Teknoman117

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by Teknoman117 3y ago
I feel you on this. I started using Gentoo on my personal machines (Desktop, Laptop, NAS) after I needed to understand it for work. Eventually I fell in love with the developer workflow that it allows. That was seven years ago. These days I
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by Teknoman117 3y ago
Hoping I don't develop an eating disorder in the process of losing weight is a constant thing on my mind. I've had to deeply cut my calories to keep losing. I don't even really noticing myself experiencing hunger at this poin
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by Teknoman117 3y ago
I wonder if the body positivity movement has anything to do with the de-sexualization of reasons to be fit. In many circles, if I were to say that I wanted to be more fit in order to attract the kinds of people I'm attracted to, the ma
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by Teknoman117 3y ago
Here's my favorite web 1.0 site (still seems to be updated). https://philohome.com/ I have no relation to this site, but as a kid it helped get me into custom electronics to scratch itches I had when building Lego Mind
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by Teknoman117 3y ago
For one, you have to provide one specifically for your board to boot at all. There is no "common" one that'll get you to a shell on any board. The main issue is that most SoC vendors just dump a heavily hacked up Linux kernel
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by Teknoman117 3y ago
I would definitely like to say I do but I definitely do not.
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by Teknoman117 3y ago
That is one of the Great Filter thought examples already, right? A civilization whose technology advances faster than its understanding of the impacts of said technology may blot themselves out early on.
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by Teknoman117 3y ago
Probably the backup and update system for my desktop. All of my Linux boxes use btrfs as the filesystem. I have some tools that makes snapshots of all the subvolumes I wish to keep backups of and does incremental transfers of them to my NAS
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by Teknoman117 3y ago
The major problems with Metformin are that it frequently makes people nauseous, it causes sperm damage in men (effects go away when you cease taking it + about 3 months), and in rare cases can cause lactic acidosis if you consume alcohol. A
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
It's nutty. I make more than my dad did when he retired, yet, if I were to have kids today I could not provide the lifestyle to them that I had as a kid. And he certainly didn't make what he did at retirement when I was a child. I
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
You're probably right. I vaguely remember being told they only worked on volatile compounds.
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
My high school in a not-wealthy part of Alabama had a dozen of them in their chemistry lab 15 years ago. Can't be that expensive...
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
Compatibility with the higher end Dells has been great for me, but the hardware has been a raging dumpster fire in my experience. Monitors randomly turning off and on after the last firmware update, battery randomly deciding it's now a
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
I've honestly become so used to CMake at this point I just use it for everything C/C++ related. I do still use Makefiles directly when there isn't an environment to search for - namely AVR projects where there are no libs to
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
Makes me think of the "when is main not a function" article from 2015: http://jroweboy.github.io/c/asm/2015/01/26/when-is-main-not-...
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
I've got a handful of LS120 disks and their storage cases I got from my parents that are certain to have personal data on them but I haven't ever seen an LS120 drive in person...
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
Wait, could the changer swap disks automatically? That's super neat! I saw one a data tape changer once and I've always been fascinated by the mechanical aspects of computer equipment in the past. (on a side note, I am one of my o
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
I still do that from time to time. Not everyone has fast upload (compared to modern file sizes), so sometimes driving somewhere to pick up a flash drive or SSD (or mailing it) is faster than sending it over the internet... I have symmetric
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
The first time I learned how to do a multi-part tar archive was to split my backup across multiple floppies...
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
It's like that post on the PC gaming subreddit where someone was unironically asking about what interface was on a pictured hard drive ... it was IDE.
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
There's definitely a threshold point for knowing about them. I just turned 30, and in practice, I never used them. (But I just missed them) About the time I got to the point in school of needing to send documents (mid-00s), flash drive
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
Regardless, I do wish products containing them were labeled better. My dad is allergic to most of them. We nearly had to make an ER visit after he ate some pickles because Kosher decided that they suddenly needed to put artificial sweetener
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
They're so cheap that I've almost completely given up on breadboarding/protoboarding hobby stuff. Throw a design together, have it show up a week or so later, solder it together, do some testing, reorder if you goofed up too
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
I imagine so. The main trouble with the biofuels is that you'd have to get everything else right for it to truly be neutral impact. (i.e. not depleting the soil, making the chemical fertilizer, reactions to convert biomass into ethanol
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
True or not, I would totally believe that the people who are so anti-nuclear they don't want any further research done into the subject are probably being funded by the fossil fuel industry.
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
I would but it's a work laptop...
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
> What takes 10 hours in a flight will take 13 hours on fast trains. How do you figure that? I'm thinking out loud here: If we use some real examples: I'm lucky in that most of my family lives near major travel hubs, so I can f
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
I mean, I'd take 100W. I never used the dedicated GPU so I never get that high. However, standard usage still drains the battery while on a 65W supply.
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
> Dell has its own problems these days. I am honestly very annoyed that my 2019 XPS 15 will refuse to negotiate anything higher than 65W over USB-C PD on a non-Dell charger. Their dock does 130W, yet every third party dock, brick, or mon
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by Teknoman117 4y ago
Smoking (also) causes cardiovascular disease - Atherosclerosis, increased blood pressure, increased cholesterol, etc. 1 in 3 deaths from cardiovascular disease are estimated to be caused by smoking. Smoking damages your body in all sorts of

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