Meh, I don’t say anything online I wouldn’t say to your face, so the folks that know me would just be “Ya, that tracks.”

Might wind up on a few more government lists though.

Oh well. Winter is coming.

I can see this post from the SDF. I think you may just be having federation issues.

So I’m seeing a bunch of complaining about this. Anybody have any actionable suggestions on how to frustrate this intrusion?

I tend to use a paper towel with a little bit of canola oil, after hand washing it lightly with soap and water.

My cast iron won’t win beauty pageants, but they are functional equipment, not wall decorations.

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Scifi short stories are the only reason I go to Reddit anymore.

From what I’ve noticed, “not figuring it out” is often either a question of fine motor coordination or poor ear training.

Other times it’s outlandish expectations from yourself. Your not going to be playing "Money for Nothing " by Dire Straits for a while, but something along the lines of “Three Little Birds” by Bob Marley is probably achievable within your first week.

Fine motor control is mostly just a matter of practice. Use a metronome and start SLOW.

Ear training in this context is being able to map a sound in your head to a finger position on your instrument. Again practice, pick a simple melody and try to find that melody on your instrument.

As for what instrument. What do you want to play? You could get any instrument in the world, but it doesn’t matter if you don’t want to play that instrument.

I mostly play and teach guitar, you can easily get a reasonable instrument in the $300-$600 range. Sometimes cheaper.

Serviceable keyboards can be had for about $150.

I self host a lot of different things, some public (like my Nextcloud instance) and others are only on my home network (like paperless). Basically, if I know I’m going to allow non-techy folks to access the service I’ll consider making it public, otherwise it stays on my VPN.

Setting them up was mostly just downloading their docker-compose.yaml adjusting a few variables to suit my needs and then running docker compose up -d to bring them online.

For the most part, maintaining the service consists of making backups and just pulling the new containers when it’s time to update (docker compose pull && docker compose up -d).

As for hardware, mostly it’s just old desktops I’ve repurposed into servers. I don’t generally use VPSs unless it’s something I really don’t want to go down if my home internet goes out. Right now, nothing I have is running on a VPS, but the last service would have been my Matrix server. When I couldn’t get any of my friends and family onboard with it I shut it down and started using a public Matrix server instead.

It’s probably mostly legal. Though they might hit you with defacing currency. Technically that’s still a crime, though I don’t think it’s been used in a while.

The dye is available to the general public so that part is easy. Given how trigger happy US law enforcement is, I wouldn’t recommend doing this. Sounds like overly complicated suicide.

As long as you have the free drive space, any of the major distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, NixOS, Arch) are a good choice.

Personally I like Kubuntu, but at this point, unless you have special requirements they are all variations on a theme.

Annoyance. However it’s usually a mod coming in and either locking or deleting a post (either due to the post itself breaking a community rule or because the comment section got too rowdy to effectively moderate) that causes the abrupt end to a conversation.

Haven’t run into too many folks deleting their posts.

I use Forgejo for my private git repos but in all honesty, it’s massive overkill for my needs.

Hmm, you’ve noticed that too?

If you pay attention, you’ll notice a few other indicators as well.

I like that description. I may borrow it the next time I’m asked to run a safety training.

To answer your question, yes. Your reaction time does slow down as you become more tired. The effect is similar to being very drunk. This fact is the basis for Hours of Service regulations in the US trucking industry.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3307962/

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article-abstract/18/5/346/2749684

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/effects-of-sleep-deprivation

https://crimsonpublishers.com/cojts/fulltext/COJTS.000503.php

From what I’ve noticed, cities tend to be more liberal than rural areas. I can’t think of a major city off the top of my head that is a republican stronghold. I’ve got to go to work but I found these two links which may help.

https://townsoftheusa.com/most-conservative-cities-in-usa/

https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/15-most-conservative-major-cities-in-the-united-states-883419/

Not in the US.

Nice truck, but damn that’s an expensive pickup.

How bad must the full Epstein files be for Trump to be thrashing about this much? Former President Obama hasn’t been a frequent name in the news for what, 10 8 years?

Edit: Has it seriously only been 8 years since we had some semblance normalcy in this country. It feels like a lifetime ago.

If I remember correctly correctly, it was something like reckless discharge or a firearm. It’s bullshit, but it’s all the “justice” her family will see.

Good.

From personal experience, depending on how old they are, use them as coasters.

With very few exceptions, consumer grade optical media is really only good for sharing files.

Back in the 2000’s I had been using them to store backups of files. Found out the hard way that that was not a suitable use for them when I had a hard drive fail. Disk rot is a bitch if you’re not expecting it.

That said, if you and your family still have CD players, you might think about making them mix CDs. It’s also possible to burn your archived movies or tv shows onto them in DVD or Video-CD formats. I expect most DVD players can still read the Video CD format.