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I beat the veggie burger system in c/[email protected]

[–] neidu3 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Do veggie burgers also require cooking all the way through to be considered safe, or can you snack on it raw (thawed, at least) like a vegetable?

I have to fly back home. My brother was forcebullay taken to the hospital for thirty days do to a mental attack. My quest is I have not carry on's or anything beside the ticket. Will the TSA target me in c/[email protected]

[–] neidu3 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

No. I've done many short haul flights like that without problems, including in the US. (For example Houston to Mobile, only to return the same day). Despite perpetually looking like I'm a confused foreigner (mostly because I am a confused foreigner), I've had no noteworthy issues with the TSA.

Only thing I can think of was that one time they did not understand that, yes, you can in fact have a TWIC and a C1/D visa without working for an airline. Cost me maybe 5 minutes extra.

Sometimes the duration of your stay is a short one, and your baggage (or lack thereof) will reflect that.

What's your definition of a wealthy person? Sure, Bezos is rich, but where do you put the threshold? in c/[email protected]

[–] neidu3 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I guess what would it take for you to look at yourself and conclude that you're rich?

How did Linus Torvalds fight off the naysayers? in c/[email protected]

[–] neidu3 38 points 1 day ago

Well, it was a hobby project, so there weren't really any naysayers. Apart from Linus himself.

To quote an adorable snipped from the original release announcement: "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu" as well as "It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-("

How do I host a site for sharing notes for peers? in c/[email protected]

[–] neidu3 1 points 1 day ago

A low-brow solution would be an existing cloud product such as Dropbox et.al, with subdirectories for each course. Alternatively, a self-hosted equivalent.

Toyota accidentally becoming top tier MIC in c/noncredibledefense

[–] neidu3 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Only thing that could serve better as a technical would be one of those blocky volvos from the 80's and 90's, if they had a pickup version and bigger wheels.

A redblock Volvo 240 technical would be fucking indestructible.

What's your definition of a wealthy person? Sure, Bezos is rich, but where do you put the threshold? in c/[email protected]

[–] neidu3 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What?

I'm literally a thinking lump of fat in c/[email protected]

[–] neidu3 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe there's a quantum aspect to it, maybe there's not...

I see what you did there, intentionally or not.

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What's your definition of a wealthy person? Sure, Bezos is rich, but where do you put the threshold? (self.asklemmy)

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What does it take in terms of assets, abilities, and/or income for you to consider them wealthy?

Fireplace in c/[email protected]

[–] neidu3 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

None of our chimneys are up to code (built almost 100 years ago), so to avoid the annual fire marshal inspection fee for something I can't legally use, I clogged the top with some insulation foam and sent in the pictures.

I have since started using the chimneys as cable runs, as my "server room" is located in the basement right next to the chimney base. My chimneys are now an integral part of my home network.

What's the most impactful thing you've done this year for yourself or others? in c/[email protected]

[–] neidu3 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Paid down all high-cost debt. Only remaining debt is my mortgage which is dirt cheap. This is gearing up to be the first Christmas that won't leave me broke until January.

Music lovers in c/[email protected]

[–] neidu3 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Did someone fold that vinyl?

horses rule... in c/[email protected]

[–] neidu3 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wait, you don't have vampire porn?

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I know it's tempting to race your offense across an open field, but even with lookouts in position, the NASA commanders should be more careful with how they maneuver their Perseverance AFV (files.catbox.moe)

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Pico Turquino looks like a perfect ambush position.

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Dinner isn't ready. Working on it, though. (sh.itjust.works)

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Which podcast player do you use for android? (self.asklemmy)

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I'm currently looking for a replacement to castbox. Castbox us OK, but I want to learn what else good is out there. Bonus points for one that has movement-sensitive sleep timer the way Smart AudioBook Player has.

UPDATE: Testing out Antennapod. Looks nice, and seems to do what I want it to do. I need to experiment with the auto-download a bit and see if it behaves the way I want it to. If it does, we have a winner.

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Can a disk image with multiple partitions be shrunk in a reasonably easy way? (self.nostupidquestions)

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I set up a machine with Debian 12 earlier. The partition schema is fairly standard, except I'm using mdraid for redundancy. I made an image of the two drives, so that I can easily replicate this setup for other machines (I have a bunch of machines that I need to set up in the exact same way.

However, I realized after I finished setting up everything that I chose the wrong pair of disks - instead of the 2.5" SSD pair, I installed it on the NVMe pair which are supposed to be used for something else. And the SSD pair is smaller than the NVMe pair.

Is it possible to resize the images so that they'll fit onto the correct disks, or do I have to start from scratch?

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Is "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy considered a good book? Because I read it, and I'm not sure it should be. (self.nostupidquestions)

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OK, so I finished this a while back, and despite it appealing to a lot of my interests, I honestly found it pretty meh.

I really enjoyed the realistic military/tactical aspect of it all, as that part is right up my alley, but... I did not care about the characters, the plot seemed hollow, and it seems like some things that could have been explored further were simply ignored.

For example, in the beginning these guys blow up a refinery. There are vague descriptions as to why, but after this it is practically not mentioned again. Whatever movement they were part of apparently disappears, and there are no repercussions for their home oblast.

The only thing this book has going for it, in my opinion, is that military nerds like me enjoy the detailed writing about the different types of hardware involved in the book.

So, since I am by no means a literary connoseur, I'm curious about what others think of this one.