Snot Flickerman

Metal nerds used to just cut themselves when they wanted to needlessly suffer, now they program in java.

Seriously though this is well-written and executed (yuk yuk), quite funny.

Sleep State S5: alcohol induces intermittent sleep where the monitor keeps coming on and the turning off for indeterminate amounts of time during the night.

apt-get install warm-milk

for debian users

You can run it on a Pi via Box64. Source: I did it.

I’ve been able to control a consumer-grade CyberPower UPS for just my modem/router via a Raspberry Pi using Box64 to emulate the linux command line software for communicating with the UPS. I’ve never had any issues, and it had pretty okay documentation. You just connect it to a host PC via USB.

https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/standby/st625u/

This is the one, nothing special.

As you can see though, source, rpm, and deb versions are available. If a low-power consumer grade one like this has Linux support, I’d daresay most of them do. Like I said, I never had trouble.

Lovingly crafted, artisanal coding.

I used to work in local television news production and one of the most common occurrences was something not working, someone calling engineering, and then it starting to work when the engineer walked in the room.

Most election data comes from the Associated Press, but I don’t see a place to purchase API access, may only be available to news orgs.

https://developer.ap.org/ap-elections-api/

A reddit poster had some JSONs from New York Times four years ago for 2020 but I’m not sure if you can make them work for 2024.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rstats/comments/jo1yuw/us_election_results_api/gmnxfz3/

sudo apt-get install intel-media-va-driver-non-free

Video will still be clunky but less clunky.

EDIT: I’m so happy.

Looking at what you quoted, that’s fair and can see how you misread it as such. I am sorry I said that it was purposeful.

Way to purposefully misread it.

The whole issue is that the Russians work for companies with sanctions against them.

So, treat all companies involved in war the same way, and you’ll never run into this hypocritical issue again.

There’s plenty of companies (like Valve) who don’t directly produce weapons of war or have contracts with their governments for war-services who contribute to Linux that could still do so, and plenty of individuals who don’t work for military and military adjacent companies to contribute.

Acting like removing people who work at companies that contribute to wars will mean no one can contribute is obviously a grossly exaggerated misinterpretation.

That’s literally what I suggested elsewhere here: If you work for ANY company in ANY country that produces weapons for war for ANY government, that they shouldn’t be allowed to contribute.

Because that at the very least would be consistent.

US isn’t helping fund a genocide in Israel or anything! /s

Yeah must suck to live in Israel.

Are we going to remove Israel maintainers from the list since IDF soldiers are using Palestinians as human shields?

Oh, no, because US is okay with that genocide?

It’s really more about how clearly fucking hypocritical it is.

But folks who work for US companies building weapons for Israel are totes okay?

It’s honestly fucking wild that an internationally developed open source project has to play by the US government’s rules when the US government is out here helping commit genocide right the fuck now.

Like, look in the fucking mirror on this why don’t you.

Maybe the better rule is that if you work for a company that produces weaponry for war you shouldn’t be allowed to contribute, period.

I’m lazy and old so I’m doing it the least efficient way by just putting all updates into a daily cronjob (or doing updates on reboot). Much more modern ways to handling it than the crontab, but I too, am lazy.

Microsoft taught people to distrust updates because they break shit and don’t ask if you want them or not.

That leads a lot of people to being “scared” of updates, and Linux updates literally constantly (a good thing).

Further, Ubuntu as well as others have moved towards phased rollouts, to ensure new versions don’t break things. I constantly have updates say “These updates have been held back due to phasing” which is intended to save me from any trouble if the small number of users who they have phased the updates to start having issues. Easier to roll back and fix for a small number of users as opposed to the whole world.

Linux doesn’t just handle updates better, but they’ve continued to grow and change how they handle updates to make them better for end-users long-term.

Breaking Microsoft ingrained habits is hard for some people.