bigpeopleareold

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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
Instead of ChatGPTing things in what I work in, I have sought to improve my knowledge a lot in shell scripting, I am reading man pages more diligently (even if I am not dilgent enough) and seek to use documentation first, such as man pages,
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
Recently, I received a blocking request from facebook at the moment here in Norway - pay 110 NOK and my data will not be used for ads or keep it for free and my data will be used for ads. They say at the top of the box for this: "Laws
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
- First job: laid off. Found a new position in 2 weeks. - Second job: wanted to move, so this doesn't count - Third job: laid off. But I was already looking for new jobs, it just worked out really well for me For the ones I got laid of
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
In Norway, Uber is barely present here. The established taxi companies do a very good job with none of those problems (but like everything here, they are pricey.) I think it really depends where you are.
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
This doesn't happen much to me and my wife since we don't buy much electronics without discretion. However, my wife has a specific Fossil/Kate Spade hybrid watch (analog but can be controlled remotely) that had an app with it
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I think there is a presumption that there is a caring government to take away the duties of maintaining one's livelihood, a livelihood formulated without the modern, post-Revolution (the French one) impulses that we live with today. Cu
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I presume that large swaths of the population don't have hobbies and need others to tell them what to do. There is a reason why idle hands are admonished (like in a religious context: Proverbs 16:27: "Idle hands are the devil’s wo
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I searched "Kentucky" in the comments here precisely because of thinking of my time in Owensboro, where my uncle moved to many years ago. That barbecue mutton was utterly fantastic when I had it :)
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
Probably, but this is on a corporate computer and I saw that no WSL version would work. I am otherwise not interested in using Windows (and found a way to avoid it :D )
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
Yeah ... the MSYS2 site says: "The unixy tools in MSYS2 are directly based on Cygwin, so there is some overlap there. While Cygwin focuses on building Unix software on Windows as is, MSYS2 focuses on building native software built agai
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I am in the same situation with having to (or was required to use) Windows 10 on hardware. I just wanted a bash shell with network access via the VPN. On that computer I was able to install MSYS2 with some certificate tweaks to get it to wo
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
When I was a wee one in the 90s (teenager actually :D ) I tried to be interested in programming my Mac. I had the opportunity to learn how to program (Turbo Pascal) in school, and wanted to do something with that on my Mac. I vaguely rememb
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I really didn't understand it but figured there is something I was missing here.
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I didn't upgrade yet to 13 because they said the vendor for the fingerprint reader in the FP3 has not registered/validated/whatever for Google's security standards on Android 13 yet, thus possibly causing issues with app
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
My recent set of Thinkpads (my work one is recent, the others from 2018) have good enough trackpads, but it's barely a concern since I don't use them much except for very casual use where I am not typing anything Even then, 80% of
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I usually have mine plugged in, but when I do run on battery, I get like 4 hours on it running Ubuntu. It doesn't bother me, since I am usually near an outlet anyway. But I suppose it can be better though (I don't really need the
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
A really powerful feature in PowerShell is to download MSYS2 and then launch a proper shell :) I started to learn PowerShell and probably will still have to proceed, but I so far successfully avoided it in my current job. MSYS2 for sometime
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I started to go through LFS, but with the intent of scripting it. What ultimately though slowed me down to a halt was a persistent VirtualBox issue I couldn't solve. But I think I just easily jump back into it now :D
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
Linux is the kernel for the XFCE operating system called formally XFCE/Linux :) I saw this and clicked into it and then saw I can't use it without using XFCE.(well, only for kicks)
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I think it is better to just justify if a task has a high impact to one's self, particularly in well-established companies. If I can get paid decently and learn new stuff to keep my knowledge fresh, that's good enough for me. Howe
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I don't know anything about this author until now, but by reading the one article and thinking a little critically and reading here, what he said was deceptive. A lot of advice is actually just toxic, because in it's generality, p
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I was careful in using the book's words: "not a timeless afterlife" or suggesting at least "not eternal". Because we know what happens in the end :)
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
The Penguin Book of Norse Myths :)
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I started to read a book on a summary of Norse myths. In the introduction, it suggested that since in pre-Christian Scandinavia there was no strong or even existing belief in a timeless afterlife, people, particularly of the Viking stock, w
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I am not good in calculus and that's something I wish I did pick up when it came to it. The harder thing was keeping the pressure up to pass the tests and in total, pass a course, while dealing with the severe discomforting exhaustion
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I don't know anything about Astro, but that graph reminded me of the Monty Python animation of Crelm toothpaste ... seems like Astro only provides 98% protection!
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
Despite the presence of whole tex-mex and pizza aisles in grocery stores, at least the food for local dishes is still a staple and well-stocked in every grocery store. I think, for example, 2/3s of the pre-made options are varieties of
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I'd rather say that on personal matters, it's best to be introspective as soon as you can before you start regretting the years passing by you. That was a big chunk of my 20s, living in a world of demands and obligations (very muc
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
He says he has a T14s gen 3 and it is not of great build quality. I have a P14s gen 3 from work (which I presume the only difference is the GPU, but I never looked nor care to) and think the build quality is fantastic. I know though that Le
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I just got into the 30,000,000 range. Literally riveting.

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