fratermus

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[–] fratermus@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

Only people I’ve seen buy ram trucks are ones who do not care about others and want to be seen as big and tuff.

The brodozer phenomenon is real and lamentable.

At the moment I am getting a reprieve from it. I moved to a small agricultural town* where the pickups are actually work trucks. Hay bales, animal feed bags, and farm dogs in the bed. It makes this grinch's heart grow a little larger.


*actually just a Census Designated Place

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I suspect it was Size and Equipment but the mnemonic words didn't make into the flyer for some reason.

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

You mean the images going down fairly regularly?

Like the server itself going down fairly regularly. #ongoingtrainwreck

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago

it would be kind and caring to respond with ICE's love language. To wit, "when touched by vehicle dump a mag through the windshield". To ensure maximal pair bonding remember to start low-ish because projectiles are deflected upward by the angle of the windshield. They will get an oxytocin boost from knowing you have been paying real attention to their preferences.

If it's anniversary, birthday, etc, one could make it extra special by blocking any bystanders who might want to provide medical aid. Or if things have been a little stale and you want to spice it up consider pulling a mask up over your face so they can't really be sure who you are.

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

I'm currently running FreshRSS with good results. I ran TinyTinyRSS previously but the dev was so toxic I bailed on principle. :-(

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm replying here in good faith that this isn't a bottomless Yes, but scenario.

Now tell me that I am asking too much and there’s no hope for me.

There's plenty of hope if one is willing to fork and modify a FOSS server or client. Make it look and act exactly like you want.

browser extensions are a privacy concern and stopped using them

I think this concern is overstated in an RSS context for anonymous (no sign-in) feeds.

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Cf. Rise of the Warrior Cop (2014) by Radley Balko.

 

The author announced it in this reddit thread.

I set up a few loads in it and it seems to work fine. Registration required, probably because it allows you to save/edit/dupe loads.

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

between 2AM and 6AM internet would start dropping packets like crazy

about 20 years ago I was remotely troubleshooting a microwave connectivity problem that occurred at a clients workplace about 10pm each night. Lasted about an hour. There was no one at work then but data transfers between their server and the mothership would fail.

One night the client went to the site at night to check an alarm and noticed there was a bobtail truck parked next to the building. The aero deflector attachment on its roof blocked line-of-sight with the tower, causing the problem. He asked the driver to nap at some other location in the parking lot and the problem went away.

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I feel crazy for thinking it is correlated to do bad weather, as if that should somehow affect my indoor WiFi quality…

well, if it's raining more people might stay indoors on their wifi, exacerbating any channel interference problems

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

ARM is perfect for this, but does Linux play nice with it?

to paraphrase the saying, "Millions of Raspberry Pi can't be wrong"

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

I’m honored to have President Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement,”

that's not the flex he thinks it is

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

When you do aliased commands, can they take arguments? Like to download a playlist with yt-dlp, could i do download-playlist [URL]?

They don't take arguments in the sense that functions do but in bash at least they are passed on as part of the expanded string. Pasted from bash:

alias argtest='echo arg is'  
argtest foo  
arg is foo  

So yes you could alias your yt-dlp commands and invoke the alias with the URL.

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