These are freaking delicious, too. I like the Honey Dijon, the spicy dill, the S&V, and the wasabi. These are my “don’t care how much they cost, get those!” I had to go gluten free for a bit to see if that was causing some issues, and hard bites are the only thing that stuck.

One of my classmates has a leather jacket with a big US flag stitched on the back. He was asked to take it off.

I’ve taken a couple of shots at yacy, but have little luck. It’s possible to self host a searxng in docker that uses almost no resources. I use a server, but a buddy literally has it load on startup in his Windows.

Canadian here. You guys don’t have UFOs? How do you make the crop circles? Next thing you know, you’ll tell me you don’t have smarties or thumblewhups, either.

A couple of quick things: in UEFI, keep separate Linux and Windows efi partitions. Disable quick startup in Windows, as it “locks” any NTFS drives you touched in Windows before you booted back into Linux. (I always forget this and then wonder why a drive is read-only… Grr!) Don’t try to install Linux Steam games to an NTFS drive, it doesn’t work. Also, Windows and Linux have different default ways of dealing with the system clock. You can either do a registry entry edit to fix on the windows side, or there’s a Linux fix that is also quite easy, but I forget what and I’m lazy. This is purely optional, but I like to set up grub customizer and set it to boot into “last selected”, so when I’m updating Windows and it restarts, I don’t boot back into Linux, and vice-versa. Also, don’t try to run Windows installed Steam games. It doesn’t work. Lastly, if you virtualize using VMware, your VMs have to “belong” to one host OS or the other, or you’ll have no end to bugs. Personally, I wouldn’t use VMWare on the Linux side at all, except school requires it.

I got a Topton Mini PC doing this, and its doing a good enough job. I tried an older SZBox for this, and it didn’t quite cut it, but it makes a good Pihole now.

I’m a month away from my IT diploma. Even the teachers are feeding us AI slop at this point.

They gave up trying to get the students to stop at the end of first year. Protip: don’t hire a new IT grad, they don’t know anything chatGPT doesn’t know.

Eh Mun tun.

Esperanto estas amuza!

In my IT program at school, the only people who have heard of the fediverse are the ones I’ve told.

I confess that I regularly use Boost. I used it back in the day on Reddit, and the ads don’t bother me that much at all cough pihole cough. I used jerboa when I first tried Lemmy, and I still use it from time to time, but on my old tablet it kept crashing or logging me out, and Boost has been pretty reliable.

Godzilla Minus One! I can’t believe how good it was. Just… Wow.

Godzilla, Esperanto, tiny phones, vampires, the weird knife Wednesday guy, and way too many silly Linux memes. Homelab, self-host. That’s what Lemmy is to me! I mostly skip the politics, although I do like the odd privacy rant. Also, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sara Wynn-Williams. That’s unrelated to anything, but I intend to include it in any comment I make until I read it.

Paywalled.

I keep a Mint XFCE installed (not installer, installed) on a thumb drive that looks just like a mouse dongle. It’s rescued so many computers… Like, at least six.

Also, I like Mint. Back in the day, I had an obscure wifi issue, asked Twitter, and Clem himself replied with a one-liner that fixed me right up.

Canadian person! If you break it, ask me and I will do my best to non-snarkily assist. I am working on becoming less snarky, so it’s practice!

Godzilla Minus One. No, seriously. A Godzilla Movie, but one where the human story and the drama is just as awesome as the monster. A Kaiju film where there’s actual stakes, where you feel what the main characters feel, and where the monster doesn’t seem like a big, far off show and the actors are on a different plane of existence. A Godzilla movie that managed to surprise me three different times. Thankfully, we have Godzilla Minus One.

If you try to ping 8.8.8.8 and it works, then try to ping google.com. if that doesn’t work, it’s your DNS resolver. I’m not an arch user, but on a lot of Linuxes, there’s a nameserver setting somewhere that has come unset. Try to set it to the IP address of your home router, that may fix it. P.S. The guy who posted the “It’s always DNS” shirt is right. I am buying that shirt.

https://www.entroware.com/store/ I know very little about them other than they support Late Night Linux, which is a fun podcast. The LNL guys tend to run ads for actually useful products though, so… I have a first-run Framework. I love it although I wouldn’t recommend it for the non-techie.