NotAnArdvark

Wow - so you're saying not until around -25 to -30 does supplementary heat kick in? Is there cool air being blown out your vents 24/7 around that temperature?

I don't know if this is related, but occasionally I get some new insurance quotes just to make sure I'm not missing out on any deals, and this year I'm being asked for all sorts of details I've never been asked before. I've been asked for pictures inside and out, documentation from the county, information about my pets, specifics about my roof material, letters from past insurers.

I've been with three different insurance companies in the past and it was always just basics like square footage, distance to fire hall. I get the feeling these companies don't really want my business, but they also don't want to tell me no, so they just send me on irritating errands to get strange info for them.

Here's a little script I've put in my $PATH, called memsum:

#!/usr/bin/bash
/usr/bin/ps -eo rss,command --sort -rss | egrep $1 | awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; sum +=hr} END {print sum}'

Now you can go: memsum firefox or memsum whatever and see that, actually, apps use a ridiculous amount of memory these days.

I can get Firefox up to 8GB by using things like Office 365.

Why are people down voting news stories about things they disagree with? This is objectively an event that has happened regarding an influential person and a serious armed conflict.

This post is at -2 right now. Is this story posted in the wrong group? Fake? Sensationalized?

We can't just "vote away" world events.

I think most people waaay under estimate the risk of reusing passwords. I don't know if that's what happened here, but in the security incidents I've seen there will often be the initial "No, I only use this password for banking!" and then "well... it's just for my important accounts." I've also seen the misconception that a complex password means it's ok to reuse it.

The other thing I've seen is people just mashing "agree," "ok, "yes," or any kind of prompt. This probably isn't what happened here, but with device-based 2FA, like when Google sends you an "Allow device?" message, it's pretty easy for someone to just mash "Allow" so they can get back to whatever it was they're doing.

I don't want to come off as victim-blaming, or as overly sympathetic to a big bank, but at some point I think it's fair to expect individuals to have their own shit in order. I think a reasonable step towards this is that consumers should start demanding safer devices and software.

It's not immediately obvious how snow pack differs from rain (and not that I'm claiming to know all the ways), but you see it in ponds, sloughs, and dugouts. Once the ground thaws in the Spring, rain doesn't do much to replenish these bodies of water. It's the initial melting of snow that fills them, as the water runs until it hits a spot where it can collect. So, a dry winter can affect things for the entire summer.

We didn't have much snow last winter, and this summer - and continuing to today - we've had a lot of thirsty animals around our house. We've started putting rocks in the dog water dishes because we'd wake up with mice that had drown in the bowls over night. Deer drink from our birdbath, and this summer any standing water was getting swarmed by bees.

I'm not old enough to say "it's never been this bad!" but, things definitely don't feel right.

Ok, sure, but... what about the drought? We'll live in a dusty wasteland but have our veggies, which we water from... uhh..

Sublime?! What packages are you running with that?

Oooh, don't do the Pinebook Pro. I think anything Pine64 isn't unsuitable for a non-tinkerer to be using. Also, if there's DRM content involved (unsure on Hulu), you'll probably want to stick with an x86 CPU.

Agreed on the latency issues. I tested SMB and NFS once and found them to be pretty much the same in that regard.

I'm interested to test iSCSI, as for some reason I think it might be better designed for latency.

I've found that Dolphin, at least, is much slower with network mounts than a CLI-based "mount".

Are you leaving behind the dotfiles because you don't want to bring over any of your old configuration?

For whatever it's worth, you can remove Snap support from your Ubuntu system. If you want more current software, AppImage and Flatpaks are good for that.