gerdesj

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by gerdesj 11mo ago
When you feel the need to dive in with a dash (m, n or otherwise), why not stop ... think for a while: consider going in with a colon instead?
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
A commenter here notes that detecting power lines is a really hard problem. However surely there is a set of simpler solutions to the problem than actually trying to spot power lines. This sort of thing is a largely solved problem for bigg
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Yes but winget is not the Windows central package manager. Actually, Windows does not have one but for some reason you have enforced updates from a central source. Why does Windows not have a formal source for safe software? One that the
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
... I also need to point out that the other suggestions here eg Fedora and Zorin co are also valid choices in my opinion. You should revel in the fact that you now have choice and not a single option. That does mean you will have to pick o
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Kubuntu. KDE is generally considered close to a Windows experience, although, I'm afraid the "start" menu is still affixed to the left hand side and not in the middle of the taskbar (which is weird). It also doesn't bot
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
You can drop Windows and keep VSCode. I'm running it on this laptop (Kubuntu 25.04). To install it, browse to here: https://code.visualstudio.com/ (search: "vscode"). Click on "Download for Linux (.deb
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Unix starts at root, which is how nature intended. It does not change characteristics based on media - you can mount a floppy at root if you want. Why get upset over /media vs /mnt? You do you, I know I do. For example The Step C
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
"The Ubuntu people seem to have recently pushed to users a new version of the CUPS printer scheduler" If you don't like breaking changes then you might consider using an Ubuntu LTS and then adding your own changes as required
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
An LLM is a tool and its just as mad as slide rules, calculators and PCs (I've seen them all although slide rules were being phased out in my youth) Coding via prompt is simply a new form of coding. Remember that high level programming
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
That's a vaccine for one strain: H5N1. I'm sure birds have many more strains and variants of virus. I'm sure a proper virologist can dive in here ... I think people assume that a fever is caused by an infection but my under
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Erdős rhymes with Kurdish. EDIT: Oh and Erdős was the great collaborator. There is an Erdős number (Bacon and Ozzie too) which defines how close you are to him. eg if you co-authored a paper with Erdős you have a Erdős number of one. If
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
There are a lot of happy open source projects rocking along ... happily. You may not hear about them here or on your socials but it is possible you are not hearing everything. For example, do you have a presence on Mastodon or Lemmy (for e
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Erdős I was told by a hungarian, that hungarian written spelling and spoken pronunciation is pretty precisely aligned compared to, say, english. Except when it comes to names when it gets a bit random! Why not do the bloke the decency to
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
It is Ubuntu based and the website looks amazing and it markets itself as a Windows replacement. Good skills. It will probably manage to Secure Boot and run, say, ESET (handy for audit points in the enterprise world).
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
No. Why would you "despise" being referred to? My first name is Jonathan, I generally get referred to as (int al) Jon, Jonny, Jo, or John (bloody silent letters). As it turns out, until I was 20 I thought my name was spelt Jonath
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
"SF ... It's not the name of the city." Your words ... 8)
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
I do both: charge people to do it for them and do it for myself. (your second sentence is a bit confusing)
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Or if nft is too complicated (firewalld) then do ufw.
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
We could always resurrect WAIS and Gopher. I sometimes compare Mediawiki vs SharePoint to Web x.0 vs WAIS n Gopher. One is light on resources, storing just the information with some formatting hints, leaving presentation to standards and th
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
The whole point (from a savvy business perspective) is throw money at the hardware and throw experience at the software. In the end, Proxmox is based on KVM and KVM does run a workload or two across the world. VMware isn't KVM and I w
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Quite. Its almost as though the docs are written by people who actually use it. I was (still am sadly) a VMware consultant for about 25 years. It makes me laugh when I hear breathless "enterprise noises" with regards VMware and
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Do this: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_8_to_9 No need to overthink it too much. I've done several so far. Run the pve8to9 script first to do some sanity checks (it should already be installed if the
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
If I see a RJ45 plug with a broken locking thingie, or bare wires (not just bare copper - any internal wire), I chop the plug off. If I come across a CATx (solid core) cable being used as a really long patch lead then I lose my shit or perh
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
This is a blog post about: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.11759 There are more links in the post. In the abstract of that paper: "In a human validation study with 108 senior vol- unteers, AI-generated phishing emails
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
You'll recall how horrendous on prem Exchange updates could be. Surely the sheer amount of time involved was a nudge and nothing technical? My tiny company had an on prem Exchange, migrated from GroupWise, and is now cloudy. I did al
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Blast. Soz. I've been using Windows since v1 or perhaps 2 - we had a "CAD" workstation at school back in the day. It was a RM Nimbus with a 80186 (yes!) in it. I own a Commodore 64 from 1984ish (still have it - it now has
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
It is worth keeping one around. When the "cloud" is raining and your laptop and phone batteries are drained and you suddenly need to navigate your 4823 times table - its got you covered. You will also need to work out how to write
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
... and reinstall Windows is offered as the next step after sfc /scannow.
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
I gather that several southern american nations have some serious issues with Lithium mines nicking water. Search: "lithium mines water southern america" You could look at this: ... https://www.bmwgroup.com/conten
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
You might as well decry "Hoover" for a vacuum cleaner. I haven't seen a Hoover for way longer than SSL -> TLS. OK I have but I blanked it!

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