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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

  • What's your secret ingredient?

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  • I don't really have one myself, but there was a lady I knew growing up who made, hands down, the best chili ever. She wouldn't reveal her recipe or secret ingredient to anyone and swore she'd take it to her grave.

    Years later, she and her daughter got into a fight and the daughter posted her mom's chili recipe on Facebook to spite her. The secret ingredient was, apparently, grape jelly.

  • On Lemmy, do you take note of the upvote/downvote ratio before clicking on a link, commenting, or voting yourself?

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  • I used to, but I try to do better. Lately, I've had "blind voting" turned on in my app, so I can only see the score after I've voted one way or the other. Basically forces me to read and vote on the submission without being influenced by the current score.

  • Did you work as a teenager, if so what was your job?

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  • Worked at a local pizza place my junior and senior years of high school.

  • PSA: Please specify a reason when making a report

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  • Cool, thanks. I'll give that a read and see if I can make it work cleanly. At this point, it's just an experiment, but I've wanted to have some mechanism for a standardized machine-readable community rules for a long time, specifically to put into the report and moderation workflows. If I can make it work cleanly, and if it's not something already planned for Lemmy 1.0, I'm absolutely willing to make that a Tesseract feature.

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  • Pancakes ... In there silverware drawer

  • PSA: Please specify a reason when making a report

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  • What's the significance of this syntax with regard to it not rendering?

     
        
  [//]: # (r1: Posts must be ...)
  [//]: # (r3: Posts must not be ...)
  [//]: # (r2: Posts must be ...)

    I've long wanted a somewhat standardized way to define community rules so I could do exactly what you were describing in your issue, but I'm not clear on how/why that syntax doesn't render.

    I tried it in Tesseract, which admittedly use a different markdown renderer than other apps, and the first line shows but the second and third don't.

    If other apps can get on board with that, then I may need to understand what's happening in that syntax to make sure it doesn't render.

  • I think I may have accidentally time traveled

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  • When I was in college, I only had analog clocks in my house (by happenstance; I'm old but not that old).

    Had a fun Tuesday of drinking one afternoon and woke up an unknown number of hours later noticing the time was 8:30. AM? PM? Am I an hour and a half late for class or 30 minutes late for work? Fuck it, I'm not going to either, and just went back to sleep.

  • Custom Star Trek movie posters, no AI 👍

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  • This one looks like South Park Zoidberg Jesus:

  • No energy whips though

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  • And he succeeded.

  • No energy whips though

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  • Looking back to early seasons, I can see that direction and agree with the focus groups lol. A while later in "The Price" they're a lot more like the Ferengi in DS9 though still kind of skulky.

  • No energy whips though

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  • DS9 basically re-invented the Ferengi and the Trekverse is all the better for it.

  • That is correct.

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  • I saw it live, and at the time, didn't know who Ken Jennings was (I only watched Jeopardy randomly). Didn't know they gave him the point, though. Cause yeah, that's the first answer I thought of, too.

  • That is correct.

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  • Yep!

  • That is correct.

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  • The Fediverse is just full of Carols (on the right/brown coat):

  • Todd Blanche tells appropriators payouts for Jan. 6 rioters are possible

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  • In a sane world, this would be a "You've won a free boat! Claim your prize at the police station" trap, but such is not the world we're living in.

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    Do you have advice as to where to find hardware to practice?

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  • What do you want to practice? Just general sysadmin stuff? Networking? Clustering? Horizontal scaling? All of the above?

    Old PCs are just Debian servers waiting to happen. Depending on their specs, you may be able to do VMs or you can utilize container frameworks like Podman, Docker, or LXC to deploy individual applications or application stacks. Or you can just bare metal install anything you want.

    Years ago, I bought a batch of 16 Wyse thin clients on eBay for about $15/each. These had 4GB SSDs and 2 GB RAM, so I upgraded about half of them with 64-120GB SSDs (whatever I had lying around) and 8 GB RAM. Thin clients can usually be found pretty inexpensively and are pretty power efficient, but they're not performant workhorses. They're great for practicing networking, VLANs, system orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Cockpit) application clustering and horizontal scaling, diskless workstations, setting up a demo office server and workstations, and even VMs if you're just practicing; they're a little underpowered to run a lot of VMs, but you can certainly run a few small ones just to practice managing them.

  • TIL of Carpenter Bees.

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  • My dog and I hunt them when we're outside. They love to nest in my porch roof, so when they're buzzing around I swat them with a broom, the dog will pin them and keep them from getting back up while I go in for the squish.

    I tried setting up a carpenter bee trap, but the bitches ate right through it.

  • Sony's new wearable air conditioner runs even cooler

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  • than to carry something like an evaporative cooler

    Evaporative coolers don't really work in high humidity. If you live in an area that's a dry hot, they work great. Summers in my area, though, are very muggy. Other than ice pack based products, the only passive coolers I've found work in humid environments are these sweat bands that have either desiccant beads in them or that stuff that's in diapers. They pull the sweat away keeping it out of your eyes and give a little evaporative cooling at the same time.

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    Update

    The exorcism of my Samsung fridge was successful

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    More of an informal poll, but do you cover your mouth when you yawn when you're alone at home?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    POV: Me, when my abandonment issues flare up

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    'They Sometimes Worry That I’m Dead Already:' Deep-Sea Fishers Fight for Wi-Fi

    www.404media.co /they-sometimes-worry-that-im-dead-already-deep-sea-fishers-fight-for-wi-fi/
  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
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    It finally happened to me: My Samsung fridge is Samsung-ing Out

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    In an alternate timeline, Bev got the Power of Q rather than Riker. It turned out predictably.

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
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    I've caught two Yellow Jacket queens so far this spring

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    How I envision the people who never post anything and sit around all day downvoting everyone else's posts

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Computer, send this subspace message to Bajor as soon as we're in range. Flag it urgent.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    POV: Blazin' Bev arrives at a party empty-handed

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    "Why do you think I bought them, Elrond?"

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    A Federal Judge Is on the Brink of Criminally Prosecuting Trump Officials for Contempt

    slate.com /news-and-politics/2025/04/rubio-criminal-contempt-trump-officials-cecot.html
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    PSA

    If things start feeling too toxic around here, remember that the 'block' button is your friend and always there for you.

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    I just wanna see cool, funny, interesting, or stupid stuff.

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    Seska Was Voyager's Perfect, Messy Foil

    gizmodo.com /star-trek-voyager-seska-kazon-state-of-flux-30th-anniversary-2000587758
  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Millennials telling our grandkids about turn-of-the-century fashion

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    I will haunt your dreams, my child.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Bringing back Blazin' Bev to lighten the mood after all the Gowron horror memes

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    We're being hailed, Captain, audio only. Source unknown. It says "Seven days."

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Star Trek or Dark Matter: Which did the 'Android gets an emotion chip' plot better?