Badabinski

I would not recommend ThirdReality zigbee smart plugs. Their firmware updates have been buggy far too often. Honestly, the only smart plugs I’ve been happy with are z-wave ones. Zooz ZEN04-LR and ZEN15-LR (for high current draw applications) plugs have been awesome for me. My hub is PoE, so I can easily stick it centrally in my home.

There’s also OnShape if you’re okay with all of your stuff being publicly available. I bounced off of FreeCAD as an Inventor user, but OnShape was pretty painless for me. FreeCAD is the better option because it’s FOSS and not SaaS garbage, but being able to avoid a Windows VM made OnShape seem worth it to me.

But k3s so niiiice.

This beautiful series of images and the corresponding text from old reddit. Folks, I present kinder surprise sorry. Old reddit was a fun place sometimes.

Yeah, the sound the vacuum makes as you roll it over a bunch of dirt and grit and the spinny boi goes “crunch crunch crunch crunch”

I’ve yet to find anything more efficient than opening my shell and typing ssh or scp. Remote desktop is irrelevant to me because none of the systems I administrate will ever have a GUI.

EDIT: tab auto completion also makes things far, far smoother.

My company switched from PagerDuty to SNOW for our paging system and I fucking hate it. God do I hate that rancid shit that was plopped onto my fucking phone. Fuck you, Service Now, for your shitty Agent app and your shitty on-call UI that takes like 50 seconds to load.

It’s okay. I get activated by shit all the time, so I’m used to soothing and chilling out.

Yeah, I took this to be a fairly serious comic. Parents do shit like this to their kids. The author just heightened the extremity of the situation to show how bad and harmful it is.

I do think this could have used a CW or something though. I’m feeling a bit of good ol’ activation after reading it. Got that fun little ick vibe in my stomach and my arms are buzzing a bit.

Even if the width of your driver doesn’t match, a hollow ground tool is still a huge improvement imo. I’m definitely not a fan of slotted screws though. I’d rather have Phillips head provided I have a super grippy Wera screwdriver.

For me, it’s outside hex > torx > pozidrive > internal hex > Phillips > JIS > slotted. I’ve never used a Robertsons screw so I can’t form an opinion on them.

Slotted becomes far more tolerable when you have a hollow-ground screwdriver. Flathead screwdrivers should not have the profile of a wedge. They should look like this:

This profile ensures that the force is applied lower in the slot, not right at the very top edge.

I still HATE slotted screws when torque is required or where corrosion can occur, but the hatred of them is also partially due to shitty drivers.

Here’s a picture that says all of the above but far more concisely:

pls watchlist me

That’s fair though. I mostly made my comment to be irritating/silly. Vim is not for everyone. It took me quite some time to achieve productivity gains, but I was encouraged to keep trying because I was doing a shitload of text editing over SSH. All text editors are valid, provided they’re FOSS.

neovim to the rescue.

Arch Linux, on an old Compaq pizza box server when I was 16. It took me 3 months to install Arch because there was a DIP switch on the motherboard that somehow prevented you from updating the MBR or some shit.

I basically never used it and didn’t touch Linux again until 7 years later, when I used SLES 11 SP2 at a job.

ooh ooh I know about this because of this silly thing:

https://youtu.be/DCyxpYXs2Aw

God, can we not though? Haha funni meme and all, but like, I’m so tired of seeing this shit. It sucks for the women in the community, and honestly it sucks for the men too. It’s just such boomer humor.

In the short term? Grey rock your “friend.” This person is an enabling shit who does not have your best interests at heart. You are being physically abused. What you describe isn’t corporal punishment (which I personally consider to still be physical abuse), it is abuse. Starving someone to punish them is abuse. Anyone who takes part in, or enables said abuse is not someone you want in your life.

Do you have anyone safe in your life that you could go to? Other friends that would not condone what you are experiencing? An estranged parent? Even a trustworthy teacher? I’d recommend trying to build up a support network of people who actually care for your well being before pushing this enabling piece of trash out of your life.

I think you’ll enjoy this if you haven’t already seen it.

https://youtu.be/OnQNdNSgiKc

Proxmox HA cluster with a SAN. VM migrations go wheeeeeeeeee.

I’d just run HA on the mini PC. There are a boatload of add-ons that you can install which will allow you to make better use of the hardware.

Even better, never connect it to the Internet in the first place. Don’t use your TV’s smart features, use a dongle or something else.