I learned how to Linux on a Raspberry Pi. That is, in fact, what they’re for. I’ve got one (a Pi 2) that sits on my LAN with a hard drive attached as one part of my backup solution.

I don’t know, I played with it years ago, didn’t need it and haven’t really touched it until now.

I use Syncthing for several things, especially syncing photos between my phone and desktop.

dammit I like Syncthing. does kdeconnect do a decent job at syncing files?

That’s the other thing about my S10, it’s heavier than a minivan because body-on-frame construction and a cast iron engine but it’s not much bigger and I think even has a smaller wheel base. Minivans tend to have their back wheels WAY at the back, a truck has wheels mid-bed. So my truck handles very well, it’s easy to maneuver at low speeds, it fits in a standard parking space without any problem…

It’s just recently hit its “everything needs replacement” age because it’s 20 years old, I’ve had to put a fuel injection system, a distributor and a temp sensor in it and I wonder what’s next. But it’s been a hell of a reliable vehicle.

I drive an S10. For those outside the United States, this is a compact pickup truck that ended production in 2004, smaller than any pickup on the market today.

I haul lumber around with it on a regular basis. It’s a perfectly usable pickup. Wouldn’t mind if the bed was another 2 feet longer to get full studs and/or sheets in it, but the wild thing is, a lot of modern trucks aren’t significantly more capable than mine, they’re just more voluminous.

My old desktop, a Ryzen 3600/GTX-1080 mini-ITX build. After using a Pi 4 with Kodi for awhile it’s nice to have a media machine that can run Crysis.

Would Rednote or whatever it’s called also be covered by the same ban?

Imagine what Rockefeller and Carnegie would have tweeted about. You know they were crass, detached from reality hemorrhoid clusters, they just didn’t get to spew it to a global audience 900 times a day.

Jethro, god of processed corn snacks.

i already own my tools though.

IT makes me wonder…

First of all one has to remember that the ancient Greeks weren’t as united as we think of them now; I’ve heard it described as “a collection of city-states that mostly spoke the same language and worshipped some of the same gods.” But even within that, or swapping ancient Greece for ancient Rome…how much innovation really took place during those eras? How many old men died in the same world they were born in having seen nothing of note change about society?

Meanwhile, just look at the United States Navy. In 200 years we went from building ships like the USS Constitution to the USS Monitor to the USS Nimitz. There were Americans who read about the invention of the airplane in the newspapers who also watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon live on television. Those events were only 65.5 years apart.

How would a polytheistic religion full of “gods of something” cope with or support that level of progress? I associate the industrial revolution almost exclusively with North America and Western Europe who were and are related flavors of monotheistic.

I’ve been told there would be a pilot shortage since I was in high school. I started flight school in 2005 and was teaching flight school by 2010. I’ve still never seen anything I would describe as an “opportunity” in the aviation industry.

In the book The Martian, the computers built into the rovers apparently run Linux, or at least some *Nix. At one point they have Watney run hexedit on /usr/lib/habcomm.so and change a number of bytes to hack it to talk to Pathfinder.

If money is all that you love, then that’s what you’ll receive.

I think the bowtie goes a bit better with the duck’s inherent ridiculousness.

That would be very on brand for an Aperture Science-like setting.

Thank you.

I furnitured!

I built this planter box, along with one three times as long as this one, out of cedar

This little table for my porch out of some lovely local white oak. It’s a humble little thing but I’m rather proud of it because it’s the first project I made with genuine mortise and tenon joints, some chopped by hand with a chisel.

A plant stand, also out of white oak. This one has slanted and tapered legs, and Avril Lavigne wrote a song about it. Why DID I have to make things so complicated?

And two bookcases from birch plywood and white pine. I was particularly careful planning this one, and managed to get the carcass and shelves of each bookcase out of a single sheet of 3/4" plywood, though it does mean the grain direction on the fixed bottom shelf doesn’t make sense.

My favorite slur has to be “folding chable.” It was spoken by Rich Evans.

“Is the bed of your truck smooth side or step side?”

“Turned post.”