I keep a client running out of habit. All my regular hangs are pretty dead. People left their clients running out of habit. One line per month is a busy month.

A small group of friends have moved to a self-hosted matrix server. That’s more active.

I think there’s just a paradigm change. IRC used to be pretty synchronous. You’d chat while you were connected, and not really multitask and zone out to do other stuff.

Today people expect messaging to be asynchronous. You get your push notifications and deal with it when you have the time.

What about those Epstein files, though?

I spent a few clicks on the site trying to figure out what guix is and does.

It’s a distro. Saved you a click.

I did deliveries for the postal service one summer 20 years ago. They always had you load up with just a little more than you had time to deliver, yet expect you to do it all. This one particular day it was scorching hot, and in addition to the regular small packages I had a fridge, a bike and a couch. All packaged to make them hard to grip. All to be delivered to the door, on the 4th, 5th and 3rd floor respectively. After ringing the doorbell with the bike in a box on the third floor and the Karen chewing me out for not leaving it downstairs by the garage I broke. Our supervisors at the time did call around to make sure people would be home, and check about floors, help to carry, and such. Such a request would’ve been noted on the package slip.

That job served as good motivation to stay in school and get a cushy SWE career.

I run it on a 6650xt just fine. I have to explicitly set what version I want, but no issues.

You should be in a better spot with a 6700xt.

I chipped so many glass beds back in the day with PLA and Elmer’s glue stick. I’d often put them in the freezer in hopes that they’d just release on their own. Alas, they chip there, too.

Grease is bad for those PEI sheets. I wipe it off with alcohol before every print. They need to be hot, too. Around the glass transition temperature of your material. I exclusively print PETG. 70°C will fail, while 85°C will stick great.

It sure is!

In my case it’s vulnerable while I re-balance.

btrfs can work with mixed-size disks and change RAID-levels on-line, too.

Another surprising source that heats Finnish homes: poo-poo.

I’m on RAID1 on btrfs, so I just rebalance and remove the disks as they break.

Damn. 2/8 drives in my array have died. I was going to replace them, but at this price point I might just delete some porn instead.

Or buy cloud storage.

My sources tell me that there’s even poo-poo involved.

Looks like ABS plastic. You can dissolve ABS with acetone, reshape and it’ll harden back up as the acetone evaporates.

Also consider epoxy. I like to mix it with a bit of colloidal silica to get it less runny.

My wife seems to think so.

• domain names
• e-mail hosting for those domains
• a virtual private server to host websites
• cloud storage for backups (in case the house burns down)
• seedbox
• claude code

That looks like a lot when I type it all out. I guess about $50/mo.

I think we’ve had 50/50% analogue and digital clocks at home. Analogue on walls and wrists, digital on microwaves and VCRs. I’m sure that helped make the connection.

I can understand that kids are not motivated to practice telling time from an oldskool watchface when they always have a digital clock in their pocket.

We recently switched cars. The previous one had a big digital display for the speed. My wife is completely unable to tell the speed from a regular gauge now.

I remember a time when I couldn’t tell time with an analogue clock.

I walked to school by myself from age 7. When my parents left for work they said I should get going when the big hand is pointing straight down.

Which one?

Hero material right there.

Looks like a low barrier. It could likely have bounced over.