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    Saw my youngest sister for the first time since Christmas 2019 this weekend, she lives in the UK and for various reasons had been unable to get back till now. Went up to my parent's place to visit.

    The weather was shitty yesterday so a planned extended family event (that I wasn't exactly pumped for) was postponed, which meant I got to spend most of the day with her before the rest of my immediate family came over to my parent's place.

    Also, it's the height of strawberry season there and I took home a basket. The smell drove me crazy the whole ride home.
     
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    SuperDave said:
    I'm in; it's who I am. Contact me at your leisure with future plans and expect a customer if it comes to it.
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    Chainmail Bracelets

    I have run this by the mods to make sure I wasn't violating any posting guidelines. I've been making chainmail bracelets for myself and some close friends. I've shown some off here and got some interest from people wanting to buy them. I'm currently selling them for 15$ + shipping. I've...
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    ChaoticUnreal said:

    Chainmail Bracelets

    I have run this by the mods to make sure I wasn't violating any posting guidelines. I've been making chainmail bracelets for myself and some close friends. I've shown some off here and got some interest from people wanting to buy them. I'm currently selling them for 15$ + shipping. I've...
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    Many years ago I purchased some custom anodized titanium chopsticks from an Arsian. :)
     
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    Justin Credible said:
    Edmonton is gonna drop a barrel on yer kitties.
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    Eh. I'm rooting for them because My Wings and Kings are LOOOOOOOONG out of it, and if it means that my friends from Edmonton have to do this:

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    Then all the better. :devilish:
     
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    For reasons that are both Extended and Complicated, my girlfriend's dog lives with her parents. It started out as some variation on "I'm going for a longer trip, would you mind looking after him?", evolved through "d'awwwww", and "no, you can't have him back", and is now, broadly speaking at the stage of "preciousssssss"

    Except that they wanted to take a day trip down to the coast, so the shoe is on the other foot, so to speak.

    They offered to ferry him up to our place to be looked after, but I figured that spending a day or two at a cabin in the mountains, complete with fast internet, in probably-nice weather, might not be the awfulest thing in the world.

    So while I do have to work from a laptop screen, on the other hand, I have [picture tax] an office with this view (shades of Windows XP, just spread out beyond the bounds of a computer screen), and this fluffy little foot-warmer for company.

    I have no regrets. Yet. My back and neck may have some by the end of the day, and I have no idea how people can work on laptops all day and then want even smaller laptops. But hey. Fluffy cute bestest footwarmer.

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    CrackFraggle said:
    Notepad now has basic spellcheck!
    (yes, I'm a heathen who hasn't ever moved to Notepad++. I also use MSPaint. I'm bad. I know. But I also type like garbage, so this is good news for me.)
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    Oh man, and the tabs in notepad? chefs kiss.

    Keep it simple Microsoft, because it’s Notepad and I like it simple. But little improvements in quality of life like this? Just right.
     
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    CrackFraggle said:
    Notepad now has basic spellcheck!
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    Notepad on Windows Store has a lot of fancy new features now.

    Edit: I agree with @Diabolical. MS is -- so far -- threading the needle between keeping Notepad being... Notepad and adding just enough to it to really make it 1000% better.

    I did switch to Paint.NET though.
     
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    Ardax said:
    Notepad on Windows Store has a lot of fancy new features now.

    Edit: I agree with @Diabolical. MS is -- so far -- threading the needle between keeping Notepad being... Notepad and adding just enough to it to really make it 1000% better.

    I did switch to Paint.NET though.
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    I was going to get this because i thought Paint.NET was free.
     
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    ChaoticUnreal said:

    Chainmail Bracelets

    I have run this by the mods to make sure I wasn't violating any posting guidelines. I've been making chainmail bracelets for myself and some close friends. I've shown some off here and got some interest from people wanting to buy them. I'm currently selling them for 15$ + shipping. I've...
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    Ygpm.
     
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  • #6,546
    r0twhylr said:
    [crawls out from under *nix rock]
    Y'all need to hear to holy gospel of VI.
    [crawls back under *nix rock]
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    Edit:
    I use gvim on Solaris. Because GUI, and vim instead of vi because… uh.. habit? AND! Because I’m a heathen RF guy masquerading as someone who knows how touch to operations computers instead of wrenches, spectrum and communication analyzers, and badly deburred heliax cables. FUCK YOU JONATHAN. THAT STILL HURTS, AND IT’S BEEN TWELVE YEARS YOU MOTHERFUCKER!’

    ahem
    Shit. Uh.

    So that came out.
     
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    I haven't used Solaris for anything business-related since 2008ish. I used to have certs from 2.5.1 through 9. I was about to go for 10 when the Sun Microsystems shit started to hit the economic fan. Ironically, back then everything was about Solaris containers, and right after that I shifted hard into the VMware full-os-virtualization mainstream.

    And now VMware and on-prem virtualization in general is suffering troubles while everything else is shifting to ... containers.
     
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    r0twhylr said:
    I haven't used Solaris for anything business-related since 2008ish. I used to have certs from 2.5.1 through 9. I was about to go for 10 when the Sun Microsystems shit started to hit the economic fan. Ironically, back then everything was about Solaris containers, and right after that I shifted hard into the VMware full-os-virtualization mainstream.

    And now VMware and on-prem virtualization in general is suffering troubles while everything else is shifting to ... containers.
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    We were big on partitions rather than containers right up until the Solaris userbase imploded and everything went Linux. I still use vi out of habit, of course. I keep a local copy of all our certs in case the issuer goes down, so quite a lot of :%d in the past day as I updated a bunch.

    Drifting off topic from that... Anyone else really going to struggle with 90 day certs? About 100 of ours are hosted on a Netscaler and there isn't an easy, supported way to use certbot with it.
     
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    Confirmed my business class seats on my flight to Mauritius getting to say good-bye to crazy hot and humid Hong Kong for almost a month. Time to do some retirement research - hitting the east, south, west and north in that order across a villa specialist company and 3 AirBnb.

    And, my favorite map came back into rotation in PUBG and got me a chicken dinner at midnight with 5 kills and a very good tactical match. Now I am definitely good and ready to go!
     
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    Demento said:
    We were big on partitions rather than containers right up until the Solaris userbase imploded and everything went Linux.
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    Fifteen years later this still pisses me off. The entire *nix userbase pivoting to a fork that was written by internet randos and performed like shit with no library compatibilities, because "free". It will never make sense.
     
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    I gave my 15 year old her first steel sword today. A rather tattered rebated blade from the bottom of my sword bag, but nonetheless achievement unlocked. If she sticks with training, I’ll buy her a decent one for her 16th birthday. One on one lessons in the back garden should have her kicking arse in a year or so.
     
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    Telwar said:
    I do have to say, I very much appreciate Adaptive Cruise Control, especially on long empty stretches of interstate.
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    What does ACC offer on an empty stretch of road?

    Curious, because in the UK, we don't have any "empty stretches".

    I have ACC and, for obvious reasons, it won't undertake. However, sometimes it decides we are on the continent and refuses to pass cars on the "wrong" side (aka overtake). At these times, the traffic sign recognition presents speeds in km/h rather than mph. At these times, it tells me the limit is 100. Nice!

    Honestly, in-car software is shocking.
     
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