jbrains

joined 2 years ago
[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

When they fit, they're excellent. I have the ones that I can keep in while sleeping. I am still occasionally surprised by how comfortable they feel to me.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I would be shocked if a place like that existed that didn't charge a monthly membership fee, but I'm prepared to be proven wrong. I hope you find it!

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

When we go to a hotel, we prefer the Finnish level of service: make everything work and otherwise leave us alone.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Finnish people are stereotyped to sound monotone, enunciate clearly, speak directly, and tersely. This makes them seem unfriendly.

And then they expect you to stay 3 m away from them at all times, which intensifies their seeming unfriendliness.

At least these are the memes.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You misread it, too, did you? 😉

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

2n+1 is not in the Collatz conjecture.

Mathematics is not ready for such carelessness.

And I did a dumb. Withdrawn.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 55 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I expected computer programmer.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

You might be done with people, not the internet.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

We have had an embassy mix up two passports, so we received one and someone else received the one we were expecting. Their trip was in three months, so they had no urgency, but ours was in four days.

We ended up tracking down the other person while we looked into our options. At one point, we were about to fly from Toronto to Ottawa and back in order to pick up the passport ourselves. In the end, we paid them to send the passport on a flight with a courier, so that at least I didn't have to go.

We got the passport at midnight and left for the airport 10 hours later.

Good luck.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Helix? I've never noticed a security problem.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago

At some point I stopped listening to him

Excellent. Sometimes, you are simply the person available for them to scream at. In situations such as that, pretending to listen without listening represents a useful strategy.

I hope you can make it past this incident soon. Time means distance means peace.

 

I'd love to say this was intentional, but no.

 

I run a lemp10. I saw a notification of a firmware update, but when I applied the update---apparently successfully---the firmware version did not change. Now I see no pending firmware update.

What happened? Is this normal? Task failed successfully?!

 

... men jag minns inte varifrån jag känner igen den.

 

I tried to upgrade my recovery partition today and it failed with "No such device"/OS error 19.

I found this discussion on Reddit in which @mmstick suggested restarting, but with no explanation as to why that was needed or would work. It worked for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/xun8vu/error_updating_recovery_partition_no_such_device/

I'd like to know why it worked and why it was needed, mostly for two reasons: to generally understand the situation better and to imagine what I might have been able to do that didn't require restarting.

Thanks.

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