jq

@jq@vmst.io

Father, husband, obsessive tinker. Progressive, skeptic, secular humanist.

Perennially interested in all kinds of crafts. Sewing, soldering, making things. Self hosting, Linux, Android, retro stuff, containerized microservices. Niche, meta, retro gaming. Theory and philosophy. Career sysadmin, kubernetes these days.

Degree in musical theatre. I like to sing and play guitar. I volunteer with the Outdoor Service Guides and enjoy camping with them.

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jq, to random

There is at least a billion people in this world who'll consider their prayers answered if they could switch places with you.

  • Sam Harris
jq, to random

Well, I made a commitment today. I'm building a 2.4 r2. Wish me luck! It was either that or a Switch and some games.

This is the next (big) step into getting a little more serious about project work with my kids. I hope it pays off for us 😅

jq, to random

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."

  • variously attributed

As far as I'm concerned, an older person who justifies their politics with a trite, quippy aphorism that equates social stagnation and fiscal greed with maturity and intelligence is a myopic fool with crepey skin, papering over an ugly agenda.

jq, to random

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

  • Desmond Tutu
jq, to random

I was about to get a used Switch in trade for some other electronics I'm selling, so I quickly did some homework to see what the pitfalls might be and ran across this. It also made me decide not to buy that, or any, used Switch unless for a purpose where online access is completely irrelevant.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/11hwwqz/psa_for_second_hand_switch_owners_if_your_switch/

Buyers should consider consoles in 2023 as perishable, consumable goods, and probably as fit to purpose as a used kleenex.

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one of the things that leaves me with dread constantly, is how i'm entirely different person when talking/reading in my native language.

maybe instead of poorly improving it as i've been trying till now, i should simply just cut it off entirely...? i mean what's one more thing when i'm already a mess

jq,

@voidoverseer2501 I find it fascinating that language and even dialect to a degree has so much to do with actually suggesting personality traits and behaviors.

I've heard it said that if a person wants to be happier, they should smile more; the act of smiling affects mood as the other way around. It seems that language structures shape thought in a not dissimilar way.

jq, to random

I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and sit down at the side of some shady lane and say, 'Nope, I ain't gonna kill nobody.' Plenty of rich folks want to fight, give them the guns.

  • Woody Guthrie
jq, to random

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.

  • Will Ferrell
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Whenever someone messages me to offer half my asking price on Facebook marketplace, from now on I'm going to say yes, absolutely.

I will then give them a location for pick up that is decently far away from their location, in traffic. And then they will know what it means to be insulting and waste people's time.

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How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, piss, brush teeth, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?

  • Charles Bukowski
jq, to random

I found a placeholder for now. It's called "Quote Unquote" and it's free on F-Droid. Not exactly what I wanted but close enough.

jq, to random

When Students cheat on exams it's because our School System values grades more than Students value learning. - Neil Degrasse Tyson

jq, to android

I'm looking for an to replace my old "RIF is Fun" one for doomscrolling interesting topics.

or would be awesome, (real, not Fox) is OK. But it wants to be full wide, one row, minimal, and ideally featuring a virtually endless pool of links that can click through to a web page or its own viewer. Preferably it's designed to respect prime handheld real estate.

would be best, but I don't mind paying outright for something. Ads and subscriptions are deal breakers.

jq, to random

One from the vault:

How to Speed Your Mail Delivery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhXVrp0_oI

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    jq,

    @SavahRellcast My degree is in musical theatre, therefore every single thing I do all day every day that has to do with other people uses my degree.

    I work in software :)

    jq, to random

    I've been maintaining a subscription to a which, for the last couple of years, I really have no use for. I don't use Netflix in Bangladesh or have special data acquisition needs.

    It's really hard for me to imagine all the Luddites thinking they will die without a VPN.

    The huge number of VPN operators being kept afloat by YouTube shill activity suggests to me that either something is wrong with my stack, or I'm completely overlooking something I shouldn't be..

    jq, to random

    I have dreamed of this day

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    Pick one

    jq, to android

    Pro tip:

    On , if you are on a channel page, you can "Share" from the three dot menu directly to , and create a new feed for that channel.

    It's almost as easy as clicking subscribe!

    jq, to random

    When I first saw that infographic, I was like, damn, you watch too much YouTube. But after thinking about it for a second, now I'm like, damn, your kids watch too much YouTube.

    jq, to random

    Newegg just emailed me to let me know that because of FantasTech price protection, they are automatically refunding me the difference between something I bought two weeks ago and the new, lower price that item is today.

    I have bought a lot from Newegg over the last 20 years, but not much recently. Maybe once or twice a year. But they just jumped to the first place I will look for high dollar tech purchases.

    THAT is marketing.

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    Whenever someone asks you to give a presentation on a topic in front of a large group of people, spend as much time picking out and praising individuals in that group as you do covering content, if at all possible.

    You will be invited to speak again.

    jq, to random

    I use the term "down the rabbit hole" multiple times a week. Maybe every day. Commonly anyway.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2021/12/pilled-suffix-meaning/620980/

    jq, to random

    https://medium.com/@dekaah/22-axioms-of-the-extreme-go-horse-methodology-xgh-9fa739ab55b4

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY8Wi7XRXCA

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