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Admiral Patrick

@ ptz @dubvee.org

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I learned to play the guitar growing up as a young rapscallion in Mississippi. But things didn't really take off until I moved to Memphis. There I met the Colonel and the hits just kept coming. Unfortunately, the fame went to my head, I gained a lot of weight, started wearing a white jumpsuit, and ate tranquilizers like they were trail mix. Then, in 1977, I died on the toilet.

Or did I?

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

  • This is going to be my new official Thanksgiving sweater

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  • I didn't even know they still made them. Used to see the packs of the transfer sheets everywhere but either haven't seen them or haven't noticed them. I also don't have an inkjet printer to use with them, but if I was going to do a batch of shirts, it'd probably pay off to buy a "disposable" one and use the ink that comes with it.

    The only thing with those, though, was that I always forget to turn the shirts inside out before washing them so the print never lasted very long.

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  • Ordering them is not cheap it seems. It would almost be worth it to buy a cheap inkjet printer and use those iron-on transfer sheets (if they still make them?)

  • This is going to be my new official Thanksgiving sweater

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  • I just searched a custom sweater website where you can upload your own graphics. Was like $59 for a single adult medium, so it became a meme rather than something I'm going to own.

  • What industry could benefit from more of their technology being open source, but the solutions are either not there or seriously lacking?

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  • Any silicon vendors (NVidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Realtek, etc) should have open source drivers / firmware. I can't imagine what, if any, benefits there are to keeping that secret, and it seems logical that sales could/would increase if people were easily able to adapt them for their use cases.

    And also the huge reduction in ewaste by being able to keep smartphones up to date or repurpose them without having to spend years painstakingly reverse-engineering binary blobs that only work with ancient kernels.

  • AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds

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  • What's your favorite thing that anyone has done out of pure spite?

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  • One particular spite house in Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinny_House_(Boston)#History

    According to local legend, the structure was built as a "spite house" shortly after the Civil War:

    ... two brothers inherited land from their deceased father. While one brother was away serving in the military, the other built a large home, leaving the soldier only a shred of property that he felt certain was too tiny to build on. When the soldier returned, he found his inheritance depleted and built the narrow house to spite his brother by blocking the sunlight and ruining his view.

    Another source states:

    Not much is known about the city's narrowest house. Legend has it that ... its unnamed builder erected it to shut off air and light from the home of a hostile neighbor (also nameless) with whom he had a dispute. ... Believed to have been built after 1874

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    Who's the most wittily hilarious person in your personal and professional circles?

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  • Sadly never came up.

  • X CEO Linda Yaccarino is now ex-CEO

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  • I generally dislike editorialized headlines (when used as post titles) but this is the exception. Nicely played.

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  • I noticed that, too. I think it's just the lighting, color balance (it's got a heavy yellow tint), and the sharp focus only on Briones's face that's making it look off. Pretty sure it looked the same in the episode.

    Or maybe Briones wasn't available to shoot that scene and they filmed it with a body double and added her face on in post? I don't think I've read that, but it wouldn't be unheard of.

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  • Lol, I was gonna say:

    If you're Worf, "Whil Whheaton" is also acceptable.

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  • (Just paying this forward from the last time I made this mistake and someone had to correct me)

    Wil Wheaton.

  • Damn it Seven... [fill in the blank].

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  • Damn it, Seven, those were my cheesecakes in the mess hall fridge. They even said "Janeway" on the side.

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  • I used to work with a guy who was a dead ringer for Bill Bailey both in appearance and personality.

  • What is the best way to sync images to my NAS?

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  • Weird. Other than how it used to choke when there were conflicts (and all uploads stopped until that was fixed) I haven't had any issues like that. Guess I'm just lucky.

  • What is the best way to sync images to my NAS?

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  • I've had pretty good experience with Nextcloud's instant upload. The only time I've had it shit the bed was ages ago when it would occasionally get stuck on a conflict, but that hasn't happened in a long time. Pretty much all of my image folders (camera/DCIM, Screenshots, Downloads) get synced. The only annoying thing was when apps would suddenly change where they download to and I'd have to reconfigure yet another sync folder, but I can't really fault NC for that.

    Mine is set to upload and keep a local copy and only do a one way sync (phone to NC). Not sure if that causes less issues than a 2 way sync or deleting the local copy after upload?

  • Amazon engineers and marketers were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery

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  • Hard to say. I'm not sure of the delivery radius that's allowed here and whether rural food deserts would even be eligible or not. I was just mentioning that ordering (non-perishable) groceries online and having them shipped does have a legit and unfortunate use case.

    Back when I lived 45 miles minutes from the closest grocery store, I'd order my non-perishables online and they'd usually come via UPS or FedEx.

  • Amazon engineers and marketers were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery

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  • This isn't really the demographic they're catering to but Food Deserts are a sad reality for many in the US. Being able to order staple food and have them delivered (even if it's not same day) is often less painful than driving 30-50 miles to the closest grocery store.

  • Using ZRAM on a laptop with 8 GB RAM. Worth it or waste of CPU?

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  • I suspect zram's swap device only consumes RAM when it actually contains swapped pages, but I don't know for sure. Can anyone link an authoritative statement on this?

    I'm wondering the same. I haven't read anything authoritative, but it definitely seems like it only consumes the RAM it's using. Otherwise, it wouldn't be able to create block devices that exceed the physical memory. I started to wonder when I had it set to 50% (4 GB) and gave it a stress test. The 4 GB it allocated filled up but was compressed to just about 1 GB, so I thought "surely this isn't wasting 3 GB of RAM to hold 1 GB of pages."

    The guidelines I've read seem like there's some guesswork involved in the planning. Basically you can make the zram device as large as you want so long as the compressed data is less than the physical RAM (not all pages compress equally as you mentioned).

    I've since bumped it to 200% of system ram (16 GB), and I think that's probably good enough for my use cases. I'm seeing about a 4:1 average compress ratio, so I could go higher, but 8 GB has been plenty usable up until now. :shrug: I also left the original swap file in place with a lower priority as a spillover (I'm not really missing the 4 GB of disk space that uses, so might as well keep it).

  • Not gonna lie, this is probably my favorite work-from-home perk.

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  • You are more than welcome to come and harvest them from my lawn / garden lol. Just be sure to take the roots with you too.