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Chris660··on Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
I found myself moved by this recent interview with Prof. Kevin Anderson on the topic of climate change (and associated politics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFos_T7cT0

He paints quite a bleak picture of the situation we are in (I tend to agree), but there's also a glimmer of hope in there.

Chris660··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
IIRC in AWS you have the option to create a "final" snapshot of the DB instance when deleting it. I'm pretty sure that's the default behaviour when using the web console, but may merely be an option in the API interface.
Chris660··on Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum
For anyone on a similar search, I've been very happy with my Niz board that has capacitive switches claimed to be similar to the Topres:

https://www.nizkeyboard.com/products/niz-2019-new-x87-electr...

It's much quieter than the Cherry MX (brown) board I had previously, with a very light action.

Chris660··on Fcron Is the Best Cron
If you need to stick with crontab entries (perhaps they are generated/managed by some other software), it should be possible to write a systemd generator[1] to generate the required timer/service units from the crontab file(s).

[1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.gen...

Chris660··on Podman v4.6 Introduces Podmansh: A Revolutionary Login Shell
In addition to the other suggestions, you might want to check-out distrobox: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

It provides support for starting host commands within a container, and also exporting commands from containers to the host.

Chris660··on Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app
As an ex Psion 5 user, I've often been tempted by the devices from Planet Computers: https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/gemini-pda-1
Chris660··on W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem
I know of Resolutiion, but no idea how successful it's been: https://resolutiion.monolithofminds.com/