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Life without a car is not an exotic luxury at all, far from it, and all your points are just proving the point. Cars are a luxury, from the amount of taxes paid towards car infrastructure to the social costs associated with “the car culture” (insurance, public health, climate change, etc.). There are countless examples of urban and rural areas where alternative modes of transportation (LRT, bus, bicycle, ferries) are the norm and where cars are barely necessary/used. Not every place in the world is Anywhere, USA…

Sorry for double posting, missed it at the time!

Yep, same here. Discovered I was stereoblind quite late as well as I thought it was the norm and my brain just got used to it.

Second that. I do see the difference at work where it's impossible to install Firefox and/or extensions; it's god awful to browse the web without it.

I even installed it on my parents laptop and they never complained that ads suddenly started appearing.

Also, and it's striking to me that there never was a crackdown on this, but in a lot of countries, you cannot call yourself an engineer unless you have an engineering degree from a vetted higher-ed institution and are part of your provincial/state engineers' association.

For example, in N.S., your job title cannot contain the word engineer unless you're registered as an engineer with Engineers Nova Scotia, the provincial regulatory body. And to get the EIT status (engineer in training, the provisional period before becoming a professional engineer), you must hold a CEAB-accredited undergraduate degree. So, software engineers rarely exist and it's mostly software developers in N.S.

Came here to say this. And he also gives a lot of insight on how men's clothing is made and why it's made that way.

He also regularly gives tips on where to shop and what to look for. I really like the fact that it's not totally focused on bespoke tailoring.

He's also on bluesky for those who do not have a Twitter account: https://bsky.app/profile/dieworkwear.bsky.social

Gonna give this a shot! Looks promising for SharePoint sites that are internal.

I think it should, yes. I'm going to try as soon as I can find my raspberry pi buried in the garage.

It should work anywhere a USB keyboard works, realistically.

Damned, I just purchased a new keyboard with a 2.4 GHz dongle because my Bluetooth keyboard cannot with GRUB and I got tired of having to plug it in every time I rebooted.

What a cool little project. I might build a couple of these for the KVMs at work.

Thought exactly the same!

Perfect companion to the Captain Hornblower series of books.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower

And it seems to be totally generic, just 7 digits, and switching every 10 seconds instead of 30.

Bitwarden can import them too.

Well, I'm still running critical services on Solaris 10 everyday and will be running them for the foreseeable future. Granted it's on an airtight network, but still, every time I see CDE, I'm brought back 15 years ago.

I wish we could migrate to something more modern, but vendor lock-in is strong in certain instances, let alone in the embedded space.

Here in Europe , a lot of former public utilities companies and the public sector in general has been really pushing niche OSS and OpenData projects in Europe.

It's not always useful (rarely actually) for the average Joe, but it's definitely cool to see them embracing OSS and OpenData.

That's why using immutable distros is awesome. Worst case scenario, you can boot the previous version.

I've been using Fedora Silverblue for a while and never got a borked upgrade. It's not without its own flaws, but if you can live with mostly flatpak apps, it's a pretty compelling package.

Lately, MTU has gotten up my list of things to check when stuff goes down.

It seems carriers can't get their MTUs straight as of late, especially on MPLS links...

I really thought we had this figured out 20 years ago...

Agreed 100 percent. Software is the easy part. Getting HVAC, power and network up to the levels of cloud providers is difficult to get right and prohibitively expensive.

For instance, the cost for a pair of redundant symmetric gigabit fiber is in the thousands a month and may require tens of thousands of construction costs. These quickly add up, and the upfront costs can quickly reach six figures.

Honestly, if you're not playing video games or require Windows for certain apps and if you're a little tech savvy, why are you still using Windows?

It's not a rhetorical question, it's a real one. I'm really interested in what's keeping people on Windows nowadays, considering all the spying, nagging and overall hostile attitude Microsoft has against its users.

Hmm, interesting, it only binds on the IPv6 address. It does work but IPv4 does not seem to be working.

Just tried to set it up on a fresh Ubuntu free VM on Oracle cloud and I can't seem to be able to even login after setup.

Oh well, might look into it when I have more time. Looks promising though!

The UNIX layout is also my favorite layout by a mile. The backspace and control keys position is so much more natural, I don't understand why it didn't become the default layout.

I wonder what it means for SuSE Enterprise Linux in the long run.

Are they going to migrate SLE to be bug-for-bug RHEL compatible but keep their own tools on top? What about OpenSUSE? I'm an avid SLE/OpenSUSE user and it was chosen specifically because it's not an RHEL clone.

One thing I noticed recently during the massive heatwave we had in southern Europe is how we forgot the most basic principles for building in hot climates.

For example, we enlarged windows and doors, to the point were, standing behind one that's been cooking in the sun for a couple of hours, you feel the radiant heat a meter away from it. All the older houses around the Mediterranean have smaller windows and doors, to limit the sun (and by extension the heat) from coming in.

We've cut down so many trees in the cities and poured so much concrete that some places are radiating heat for hours after sundown, making the night a couple of degrees hotter than it should really be.

Those are just a couple examples of poor architectural and city planning, but there are dozens of simple yet efficient techniques and tricks that we should reuse to make our cities more livable. Our ancestors didn't have all the new materials and knowledge we now have, but they were logical and lived with their environment.

I've been using Leap extensively for personal projects, and I really like the philosophy of the distro, but it feels very different from CentOS (which I use at work).

A lot of the tooling that has been built for SLES is included in OpenSuSE (yast, snapper, etc.) and it makes a world of difference for managing servers.

I understand why they want to cater to the CentOS sysadmins looking for an alternative, but without the brand recognition of RHEL behind it, it's an uphill battle -despite being a very good distro in its own right.

Honestly, zypper is nowhere as slow as dnf/yum.

It feels like it's a problem with every rpm-based distro, unfortunately

The default way zypper (the package manager) updates installed patterns is to include every recommended package in the pattern.

For example, if you update the pattern "gnome", it will by default reinstall cheese, even if you uninstalled it before.

Thankfully, they thought about this and there is a flag you can use (--no-recommends) to avoid reinstalling all recommended packages. It really is a minor annoyance, but I understand it could be annoying for new and inexperienced users.

I really like Tumbleweed. I've been running it on laptops and desktops for over 10 years without much problems. There are a couple of minor annoyances, like the way it handles patterns, or the way it sometimes updates large swaths of packages when libc is updated, but it's overall rock-solid, does not get in the way, and snapper makes it a breathe to rollback if anything wrong happens. Really an underrated distro, backed by a small but really knowledgeable and welcoming community.

It seems ok with podman but I can never login using the default credentials. Build time was indeed pretty long as well, and throwing all kinds of errors. I think if you set it up with an IP address, it doesn't run an nginx container to front the whole thing.

Me too! I also wonder about migration from Nextcloud. I might try to migrate a staging Nextcloud instance if I get around to it.