joshcodes

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 41 minutes ago

Christmas Island is well known for its asylum camps... and nothing else? Stupid is really the only word.

From wikipedia:

Christmas Island's geographic isolation and history of minimal human disturbance has led to a high level of endemism among its flora and fauna, which is of interest to scientists and naturalists. ... As of the 2021 Australian census, the population of Christmas Island is 1,692.

And there's a town there called "The Settlement"?

Good pick /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Paper is right out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Some spiders, yes. Others not so much. Really depends and some of the small spiders are worse than the big ones. Tbh centipedes are worse, they're just nasty. Spiders stay mostly away from humans, the bolder ones just stay in the corners and eat bugs so we kinda like them. I used to catch them in jars and take them back outside.

Wasps are a thing - we've got european and paper wasps mostly where I live, but I've never been stung in all my years here. If you're removing a nest, just light some newspaper on fire and wave it near the nest so the wasps smell the smoke. The wasps leave and they dont get angry about the nest being destroyed. I used to clear a couple of nests off my house every year but I've moved and don't have to do it as often here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've seen 2 brown snakes in my life and I went hiking near rocks and water in snake territory to see them. If you do not do this, you'll likely never see a snake. Spiders are a very low risk and are mostly just annoying. Tbh it's kangaroos near dusk while driving that are the biggest risk in my neighborhood.

Oh yeah and don't go swimming in the NT and Queensland unless the water is clear... but otherwise you're fine.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That entire sentence is unintelligible marketing drivel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This just confirms for me that we need a noncredible formula 1 community

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think he was a shitty husband? From memory he didn't cope well after one of his sons died in the civil war and took it out in his personal life. He was also horribly depressed. Not that mental health was something people even considered at that time, so it's not like seeing a therapist was on the cards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

All good, just stating he wasn't wearing an SS uniform

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Uhh so I am pretty sure he mentioned it was a British military uniform, which made him lose it when they put him in the article for being a nazi because they just needed him to look the part.

Not defending anything but he did have receipts stating it was a British military uniform/costume

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

The connect app offers a subscribe button for posts. Idk if that's helpful?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Can I install on a Samsung? I know computers and their bootloaders/OSs pretty well but phones are mostly a mystery

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm a two timer but saw a lot of people talk about it the first time. I couldn't find anyone talking about the latest one so figured I'd mention it here

 

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I dont post often but I struggled to find a solution to my issue so I am trying to fix that very problem by adding a resource. Hope this helps someone.

I have moved my last windows pc to Linux Mint last weekend (I had some issues writing to my other USBs and had it lying around, technically I set out to try Fedora Silverblue but that may come later down the road now). I keep all my games and important files on secondary hdds and ssds in my machine as I've had data loss many times before from moving machines go Linux.

All went well, installation worked, but when I installed Steam, nothing showed up in the 'storage' page of the settings menu. "Hmm, it's probably a permission issue" I thought, if it cant see the drives it's not allowed to. Command used to debug this was:

ls -ld /media/gamedrive1 /media/gamedrive2

which showed root had read, write and execute access but I had read access.

So next I had to change /etc/fstab and make sure my drives were mounted correctly (using ntfs-3g driver instead of ntfs on one drive, and adding my users name as the owner and group owner).

This took me a minute to get right because it relies on the uuid of the drive, not the /dev/sdX identifier (I've been informed you can also use the /dev/disks/by-id/. It was super easy to do this through the gnome-disks utility, so I didn't need to keep editing the fstab file with nano and could see partition names.

I then I had drives visible in the 'Storage' settings in Steam (I did also switch from the downloaded deb file from steams website to the apt installation but I dont think I needed to).

I try to run a game, forget proton exists, retry to run the game with compatibility mode on, then get a 'Disk Write Error' for my /media/JoshCodes/gamedrive1/SteamLibrary/steamapps/downloading/random/file.

Super weird I think, but it's probably a cache issue, some dumb file from my windows machine that didn't get permission-ed properly for some reason - idk it was 10pm. I clear my cache, reset steam entirely, manually remove the files, nothing works. On a fluke, a troubleshooting step led me to a solution by way of it not working: I tried to create a symlink between the downloads folder on the main drive and the drive I had the game library installed on. The recommendation was to use:

ls -s /opt/steam/downloading /path/to/steamlibrary/downloading

Can't remember the error but it was something like "symlinks are not able to be created as they are not compatible with this file system". Oh dammit. This drive is on a filesystem that is incompatible (exFAT) with my other file systems for some reason. Someone smarter than me clarified that Steam and video games in general rely on symlinks, which are not supported on exFAT file systems, but will work on Windows for reasons I won't get in to.

Unfortunately I did have to move everything from my exFAT drive to a 3rd drive, reformat (just used ext4 as its native linux) and put all my files back on. At this point it was like 1am but I could open Civ V and Rocket League! Huzzah, crashed and went to bed. That's the first time I've really stuck with a problem that I wasn't familiar with, learned a shitload about mounting drives and just thought it through. A little help from the internet at the end but good outcome.

I hope that helps someone else!

Edit: Added commands and fixed formatting. Changed title as it was not correct as pointed out (Sorry, that's the first thing I typed and forgot to check that before posting). Added some info stolen from the comments on why symlinks don't work.

 

I'm about to start hosting an OpenCTI instance for work and was looking for advice on pretty much everything. I'm new to self hosting and was wondering if anyone had any advice or helpful guides (storage space, config tips, etc).

I'm looking to set up an OCTI server as a docker container behind nginx. I'd love to practice at home so this is sort of relevant to the community. Have you done this, what did you learn, do you have any things I should watch out for?

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