Me too, but only because I very strongly lean toward "god was created by man" rather than the other way around.
GreatBlueHeron
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I hate organised religion too, and I get what you're saying but, like it or not, the pope is a world leader with a lot of influence - if he can use that influence to reduce the fighting (even if with selfish motives) then that's a good thing.
I totally agree, and I just switched from Windows to Linux for my desktop, but this isn't on Microsoft - it's sanctions on the ICC by the fascist regime running the country where they (Microsoft) are based in support of the fascist regime destroying Gaza. (I know I'm probably over simplifying it, but that's my take on the article)
It's a little different, but works. I was in business operations for the last 20 years and relatively proficient with Excel. I'm retired now but I'm treasurer for a small community non profit organization. I recently switched to Linux desktop and found Calc handled my sheets with pivots etc. just fine. About the only thing I'm missing is End-Arrow to move to the last populated cell in a row or column, but not missing it so much that I've tried to figure out how to do it in Calc - yet.
I'm not sure how long ago "not that long ago" is for you - I just had a look through the history of KDE and, based on my familiarity with the various screen images posted there, I think is about 20 years since I last tried it :-)
I'll have a look at cinnamon and cosmic - thanks.
I've thought about trying a tiling window manager, but I don't think I'd get the benefit. I don't really do a lot these days and normally just have one or two things going concurrently and with two screens that's trivial to layout.
The main thing I struggle with (with my old eyes) is things like Firefox that override the normal window manager decorations - I find the edges get lost and they blend into each other. A tiling window manager would help with this, but I just turned off Firefox's ability to do that.
Oh damn what were your reasons for moving from freebsd back to Linux?
My work was AIX, HP/UX and a bit of Solaris. Linux development was starting to get to the stage where our customers were looking at using it for "real" workloads and I figured I should get comfortable with it again so I'd be in a position to take on production servers at work.
I don't think I'm concerned about being on older (stable) stuff - I really only use Firefox (I dumped the Debian release and added the Firefox repository) and a few utilities like a music player etc.
I was also considering openSUSE Tumbleweed and didn't really decide not to do it - it's just that a USB with Debian was sitting on my desk when I decided to do it, so that's what I used. A big part of my anxiety about switching from Windows was getting my data under control - now that I've done that it won't be an issue to switch distros so I might give it a go. I may even try Slackware again now that you've got me thinking about it.
I thought about that, and we have space available because my wife is still paying for office for her machine, but I just want nothing to do with Microsoft any more.
Because I only used it for a few months and it was a while ago! It was ony mentioned to age me. Not long after I installed it we got nice new RS/6000 860 laptops and I ran an AIX desktop for a couple of years. Then we got Intel laptops and Windows.
I went with Debian because I've been running Ubuntu servers at home for years (since zfs on Linux became solid enough that I could switch from FreeBSD) so I'm comfortable with apt package management and wanted to stick with that. I didn't want to stay with Ubuntu because of the commercialisation creeping in.
simple webdav server that's compatible with the Nextcloud sync clients
Now THAT is interesting - when I was last experimenting with Nextcloud I learned that the files part is just a webdav server. Unfortunately I also learned that they have a bit of a handshake before the webdav so the client wouldn't work with my apache2 webdav server. Thanks!
That seems to be the case. Really sucks that the documentation at nextcloud.com directs people to the AIO. I guess they hope that if you have a bad time trying to install your own server you might buy their cloud service.
Some of you may recall my previous post about a ~20V potential between my electrical ground and my concrete slab. That's still not resolved - it's currently sitting just under 10V.
Today I have a new mystery - to me anyway..
I'm sitting at my desk and notice that I got a tingle from the outer shield/shell of a USB-C cable. I got my multi-meter and measured 65V from the cable to me with my bare feet on the slab! It drops to about 16V if I lift my feet off the floor. I immediately assumed the charging brick it's plugged into was faulty, but just in case I took a more measurements and found that the another similar charger has a similar offset, the "ground" part of a TRS cable plugged into an amplifier is similar, the accessible metal shield part of a USB-A port on an ASUS ChromeBox is similar. I assume that's not normal?
This is a new slab on grade build. Ground and neutral are properly bonded - I checked a few outlets and ground to neutral is ~0.3V.
Edit - I don't think there is any safety risk - I measured 0.3μA current.
I live in a small community at the end of a long line in Atlantic Canada. We get frequent power disruptions so I have installed a backup generator. I have a bit of a home lab, and don't like my server to lose power with no warning so I've recently installed a small UPS to keep it running in the gap between my power going out and the generator starting. The UPS logs data and lets me access it.
I'm wondering if I should be concerned about my input voltage. The blue line in the minimum for the hour, the amber is maximum for the hour. The zero period on the 8th of March was when I had the power turned off to do some work.
The default configuration for my UPS has it cut over to battery power at 88V, so it seems some significant variation is expected!
I tried searching my power company web site but they don't seem to publish anything about guaranteed, or even expected, supply voltage.
I hope avoiding Amazon fits this community rules?
I need a few bits to resurrect an old PC. My Amazon cart is $68 with shipping - we're going to cancel Prime, but my wife is still working on downloading all her photos. Best I can do elsewhere is near double this PLUS shipping from 3 different suppliers and 2 of the suppliers are on eBay, which is also a US company.
I moved to Canada a few years ago from Australia where I had pccasegear, scorptec and others. It seems Canadians have become reliant on the US market and Amazon and we now have no competitive local retailers for this type of thing?
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I don't see how it can work because in general left leaning people have a brain and the form their own opinions. We're not out looking for some hero daddy figure to tell us what to think.
Building propoganda to make the current democrats seem good isn't the solution. The democrats actually need to be good. But, of course, that will never happen because it would mean dumping the billionaires and the Zionists. We're fucked.