BartyDeCanter

Anywhere with gravity sufficient to overcome the surface tension of the water from forming around the object or clinging to the container.

I’d prefer that things I don’t want installed, aren’t installed from the beginning.

Ah, fair enough. Best of luck to you.

I have no opinion on OneDrive, because my only experience with it is through memes like this. Why do you put up with it?

You have to click to uninstall it? Laughs even harder in Linux.

I have type 2 narcolepsy and every genetic marker for high stimulant tolerance.

I’m hoping to get on the oxybates to see if they help, but my next sleep test isn’t until December. I’m wanting to try a few other meds, but they are both highly addictive and can mess up the test. My current plan is that if can’t get the oxybates after my test, to try some of the other, somewhat sketchier, stimulants and alternate them as I pick up a tolerance. I might have to either find a street dealer or go to Mexico for them though.

I’m trying to avoid opioids as a substitute for oxybates, but I have to admit that trying codine to see if it helps is getting very tempting.

Looks like I made it almost five minutes past three, so now it’s nap time.

I’m on stimulants that require not just a prescription, but approval from the manufacturer, quarterly check ins and ekgs. It’s now two in the afternoon and I’m hoping I can make it until three before I have to take my second nap. I’ve been at a friends house for a mid-morning coffee, and after the second cup taken a nap in their guest room. I know exactly what I can and can’t do at finely defined levels of sleepiness. I know what it feels like when part of my brain is asleep but I’m still waking around because I have to feed the pets before I go to bed. I’ve woken up from a nap, drank a monster, had a one hour job interview and then gone back to sleep right after. I experience levels of tiredness every day that you can’t imagine and there are no words for.

I like the idea of the Gemini protocol and while I realize that they need to hold the line somewhere, I find it just a bit too simplistic.

Yeah, I’m one of those people that the FAQ talks about wanting a tiny addition, which in my case would be explicit images with alt-text. I know some clients render image links inline, but some don’t and there isn’t guidance as to which is correct.

And even if the filesystem doesn’t become corrupted, individual files can become inconsistent or incomplete. Such as if two files reference each other, but one completes its write to the new version while the other is still in flight when power goes off.

Not all modern filesystems are CoW like btrfs. ext4 is merely journaled, which means that there are rare instances where it can be corrupted, but recovery is fast. However in both cases you can still end up with individualy inconsistent files if, say, the power goes out while the CoW b-tree is percolating up and so the file never gets updated or if the ram cache never has a chance to flush.

Don’t forget that DHH is a rascist piece of shit.

I’m in this picture and quite frankly it’s a great place to be. Everything either just works, I know how to fix it, or I at least know what is broken and not worth fixing.

Though that is a terrible style of air pressure gauge. Get a good dial one with the tube.

Is it plugged into a USB-A port that supports USB-3? Or near one that does? If you’re not sure, they are usually blue on the inside.

USB3 via USB-A ports has a well known interference problem at 2.4Ghz that will make small dongles unreliable. The solution is to only use them in USB-2 ports (usually black) or use a USB-2 only capable usb extension cable to move them physically a foot or two away from the ports.

In general though, I don’t trust wireless keyboards of any sort and am suspicious of wireless mice. I’ve had too many issues with them over the years.

I’ve only worked in two Windows dominated offices. The first was Windows/Exchange/Office shop where the tools I needed at the time were also Windows only. I did set up a Linux machine as a SVN and print server at some point. We were way too small to have an IT department.

The next place was again a Windows/Exchange/Office and was large enough that it did have an IT department. Engineers, however, were allowed full control over their machines as long as they signed a thing that IT wouldn’t support them. About half of us ran Windows in a VM to get Exchange working.

Since then, everywhere has either been Linux or Macs for the engineers and usually Macs or Chromebooks for everyone else.

Lawyers, courts, and insurance companies still do for various legal reasons. It’s deeply irritating.

It runs just fine on any of the Intel era machines. If you can get it for a good price, that would be a fantastic Linux system.

It’s been a looong time since I’ve tried KDE, but I’ve generally found that Gnome is better at keyboard only navigation and control, though maybe KDE has gotten better since I last tried it. I also just kinda despise anything that looks like a windows Start menu. It’s irrational, I know, but it just seems embarrassing.

OTOH, I do like the idea of the customizability of Plasma, so maybe I’ll give it a try some time.

They go by a few names, depending on use. I would call them standoffs if the end has threaded hole in it that the thing they are holding can screw into, shelf supports if they go sideways into something to hold a shelf, or semi-threaded dowels as a generic term.

If you don’t want the M1 anymore, I’ve been wanting to give Asahi a try…

Ha! I recently went through a similar process, trying to get some hardware working for a different project that would close some 15+ year old bugs. AI helped me find it, getting sidetracked by several other small bugs in the same few files along the way.

I then wrote the actual fixes myself as a series of very small PRs. They’re all just a handful of lines each, enabling certain hardware flags, properly bounds checking loops, getting a timer initialization corrected, etc. They are all the sort of thing that once you see where they are, the fix is extremely obvious.

In the meantime, the project has adopted a very strict no AI assistance at all policy after some internal debate that almost tore the project apart.

So now I’m sitting on almost a dozen fixes for longstanding problems and have no idea if I should lie and say yes, I found these entirely by myself, or tell the truth, probably get kicked out of the project, and see how much of a shit storm they cause.