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  • How long has she been doing the job?

    Ours is very good with time. I’m not sure he knows it’s Saturday except we get up later; he’s not thrown off by holidays, though.

    However, he can tell time, in a way. He is overweight (it’s a journey, ok‽‽), and when we put him on a diet he was regularly waking us up in the middle of the night, begging. So we got him an automatic feeder, to distance ourselves from being food providers. One day, my wife notices him sitting in front of the grandfather clock, staring at it… and a couple of minutes later it chimed and the food dispenser went off! He’d only do it around feeding times. I think he could kind of tell by how hungry he was, and he could tell where in the hour it was because of the different chimes on the quarter hours. So - my guess - is that based on how hungry he was and how long the chimes went, he could figure out that the food would go the next time it chimed. So about 10 minutes before feeding time he goes over and watches the clock. It’s kind of amazing.

    He doesn’t do it as much anymore; I guess he’s figure it’ll go when it goes, but he absolutely stops and listens for the food dish, whatever he’s doing, when the grandfather clock chimes the hour.

    Maybe your’s is still figuring out the pattern.




  • Oh. Oh, have I got a story.

    When Star Wars came out, I was 11. It was making a lot of noise, and my mom kept trying to convince me to go see it, but we’d driven by the theater and I was convinced - convinced - that it would be boring, and refused. Of course I did end up going, and spent the summer in the theater; this was before they kicked you out and made you buy tickets for each showing. I ended up seeing it 16 times in the theater, that summer.

    Anyway, fast forward a couple dozen years and I’m watching an 2001, and I notice that it was originally released and advertised as being in “stereophonic sound.” Checked with mom, and she confirmed that they had taken me to see 2001 in the theater at some point, and I realized that I must have recognized the “In Stereophonic Sound!” on the Star Wars billboard and made the association that that meant “boring.”












  • When other countries have better, more modern-looking tanks, it really underscores how much the US is falling behind. I mean, we spend more money on defense than the next 6 countries combined, and we’ve got… the Abrams. The same basic tank frame we’ve been using since I was in the Army, in the 80’s.

    The Armata looks goofy, and like a step backward from the T-90. But this Merkava looks like I always imagined a Bolo would look. And, hey! Turns out it might have being fired by an AI!

    Looks are not specs, and I have no idea how Israel were using Microsoft’s software, or whether it was in the Merkova. I’m just rambling, because, dang, that’s a sexy tank, and I’m not particularly a tank guy.

    Big Caveat: Oh, and yeah, this is unrelated to the fact that Israel is perpetrating a genocide in Palestine. I’m not being cavalier about the genocide, or war, or weapons of war; I was just captivated by the photo. I’m sure I’d feel differently if one had ever been shooting at me, and I’m sorry for all those innocents: truly, if you or your’s was a victim, I don’t intend to trivialize your suffering.






  • Edit I haven’t tried this myself, but from what I can find the gparted part is not necessary. You can get rid of Windows and re-use it for Linux with a single command: btrfs device add / /dev/old_windows_partition. The rest of the considerations below still apply.

    The answer to the question you asked is: make sure you know which partition it is and run dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/<partition> bs=1024. Then you’ll probably want to find which boot loader you’re using and remove the Windows option. That will delete Windows.

    To re-use the free space, which most folks are focusing on, might be far easier than all of the other comments.

    Odds are decent that you’re using btrfs. Most reasonable Linux distros default to it, so unless you changed it, it’s probably btrfs. With btrfs, you can simply change the position type and add it to your existing filesystem.

    1. Use the program gparted. You can do all of this on the command line with fdisk, but gparted is a GUI program and is easier if you’re more comfortable with GUIs. Find the Windows partition, make sure you now it’s the Windows partition and not the boot partition (the boot partition will be the really tiny one), click on the Windows partition and choose the “change partition type” function to switch it to a Linux partition. There will be warnings; heed them, double check, and then save and exit.
    2. Add the old Windows partition to your existing filesystem with: btrfs device add / /dev/sdx2 . This adds the partition /dev/sdx2 to the filesystem mounted at / – your root partition. Replace /dev/sdx2 with whatever partition Windows used to be on.

    That’s it. Now your Linux filesystem is using the old Windows partition. Without changing the boot options, when you reboot your system may still believe there’s a Windows to boot into. If you’re using EFI, it should just disappear, but with grub you’ll have to tell grub that Windows isn’t there anymore or else it’ll keep offering it to you at each boot.

    You are almost certainly not using RAID, so you don’t need to worry about rebalancing.

    Summary: it is very likely your distribution used btrfs for your Linux partition. In that case, the absolute easiest way to get rid of Windows and use it for Linux is to add the partition to your btrfs filesystem. No reformatting, repartitioning, reinstalling; just tell btrfs to use it and you’re done.