My whirlpool series 80 has 20 years and still cleans clothes just fine. The drain pump has been replaced twice (year five and year 15 maybe?) and the teeth in the agitator around year 19. May you get as many years out of yours as I have out of mine, and then some.
If you end up using PEX then it needs to be PEX-A (apparently) for the upper shower bit because the PEX-A fittings preserve the internal diameter of the pipe. The PEX-A tools are more expensive than the PEX-B tools.
PEX has got to be the most confusing system anyone ever concocted for all the good it apparently brings (I’ve used it in two projects with sharkbites).
Why use the copper crimp rings over the clamps?
:-)
There are places around here that are just starting to carry hotter sauces locally. It’s a nice surprise given how niche some of the hotter stuff is.
Is there anything hotter in the pic than the Apollo sauce?
Is there a map from prior to covid? Early on through the pandemic there were reports that it was affecting people of Mediterranean descent at a greater rate than others.
Good luck blocking SSH. At that point you are looking at just banning computers and networks.
“After blocking every other possible avenue of children having unstructured, unmonitored communications with each other, they have now learned ‘UNIX’ just to spite us! To that end we will now be banning all computers. Think of the children!”
When done right they complement each other. I’m not going to sit here and argue everyone should be handjamming their own XFree86 config file but there are still a lot of austere environments out there where you don’t really get a GUI. A basic knowledge of VI can go a very long way and as long as someone doesn’t go out of their way to disable terminal access the capability never stops being useful.
Kiosks are a good example of a GUI-only environment, but I’d never want to use one as my main computing environment and don’t understand wanting to be limited to that world (which is not what anyone here has suggested).
The average user can’t be expected to remember all of the commands needed to use their regularly used programs
They were expected to do so for decades, or they hired a computer (as in a person) to do it for them ($$$).
the terminal could be used to reformat storage devices, but MintStick essentially replicates the Windows GUI for doing it
Depends on what you mean by “doing it.” I’ll look in a second, but from the name and your description I’m guessing it’s got parted/mkfs.xxxx/dd and the lot installed on it, maybe something for dealing with boot sectors or GRUB. I’m also guessing that behind the scenes it’s just using a GUI to build up the command line behind the scenes, and I like that style of GUI.
The more users Linux has the more resources it will get.
Concur.
For power users, nothing stops developers from also maintaining terminal support.
UX design/GUI development isn’t entirely orthogonal with backend core program stuff, but they’re close. I’ll argue that you’re better off starting with the core stuff and save the GUI for later.
I looked at the mintstick code. It looks like it’s using python to pull down some OS image from the internet and burn it to a USB. I’d rather just stick to the way I know :-) I didn’t know python had a parted library, so that’s new.
I am all for more people knowing how to use a computer, but I’m also in the camp that I ate the learning curve enough years ago that I don’t want to give up my ways. I don’t expect everyone to want to master the terminal, but I won’t give up the power in favor whatever a GUI designer chooses to implement. The trade isn’t worth it to me.
To make Linux more palatable to Windows and macOS users, I think it’s important to shift as much of the Linux experience away from the terminal and into GUI programs as possible.
Nope. LLMs have opened the door to nearly everything that’s ever been searched for or commited to the internet, and roughly none of that is going to be PDFs with screenshots of how to click through the GUI equivalent of grepping for “foo” and “bar” in a file that may or may not have a space, in files that end in .biz, but only files from the last month or so.
The world is full of crummy Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). Want teams to always show you online? Just do this one weird trick with the mouse sensor! Need the dog to come to you for its bath? Rattle its food bag. The terminal setup UNIX has had for decades turns out to be a pretty good way to control a computer. Whether we’ve molded ourselves to fit the 70s terminal paradigm or whether we just happened on a really good solution right out of the gate is a pretty interesting question.
The learning curve for a terminal isn’t nearly as bad as people make it out to be, and its various DSLs being Turing complete mean that at the top of the learning curve is a massive amount of efficiency. GUIs are there to limit complexity, so while it may make the inital first usage of a computer easier it ultimately caps how powerful/efficient someone can be. There are people who research that kind of thing, but you’ll have a very tough time selling VIM users on the idea that notepad.exe is a text editor just like VIM is, but newer.
Most of the complaints about Windows 11 that I’ve read/noticed are around how much it “helps” you by doing little searches all the time trying to guess what you want. Those turn 10ms tasks into 250ms tasks which seems like petty whining until you have to do it a thousand times a day and “ls” has been around for 50 years now.
The market will decide for us so it’s a moot point; I just like to shit on Windows.
He’s been making Alton Brown Cooks Food for almost a year now. I recommend going through starting with episode 1 at least on the first pass. Maybe watch the videos on your own before sitting down with kiddo? That’s up to you.
Ah. That’s a misunderstanding on my part, and a good news story. Still don’t want to wake up tomorrow and see a published AES break, though.
A MITM doesn’t require decrypting. It just requires telling a convincing enough lie to each side of a conversation that they think they’re talking to the other party. Then you end up encrypting to their key which they can just read. That’s different from breaking the encryption.
Are you sure they can’t decrypt?
No, and none of the state actors who do that kind of stuff will ever tell you. Watch The Imitation Game for a good/bad time and some context.
If you had a break for the modern crypto schemes and published it right now you would shut down all digital commerce, a lot of the spy traffic if not most of it1, and nothing could be started back up again until everything was redone from scratch. Best hope would be that the post quantum algorithms2 the cryptographers have aren’t succeptible to whatever you did to break the existing algorithms. It’d take a bit to get the software implementations and keys in place, etc. The hardware stuff would take longer.
Just a reminder that he advocated for, and got approval to run an uncontrolled scientific experiment on the entire population of the US without any sort of ethics guardrails.
If they started splitting the MMR vaccine up right now then the first chances to test for reduced rates of autism would be at least two years from now after this administration is out. There won’t be any usable results, just an uptick in measles cases and an “unexplained” bump in the death of kids.
Is there a magazine in that one? Trigger discipline at least looks good.
I don’t see that happening. It’ll be like what happened with the Ford where it quietly goes into maintenance. Maybe the crew doesn’t get medals because of the attention they drew.
you know what I ate in Afghanistan for six months using a little burner? I ate Ramen noodles … that’s what I ate, and I was happy to have it, because the alternative was an MRE or something cooked by the Afghan guy who was too stupid to be given a gun and they let him be the cook,
Six months times around 30 days in a month times three meals per day is 540 packets of ramen noodles. My maruchan beef (flavored) packet says 370 calories per packet, so that’s 1110 calories or so per day, for six months, in a war zone. Press X to doubt.
Hyperbole is fine in some contexts, but that’s not enough calories to operate with, and you’d have gotten diseases from malnutrition. You supplemented that all-ramen diet with something, likely ratfucking MREs as you felt like it since you’re too good to eat one and call it a meal, AND you had access to a chef (hyperbole)!
Reports are starting to trickle in that the drinking water is dirty/tainted with oil and there’s not enough to drink/bathe/clean. I’ve read comments that suggest some percentage of the people on the ship are bedridden. No parts to repair the thing that was broken yesterday, the day before, last week, last month means no parts and the thing stays broken. Extend that to all the little systems on a ship in a hot/humid area, and yeah, things are probably looking worse than being marooned on an island.
It’s a little immaterial anyway. The job of getting the ship headed back home is done. The questions about how the people in charge evidently didn’t plan for that deployment, didn’t see this coming, didn’t listen to reports while it was happening, had to bend to media pressure to get it fixed, and had to weaken US positions in other areas in the world to adjust are still valid and unanswered. The people on the Lincoln aren’t going to stop existing now. You can’t keep them locked on the boat for six more months in port to put back on 40 pounds of bodyweight in some cases, and everywhere else there will be cameras. You can’t expect everyone to lie forever.
And, yet again, this easily avoidable situation with an easily predictable outcome carried out by the world’s best logistics operation is bringing up questions about what else isn’t being done that we’re just not hearing about?
How fucking weird. I genuinely don’t understand this
Jeezus said so, that’s why.
If you keep digging and playing an adult game of “why?” you eventually come to that “reasoning.” It’s ultimately why we can’t have nice things because religion falls to critical thinking skills, falls to history, falls to literature, and falls to the scientific method.
It’s like any other group of people: it’s held up by people who’ve “paid their dues” and need younger people to buy into the system and feed it so the older folks can coast through the end of their life. The system is brutal to people who don’t conform. They usually end up expelled from the group and left without resources to build back up again. It’s why there are whole other support groups, as an example, to get people out of the LDS sphere of influence.
And by the way, to you good people helping folks escape from the LDS: you would do well to read all the stories about whole chinese police departments working in North America, and what’s going on with Flock, and LLMs gathering up data, and it all being available for purchase. I hope your OPSEC is up to having that light shined on you.
You can have long guns purchased through the Civilian Marksmanship Program shipped directly to your door. Those are a drop in the bucket compared to most firearm purchases in the US, though.