Why use a picture of Kevin James?

Thanks for that. I'd seen the meme before but didn't make the connection.

Morty and Summer?

You have a lot more negotiating power once they give you an offer because of the sunk cost.

Love me some open source hygiene products! Blueland, the company that makes the cleaning sprays I use, does the same thing.

https://www.blueland.com/products/multi-surface-starter-set?Scent=Fresh+Lemon&Refill+Quantity=2+Tablets

I self-host Gitea! Not your server, not your data.

During in my data science master's program, someone unironically sent me a localhost link to a Jupyter Notebook.

I used to sleep on the grass before my jujutsu class. Got bit by some bugs once, but honestly, the worst problem was trying to find a spot without goose poop.

NO WAY! They've got an LFS one now?!? My son got a bunch of them for his baby shower two years ago, and he's been like super into them since he was like 15-18 months old. I highly recommend Bayesian Statistics; it explains the concept more clearly than any stats or data science class I've taken. His favorites are Optical Physics (because he's into rainbows), Bayesian Statistics (because he likes cookies), and Quantum Computing (because he likes the word "data", probably because he hears me say it in work meetings).

I mean, it's better than trying to scale it to a fraction of the slowest thing that exists...

From Wiktionary:

knowledge: (archaic or law) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). [from 15th c.]

Aegis works perfectly. My university used Duo and then Okta, and both worked. I was unable to get Authy to work, though.

And then try turning on SELinux!

AI-powered NPCs is like a childhood dream come true. But I agree it would be better for them to use a model running on the user's system or at the very least host their own.

When I read it, I was frustrated that it was a socialist dystopia, but I think it holds up as a valid critique of surveillance-state authoritarianism, regardless of the x-coordinate on the political compass.

Þuck my balls!

For me, it was definitely a hard thing I was supposed to work through. There are things that don't work as well after transitioning to GrapheneOS, but more than anything it's just helped me use my phone less (which was an ongoing goal of mine). I do most of my banking on my laptop now, which is probably better for my mental health than constantly checking my finances and stressing myself out. Outings are a lot more enjoyable now. I also switched from an unlimited data plan to a plan with 2GB a month, so I just leave my mobile data off unless I really need it.

I don't get why everyone and their mother has to shit on Mint. I started my Linux journey on servers, but my first home computing distro was Ubuntu 16. It wasn't what I needed so I stuck with Windows 10. After migrating my homelab server to Almalinux 9 and realizing how much better life could be if I just purged Microsoft from my household, I installed Linux Mint on my laptop and have used it ever since. If I had any less of a warm welcome into Linux for home computing, I might have just stuck with Windows 10.

I consider myself somewhere between a layperson and a power user. I'm pretty comfortable with BASH since I work with servers a lot, but low-level stuff is still black magic to me. I'm aware that KDE Plasma has a ton of cool bells and whistles (I use Nobara on my gaming rig), but other than KDE connect for sharing clipboard, I don't really need any of that fancy stuff on my laptop. And I think the typical layperson probably won't even set them up in the first place.

I bought 96 gigs of DDR3 for my server in December 2022. It cost $118.76; less than $1.24 per gig.

Even for things we're excited about, truncating the y-axis is never okay 😕