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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • The lunch thing is definitely something I miss, and the white board collaborations. I haven’t found any decent equivalent virtual tool for the latter, and if you’re starting a new job in-person collaboration can be a jump start.

    That said I’ve worked remote for a decade and the pros outweigh the cons greatly. A huge perk for me is being able to workout at lunch in my home gym. I’m not a morning person and I’m often so drained by end-of-day that working out after work is a non-starter. I know my physical health would be worse if I had to go into an office because I just wouldn’t end up working out like I do now.






  • I’m using Tuta and didn’t even realize I couldn’t use Thunderbird if I wanted. I don’t currently want to but overlooked the fact it wasn’t an option.

    I’m currently most disappointed with their email rules and calendar reminders. Can only create rules to send email to folders or trash - can’t forward or assign labels - and even more bizarre… can’t disable notifications on email your rules are handling. If I send some email to the trash automatically I still get an email notification. And calendar reminders have preset values - various min and hour options - but you can’t customize them. Glad I left Gmail but I miss some of its functionality.




  • I have to admit I’m confused by the suggestion to right-click and open as an administrator. I don’t see anything like that in Dolphin and wonder where I should be looking for such an option.

    In on of the Veracrypt forums someone suggested and scan the disk in Windows because Linux is more sensitive to NTFS issues and that might be the source of the trouble. I tried that and while Windows reported no issues, it kind of helped. Kind of…

    When I reboot back into Linux and try to mount the volume I get the following error message:

    device-mapper: create ioctl on veracrypt1 failed: Device or resource busy Command failed.

    Veracrypt then shows no volume mounted but with Dolphin opened I notice the volume is in fact mounted. A little testing with it showed I can read and write to it. Using Veracrypt to mount my 2nd volume and then running the mount command to see what it shows, I see the following output related to my Veracrypt volumes:

    /dev/mapper/veracrypt1 on /run/media/fred/447EC5337EC51F14 type ntfs3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,uhelper=udisks2) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) veracrypt on /tmp/.veracrypt_aux_mnt1 type fuse.veracrypt (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other) /dev/mapper/veracrypt2 on /run/media/veracrypt2 type exfat (rw,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,iocharset=utf8,errors=remount-ro) /dev/mapper/veracrypt2 on /run/media/fred/980B-86A5 type exfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,iocharset=utf8,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)

    So being pretty new to Linux I don’t know what this is telling me but I see the one volume I’m having issues with has a single line referencing it whereas the 2nd volume that Veracrypted mounted without issue seems to have created four. I assume there’s some kind of clue in here about what’s wrong with the 1st mount and it’s not a good thing, but I have no idea what.




  • It certainly depends. I’m not sure what qualifies as “most people” now. Plenty of people have higher interest rates on their homes from recent purchases than those who’ve purchased homes 4 or 5 years ago, and if you live in a state with higher income tax you’ll have more to deduct. Also self-employed contractors and non-incorporated small business owners are likely going to itemize. My wife and I itemize but we’re fortunate enough to be in a place where we support a lot of charities so itemization is worth it.