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passthejoe

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Journalist, itinerant programmer, picker, grinner. #Debian and #Fedora #Silverblue on the desktop, #AlmaLinux, #Fedora, #OpenBSD and #FreeBSD on the server. Husband, father, amateur gardener, cat herder, large appliance tinkerer.

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“She was about to lose her house, but the money she got from me via Guitar Center ultimately saved the situation”: Joe Bonamassa’s pre-war Martin was the ultimate “museum-grade” find – now it’s reborn as his first Martin signature | Guitar World

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/joe-bonamassa-martin-signature-model

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"He didn't tap a foot or move his head or anything. He listened to it all the way through and I thought he hated it": When an Eagle, Heartbreaker, Roger Linn and an Oberheim OB-X combined forces for a pop masterpiece – the Boys Of Summer story | MusicRadar https://www.musicradar.com/news/mike-campbell-don-henley-boys-of-summer-tom-petty

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We Didn’t Know It Was the Last Time (NYT gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/style/modern-love-we-didnt-know-it-was-the-last-time.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tU0.tdd_.ZjHqMu6pB1Kk

passthejoe, to guitar
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Mastery Bridges & The New Rise of Offsets

https://reverb.com/news/mastery-bridges-and-the-new-rise-of-offsets

passthejoe, to random
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The Beatles Track That Let Paul McCartney Revisit the First Instrument He Ever Learned - American Songwriter https://americansongwriter.com/the-beatles-track-that-let-paul-mccartney-revisit-the-first-instrument-he-ever-learned/

passthejoe, to random
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This is a very long article that doesn't make a lot of sense. If the tickets are selling later rather than sooner, what's the difference? You are still booking the revenue.

If selling early is that important, give a discount for early purchases. Create an incentive. Otherwise, don't complain.

Experts say audiences are buying tickets closer to events, causing 'lack of certainty' in industry - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-19/ticket-sales-australia-arts-music-theatre-industry/103820858

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Oberheim TEO-5 is the most affordable Oberheim synth ever: “The culmination of a synth pioneer’s vision” https://musictech.com/news/gear/tom-oberheim-teo-5-synthesizer/

passthejoe, to random
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Another great hard bop trumpet record: Freddie Hubbard's "Hub Cap"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hub_Cap_(album)

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This album is so good ... Clifford Brown -- bebop master.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_in_Brown

passthejoe, to guix
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I'm as intrigued by #Guix as I was by #NixOS, but ultimately I'm not sure the complexity is worth it for me.

Even #OpenBSD has a ratio of complexity vs. benefits that fits well with my work (and play) flow.

#AtomicFedora, #UniversalBlue and #OpenSUSE #Aeon all hide enough of the nitty gritty behind the scenes — updates happen without me needing to know it.

And traditional #Debian is so familiar and reliable, it's hard not to tap it for just about any use case.

passthejoe,
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I appreciate the large amount of documentation in . The PDF of the manual is 687 pages of LaTeX-formatted documentation:

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/

passthejoe,
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@AngryAnt I think the Guix documentation is pretty good. You don't see that volume of docs in most projects, and it definitely exceeds the bar for quantity. Quality is not bad, either.

For me the key is: Are enough people using the system, solving their problems and then sharing their solutions?

passthejoe, to guix
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Just saw this article on trouble with Nix.

@solene, are you looking into Guix?

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-04-27-nix-internal-crisis.html

#nix #guix

passthejoe,
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@solene I am downloading now to look at it in a VM.

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@chfkch @solene I did the install, then tried two `guix install packagename' commands. Neither led to usable software.

When I tried NixOS about a year or so ago, in the end I decided it wasn't for me, but at least I could install and run things.

passthejoe,
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@mrak0 @chfkch @solene It's been a journey (this morning ...)

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Using ChromeOS Flex on an 18-year-old MacBook https://www.xda-developers.com/i-used-chromeos-flex-18-year-old-macbook/

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Reviving a MacBook nearly 10 years old — by installing Windows https://www.xda-developers.com/i-revived-macbook-by-installing-windows/

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Retrotechtacular: How Not To Use Hand Tools | Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/retrotechtacular-how-not-to-use-hand-tools/

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Introducing The Swiss Army… Tool? | Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2024/05/09/introducing-the-swiss-army-tool/

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Here's one good reason you may want to 'downgrade' your SSD and lose capacity in the process — cheap QLC SSD can be transformed into expensive SLC to improve endurance but it's not for the fainthearted | TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/pro/heres-one-good-reason-you-may-want-to-downgrade-your-ssd-and-lose-capacity-in-the-process-cheap-qlc-ssd-can-be-transformed-into-expensive-slc-to-improve-endurance-but-its-not-for-the-fainthearted

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Got me an old but new-to-me AsRock A300 DeskMini PC with a Ryzen 2400G. Microsoft says "bah, too old for Windows 11" which is how I got it (traded my HP mini PC that is Win11 supported to a friend who needs Win11 for work-from-home).

What to do with it? Why, run of course!! I'm thinking minimalist backup workstation with cwm or i3 and as little else as possible that isn't in base already.

Firefox is a given, but apart from it and its dependencies what else would I really need? Thoughts? Opinions? Hit me.

passthejoe,
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@kaidenshi I always add Vim because I like to do all the Vim things -- like use a .vimrc.

I add ROX Filer as my minimal GUI file manager.

passthejoe, to RaspberryPi
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I just set up my first reverse proxy. Don't get too crazy — it was in the Caddy web server, where everything is easy.

I now have Caddy on my Raspberry Pi 4 Model B sending the traffic for one domain to a Raspberry Pi Zero W (also running Caddy).

Caddy makes this stuff easy.

I figured it out with this post:

https://caddy.community/t/running-a-caddy-server-behind-another-solved/13122/4

And the server (which is just showing the Caddy default page) is:

https://linux.stevenrosenberg.net/

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OpenBSD seems to run even better in the 7.5 release stevenrosenberg.net/posts/openbsd_75.txt https://stevenrosenberg.net/posts/openbsd_75.txt

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Democrats warn Mike Johnson: Don't get used to us saving you https://www.axios.com/2024/05/03/mike-johnson-democrats-mtg-motion-vacate?utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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