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outbound, 1 month ago

At the end of the day, you are the only one who is genuinely interested/invested in ensuring that your ass is protected with a rental vehicle. Rental insurance is one of the things you should neveral generalize; always investigate and fully understand your specific car rental. Never trust that just because you’re in province/state X that the rental vehicle must adhere to the local insurance requirements - rental companies often register vehicles outside a specific province/state (because its cheaper) and the liability limits may be very different. Vehicle rental companies generally offer add-on insurance - if you want to go this route then fully read the details and ensure that you are satisfied that you’re adequately covered; this is particularly important when you’re out-of-country.

Personally, when feasible, I always pay for my rental with a credit card that includes rental insurance that I have confirmed adequately covers me. As a backup, my personal vehicle’s insurance also includes full rental coverage. In all cases, make sure to speak with the insurer ahead of time and discuss the limits of the insurance and what their procedure is if you get into an accident, particularly when you’re out of your home province/state or country.

outbound, 1 month ago

Umm… 115 active (yeah, a good chunk of these were still active under the snowpack). Thirteen in the last 24 hours.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/71b2a1a1-8b40-429d-a1a6-49bda00da021.jpeg

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/f0e7bb3b-98dc-459d-a5c4-ec05071edd04.jpeg

outbound, 1 month ago

Yes. ssh’s RSA encryption uses liblzm.

outbound, 3 months ago

Electric kettle + Celestial Apple Cinnamon tea in a Yeti thermos. Let brew for 3-4 hours. It is absolutely glorious.

outbound, 5 months ago

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/0d4e5795-3439-420e-84c5-250a5462a131.jpeg

outbound, 5 months ago

Bluetooth works great. Debian w/ XFCE (pulseaudio). But, there is some config on a fresh install:

<span style="color:#323232;"># apt install blueman pulseaudio-module-bluetooth  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># nano /etc/pulse/default.pa  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">add:  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">load-module module-switch-on-connect  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># nano /etc/bluetooth/input.conf  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">change:  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">IdleTimeout=0  
</span>

outbound, 6 months ago

I’ve got a Meebook M6 that I’m very happy with. Its basically an e-Ink Android tablet with and SD slot and Google Play, so you can load the Kindle app or whatever you want if you’ve got that stuff. Most importantly, I use the Moon+ Reader app and load .epub/.cbz/etc formats plus it does an awesome job of reformatting .txt/.pdf/.lit. Bonus for me: Moon+ also supports custom fonts, so I can use Dyslexie.

outbound, 8 months ago

Wherever you go, there you are.

outbound, 8 months ago

Flash Gordon

outbound, 8 months ago

Sounds like people are reporting some of the posts as SPAM/PHISHING… and that there have been enough reports to take down all posts containing links to the municipality.

outbound, 8 months ago

Actually, Mars was named after its founder, Franklin Clarence Mars.

outbound, 8 months ago

GO. It’s a Federal Government department that is jointly run by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of International Development, and the Minister of International Trade. Putting out travel advisories is part of their mandate.

outbound, 8 months ago

Yes. 50s. Canada.

I taught myself. I was 19 and working for a small company (3 employees total) and had a van for work for hauling around equipment. My boss called me to his house one day and told me that he was taking the van for a six-week fishing trip. “You can take my BMW. You know how to drive stick, right?” I shook my head “no.” “Well, you’ll figure it out”. Fortunately, he lived in the country so it was all quiet backroads for most of the trip home. By the time I got into the city, I (usually) didn’t stall it at traffic lights.

A couple years later, I took a three-day motorcyle (newb to driving licence) course. Three out of fifteen students knew how to drive a manual transmission car. Only the three of us passed and got our licence - the others were having trouble stalling 'cause it was the first time they had ever dealt with a clutch. (note: this was typical, the ones who didn’t pass could come back and try the final test again the following weekend).

outbound, 8 months ago

Canadian here… in spring, 10C is shorts and t-shirt weather, eh?

outbound, 9 months ago

I think it’s extremely unlikely that he’s not dead. If Prigozhin were to surface elsewhere in the world (e.g. Africa), Putin would be even more of a laughing stock. Putin simply wouldn’t risk anything less than absolute certainty.

However, I doubt that Prigozhin was alive when the plane took off; most likely Utkin and Chekalov were dead as well. Best guess is that the three were killed the night before.

outbound, 9 months ago

If anyone is interested a Defederation Investigator has been created. You can check to see which instances have defederated from your own.
Announcement Post: discuss.tchncs.de/post/2137736
WebApp: defed.xyz

outbound, 9 months ago

HELLO

outbound, 9 months ago

Refurbished ThinkPads are awesome!

• Availability - ThinkPads are very popular in corporate environments and are generally replaced every 2-3 years. Although mostly Intel CPUs, there is a wide variety CPU+GPU available from lightweight to high performance.
• Tough + well built + last forever
• Easy to upgrade/repair. They’re very user-accessible and its simple to upgrade RAM or SSD/M.2 drives. Plus, because they are so popular in the corporate environment, replacement parts (from batteries to WiFi+Bluetooth chipsets to trckpads) are very available and cheap.
• Well supported in most (if not all) linux distros. Graphics just work, trackpads just work, WiFi just works.
• Cheap.

Sent from my ThinkPad T580 (with both an internal and removable battery, I get 10+ hours of battery life)

outbound, 9 months ago

Always wipe and do a fresh install. If you’re installing Linux, its unlikely that the refurbisher will have installed your flavour of Linux anyway. If you want to dual-boot with Windows, most business ThinkPads come with a Windows Pro licence - just download the ISO and install it fresh, then install Linux.

outbound, 9 months ago

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/a5c52646-3ab0-4e83-915d-e41c011e01b9.png

Now and then I think of when I was in power
Like choking people with the Force until they died
But then you told them all my history
And took away my masculinity
And had my character portrayed by subpar actors.

youtu.be/qJlbPXZEpRE

outbound, 9 months ago

I’m running FireFox on Debian/XFCE. This is what works for me…

1. Right click on the toolbar window bar
2. Select “Customise Toolbar…” from the popup menu
3. Uncheck the “Title Bar” option in the lower-left corner

outbound, 9 months ago

I wrote a bash script that runs daily which 7z (AES256) the databases (well… I dump the DB as text and then 7z those files), web files (mostly WordPress), user files, all of /etc, and generate a list of all installed packages, and then copy the archives to a timestamped folder on my Google drive (I keep the last two nights, plus the last 3 Sundays).

TBH, the zipped content is around 1.5GB for each backup. So my 17GB of free GDrive space more than enough. If I actually had a significant amount of data, I’d look into a more robust long term solution.

If there was a catastrophic failure, it’d take me around six hours to rebuild a new server and test it.

outbound, 9 months ago

*For Twitter Blue users only

outbound, 9 months ago

^this