This website is unreadable with an ad blocker.

God damn it I’m getting old. I had to seriously reconsider and reparse 2022 like nine times.

The CGI face really creeps me out, what is that from??

Do people really talk to LLMs that often?

I really tried to use a “usb” install for a long time but could never get kernel upgrades (and some other packages) to work correctly.

These days I do a “sys” install but mount /var/log and some other directories to RAM.

This should be the highest rated answer. The others are complete overkill.

In fact if you really don’t care whether the upgrade was successful it could even be upgrade ; shutdown.

I’m from the Midwest but I believe CompTIA is also popular in Arizona and California though I’m a web developer so I’m not 100% sure, but I’ve heard it thrown around by IT friends kind of a lot.

Yeah I’m always confused when people come here to complain about Reddit. Like, you already did it. You switched. Now move on with your life.

I do this more or less, while the VPS itself doesn’t route over a VPN I have traffic forwarded between Tailscale and a commercial VPN.

It’s actually much more complicated and involved than that involving four double hop VPN tunnels, two that stay 100% in my country then two that bounce around other countries routed over the first two. This way my traffic exits the country without it appearing that way.

Bonus points if the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channels use the same SSID and security. I can’t stand when people separate them — who wants to sit there and switch networks all day trying to find the best one? Just let the clients do it on their own.

Is this really necessary? Sometimes I wonder if people ever think about things like impact on the climate, good use of material, etc.

I don’t understand your comment — are you arguing that the large variety of filesystems shouldn’t exist or something else?

The real mistake was not having Google blocked in the first place.

I’ve never had to install it; granted I only disable my Google blockers when I need to do something serious (like paying bills) but I’ve never installed the app.

While Android users are effectively locked out, iOS users, even those running older versions, have more flexibility.

This is what I’m not understanding: are they doing user-agent sniffing or perhaps using a proprietary JavaScript API? Couldn’t de-Googled browsers just pretend to be iOS (as ugly as that would be)?

Is “air lines” really two words? I could’ve sworn it was “airlines.”

My mechanic drives an eGolf. If they still sold them here I’d dump the A3 and hop into one.

My Audi is a small punchy A3 with a turbo. First off people driving here in Los Angeles are so distracted with their phones, and when they’re in these large vehicles it’s easy to navigate around them and actually get places quickly.

I really can’t understand why just about everyone here drives those huge cars: they’re slow, they consume a lot of gas (if non-EV) and rarely do you see them actually hauling anything. In fact the real people that need them (landscapers, etc.) are usually driving smaller trucks.

Dying to buy one as an Audi driver but the only electric vehicles Volkswagen wants to sell in the US are these gigantic fucking tanks that drive distracted as hell.

I do most my work on the terminal so I prefer something in the middle: convention over configuration, most functionality included but rather small by default. More complex needs can be compiled in.

Related: I wish more Linux distributions’ package managers would allow for binary installation alongside source compiled packages. In FreeBSD I’m amazed at how well pkg’ binary packages play with ports-compiled ones.