan, Nick and Gray-gray.
, also known as "The Southern Hemisphere's premier ReactOS podcast". 😉
https://archive.org/details/systemau_ep028

passthejoe, to linux
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AlmaLinux 9.4 beta is out: 4 reasons to consider it for your desktop | ZDNET https://www.zdnet.com/article/almalinux-9-4-beta-is-out-4-reasons-to-consider-it-for-your-desktop/

philbaker1,
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@passthejoe I agree completely. Although I don't use it much for desktop work, I have a low-end NUC that runs AlmaLinux very well in desktop mode. Wayland support out of the box and Flatpak there to provide the latest apps.

If one has bleeding edge homelab hardware, the latest mainline kernel from ELRepo runs great on Alma. Last I heard, kernel 6.9 (due out in May) will contain a complete rework of the CPU topology logic for heterogeneous CPUs (Intel 12th-gen and newer)
https://elrepo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=kernel-ml

philbaker1,
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@passthejoe The latest long term support kernel (6.6 as of this writing) is also available for EL 9 distros, if one so desires.
https://elrepo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=kernel-lt

philbaker1, to linux
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I've been experimenting with a mainline stable kernel on an VM
https://wiki.crowncloud.net/?Installing_the_Linux_Kernel_6x_on_AlmaLinux_9

philbaker1, to random
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I forgot to post this earlier. Monday's from the perspective of EGOES East.
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector.php?sat=G16&sector=smv

GOES East Band 3 imagery of the the 8 April 2024 eclipse, showing a path from northern Mexico through maritime Canada

philbaker1, to infosec
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‼️Regarding the CVE-2024-3094 - backdoored xz, beginning with versions 5.6.0

Checking my boxes for xz versions:
AlmaLinux: 5.2.5
Fedora: 5.4.4
Debian: 5.4.1
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3094

philbaker1,
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"PLEASE IMMEDIATELY STOP USAGE OF ANY FEDORA RAWHIDE INSTANCES"

Fedora 39, the latest stable release, is unaffected.
All versions of RHEL are unaffected.
CentOS Stream 9 unaffected.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users

philbaker1, to android
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As a longtime (now ) user, I couldn't care less what color the bubbles are in iMessage.

I do care that my texts to Android users are unencrypted. SMS is the telnet of messaging. It needed to die 10 years ago.

Apple is (purportedly) finally getting around to supporting . But I think the should nonetheless set a sunset date for .

'Green bubble shaming' at play in DOJ suit against Apple | NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241443505/green-bubble-shaming-android-apple-iphone?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

philbaker1, to random
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Retro computing is like classic car restoration for me- I'm happy to watch someone else do it. :)
https://youtu.be/M4604SvoyBc

philbaker1, to random
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MacRumors: Is 8GB of RAM Enough for a Mac in 2024?

No. Google Chrome’s app icon consumes 1.5GB RAM, before the browser is even launched.

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/is-8gb-ram-enough-macbook-air-pro-2024/

philbaker1, to GNOME
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Looking forward to incrementally improved font presentation in on . I have a personal guideline against buying a laptop or desktop monitor that requires fractional scaling to look correct. Fonts on GNOME already look good with integer scaling, in my experience.

And of course, this quote is worth repeating: "Text rendering differences are always subtle and, to some degree, a matter a taste and preference"
https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/

philbaker1, to climate
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https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-03-05/the-arctic-ocean-could-be-ice-free-within-a-decade

philbaker1, to chicago
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Population density / storm report density.

philbaker1, to random
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GOES East Fire Temperature RGB imagery showing fires over the high plains this afternoon.

GOES East Fire Temperature RGB product

philbaker1,
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Lincoln, NE was 81 F at 3 PM. Relative humidity 9%. Winds gusting to 38 mph. This is west Texas weather in eastern Nebraska. 80+ degree weather was unheard of in my childhood, growing up in Omaha and Lincoln.

The record high for today is 79, which breaks a 128 year old record by 2 degrees.

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