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hdsrob

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  • Recommendations

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  • The Keychron software is only for loading a config to the keyboard, or pulling a config for backup. The entire config lives on the keyboard after that.

    You only have to use it temporarily while making changes to the keyboard, it's not running or connected beyond that, and isn't required at all if you don't want to change anything.

    You can also use VIA (also online but only when needed) with Keychron, but I've not had much success lately with it.

    You can also just download the firmware source files, and then modify, build, and install the firmware locally without ever connecting to the internet.

  • TIL the US Military operates a massive non-profit "socialist" grocery chain called the Commissary. It is taxpayer-subsidized and sells goods at cost

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  • It may have changed since then, but after my dad left the USAF in the early '80s, my mom was a civilian employee on the base for a bunch of years, and we didn't have access to any of the additional benefits. I know that we couldn't go to Aaffes, the Px, or use any base services. Not sure about retirement / insurance at that time, but we certainly didn't take advantage of insurance if it was available.

    About the only thing we had access to was some of the Recreation services: My mom worked at Arts and Crafts, and that was attached to the Auto Hobby and Wood Shop so they let employees use those facilities, along with the place where we could rent lawnmowers and other recreation equipment.

  • look at this junk!

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  • 2 months.

    I've been writing the same software since 2003.

    Someone left some real crap in there.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • Running Windows in VMWare Workstation: I do development work that really has to be done in Windows, so that's where I spend my day. Even on my Windows machine, I keep the dev environment in a Virtual machine so that I can go anywhere with it, or use if from any machine with VMWare loaded.

    I find myself having to stay booted into my Windows Drive to run VMWare without a bunch of lag / weird issues. So at that point I just kept working from that drive and don't really boot back to the Linux drive.

    I also seem to have a heck of a time seeing files on my NTFS drives from Linux.

    Some of this is probably the older Nvidia card that I have, and the fact that I run 3 monitors, and running VMWare on 3 monitors acts weird in Linux.

  • Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore

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  • So much this. I actually pulled all of our servers from Azure and went back to a regular provider. Way cheaper as well.

  • Americans brace to start New Year without healthcare

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  • I've been either self employed, or worked for a very small company for 25+ years, and never had reasonable access to insurance.

    With the covid era subsidies, we finally had insurance for the first time for the last few years.

    Between the policy doubling in price, and the loss of subsidies we would have been paying way almost $2000 a month, so now we don't have insurance again.

  • First code coded

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  • There's no such thing as 2.

  • What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

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  • I feel much of this, especially the installer situation right now.

    I've setup and maintained a number of Linux servers from scratch, and I'm used to installing / updating / maintaining server software (via bash / SSH), but desktop kills me.

    I didn't think my Windows setup would be that crazy to get working, but VMWare Workstation, and Splashtop have both been killers (and good triple monitor support to some degree). Steam has been 50/50 for games for me, but I'm running an older NVidia card, so that's probably my issue.

    I started with Open Suse, and liked the OS quite well, but could never get past the errors installing and configuring VMWare (I develop in Windows inside a couple of VMWare images, and will for the next decade at least), so fast / stable VMWare support is key to moving off of Windows.

    I also couldn't get Splashtop running: I need remote access to my machine when outside of the house, and to client machines quite often, so need two different apps installed. There's also no LogMeIn desktop app for Linux, so that becomes very painful (one of our dealers uses LMI instead of Splashtop).

    After a week of that, I paved the disk and loaded Kubuntu, figuring that the better support for those packages would help. I did manage to get VMWare and Splashtop Business installed but everything feels unstable, and there have been lots of issues (third monitor is often black, had to disable 3d acceleration in VMWare, Solarr never seems to see my mouse, can't browse shared NTFS drives), and have to re-sign VMWare modules every time the OS updates.

    I've been using Windows for decades, largely without any issue, and would like to move, but it's been problematic enough for me to put the entire thing on pause, knowing that I'm going to have to start all over again and burn several more days trying to get a base setup working.

  • Linux is the reason Windows apps are bloated these days

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  • It’s sad that nobody made some crossplatform WPF implementation for modern dotnet

    That's basically Avalonia UI.

    I believe Uno Platform is similar, but less of a WPF variant, and closer to Xamarin or MAUI in the style of Xaml that they use.

  • Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs

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  • Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs

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  • Don't know who needs to hear this, but all your Thanksgiving leftovers in an omelette is fantastic

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  • For breakfast I sauteed leftover turkey and some onions, scrambled eggs into the pan, and then topped with some Swiss cheese.

    After having a large leftover plate for lunch yesterday, I added some of the turkey to a packet of chicken ramen for dinner last night.

  • Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November??

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  • Had the same thing happen on one of my servers. Got up one day a few weeks ago and the server was suspended (luckily the hosting provider unsuspended it for me quickly).

    It's mostly business sites, but we do have an old personal blog on there with a lot of travel pictures on it, and 4 or 5 AI bots were just pounding it. Went from 300GB per month average to 5TB on August, and 10/11 TB in September and October.

  • [Discussion] How's everyone's holiday preparation going?

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  • We're having Turkey-Day with family, so we're just bringing some sides and pies.

    Pecan pie is in the oven, chocolate pie is cooling on the counter.

    Stuffing (cornbread and rolls) is in the fridge, bathing in aromatics, spices, and herbs (will get final seasoning and broth tomorrow before baking).

    Sweet potato casserole is mixed and in the fridge (ready for topping before going in the oven). Broccoli rice casserole is also in the fridge, all mixed and ready to go in the oven.

    Tomorrow we'll make squash casserole, and a corn casserole.

  • Trump-themed burger joint that was raided by ICE has been replaced by new restaurant

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  • That tile work was on the building before it was converted. But it might have helped when they were selecting the location.

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/Trump+Burger+MAGA+of+Flatonia/@29.6877595,-97.1089339,3a,75y,11.4h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s-0mu3vluRo5pCgck_Br0Rw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0%26panoid%3D-0mu3vluRo5pCgck_Br0Rw%26yaw%3D11.398638!7i16384!8i8192!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x864375a9d25ce89f:0x50e2dee0153dffb0!2sTrump+Burger+MAGA+of+Flatonia!8m2!3d29.6879272!4d-97.1088986!10e5!16s%2Fg%2F11wnbhqwfq!3m5!1s0x864375a9d25ce89f:0x50e2dee0153dffb0!8m2!3d29.6879272!4d-97.1088986!16s%2Fg%2F11wnbhqwfq?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTExNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

  • Can anyone help me fix my rubbish cookie baking?

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  • Yep, bad conversion on my side .... corrected.

    I've had both ... our current is a convection oven / microwave combo, that has no option to disable the fan (we also have a regular oven). I think our last oven that had a convection feature also had an option to turn the fan on separately, but it's been a long time.

  • Can anyone help me fix my rubbish cookie baking?

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  • Dark brown sugar should only change the flavor a bit, since it just has more molasses added to the sugar (but I guess it could change the texture a bit in a small batch).

    The recipe probably assumes a regular oven, not a a fan (convection) oven. I'm not sure about yours, but our convection oven has instructions for lowering the temperature from what the recipe calls for (25 degrees lower F, so about 4 degrees 14 degrees C) if using the fan.

    Also, if you don't already have one, you might want to get an oven thermometer. I've seen a lot of ovens that don't actually cook at the temperature they are set to on the knob, so having a thermometer in the oven that you can check and make adjustments until the oven temperature is where you need it to be can help a lot.

  • Getting Taco Bell

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  • You might see if "Shop and Deliver" orders are available in your area (Should be under "Preferences" in the app). We tend to do more shopping than food orders, and tend to make more in our area (and there's no waiting for shitty restaurants). If I could turn off food delivery and just do shopping I would.

    It can be smaller trips like Walgreens or CVS , lots of Dollar General, and even larger stores (with larger orders) like Target, Food Lion, or Aldi.

  • Getting Taco Bell

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  • And when they're not stealing tips, they're paying the lowest base on good tipping orders.

    15 mile delivery with a really good tip? ... $2 base pay.