I have actually found valid reasons to own a motorcycle:
any trip on the bike is 60 % less gas than by car
my occasional commute from rural to city: car needs to be put in a garage for 25 € / 8 hrs. Bike rides up the elevator to the office, free.
riding saves up the car for the winter, when it’s most needed.
bike maintenance is cheap and diy-able.
the pleasure of riding: priceless.
Frankly - my kids in front of the tv is pure Beavis and Butt-head :D
Take a look at the Finnish folk instrument, the Kantele. They tend to have a hollow body but otherwise pretty angelic stuff :D
Looking for ‘zither’ will probably yield more like this.
The free version of Maxmind’s db should be available on your distro. The name is going to be ‘geoip’ with something extra hanging on :)
I do audio and quite enjoy Arch with its ‘pro-audio’ meta package that installs basically everything. Desktop and laptop both have that, so they have the same plugins and applications -> projects open on both machines just the same.
Sure, but then I’d be downloading every single source ‘package’ and compiling for both x86 and ARM - not exactly feasible. Keeping just the sources might be an option though. The point is to have the whole repo, not just the packages I use, so that in the SHTF scenario I can help others install Arch and any software they may need on their machines. Muhahaha, Arch will prevail 👻
I quit on day two with two takeaways:
– Hardware must be well supported in fully-libre-land - I was trying to install on a Mac Mini and had to go nonguix pretty much right away. That kind of spoiled the whole effort.
– Profound meditation and enlightenment on the essence of Scheme is a must. I had one of those ‘no, this is where you don’t want a closing brace’ moments and my zen was blown out of the water.
I would have soldiered on, but personally I like Arch first and foremost because I can (and do) have a local repo by rsyncing a rotation of mirrors couple of times a week. Just in case the Internet dies one day, you know. I realised Guix was not really suitable for the apocalypse use case, so after that brace episode I decided to stick with what my spine already knows.
After all that is said – I really hope you fare better :D
Eurorack tape module? I want to know what it can do… off googlin’
I did! John Marley Centre for Music and Media 2000-'02 represent :3 It was still 2" tape and patching outboard at the time though.
Whatever you end up using, have JACK sync 'em up. I used to have two Macs, one for recording with Nuendo and one for doing MIDI sequencing and programming. They synced via MIDI sync and there was always issues. Now I have everything on one Linux machine (Ardour records and mixes, Reaper sequences MIDI and Renoise does beats and other sampling related stuff) and with JACK the sync is seamless <3
I’m thinking Waydroid or something alike with Gapps installed with a burner G account. That can be spun up when parking app or work benefits app are needed, as these are the only two normie apps in my life that require the googly bits. Same drill as I do with GrapheneOS now - second user profile with Google enabled that only runs a minute if i need to pay for parking or a meal :)
Ok, interested. Looks like a project to support with real money. I’m in.
If the price of their product feels steep, it’s not that bad actually. I paid over 600 € to f@ckin’ Google for a device to run GrapheneOS on :o)
Yes, or SSH keys or any other means of user authentication. The cool thing in this technique is that it’s twofold and you (as an attacker) can cherry-pick the info given. If you walk up locally to someone’s running system, you could skip the first half and go with the ‘hey, can you resize this XFS image for me’ bit.
The technique described here is only a concern if the ‘bad actor’ has access to a user account on your machine in the first place.
The dev’s VSCode application installs a helper package in /root/.vscode-server. Separate copy for every user that connects. It runs a bunch of ‘node’ processes that often stack up more used CPU time than MySQL. I’m not a fan…
Thanks, that’ll come in handy!
I guess it’s worth mentioning that once (only once) I’ve seen ripgrep bring a whole LAMP stack production server to a full tilt. A dev using VSCode (which has rg as part of its ‘trojan horse’ vscode-server it installs and runs as root on any server it’s used to edit) did a search and ripgrep went into some kind of death loop hogging 100% of all cpu cores. Probably rare, but kind of shocked me. All our servers now babysit vscode-server with cgroups…
The sharp uptick of crap flown around 2.6 piques my interest. As does someone’s introduction of ‘retard’ into the vocabulary shortly prior. Must have been popcorn times.
There are big expensive mosquito magnets that take a propane tank and electricity to run (these are environmentally ok) and the Thermacell device (somewhat dubious but very effective). Source: Finland, the land of mosquitos