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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.

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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/

philbaker1,
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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

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