denkmoon

I can only imagine the meetings at microsoft HQ where they all sat around a table and crossed their fingers and hoped that vendors would act in the spirit of their design.

Buying nice hardware is orthogonal to using debian as your router's OS.

A 15 year old 1ghz quad core (apu2) can route gigabit just fine, passively cooled. An N150 can do 2.5gbit, probably 10gbit but i haven’t personally tried.

Using Openwrt is fine but doesn’t quite match the educational experience of starting from a scratch Debian.

Yeah, I will concede the hardware is nice and they offer things nobody else really does. Which makes it even more of a shame that I can’t install my own OS properly on it.

Fwiw I like protectli’s boxes. Not quite as featureful nor as cheap but it’s great kit.

Just use linux! Why use someone else's non FOSS, locked down linux, when you could truly own your router?

It's a great educational experience I would recommend to anyone interested in networking. Grab debian, grab a system with 2 NICs, make it your router/firewall/gateway.

and almost every paid service too. Paid or unpaid is not a useful characteristic for determining if something will sell my data.

The real workaround is to delete system32.

I had this shit with my alienware monitor. Doesn’t happen on Linux.

Man those are absolutely deranged. Awesome.

Those are reasonable. A business must take account of its stock - a useful thing is happening. A TV station shuts down in the evening as paying for electricity to broadcast and humans to schedule programming that goes unwatched is unproductive. It is not reasonable that a piece of working software in a product I paid a substantial sum of money for, which has no good reason to not work, should not work randomly.

To what end? Pleasing a few nerds? Nerds that are just as likely to have ripped out the OTA modem or not be using a car like that.

How the hell else do you arrange a contract? Lawyers at 10 paces? What's so corrupt about directly communicating with someone gain agreement? This is confusing.

Working for US companies is hilarious because they act like I don't have workers rights.

May you be cursed with chaotic noise til the end of your days

Consider the following; the creation of the building is the productive part, not the rent seeking parasite afterwards.

It is a cancer of the body politic.

God forbid society grows around you. How dare all those productive aspiring people build things near you. Did they not know you had exclusive right of refusal on nearby development?

The US being a puppet state of US commercial interests seems to be an apt description.

It is time for us to vacate this solar system, I don't like it here anymore.

Like everything else community construction responds to incentives. So we need to structurally incentivise short distance commute communities. Congestion pricing seems like a reasonable first step.

These ideas seem to be at odds with one another. I'm reasonably sure you can't harvest organs from a resuscitated person in a vegetative state, coma, severely brain damaged, whatever.

Yes, it feels like I echo the same sentiment at work every few weeks. No, we can’t tick the PR with verify=false. Yes, you have to configure the trust store. Yes, it’ll take maybe an hour to work this out. Go do so please.

The only reason is laziness.

Bogus nonsense. Sign your internal certs with an internal CA, make your clients trust the CA. Use it properly.

Good heavens an entire other afternoon after a decadal standards update. You’ll have to spend an afternoon upgrading off XP at some point too.

The simple pleasure of a job well done, even if the job is completely imaginary, because my real job is complex and stupid.

Driving the train is a little technical, but not overwhelmingly so. You need to pay attention to the gradient, speed, train weight and rail slipperiness to brake with perfect accuracy every time you come to a station. Signalling is not overly complex but you can benefit from tabbing over to a reference sheet every so often (Ah, double flashing yellow means we’re on a diverging route ahead with a reduced turnout speed so I must brake soon). Learning the german safety systems (PZB and LZB) was interesting. Guiding a 3000t freight train down a mountain isn’t something that can be rushed, it forces you to slow down and be patient.

So relaxation mostly. I can launch the game, drive something somewhere for an hour or two, get some endorphins because I did it all right, etc.

It takes an afternoon to set up DKIM and DMARC from scratch on a debian VPS. Yeah it's a little bit byzantine but it's not rocket science.

man zfs, man zpool, cron, your mta of choice (I like dma) :)

schedule a zpool scrub every month, send an email if it finds errors. zpool status will show the errored drive. zpool replace will initiate the drive replacement.

That is kind of exactly how zfs works though. The guide isn't complete, sure, but "rebuilding" the array is just replace the disk and run a single zfs command.

Yeah we were 5-10 years away from full self driving 15 years ago too.

Every little bit of hardware off an apple line is serialised out the wazoo, and the device's serial number is associated with every apple ID ever used to sign in to the device. I doubt it ever gets deleted. So yeah.

If you're remotely interested in this stuff you should go ahead and set all this up yourself on a debian or such. Great learning experience.