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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago

IIRC chvt is a privileged command, which makes sense (if an unprivileged user could execute this command they could effectively brick the computer for a local user).

That said, my understanding is that modern DE's are given a lot of access, so presumably chvt is allowed (and in this case, is required because as others mentioned, password is required). So the only other option is to fail unlocked, which is all kinds of Bad.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No longer available I guess, but I got this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DDX1K5S1

Only complaints are that it will thermal throttle on long workloads (e.g., transcoding or facial recognition on my entire Immich library), and the SSD slots


it comes with an mSATA drive in the first slot which is 4 lanes (I think?) and supports mSATA and NVME. The second slot is slower (1 lane?) and only supports NVME. So I had to put my nicer NVME SSD in that slot if I wanted to use the included mSATA drive, but consequently the NVME speed is slower than it should be. (I could swap it to the fast slot but then I couldn't use the included mSATA drive.)

For my use case, both minor issues.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

And over twice the GDP.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

"Wow you signed the document in blood, you must be really hardcore."

"No I'm just cheap."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

That's...pretty believable.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 10 months ago

proxmox nudes

No judgement here, you just keep doing what makes you happy.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 57 points 10 months ago (37 children)

While neat, this is not self-sustaining


it's taking more energy to power it than you're getting out of it. (You can build a fusion device on your garage if you're so inclined, though obviously this is much neater than that!)

One viewpoint is that we'll never get clean energy from these devices, not because they won't work, but because you get a lot of neutrons out of these devices. And what do we do with neutrons? We either bash them into lead and heat stuff up (boring and not a lot of energy), or we use them to breed fissile material, which is a lot more energetically favorable. So basically, the economically sound thing to do is to use your fusion reactor to power your relatively conventional fission reactor. Which is still way better than fossil fuels IMHO, so that's something.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's the American experience.

That may be your American experience, but it's not everyone's. We are a huge country, and while there's of course truth behind the stereotypes, the glib "'Murica dumb" sentiment doesn't exactly capture everyone's experience.

My city (San Francisco) has been continuously improving bike infrastructure and is actively closing streets off to cars, we have a diverse food culture, we don't allow gun stores in the city, and our de facto recreational drug is weed, not coke (though yes, the city does have a fentanyl problem). And I use metric units in lab for my California-based employer.

To address OP's question, I'll add a +1 to all the Ken Burns recommendations. Not an exhaustive history, but it's a great start!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you exclude blocked instances, you're a lot higher than #5...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My home town is in bald eagles' historic habitat, but there were never any growing up. In the past decade or so, they've started to reclaim it, which is pretty cool.

Yeah, we're destroying the planet, but we are doing some things right. And this sort of good stuff only happens because we fight for it.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 37 points 10 months ago

The amount of money you save (and invest) isn't accurately depicted with this though. Living expenses don't necessarily grow with take home, if you keep lifestyle creep to a minimum.

So what this means is that if you make $100k and save $10k/year, if you start making $200k you can save the same $10k/year, plus the entire additional $100k after taxes (let's just say that's $50k+). So you doubled your salary but your savings went up 6x+.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not sure why you're saying Python forces everything to be object oriented...?

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