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bluGill

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  • Backups: Am I doing this right?

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  • Just remember any backup is better than nothing. Even if the backup is done wrong (this includes untested!) odds are you can read it and extract at least some data, it just may take a lot of time. Backups that are done right just mean that when (not if!) your computers break you are quickly back up and running.

    There are several reasons to backup data only and not the full system. First you may be unable to find a computer exactly/enough like the one that broke, and so the old system backup won't even run. Second, even if you can find an identical enough system, do you want to, or maybe it is time to upgrade anyway - there are pros and cons of arm (raspberry pi) vs x86 servers (there are other obscure options you might want but those are the main ones), and you may want to switch anyway since you have. Third, odds are some of the services need to be upgraded and so you may as well use this forced computer time to apply the upgrade. Last, you may change how many servers you have, should you split services to different computers, or maybe consolidate the services on the system that died to some other server you already have.

    The only advantage of a full system backup is when they work they are the fastest way to get going again.

  • How to make the best sauerkraut?

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  • in germany it might be possible to buy the good stuff. I'm planning on making my own because what I can but is related to what I had in germany only if you are 20 feet away.

  • Replacing Spotify

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  • Go to local "art in the park", music nights, and other such local events and listen to the band playing. Unless you live in a very rural area there is likely many many bands playing someplace every day around you. When you hear something you life find the band and ask how to get their music. If they sell CDs buy one - buy one even if you only accept the music but don't like it just to support the idea that CDs are not dead.

  • Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine

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  • Even if they are problems, odds are we will have enough information that someone will fix the drivers (meaning we can fix them), and the other code bugs will be fixed.

    If you want to help buy a few and spread to your favorite desktop environment developers. I'm sure KDE e.v. can put you in touch with some student who writes code and would love to get a laptop this nice. (I'm a kde guy so they come to mind first, but I'm sure Gnome or the others can as well)

  • which softwares can I self host without public IP?

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  • I'm not stopping you. However make sure you understand what you want to do and why it isn't recommended in general. It looks like an interesting project that I hope to read about sometime (hopefully not as a you sunk to the bottom of the ocean)

  • which softwares can I self host without public IP?

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  • Because too often people are asking for a solution to the wrong problem. I can tell how to setup a car to drive from the Hawaii to Iceland, but odds are that is not your actual goal. (most often the correct answer is fly to iceland and rent a car, or perhaps just public transit in iceland. You can also put your car on a ship. It is possible to modify a car to drive on the ocean if that is really what you want to do)

  • Why don't we cook on car engines?

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  • It is very hard to time your trip so that you get there when everything is done. those who try it either have overcooked food or have to drive around for a while after they get there for the meal to finish.

    in the end it works but not well enough to do it. Even truckers who eat on the road find separate appliances better.

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  • How do you turn it up to 11?

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    Raspberry Pi4 continuous selfhosted server operations

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  • Celsius is defined at the arbitrary standard pressure, different pressure values change how water acts (this is very noticeable at 100C - boiling). Kelvin steps are defined from Celsius. Even the speed of light which is constant is still defined in terms of an arbitrary time unit.

  • What conditions would you require to start general striking?

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  • Your experience is different than mine then. I suggest you get out and find other places where management isn't so bad.

  • What conditions would you require to start general striking?

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  • I've worked in a number of places. Some better managed than others. The fact that I see this variation is why union "management is always bad" talking points just turn me off.

  • What conditions would you require to start general striking?

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  • What I don't understand is why you don't see the obvious downsides of unions. The small cost to my paycheck is nothing. However the focus on seniority over objective who is better at their job, and refusing to allow tracking metrics (I legally probably shouldn't even say that much about the contract I'm thinking of: to those who want evidence I'm not allowed to give it) about he is better has always bothered me.

    The union is not the only thing standing between me and the CEO. I can find a new job. I have done it before. Overall I find my company treats me well - not perfect, but better than other places I've worked. My power to walk away and find a new job gives me a lot more power than the union would. (in fact in many unions I'd have less power because then I'd be required to work only for that union and so if the union has a mod boss I can't do anything about it)

  • What conditions would you require to start general striking?

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  • I am not legally a professional engineer. However I do have a degree from my universities school of engineering. I could go through the paperwork to get that professional engineer certification, it just hasn't been a useful thing for me to do. (professional engineer doesn't really cover computer science topics even though my code can kill just as much as a bridge collapsing could kill)

  • What conditions would you require to start general striking?

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  • I've been in offices where I was told look for the union guy before plugging my network cable, don't do it when he was looking.

    There is a constant stream of hate on corporate management here, most of it without any evidence given. I want some evidence in return. Not that it exists, but that it is anywhere near as bad as people are saying.

  • What conditions would you require to start general striking?

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  • Perfect evidence here. People in unions refuse to acknowledge all the problems outsiders have with unions. My observations are just invalid and insulted.

    One more reason I want nothing to do with unions.

  • What conditions would you require to start general striking?

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  • I'm not in a union. Once in a while unions try to convince me I should organize, but everything I see says if I vote to organize it will not be a new union that I could have power in. Instead I will be forced into one of the large existing unions that I will be a tiny player in and unable to get a high leadership position in.

    Besides, I'm an engineer. I can lead people, but that isn't what I want to do. Thus even if I could run for a leadership position I find that a thankless job that I don't want. I have only so much time on earth and so I have to choose what I spend my time on.

  • What conditions would you require to start general striking?

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  • Unions have earned their bad reputation in the US. Union management is more evil that corporate management, and corporate management is not very good.

    Yes corporate management isn't always good, but they are not nearly as bad as union management makes them out to be. Meanwhile I've seen the sillyness that unions enforce (I can't plug in a network cable - that is a union job) and I want nothing to do with them. Unions need to clean up their own act before trying to get me to join. I'm not against unions, but the way they work in the US I'm very against. Start looking in the mirror and seeing what the real world is like and not your strawman vision of what you think my issues are!

    Unions in other countries work very different. If you live in Europe, you have no idea what unions in the US are like, so stop.

  • Would an AGM battery perform better in the cold?

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  • I have dual 800 CCA batteries (which my mechanic just measured at 680 each). The engine is a 7.3 liter diesel though (best engine Ford ever had according to many), and it needs a lot of power to turn over cold. I drove it about 2000 miles last year - I bike most places but sometimes I need to drive and a few of those trips need a truck.

  • BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired

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  • Wired USB. If I get some time I'm going to put PS/2 or maybe ADB in it as well just for the fun of it.

    (Just in case this is a serious question to someone, 60% refers to the keyboard size, indicating what buttons I have and don't have compared to a normal keyboard)

  • BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired

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  • I have a 60% bluetooth keyboard that I'll use when I need to type on my phone. A pain to carry with me, but taking a whole laptop is sometimes even worse.