Time for me to add my tiny bit of semi related, but useless, knowledge : Galena can also form in cube shapes.

The only reason I know this is because we were crawling around in some old mines in the Ozarks and back in a little offshoot I found a few small, dark cubes in the dirt so I asked some of the geologists with us. Turns out the small mines were there specifically to pull out galena.

From wikipedia :

Galena, also called lead glance, is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide (PbS). It is the most important ore of lead and an important source of silver.

Also, don’t go crawling around in mines from the 1800s, it’s likely a bad idea.

You think that someone would break the sacred oath they took to become a notary? What is this world coming to…

I haven’t truly needed to use windows in probably 4 years. And those few needs were specific to helping someone who was on windows figure out some windows tomfuckery. I don’t think I care anymore… I can just give them a Linux ISO and call it good now.

Good to know though. Just in case.

I still need to try this.

I downloaded and started seeding it when there was a post about it a few weeks back but haven’t had time to try it.

I assume the ISO live boots from a USB so I can poke around without installing? Surely.

I’ve got an old laptop that I kept windows on for the once every few years I had to use windows but I don’t think it’s supported anymore and I’d actually use it occasionally if I put Linux on it ;)

Yeah, the smart ones do it from a road at night with a spotlight… no camo required there either.

… I honestly can’t decide if I should tag this with an /s or not because it is 100% a thing that happens (also 100% illegal, especially when off-season, no license, and you throw in the case of natty ice, but when has that stopped a determined redneck)

My work will cover public transit costs for commutes but not gas.

About 75% of us are in the US so… No public transit to cover. Coincidence?

They actually may only cover that cost for US employees… I need to ask my EU colleagues. That’d be a real “fuck you” if so.

One of the first things I say when non tech people ask me about ““AI”” is :

“The term AI here is just marketing wank”

That has the secondary effect of shutting off the electricity, water, air, oil, or whatever else … It just takes a little longer.

Well this is awesome… pulling it now.

checks if I made this comment while drunk

No, not me… Unless my drunk self has an alt I’m not aware of.

Exactly the same situation here on every part of your comment.

When I saw the default configured repos were hosted by Huawei I did a double take, then installed Armbian too : D

Similar setup here. Orangepi zero that starts kiwix server at boot and switches the wifi to AP mode. Just plug it in, connect to kiwix WiFi, access kiwix.local via phone browser, and shazam.

Be the change you want to see.

Also, loop me in. I have almost no free time at the moment but I’m building up a list of FOSS projects to work on when I retire.

If you ever do, have your volume control handy. It’s all ear blasting SFX and tiny little muted whispers of dialog. Every time somebody talks you need to turn up the volume by 200% and every time something happens you need to turn it down to 5%… it was infuriating.

Doh : (

At least we have a valid excuse for not adopting fingerprint biometrics… Minor bright side, I guess.

That’s the one. Are you a fellow lizard person that sheds your skin regularly like me?

Every time work pushes to use 100% biometrics I have to argue and get an exception.

I’ve got form of eczema where two to four times a year all the skin on my hands flakes and falls off… There are weeks when I have no fingerprints.

They’ve only brought up facial recognition once and I said it didn’t work reliably due to my skin color and facial hair. I have no idea if that’s true, never tried it, never will, but they didn’t pursue it any further.

I always enjoy throwing out the “if you force that, there will be about two months a year where I won’t be able to login… That’s up to you, but you have to document it so I can forward it to my manager and make them aware”. Unfortunately they haven’t forced it yet.

No, silly, 25 years ago was nineteen seventy… Wait.

26 years later and my brain still default counts back from 2000. Stupid brain.

Same. I quit whatsapp the day after facebook bought it. Switched to signal and never looked back. The few people I talked with on whatsapp moved too.

It’s always fun trying to find the next one when the previous goes out of range on road trips. Yes, we could look it up on a phone, but it’s more fun to guess each station genre as quickly as possible.

“Country, Christian, Christian country, classic rock, country, WAIT this might be NPR…”