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I'm a former IT Infrastructure Architect, now spending my time reading, writing and getting into too many hobbies.

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  • Leavitt shares wild text exchange with reporter that ended in ‘your mom’ response

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  • What's insane about this is the reporter literally just asked reasonable questions given historical context. Leavitt is a fucking joke.

  • Linux Package Managers Compared: APT, DNF, Pacman and Zypper

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  • I think it's something that you have to get used to... While it's compiling stuff, you can actually be doing other things on your system. The trick was to make sure your configuration balanced your systems resources so you didn't get bottlenecks. (For example: putting your home drive on a separate physical drive to reduce issues with writes.)

  • Linux Package Managers Compared: APT, DNF, Pacman and Zypper

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  • Hmm - my Gentoo install was usable, but I did get tired of all the compiling for updates. Still kind of get annoyed with it now when I have to install source packages from the AUR.

    I read a lot of the LFS manual, that's what made me decide to give Gentoo a go. Seemed like an slightly easier route while still working through a lot of the build process.

  • Linux Package Managers Compared: APT, DNF, Pacman and Zypper

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  • Yeah - Slackware back in the late 90s early 2K's wasn't as niche... Remember the Infomagic CD sets?

    Gentoo got traction for a while when they made it easier to install, instead of having to go from Stage 0. Of course, I installed it from Stage 0 since I wanted to know more about the tool chain and how these systems were built -- but I wasn't masochistic enough to try to install LFS.

  • Linux Package Managers Compared: APT, DNF, Pacman and Zypper

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  • Even niche distros like Slackware, Gentoo,

    Ooof - I'm feeling old when these are considered "niche" distros....

  • Republican ousted by Democrat in shock election defeat

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  • Yeah, that will be a big one to watch in just a few weeks.

  • Pelosi challenger Saikat Chakrabarti launches upset bid at packed Mission event

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  • True. Definitely easier said than done, but I welcome anyone who is actually willing to get a metaphorical concussion from banging their head against those brick walls.

  • Republican ousted by Democrat in shock election defeat

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  • I won't say there isn't room for concern, especially as there are quite a few people that are starting to think that the issues between the parties are irreconcilable. And the problem is, one party seems more disingenuous than the other -- at least that's my perspective.

  • Republican ousted by Democrat in shock election defeat

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  • Oh! This is just the beginning... Just watch the first Tuesday in November, when a lot of special elections happen. ;)

    But, the real stuff won't happen until November, 2026 -- which will be the mid-terms where a bunch of our Senate and Congressional seats will be up for elections...

  • What do Americans die from vs. what the news report on

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  • This is terrorism as a cause of death. There is nothing in the way they analyzed the information that would consider policy or internation affairs -- that's irrelevant to this study.

  • What do Americans die from vs. what the news report on

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  • While this article makes a good point overall, the focus on just the death rates doesn't really tell a complete or cohesive story.

    The rates that these deaths are discussed needs to be analyzed from the perspective of what percentages are they of the overall news stories. And, there is a need for a deeper analysis of the context of the stories. For example, a story that is really about a war may mention gun violence or terrorist deaths - and it is likely to be repeated several times throughout the story. However, that story is about war, and not really about the type of death.

    The reason for the skew in representation is quite simple: metrics / telemetry data. These outlets have developed very sophisticated systems that track the engagement with the articles they publish. The amount of information they are able to gather allows them to build profiles of their audience, and from there be able to predict the engagement that each article will get. IOW -- they are serving their audience, and the audience has shown that this is the information that they want to engage with.

    One additional thing: in building these profiles, they are taking into account revenue streams, everything from subscription levels, advertising engagement, etc. They are living on thin margins financially and have to absolutely everything they can to make a profit.

  • Pelosi challenger Saikat Chakrabarti launches upset bid at packed Mission event

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  • There's a lot in the list that @soupbrick@pawb.social posted that makes him an interesting competitor... ESPECIALLY the revolving lobbyist door, and the stock trading issue...that's the kind of stuff that really should be dealt with.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Torches Trump Tariffs and Corruption: ‘It Shouldn’t Be About Helping Your Crypto Donors’

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  • What timeline are we living in where MTG is actually starting to talk sensibly about some of the bull-puckey that Trump is pulling?

    Don't get me wrong - she still is not a good person, in fact she is downright despicable on many levels. But crap, she's actually talking against Trump on two issues now.

    But, honestly, I doubt her sincerity on the tariffs issue. It's most likely that she's concerned that the businesses that have been stuffing her pockets for years won't stuff her pockets anymore.

  • Installing Linux on Hundreds of "Obsolete" Computers | Microsoft Windows 10 Support Ending

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  • FWIW - I'm not arguing about any of this... I'm just expounding on my thought process.

    There were a lot of business class systems in the mix they were working on... I saw a bunch of Dell Optiplex, and HP Workstations in there... I think that was from either (a) some businesses / schools donating them, or (b) after market recyclers donating the ones they couldn't get working and didn't want to spend time on.

    No matter what, however, the bottom line is that a high percentage of these systems will be given new life -- and that's what counts.

  • Installing Linux on Hundreds of "Obsolete" Computers | Microsoft Windows 10 Support Ending

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  • Moore's law was about the technology -- but I am talking about the application of the technology. It was unusual for most businesses to base their purchasing / refreshing decisions around the idea that the technology would be good for 2-3 Moore's law cycles. This was especially true back in the days of Mainframes and later "Mini" computers (shrunk down versions of Mainframes -- not Mini PC's) where companies like DEC and IBM went to great lengths to ensure that upgrading to a newer system didn't impact other operations in a business.

    Most of this carried on with Vax and Unix Systems (like Sun workstations, SGI, etc.) in the same lifecycle.

    When PC's started coming into the business world, the thought was that they would fit that same lifecycle -- and many of them did. This set the mark for early PC's when IBM brought them to the consumer market. The IBM PC was, after all, the consumer version of a business computer.

    Apple, Commodore, TI, Atari, et al. were a bit different -- coming at things more from the entertainment, education, and hobby side of things.

    I see what Steve is doing here is attempting to push things back towards the business lifecycle, and with good reason: it's better for the planet if fewer machines are abandoned due to the arbitrary whims of some marketer's concept of profitability.

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  • Businesses tend to stick to a 3-5 year life-cycle. But I've gotten the feeling that even there they are cycling things through a bit more rapidly... It's just that they tend to do it in waves so it's not quite as noticable, or as big an impact to the budgets.

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  • The rule that use to be the guide was that technology turned over 5-7 years (IIRC). These days, it seems that these companies are working hard to make it three years or less (look at Apple & Google releasing new phones every year or two).

    Great to see Steve and the rest of the Gamers Nexus crew supporting the reuse of computers that shouldn't be out of commission.

  • Would You Trust This?

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  • Meant to comment on this earlier... I'm implementing an LVM cache -- which is filesystem / device level caching. Having a failure with something at this level could mean corrupting a 42TB storage device. This would be a far cry from losing an application level set of cache files...

    That's why I am being a lot more cautious about this drive. A failure here could be non-recoverable.

  • Would You Trust This?

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  • Yeah, I'm quite aware of a lot of the junk on Amazon -- and I normally would stick to a well known brand like Samsung, WD, or Crucial... But there were no listings for m.2 SSD's in the 32-64G range. At first I ordered a "Kingdata" drive (an obvious play on Kingston), but later I saw a listing for a drive from Transcend -- which I recalled from my IT days, and a quick check of their website confirmed they were the company I was thinking of.

    So, this is why I am fairly certain that this is some kind of labeling / packaging mistake. Transcend is reasonably well-known, and afaik aren't scammers.

    And, to top it off, I ran some additional tests on the drive... And for what it is, it is performing exactly how I would have expected: 420MB/s read/write, with 0.1msec access times -- with extreme consistency. (Given that this is installed on a PCIE adapter that only has 1 lane available.)