So, been trying duckduckgo for search for a few days, and it's been, well, okay-ish... until this evening when all my queries spin for a while and then result in:
Sorry, we ran into an error displaying these results. Click here to try again.
Suppose it's time for me to give duckduckgo another look (it's never amazed me before, but google results keep getting less and less useful, so who knows).
@swetland in my personal experience, at least when it comes to technical/programming stuff, duckduckgo almost always finds what I need. And when it doesn't, it's very rare Google has better results.
Okay, it is now way past time to ditch my #Sonos gear for something that actually works.
Been using their stuff since 2005 and for the first 10 years or so it was magical, every update made it better.
Sadly they reversed course on that and have been following in Adobe Acrobat's "you won't believe what they broke this time" model for software "improvements" in recent years.
This latest update nuked a bunch of daily-use features for me with no timeline for their return, among other disasters.
Exploring restic for backing up my workstation (to local external volumes and probably "the cloud" too) at the suggestion of a friend. https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Maybe just in time, because...
[605358.398403] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 131640760, 1024 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
[605358.398428] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 131640760 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 88 prio class 2
Now I'm replacing the primary NVMe SSD tomorrow too...
@mikef Seems like consumer drives supposedly should be good for 1 year offline at 30C (worst case), and 5-10 years seems within the realm of possibility (for a drive in good condition).
I think as with anything "don't rely on a single backup" is probably the best policy (see also: "RAID is not a substitute for backups").
Not sure there are any great options for high capacity (100s of GBs or more) long term offline storage...
Not sure if other people do this, but I use notifications of favorites/boosts as a discovery mechanism for accounts to possibly follow.
I mean it's a potential sign they have similar interests, so might as well visit the profile and see if they post interesting stuff you want to see more of.
I'll often favorite a few posts along the way too, which I hope doesn't seem too weird to people!
Anyone have a recommendation for a scanner that works reliably with Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for preference), ideally using the scanimage commandline tool?
My goal is to scan some old photos at 1200 DPI. I picked up a CanoScan LIDE 400 and it is extremely fussy, stopping responding until I unplug/replug it every now and again (dunno if that's the scanner, the driver, or what, exactly).
Nothing's larger than 5"x7". Flatbed seems preferable.
"There are a lot of people who viewed All Systems Red as a cute robot story. Which was very weird to me, since I thought I was writing a story about slavery and personhood and bodily autonomy. But humans have always been really good at ignoring things we don't want to pay attention to. Which is also a theme in the Murderbot series."
Was chatting with some folks this morning about how much I enjoyed Immersive Sim games (Deus Ex, System Shock, Dishonored, Prey, Control, Deathloop, Fallout 3, etc) and was reminded of the verticality and environmental storytelling that I really enjoyed in Dishonored 2.
So, have some screenshots of some witches having tea on a chandelier in a museum.
So, I am forced to wonder, having accidentally shipped a package to someone's previous address due to a stale ups.com contact... is there really no way to edit or delete a contact on ups.com, or is this feature just hidden incredibly well?
I thought, aha, I'll just create a new contact with (2024) in the nickname to help avoid this issue in the future. It appears you can only do that as the side effect of creating a new shipment, and it's only saved upon completion and payment. Amazing.
@swetland I was just on the other side of this galaxy brain software. I made a new shipment with a new contact and it created a new contact but completely unlinked the actual shipment (as if not logged in) and I didn't notice this nonsense until I tried to get the receipt which didn't exist. No record of a shipment to the contact (even though actually printed, shipped, and received). Whatever is going on over there is truly amazing.
This week I became aware of toki pona, a very minimalistic, small, simple (120 words) conlang that's been around since 2001 and is apparently pretty popular (as such things go). https://tokipona.org/
The classic MacOS code segment approach is kind of fascinating. I had just sort of assumed that, being a 32bit architecture, things would be much simpler, but I'm used to 32bit platforms that lean heavily on an MMU.
The desire for position independent code (and avoiding complex relocation) combined with the 68K's limit of 16bit offsets for PC-relative access, and the need to be very frugal with memory in early Mac systems clearly drove a lot of this design.
That was an adventure. Managed to get one of the included demos to build with Consulair Mac C 5.02 on System 6 (in the Mini vMac emulator).
Setting up working search paths with the Path Manager was a bit involved. The files on the install disks were not actually organized in a way compatible with the default search path setup.
And the resource compiler refused to write a .rsrc file, but would write a .rel, which did link with some changes to the link script.