Society has apparently forgotten the good old ‘call me when you get there’-thing. My wife travels by car with our kids now and then for 300-400km at a time and it’s nice to get messages/calls like “we’re at X, stopped for coffee” or “we got here”. That’s all I need and it’s also a part of relationship and communication. There’s no value on following a dot on the map. They even had a small accident one time and I heard about it soon enough. Even if I had their live location it would mean absolutely nothing as they were over an hour away, it was way more important to get proper help there before notifying me instead of getting distracted by my calls/messages at that time.

Valve is basically a small business one bad Monday from going bankrupt compares to payment processors.

Few quick searches around the internet says that (measured by revenue) Mastercard alone is roughly 3 times bigger than Valve. So even if Valve is pretty big player it’s not even close on major payment processors. And they’re not playing on the same rules either, any payment processor can vanish payments for anyone with just ‘fuck you, that’s why’ -reasoning buried in their contracts. There’s almost no one who could afford to fight with them even in theory and much less in practise.

If you are willing to deal with potential galvanic corrosion, condensation, leaks, replacing fluid every now and then and so on I suppose you could use red or yellow radiator coolant from your local car service shop. It has all the properties you’ll want from a coolant liquid, but as others have already mentioned, it’s not really worth the hassle. Atleast if you’re not running something really power hungry, like GPU farm. And even with liquid you have the very same problems than air, you need the heat to go somewhere. So either have very long pipes (and pumps to match them) so you can have the radiator on a different room/outside or big fans to move the hot air away from radiator.

And setting permissions on directories get’s them inherited by newly created/added files in there, right?

No. They’re created based on ‘umask’ and changing directory permissions doesn’t automatically change permissions on underlying files (unless you set privileges recursively) nor new files in the directory.

So how can i remove the ability from my homedir to execute current and new files but keep the traverse permission?

For new files set your umask on what you want. By default it’s usually either 0002 or 0022. For existing files you can use find: find ~ -type f -exec echo chmod a-x {} \; (remove echo once you’ve confirmed that it does what you want).

The recipent is your partner.

And provider of whatever service you use to share your location. Being a bit paranoid about your privacy in this day and age is not just fearmongering and tinfoil-hats.

It can be extremely usefull for example for grabbing shit in a mall

Or communicate in advance that it’ll take 30 minutes for you to find your shit and then meet up at a cafe, by car, at lobby or whatever. Live location doesn’t add anything to that, assuming it even works reliably enough inside buildings.

Tässä nyt tosin varmasti painaa se, että Nissen on myynyt kirjoja netissä ihan työkseen aikaisemmin niin tuo kirpparimyynti on nyt sitten tulkittu ammatin jatkumiseksi. Eli vaikka nostelisi tukia niin kyllä sitä kirpparikauppaa saa edelleen tehdä ja vaikka päätös itsessään on toki aivan järjenvastainen, on siinä silti hyvin pieni logiikan häivähdys taustalla.

Meilläkin kuitenkin on käsittääkseni syyttömyysoletus vähän joka paikassa, joten jos tuosta nyt epäily nousee niin olisihan se virkailija voinut laittaa selvityspyynnön aiheesta ja homma olisi sillä taputeltu, mutta nyt on syystä tai toisesta lähtenyt mopo keulimaan aika huolella.

Pikaisella nettihaulla nuo tuet on suuruusluokkaa 800/kk ja se kertaa 5 vuotta tekee mukavat 48 tuhatta lanttia. Siinä voisi palkkatyöläistäkin vähän yskittää jos pitäisi yhtäkkiä repiä vuoden bruttopalkka tuommoiseen sekoiluun ja lisäksi tässä tapauksessa vannetta kiristää vielä tukien epääminen. Töitä on hieman hankala hakea jos ei ole varaa puhelinliittymään ja aika kuluu ruoka-avustusten perässä kävelyyn. Toivottavasti asian julkinen puinti nyt pistää vähän vauhtia rattaisiin.

Mitä sellaista joku muu distro tarjoaa “nettipankki ja iltalehti”-käyttöön mikä ei hoidu yhtälailla Mintillä ja Cinnamonilla? Ei se toki ehkä ole niin trendikäs tai bleeding edge kuin muut jakelut, mutta edes näin “edistyneenä” käyttäjänä en ole kokenut että siitä varsinaisesti puuttuisi mitään. Jos nyt jotain pitää motkottaa niin en ole jaksanut viritellä kaikkia mukavuuttalisääviä pikanappeja omaani, jotka varmaan löytyisi valmiina esim. KDE:stä, mutta kun hommat hoituu muutenkin pääasiassa selaimella ja terminaalilla niin eipä sen ikkunamanagerin tarvitse paljon muuta kuin pysyä pois tieltä.

Täältä myös ääni mintille. Vaikka itselläni on linuxin kanssa “muutamia” vuosia takana niin mintti löytyy silti työpöydältä ja läppäristä. Toimii melkein missä vain perunassa mihin sen nyt vain suinkin saa survottua eikä hajoa omiin päivityksiinsä “ikinä” (toisin kuin Ubuntun snapit). Lisäksi jos ongelmia tulee vastaan niin Debian-johdannaisena siihen löytyy valtavasti tietoa verkon uumenista millä alkaa ratkomaan ongelmaa.

big begginer distros

I wouldn’t say that Mint is a ‘beginner’ distro. Sure, it’s beginner friendly, but it’s equally friendly for everyone. I’ve been a linux user for “a while” and currently I prefer Mint on my workstations. It offers me everything I need from a distro in a neat package and as I’ve been a Debian user since Potato it’s a familiar environment.

But if OP want’s somehting “more linux-y” then good old Debian should do the trick. Basically anything with decently long history besides Ubuntu (in it’s current state) will do just fine.

I would consider also the case where something goes wrong. Maybe the whole thing crashes, maybe you misconfigure something, maybe there’s a power outage or something else happens and you lose the connectivity. Is there someone on site who can do anything to your hardware as you can’t easily just go and figure it out by yourself?

If the answer is ‘no’ then I would strongy reconsider the whole approach. On a worst case scenario the system goes down before you’re even back home from the trip and then your hardware is just gathering dust.

I keep expecting to see him every time I turn a corner and, while sitting in my recliner, I keep starting to reach over to scratch his head or pet him.

We had to put our dog down on monday too. Our 8 year old was always a bit temperamental specially with new people and there was few cases where he tried to bite strangers who got too close for his comfort but we let that slide, just thought that he didn’t like those persons and nothing serious happened. And these cases have been more and more frequent lately and he showed aggressive responses even towards myself and my wife few times if he didn’t immediately recognize who was holding him back or touching on a ‘wrong moment’.

At sunday we had a family party and he was really angry right from the start. Growling to people, showing teeth and even managed to bite my sister and sister-in-law during the party (only small scratch but still). At first we thought that it was just a stress from a lot of people around, hot weather and being held on a running rope but even after a party and a multi-hour break he was still unpredictable. Our kids was always been “protected” by him, but now there was growling, showing teeth and generally unpredictable behavior.

So, we did the shittiest (but correct) decision in ages and decided to put him down. The trust was gone and we didn’t want to wait until something more than few scratches happened. I guess it’s a part of owning a pet, but it still was a sad day and now he’s gone. We suspect that maybe he had a tumor or ilness or something which caused the sudden change in behavior since the dog we used to have would’ve never been angry to our ‘pack’. We didn’t bother to make any tests, as in the end it doesn’t really matter.

And the whole family sees him around the corner all the time and checks if the water bowl is filled or if he needs to get to outside. And we listen for familiar sounds of paws and claws wandering around the house, hopping on the couch, drinking water and making a mess around the bowl and so on. And the whole house feels a bit empty.

It sucks. I’m sorry for your loss and I know what you’re feeling. All of the feelings are valid, specially after just few days. Even if they are not humans they’re still a part of family and have been around for years and years, of course their absense leaves an empty space.

You can also use “luulla” when stating what you yourself think, to indicate uncertanty.

That’s the most common way I use ‘luulla’. For example: “I think it’s going to rain soon” = “Luulen että kohta alkaa sataa” (or word-by-word translation “Luulen että alkaa sataa pian”).

There’s plenty of information on wikipedia about different functions and algorithms. Also check out Numberphile on youtube, they have several videos about the topic.

Or wait for someone who actually knows their math to explain it on here, I’m not one of them.

Based on quick seach on the internet, Ukraine currently has 6 active Patriot systems. If this shipment actually happens and, as the article suggests, includes also missiles and other consumables, it’ll be quite a big deal for Ukraine. My very much not professional guess would be that it doesn’t change the front lines too much, but it should help on shielding their civilians from missile/drone attacks quite a bit.

I think what just_another_person means that Lenovo, specially at the beginning when they got the Think-brand from IBM years ago, tried to ride the brand and released sub-par laptops under ThinkPad -brand. At least some of the L-series were closer to what you could get from your local supermarket than actual work machines.

The brand-riding is now greatly less and the crappy ones generally aren’t the models you can find refurbished from 3rd party retailer. I’m currently using T495 and it was ~300€ from a sale couple years ago, now you apparently can get L13 for less than that. And of course, when you buy used units do your homework and only make deal with a reputable seller, there’s always an option that previous owner didn’t treat the thing nicely.

The generic answer for this is to get a refurbished thinkpad. Pretty much any T-series fit your needs and there’s plenty of pre-leased corporate machines around which are refurbished and often have even a some kind of warranty.

It’s always DNS, everyone should know that.

It’s not DNS. There’s no way it is DNS. It’s not technically possible for it to be DNS.

And it’s always DNS.

I’m pretty sure there’s already a gambling website around where you can bet how long these announcements last. Could’t find one on o quick google search, but I’m quite sure there is one.

“But don’t forget the situation we are in. Now is the time of military censorship, unprecedented for our country. After all, the war is going on in the information space too,” Peskov is quoted as saying by the magazine.

So it is a war after all? And that front goes both ways, you can see even here on Lemmy comments which could be paid actors on behalf of Russia. Most likely not all of them get paid, but I’m pretty sure at least some do (obviously not focusing just on Lemmy).

As long as there’s no military need for them against an invasion there will be zero mines in the ground. No one will hurt themselves with them, unless some storage worker happens to drop a box on their toes.

As of why now, you can’t pull out of agreement and start to build up manufacturing and logistics if there’s active invasion going on. I hope not a single one of them is ever dug on our Finnish soil, but I’m glad that our military is prepared to use any viable option if they need to.