Very insightful, thank you. I’m mainly looking to deter or stop an intruder. I’m too old and weak to put up a close combat fight. My area is pretty safe for now, but we’re in deep red territory so who knows.

Your advice jibes with what I’ve read online and been told by other experienced gun owners/ex military. Thank you for the straight forward recommendation.

I love it, but it does not work for everyone

I have my own separate office in my basement with plenty of privacy. I stick to a normal work schedule. And perhaps often overlooked: my team is all remote as well.

The last point is important: if your team is both on and off site, it can be difficult to make sure everyone is included in all the casual information sharing. My team uses a shared Teams chat as a low friction water cooler, which works great for us.

We often jump on a voice call with screen sharing too work together. It works even better than in person because we can both have our own computers instead of one person looking over the other person’s shoulder.

If you have a good manager, they may be able to mitigate this, but it’s more difficult than it sounds. If not handled correctly, this can lead to team segmentation and isolation. Working hybrid can sometimes get around this while still being flexible enough that people can wfh when they need to. For any business it needs to be the decision of the direct managers so they can decide what is right for their team.

That all said, I love not having the 1.5hr commute anymore, no walk-in interruptions, being able to run errands or go to appointments without taking the whole day off etc. It’s a major part of my job satisfaction.

If your commute is reasonable and you get satisfaction from going to the office then maybe you’re happier on site or hybrid. Full time wfh can be lonely at times.

If you hate going in to the office, make sure your environment at home is set up so you can focus and work as effectively as at the office and give it a shot. Talk to your manager. You may need to convince them it’s a good idea first.

As someone who doesn’t know much about guns: if .22 is not enough, then what is “a proper rifle”? Why would I need a rifle, pistol, and a knife/baton? If I am just defending myself and my family, will I still need all of these things?

Thank you! So many people don’t realize that. It’s even one of the citizenship test questions used when you go through naturalization:

51. What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?

• freedom of expression
• freedom of speech
• freedom of assembly
• freedom to petition the government
• freedom of religion
• the right to bear arms

Metacrawler ftw

This was the first thing that came to mind when they mentioned a program. I very rarely create programs that don’t need to be updated later, unless they’re single use throwaways.

I’ve inherited support for programs that we had lost the source code for, though, and that sucks.

So that’s a no from me.

Quite a few as it turns out.

Edit: of course someone created this: DaxDucDex

I’m a little disappointed that I found in Wikipedia it was AI generated:

Throughout 2025, DuckDuckGo rolled out a series of Easter eggs featuring AI-generated images of Dax (DuckDuckGo’s duck mascot) dressed up as characters from popular culture (or on 2 occasions replaced by them) when users search for the respective characters. There are currently 661 discovered pop culture logo variants.[64]

Thank you, I found it here. I’m a little bit surprised it’s not in the media more.

I honestly don’t keep up with them much, so I can’t say what the current status is. I didn’t even realize until today that Mette-Marit had been connected with Epstein already back in 2019.

It’s not just about money, though. When I still lived there ('90s), the common sentiment seemed to be that though they have no political power (even less so than the British), they were good, wholesome ambassadors for Norway and served as a sort of cultural focal point that “everyone” shared pride in. (Obviously not a 100% true, but if you’re Norwegian you know what I mean.)

Importantly, one point of pride was that they weren’t as embroiled in scandals as other royals. They were “of the people”, with one example often cited that King Olav during the oil crisis took his skis on the bus instead of driving. That kind of thing.

The current line of Norwegian royals is even pretty new, so to speak. King Haakon VII was chosen by committee in 1905 after the dissolution of the union. At the time, they passed on becoming a republic. So, it felt more like they had been selected by us rather than they just inherited everything.

But: the whole Epstein business, greed, political influence and all that flies directly in the face of all that pride. That’s why I think that case is probably lost now. The trust is gone, the monarchy is tarnished. It’s become a liability and expense rather than a point of pride.

I’ve traditionally been a supporter of keeping the monarchy for its diplomatic functions and (mostly) unifying force among people, but this does feel like a sea-change. Maybe opinions in Norway are more forgiving, I don’t know–I moved away many years ago. In my opinion, it’s probably time to re-evaluate whether we (Norway) want to keep this going. It was decided decades ago to keep it at least until the current Crown Prince had his turn, but now that’s looking like a bad idea. They need to do something, and hopefully they can still wind it down with some dignity. Maybe it’s possible to make a nice, clean break when King Harald passes on. Either way, it should be up to the People.

I’m not 100% convinced having a President will be better, seeing as some Presidents like to act as if they’re kings. But with all the scandals, I think if anyone still believes monarchs are immune to political influence, they should wake up now.

PS: I was wondering if you have some more information about the hearing (e.g. news article). I can’t find it in the Norwegian media. (I read/speak Norwegian).

Maybe he’s not talking about his face.

I see. My concern was with security scanning tools often put on computers by enterprise IT departments but it sounds like that’s not the case here.

In your situation, assuming you’re not finding what you seek with journalctl, I think I would use a tool like vmstat or sar to collect periodic snapshots of CPU, memory, and io. You can tell it to collect data every X seconds and tee that to a file. After you reboot you can see what happened leading up to the crash. You should be able to import the data into a spreadsheet or something for analysis, but it’s not very intuitive and you’ll need to consult man pages for the options and how to interpret them.

There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread. I would lean towards a hardware or driver issue, maybe bad RAM. Unfortunately these things take a lot of trial and error to figure out.

It may not be the raw RAM usage.

My first suspect is the Windows VM especially if it’s running enterprise security software 4GB is probably not enough for modem Windows and it could be trying to use its page file, thrashing your disk in the process.

Are you able to collect some data from system monitor on paging and disk activity? That could help you narrow it down. You can use btop for a quick terminal option if your gui is non responsive (assuming your could switch to a console). Vmstat is another option that you can run in the background to collect stats over time, but it’s not user friendly.

It does sound like you may be suffering from depression, but it also sounds like you are receiving treatment. Assuming this isn’t something medical, maybe you need a change of scenery to change your outlook.

You could travel, as I would have. You could also engage in a hobby (perhaps with friends, new or old). If you’re feeling altruistic, maybe think of something that you wish someone had done for you, when you were in a worse situation. Maybe you know someone who’s down on their luck and you can help them. It doesn’t have to be with money, it can be in other ways. I’ve heard that one way to break out of the depression spiral is to focus your attention outward instead of inward. That would be a way to do it.

I hope you find your way out of the funk. As bleak as things look, there are still things to be happy about and be grateful for. Don’t let your past prevent you from appreciating the present.

If I were in that situation I would buy a shitty flat, pay it off, then spend as little time there as possible while traveling the world. Maybe have some passive income from the flat by renting it out. Not having kids to worry about would make all that a lot simpler.

But you should do what makes you happy. Try not to worry too much about the future and enjoy what you have now.

I built a new desktop PC with an AMD CPU and GPU, then installed Fedora on it. I use the KDE plasma desktop. I did mess up at first. I downloaded the workstation version which had gnome by default and had to switch so some defaults are a bit wonky.

Overall it has been great. In contrast, my laptop is still on Windows. I upgraded that to 11 and immediately saw a performance drop at the very next reboot. It’s a joke.

The only surprise so far was when a bad kernel update made my network flaky for about a week. The price of living with a semi stable distro.

Of problems, my only one is that only one of my screens will sleep properly. I’m hoping that gets resolved when they replace ssdm.

I can only think of two ways if the top of my head:

• Immich runs as root and sets ownership (sounds unsafe)
• Immich is the owner of all the files, but each user has a specific group (bobs-photos) of which Immich and the user are members. Then use the setgid bit to set group ownership and make it g+rwx.

Both sound pretty brittle to me, though, and I haven’t tested this specifically.

I remember the rivalry and how, in the beginning of the 90s, I made good friends with a guy from the “other side” (Him with Atari, me with Amiga) and quickly found we had more in common than we had differences.

Declaring a common enemy in the PC, we both watched our favorite platforms slowly die off with the advent of games like Doom that those old platforms were not equipped to handle.

Most of all I miss the demo scene and all the creativity it fostered. There doesn’t seem to be a modern equivalent for PC where programmers, musicians and artists come together to showcase their work like that. I hope I’m wrong and just haven’t found it yet. I would love to see that be a thing again, especially with AI slop taking over everything.

That doesn’t mean that much, thanks to the Gulf Stream bringing warm water to the Norwegian Coast.

Ohio is on the latitude of Spain, yet I’m freezing my ass off right now.

100% this. I was going to post what you said as well. But I will add that in the US, if you use 24 hour time, most people just refer to it as military time. If you tell them the difference they don’t really care.

In the US 24h is virtually never used in a civil context, but in scientific, engineering, and medical contexts it is ubiquitous.