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vwbusguy

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Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?

Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22

Hoosier currently living in California.

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vwbusguy, to random
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Selling on Craigslist so far is a lot of people texting if it's still available, then never replying again when you say yes, except the ones that do reply after that are scammers with a pitch for some convoluted payment scheme.

vwbusguy, to random
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TIL that the US has had combat troops in Niger. It's long past time we quit trying to be the World Police.

vwbusguy,
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@gom A geopolitical game with Russia in which there are no winners.

vwbusguy,
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@sudoedit Those are fair points, but there aren't simply the extremes of isolationist and interventionist positions. These were combat troops stationed there.

Besides, while you pointed out that we weren't initially uninvited, it is also clear we are no longer welcome to be there, so leaving was the right call. I wouldn't call this a very effective campaign or use of our resources by any measure, nor a good reason to keep troops away from their families.

vwbusguy, to random
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Android needs something like pipewire, so you can specify that Spotify goes to the Bluetooth speaker, but the rest of the audio goes to the phone so notifications, texts, etc, don't cause blips in the music when you're streaming.

vwbusguy, to random
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When you're in the mood to play some rude blues, nothing scratches that itch quite like a Stratocaster.

vwbusguy, to random
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Imagine if the stock market disappeared tomorrow. Do you think we'd really be worse off? Surely, some would. But in general, would we really be worse off?

vwbusguy,
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@pdxmisfit People had pensions and personal savings.

vwbusguy,
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@WhiteCatTamer Without stocks, what gobs of cash?

vwbusguy, to random
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This really says something about this whole process.

gamingonlinux, to linux
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What do you think is the best thing to happen to in the last few years?

vwbusguy,
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@gamingonlinux There's a lot of good answers here already, but I'm going to say .

vwbusguy, to random
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Who had presidential candidate brain worms on their 2024 bingo card?

vwbusguy, to random
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Hard to believe it's been a year and a half since I published this fabulous code:

https://tinyurl.com/2u66atuy

vwbusguy,
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And it's !

https://github.com/vwbusguy/QbRick/blob/main/QBRICK.BAS

paradoxguitarist, to random
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Nothing says "Happy Friday" like water leaking out of your server room door.

vwbusguy,
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@paradoxguitarist It fits the theme of the past two weeks.

vwbusguy, to random
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How do password validators handle utf-8 characters/emoji that take up multiple code-points?

nirik, to random
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kudos dell for adding a "paste into management console" option in newer DRACs.

Now, if you could just make it not $@&^$&^%# mangle what I tell it to paste. It looks like it's spewing it too fast and steps all over itself sometimes. Anoying.

vwbusguy,
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@nirik Especially with how unforgiving iDRAC can be for login failures.

vwbusguy, to random
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This is a first for me - someone on is disappointed that I didn't hack a device that I'm selling there.

repeatro, to retrogaming
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...The authorities stated that the word Ninja doesn't fit into a comic series for children. 🥷

🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood

vwbusguy,
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@repeatro @berkough First time I knew about this was when I watched a German dub of it cartoon show.

vwbusguy, to random
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Welp, a plus side of this afternoon is that I got to learn a lot more about how to recover a corrupt postgresql database instance running on Kubernetes. It wasn't fun, but I eventually got something working again.

vwbusguy,
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There are less than fun ways to discover gaps in your current backup configs and to discover that the corruption was caused by a corrupt filesystem that had been slowly burning for days 😩

sjvn, to random
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The Osborne 1 was my first "portable" computer. If I'd tried swinging it like this, my arm would have come off in five minutes. It weighed almost 25 pounds.

vwbusguy,
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@richlv @sjvn And here's my post where I'm recreating the ad.

https://mastodon.online/@vwbusguy/108278704694858893

bentsukun, to fedora
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I wrote about my adventures with remix and its self-destructing file system.

https://bentsukun.ch/posts/fedora-btrfs/

vwbusguy,
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@release_candidate @bentsukun I've been using btrfs regularly since around 2015 on Fedora on several different machines and it's been great for me. Much of my day today at work was troubleshooting a corrupt lvm+ext4. Usually it's xfs that gives me trouble. There is no perfect filesystem for all use cases, but btrfs does a very good job for most of them.

(I'm also running it on my Asahi machines.)

vwbusguy,
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@release_candidate @bentsukun The regular Fedora installer does let you pick the FS. Asahi is a bit of a special case.

vwbusguy,
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@darkling @bentsukun Yeah, unfortunately, you're almost certainly right. Generally, this ends up being indicative of a failing disk scenario and not caused by the filesystem itself.

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