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I've started blocking medium from my search results.

I have heard great things about PopOS but haven't tried it personally. Hopefully you find the right distro for you.

Have you considered Fedora?

I recently moved from Arch to Fedora and I have all the same up to date vanilla packages without having to do any real work.

Also I think snap is an Ubuntu thing vs flatpak and appimage which are more distro agnostic. That's my issue with it/Ubuntu. They are doing good things, but at the same time I don't feel they are as "open" as other linux distros.

Also, snapd is installed by default on their servers and it's not as to remove as it should be.

This is one of the reason that I will always choose a different distro if I have the choice.

This tweet seems to confirm it is a bgp issue...

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1445063880963674121?s...

I'm doing the same for my personal/home lab stuff. I've been using https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns for the dns server running on a small vps for all my internal certificates and I haven't had any issues with it.

Out of curiosity, is there any consensus on what parts of the world might be underwater or a desert once this plays out?

I'm not a climate scientist, but I'm curious after these comments if there is some way to know what changes will happen where. I know there are some obvious assumptions like coastal areas are likely to be underwater, but how can we know if e.g., South Dakota will be a frozen tundra or desert?

Apologies if that is a dumb questions. I am not knowledgeable on this subject.

My children's school district uses meet and google classroom. I think it's pretty common in schools in the US.

I agree being able to change the temperature settings from a phone would be convenient, but they've had "smartish" thermostats capable of relatively complex temperature schedules for at least 20 years.

No need for an internet connection or mega corp data collections.

This is how vmware tanzu works also.

Also if the answer is try using another Google product(chromecast) to get a good experience that kind of validates Roku's complaint.

I'm using openWRT on a Zyxel Armor Z2 router. Today they are $170 on Amazon.

The flashing process was exactly the same as the factory firmware. After that I had to configure it just as I would any new router.

It's better than the factory firmware in every way except user friendliness, but even that isn't bad unless you are trying to something more advanced.

The CPE from Comcast was so much slower and worse in every single way. Now it only acts as a modem for the Zyxel.

An important part of my experience is that I deliberately set out to buy a good router that was very well supported by openWRT, because in the past I have had experiences similar to your post (but with dd-wrt in the long long ago).

I really believe if you plan the project like you would a production project you'll have an extremely good experience.

That said, I did have a number of non-standard things I wanted to do on my home network without paying thousands for enterprise level hardware so it was worth it for me to do that work. If I was just getting on line with a couple computers, phones, and tv's I wouldn't have bothered to flash with openWRT.

I feel like something similar happened with me middle of last year. I was studying for an Azure certification and deployed a few ubuntu servers. Around that time I received an email from someone named Aldo with 'Business Development' in their email signature.

We don't use anything from conanical at work and I've never signed up for anything from them that I recall. I remember at the time thinking it was weird to get this email when I had never before used an ubuntu server in azure. I certainly never expressed any interest in "running ubuntu in a secure manner on Azure" to anyone.

I received the email on June 6, 2020, and then several follow up emails when I didn't respond.

This was the message:

> With 85% of enterprises having either a mandate, preference or exploration of open source technology I've connected with many individuals, while working from home, who have reached out to discuss how we provide proactive security for Ubuntu deployments in the cloud. I understand you have similar interests around running Ubuntu in a secure manner on Azure.

> Ubuntu Pro, our carefully optimized image for production public cloud environments, provides all-inclusive patching for over 30,000 packages (for up to 10 years), FIPS 401-2 certification and Automated security profiles including CIS and DISA STIG.

> That is just a handful of ways we keep companies safe and I was hoping to show you more. How does your schedule look this week, or the next, for a quick chat?

This looks very interesting! Headphone jack and everything!

I have an Pixel2 and was thinking I'd get an iPhone next, but I'm really turned off by Apple's behaviour lately. I also don't want to send more money to Google.

I'm willing to accept that it may not be as polished as the big players, but how would you say it compares to other high-end Android phones?

And if you've tried running linux on it is it usable with reliable call quality?

I started to reply earlier in the thread and then decided not to, but basically what I wanted to say was this.

I have used Linux as a daily driver desktop for years, but I don't just buy random hardware and expect it to work. I do some research first and make sure what I buy works well enough with Linux to meet my needs.

I personal prefer reading docs/books/blogs in that order.

I also occasionally watch some live programming videos casually when I'm not focusing on anything and I've learned some things that way. For example, if they do something differently than I would have it's cool to see how it works and why they choose to do it that way.

I had no intention of being annoying. Apologies for that. I only meant to offer some optimism.

I understand your point of view, and I respect it.

I think people have felt the same about having children throughout most of history.

Do you want a child born into slavery?

Do you want a child subject to a totalitarian government?

Do you want a child born into extreme poverty or famine?

I feel like if you want to have a kid you have one and you deal with whatever adversity comes along.

Take the opportunity to prepare your child to deal with the world that exists regardless of the circumstances. The more children that grow up with thoughtful parents that prepare them to face problems in the more possibility the world will be a better place in the future.

I'm sure my argument isn't well thought at being that it's 4:30pm on a Friday, but I really feel like regardless of the issues we face in society today we are living in the best time to be alive ever and if you have the means to care for a child, and you want children, there's nothing that should stop you from having one.

Probably better to run a container or VM behind a VPN to do "VPN" things there, and normal stuff on the host.

Is this true?

As I explained in another post, I used to work at a small ISP many years ago. We did not monitor anything, but we did get emails from MPAA people (my memory is a little fuzzy) about an IP downloading a something. We would then pass it on to our customer.

In the long long ago I worked at a small regional ISP. We offered dial-up and dsl. Users were assigned whatever IP was available when they connected, and this was logged (including disconnect time).

So, it was very easy to search the logs and see who was using an IP at a given time in the past (assuming we still had the logs).

Worked for me too!

The only downside was (on Arch) having to recompile to update the v4l2loopback_dc kernel module after ever kernel update.

I've since moved on to a regular webcam though.

I am in south-ish (north palm beach) Florida and went to the beach the past few weekends. Fortunately it was nowhere near has busy as that picture. We haven't had much issue finding a spot with enough space to feel socially distanced.

We also went to Longhorn for dinner yesterday and they had everyone pretty spaced out (every other booth, no seating at center tables). All the restaurant employees were wearing masks. I'm not sure we were at more risk than getting takeout.

It has been really great mentally to go to the beach and have dinner outside the house.

I am trying to keep our distance and not expose ourselves or others to anything unnecessary... we would have definitely left the beach and/or the restaurant if it was anything like the pictures you posted.

I guess my point is I feel like it's possible to go out and not be too risky. I don't think every area reopening is getting crazy.

And no one thought of Focker written in F#?

This is an excellent question! I wouldn't be surprised if notifying someone that their subscription is cancelled due to inactivity would cause them to suddenly value their subscription.

I bet you're right.

Why not? I use a tiling wm and I love it. I'm able to make my desktop act exactly the way I want it to act. I don't appreciate my windows being rambunctious.

If I'm on a machine without a tiling wm I generally using everything maximized and alt-tab like you say. But that's still usually an extra click after opening an application.

I also love tmux, but I have a coworker that doesn't see the point.

So, having options is nice. I want to be able to work the way I want. I also want you and my coworker to be able to work your way.

For me the borrow checker is what I find interesting about rust.

I wouldn't call it bad pr.

I use powershell on linux occasionally. Primarily with the azure and powercli modules. For doing vmware and azure stuff I can't think of anything that hasn't worked.

If you want to do anything that would be windows only then you're right, it probably won't work.

That said, I usually have a tmux window ssh'd into a windows machine for powershell. It would be nice to be able to manage ad and exchange from a linux machine with powershell.

That's how I read it also.

Take for example Kurt Cobain (whatever you think of him and his music). He had major success in music, but his life was a disaster and not something I'd hope for a loved one.

I do agree that it seems like the best art is created by "tortured artists".

This is interesting and very true. It reminds me of people who are excellent at something but their life gets held back by alcohol/drugs or bad relationships or some other _low minimum_.

That first sentence is really profound in my opinion.