I was named after a family member before everyone discovered what a criminal he was. To be clear, my family will not use my birthname. I thought that was a winning story until I met a guy named Chuck. Chuck Manson.

Neither of us have changed our names.

Yep. I’m gonna miss real engineering with the coming Ai-driven Idiocracy.

No need to wait aeons for someone who enjoys the sound of their own voice to slowly and laboriously explain it like astronomy to a dog. Someone wrote 15 words and I read it in about a half-second.

does feel like Linux desktop environments like GNOME and Cinnamon got stuck in 2009 and never evolved past that

If you think desktops are way not shiny enough, you should see this hammer I have. I’ve had it for decades. It’s old. It’s still got the dumb wooden/metal layout that’s been common for a century or 5. It has no clock, no Ai, no Bluetooth. It’s a fucking relic.

Piece of stale shit, if you ask me.

And don’t get me started on this staedler pencil I have.

others meet anyway just to shoot the shit

Hey now. Shooting the shit is how we test our mics before the meeting. If you can’t make the pre-meeting, then suffer and never know whether your mic is shit.

With enamel regrowing constantly after the smallest scratch, cavities cannot get to where they form.

This hokum story is promising no more cavities ever.

People who keep their kids inside but let their pets play in traffic are psychopaths.

I know what I said.

Yep. But owncloud went from old and idle to active again. It seems to be a more LTS take on it where NextCloud is your All Features Faster mandate.

Just show me the one that doesn’t rely on containers, venvs, npm or other supply-chain risks.

Yep, two reasons I’m out.

They don’t realize the colors are arbitrary. Many don’t realize the internet spans the world.

Socialism and democracy are good words in some countries. Socialism is how my sister in law gets to retire at 55 and in excellent health, and democracy is how they got that.

The last time I plugged my phone in to charge was … Well, never with this one.

It has a 3.5mm and a Qi charging and sharing rig. I wish I could have this phone forever.

See: every other country.

France has had three elections in quick succession, if I remember right, and all from failed budgets.

(Really it’s because the people pushing the budgets are arguing like a bag of cats, but the budget failing is how they’re back to elections)

Canada’s shortest administration was like 24 hours.

Countries where the elections aren’t mandated to last 4 years get kicked out when they suck.

You should see how other countries do it.

(Spoiler: like that. Consensus)

should be a right, absolutely if you’ve done nothing wrong.

The loss of privacy happens before the determination whether that person has done anything wrong. If the person’s criminal case goes well, do you have a time machine to go back and not invade privacy?

School uniforms level the outward socioeconomic presentation of students.

If it weren’t school uniforms, then the oppositional-defiant disorder would present in some students another way. Not statistically relevant.

I learned in New Jersey: driver following too close? Foot off the gas. You do not put it back on until they have angrily passed you and sped off into the night.

I dearly wish to use and support this app.

But here’s the thing: containers - like so many other mechanisms - suffer from supply-chain risks due to reduced validation to the degree assumed and required compared to, say, good packaging that integrates with the resident source of truth on a given system. Containers, like so many other risky mechanisms that dates back to CPAN or earlier, cannot exist in a secure environment.

For those of us working where we can to minimize repair/recovery work through best practice, Immich cannot be run.

I know there’s a homebrew workaround, but given it’s external to the dev effort it’s a risk that it won’t suddenly work as a reliable update resource; and that risk stymies uptake for us.

Now, I know I’ve suggested there’s imperfection in a number of favourite technologies and methods, and that’s fine. If downvotes is how you defend these sacred cows, I understand.

Correct: it’s like trying to equate “correct” with “popular”, and keeping in mind how the last US elections have turned out.

But it’s good to be in a big network of other users with the same product, nonetheless.

Anything docker-free?

This. Reading what you personally write is really good for recalling the related memories. Doing it often will strengthen the connection.

My mom was put out for a big surgery, and she still has memory holes and foggy bits from the anesthetic and the morphine beforehand. If made her previous memories foggy and impairs new memory formation. So she’s a little fuddy, but it’s improving.