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  • Why does Mint not auto update major versions?

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  • You should be proud of yourself. I've never seen dist-upgrade go wrong since woody - and I've upgraded quite a few machines. Did you ever bother reading the release notes for a new major version?

  • Why does Mint not auto update major versions?

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  • Debian has been doing so since forever without breaking. I tried Mint when it was the latest shit on a new laptop and was quite fond of it. Until it was time to update. I chose to upgrade - to plain, old Debian that had been running on my servers, workstations and PCs since 2002 and still does. How a Debian-derived distro could fuck up the one thing that makes Deian stand out -the nearly unbreakable packet management system- still is beyond my understanding.

  • 3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

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  • Maybe it's not that much of a matter of the common better (somebody elected Trump, after all) but a matter of personal integrity. Not everybody is willing to do anything, after all.

  • Life is life

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  • Effectively, you can eat everything a cat eats. It might not exactly be haute cuisine but there's nothing an omnivore couldn't digest but a carnivore could. Cats are much more selective with their diet than humans - and for good reasons.

  • Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy

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  • Serves you right, Amazon victims. I hope your lords and masters at Amazon will spray you orange and force you eat lukewarm oysters in public by the dozen for only $999/month. And you'll be grateful, because you love to be fleeced. Also, it's basically a bargain and your neighbours don't have it!

  • Hostile architecture

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  • Maybe it is now. The one,. I saw not that long ago was a single piece.

  • Hostile architecture

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  • It's a single installation, AFAIK - and definitely an art project. Having some academic arts background, I dare to say the focus of the installation is the difference between "in the middle" and "aside". So it's highly symbolic. Practically two chairs with a reasonable gap inbetween would be far more practical but they, of course, don't transmit any message.

  • Hostile architecture

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  • This is real. It's located in Giulianova Lido, Italy. IIRC an arts project from a local school and it is meant as a way to "integrate" wheelchairs symbolically as well as practically.

  • NSFW

    Creativity

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  • Latex gloves and mineral oil do not mix well.

  • Germany and Israel deepen security ties with new cooperation

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  • The reality is by far not so simple but just as ugly.

  • I can't be the only one who learned this the hard way

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  • Try "Spicy Spicy"...

  • Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why

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  • I know. I just had become lazy enough to take the daily notification's subject line ("backup4l has run successfully") as evidence that everything was OK. If I had looked inside the bloody mail I'd have notices that the backup's size was 0B all the time because my self-rolled XZ-compression script failed to add data to the archives it "successfully" created. That's what I meant with "re-testing" - I should better have written "re-validate". My unforgiveable fault was not to look directly at the generated archives after changing the compression from bz2 to xz. Which was pretty pointless anyway as it turned out.

  • Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why

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  • ...and don't forget re-testing your backups regularily. I had a really good backup strategy on my Loonix machine. Automatic (or it won't be done), tested, fool proof. When I somehow crashed a somewhat complex encrypted LVM array while swapping HDDs against SSDs, I had to recover from backup. Unfortunately I had become a better fool than I was when I set up backup4l. I had changed the compression algo, made a tiny mistate in the config and failed to realize that for six months I had been storing empty backups every day. Outch.

  • Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why

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  • Years ago I tried to use the WIndows backup app to back up my system disk to a tape streamer. (Magnetic tapes were and still are useful as long term backup.) Result was a backup you coulndn't recover. I don't know what exactly was on the tape but it couldn't be read back. Tried the same with a harddisk, same result. I've since then used various external backup tools that had no problem creating backups that you actually can recover from, never looked back at MS backup. You just can't trust Microsoft to store any important data. You can only be sure they'll fuck up sooner or later and take things in you own hands.

  • Adderall vape?

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  • I don't recall the equations -it was years ago that I've read about it- but IIRC it sets free NO-, so it's not carbon but nitrogen that is to blame. I am quite sure you'll find something about diver's disease with the correct chemistry at Wikipedia if you're interested in the details.

  • Trump: ‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not’

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  • That would be the end of NATO. Which means it's the US on one side an the rest of the world on the other. Except Israel, of course.

  • Adderall vape?

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  • Just in case: VAPING, SMOKING OR BASING AMPHETAMINE IS LIKELY TO KILL YOU!Despite the ideas of some "experts" speed is not the same as meth and heating and inhaling speed will at best give you the bends.

  • oops

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  • rm -rf is always right. No matter where. Supposed, of course, you are root.

    No discussion. I am root! I am always right!

  • Not mine, but I find it funny

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  • What's wrong with releasing killer robots on little girls, now? Seems low risk to me.