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solidgrue

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I’m just this guy, you know?

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Ah, another Harbaugh scandal.

Its possible to be too competitive. See: Harbaugh, Jim and Harbaugh, John. Not a fan of either. Glad to see the team of Harbaugh the Lesser finally being sanctioned.

(College sports in the US is a grift.)

solidgrue,
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Who says that’s not your average Thursday night at the Thomas residence?

Why no, I don’t have a point. Why do you ask?

solidgrue,
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The inner parts of the Milky Way (or any galaxy for that matter) is more, um, illuminated with hard radiation and cosmic rays than way out here in the 'Burbs of the Western Spiral Arm.

Fair chance biological life didn’t get much farther than something similar to Earth’s Giant Tube Worms for all that radiation.

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[GenXer wearing a noose]: First time?

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A painful lesson to be sure, but also perhaps an opportunity to spruce up or rethink some of those original automations and integrations. I’ve been messing with my own rig since the lockdowns and while it’s not exactly a mess, per se, I certainly know more now than I did then. Refactoring your code is rarely a spontaneous activity.

Also, I’m checking now and oops, syncing backups off-box broke thanks for prompting me to check!

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Oh, it’s all carbonated. Once the atmosphere is hot enough to lower the pressure across the boundary interface between air and sea and/or heat the oceans sufficiently to ex-gas, it’ll fizz. It’ll fizz for sure.

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HAOS on bare metal x86_64 here. No issues to report

House Votes to Extend—and Expand—Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a Major US Spy Program (www.wired.com)

After months of delays, false starts, and interventions by lawmakers working to preserve and expand the US intelligence community’s spy powers, the House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years....

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That kind of talk’ll get you listed, Comrade.

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I can source a replacement OP5T for about $200, but of there’s a better deal out there I’m interested

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I should open a Mastodon account

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Not really productivity services, but to name a couple,

  • Google One (extra storage, bonus YouTube Premium & YT Music premium)
  • MXroute for mail hosting (used to self host)
  • Amazon Prime (for the shipping, the content is a bonus for us)
  • Hulu (kid’s gotta see that ONE show… 🙄)
  • Lemmy.world (via Patron)
  • Couple of YouTube creators and app publishers I enjoy regularly (via Patreon)

I’m considering joining Nebula because many of the creators I frequently watch on YouTube are setting up shop up over there, and I’m getting irritated with YouTube for how The Algorithm is affecting the quality and content of the infotainment channels I enjoy.

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I’ve been hearing good things about Kagi.

Google search got so bad I use DDG by default now, but that seems to be Bing by another name and itself seems to be deteriorating.

solidgrue,
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You know? That might have been the case. I was an old Google Music subscriber, and I think when that rolled over to YT Music the subscription package bundled in YouTube premium. Later when I bit on the Google One subscription later, I think it was on a promotional offer. I remember it was about $100 at the time, and it aligned with some storage needs U had so why not?

I just looked and it seems the Google 1 and YT sub’s are billed separately. It was a while ago and my memory is hazy, but I’m into Google services for about $30 a month these days, and that’s what I pay for.

solidgrue,
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Same here. YT family plan, and $99/yr for the G1 storage (plus other benefits, but mostly the storage)

solidgrue,
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The best way to say thank you is to pay it forward. Always be mindful of the time when you were the new kid, and freely share your knowledg & experience with the next new kid behind you in the spirit of community.

Geek on!

solidgrue,
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I maintained an ejabberd server for myself and a few friends for many years. The config language was a little arcane to me at first, but it was pretty solid after I got it set up. I used a couple of different client apps with it over that time, most of which are still available on the F-droid repo. It was fun, but got annoying when the server needed maintenance, or was down, or because of any of the other minor nuisances that come along with maintaining a service for others to use.

Eventually we all ended up just moving over to Signal because it was just as good from the view of cost-benefit and risk for us. We’re just trading stupid memes and Saturday night stories among ourselves. The most radical thing we might organize is a trip to Vegas for the week.

Definitely try it out, but consider that being a comms provider for others is always a bigger chore than it seems at the outset.

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I hear you. The desktop wasn’t Signal’s primary market, and that’s pretty clear in their implementation. On the other hand, that difficulty registering a desktop servuce may make it less attractive to would-be bot farms and spammers. Its a thin one, but I see that as a silver lining.

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No, we all only ever used single mobile clients. Sorry I can’t help

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

solidgrue,
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Maybe not the solution you were asking for, but the Nvidia Shield on the stock code has been a fair compromise for me. The ads on the main screen are relatively unobtrusive, and sometimes even vaguely relevant to our viewing preferences. We largely watch Hulu, Prime and YouTube+ (with free access to AppleTV and Netflix, but I haven’t set those up yet). For ads, we pretty much only deal with Amazon’s new advertising in included Prime content. We’ll probably stop viewing that content once the series we’re currently watching wraps.

For context, my daily driver phone is LineageOS which is rooted all to heck to smack down intrusive advertising and tracking (Magisk, AdAway, AppManager to disable in-app trackers, uBlock on the browser, etc…), and my home network uses a pihole for DNS and malware blocking. I really hate advertisers.

On the pihole, the Shield is actually only the #3 top offender of blocked requests, behind my wife’s work laptop and my kid’s Steam rig. The main offender on the Shield was the ESPN app, which I removed because I never really watch sports outside of tye idd division game, which most of the time I meet friends out at the local pub anyway. Otherwise the Shield has been a well behaved appliance.

So it’s not the perfect ad-free experience, but its hardly the advertising dystopia of broadcast TV.

solidgrue,
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Eh. One 1-in-200 year earthquake and a run if the mill eclipse most of the country won’t see because it goan’ rain.

Tellya what, Maggs. I’ll split the difference with you and regret the Taco Bell I ate for lunch, whence arose an earthquake of a different color. Sounds like a fair deal to me.

solidgrue,
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You forgot “Florida Man”

solidgrue,
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NO U (ss) R

solidgrue,
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How do you edit or delete categories once you’ve created them?

To be sure, I’m using the companion mobile app and don’t see an obvious Categories editor. I haven’t explored the desktop UI fully for this question yet.

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Ah! There it is! Thank you.

Still a bit broken on mobile, but they’ll catch it up.

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