limelight79

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[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Oh, yeah, I enjoy the traveling. My thought was just that as I was watching the pump total price go higher and higher. But I still travel for vacations. :)

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nah. One of my coworkers stays home for every vacation and reads. We try to guess how many books she'll read during her week off each time. Closest guess, without going over, wins. She loves it and crowns a winner each time she returns, but the winner only gets bragging rights until her next vacation.

A few years ago I was at a gas station pumping fuel on a trip, while prices were extremely high, and I was thinking to myself that her way is certainly much less expensive.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

SpaceX also has Starlink. I don't know how it's doing financially, but I do know it's quite popular in places where wired internet isn't available, and for people who are mobile. I've even seen pictures of cruise ships using it for internet access.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

I have Kubuntu installed on my desktop, been using it for years. I had disabled snap Firefox and used a Deb version, but the other day I discovered that Kubuntu reinstalled the snap Firefox.

I've been planning to switch to Debian on my desktop, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. This little incident is reminding why I want to in the first place.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

brands can tap into the rich, high-intent product conversations

What the hell is a high-intent product conversation?

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 35 points 7 months ago (3 children)

We haven't rewritten the firewall code lately, right? checks Oh, it looks like we have. Now it's nftables.

I learned ipfirewall, then ipchains, then iptables came along, and I was like, oh hell no, not again. At that point I found software to set up the firewall for me.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 23 points 7 months ago

Found Dr. Tanenbaum's account!

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

An interesting idea, but it might be overkill for a home setup.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Remember the Republican platform in the 2020 election. It was one page that said, "We oppose Obama." That was their entire platform.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Data and configurations.

If you have the space, software is nice because it's easier to get the system going again, but the data (your files - music, documents, pictures) and system configuration files (/etc for example) are the most critical. If you have databases set up, learn about their dump commands and add that.

You don't have to use the same method for everything. My pictures are backed up to another side in a second computer and to Amazon Glacier for $2/month (I'll have to pay to download them if I ever need it, but I'll gladly pay if I'm in that situation - those should only be needed if I have a major house fire or something like that). My weekly backups are my /home directories, /etc, /root, a database dump, and maybe one or two other important things.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 126 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Communist means whatever they want it to mean.

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