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At what number of grains of sand does a non-pile graduate into being a pile?

I’m of the view that this is a semantic question where we have a word, “pile”, that describes a general amount but doesn’t have a specified quantity to it, and so the only way we can determine the amount of units required to constitute a pile at the bare minimum, is through public consensus on the most commonly shared...

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Homebrew router?

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Yes - I have been running IPFire on an old desktop for several years now and I really like it.

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Call it bloom if you want, but it is really mold.

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This is the most likely problem. There is no way the output from fdisk should be different between the two connections (the USB and SATA) if they are both working correctly.

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It seemed inevitable. No one will claim him, let’s hope he goes to the Marlies and finds his form. Meanwhile, it will be interesting to see if they call up Hildeby for a look.

How to set LightDM and XFCE to only start when I want them and not at boot

I’d like to keep XCFE for VERY occasional use, so when I’m not using it I’d like to quit it. Also I don’t want it to start at boot. I’ve found a bunch of ways of uninstalling it but that’s not what I’m after, I just want to make sure it is not running unless I start it.

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To stop the lightdm from starting, you should be able to disable it by this command:

sudo systemctl disable lightdm

If XFCE still starts automatically, then check your .bash_profile. If there is a line like:

exec startxfce4

then put a # in front of it. Once that is done, you can start XFCE any time by typing exec startxfce4 at the command line. When in XFCE, if you log out it should put you back to your command prompt.

Switching to Electric Heating (lemmy.ca)

I went to the Ontario Hydro calculator to look at switching from oil heating to electric (natural gas not available here). This calculator says that I can save about $400 per year by switching. I have much doubt about this. Has anyone actually done this switch? Do you believe this?...

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