My library has a banned book clubs for teenagers.
Books don’t get banned in my country, but they read and discuss books that are banned in other countries.
Also, you can check out a kill-a-watt to monitor your electricity consumption.
instead of healthcare
Where in the world are you? In my part my tax money goes far enough to pay for both. And free university studies so that no one has to take loans.
He also planned to have BcacheFS merged to mainline in 2018. Finally got it merged in 2023 (released in 2024).
Development will likely slow down a bit when things require more review, discussion and scrutiny now that it’s mainlined.
Let me quote the Wikipedia page.
Bcachefs describes itself as “working and stable, with a small community of users”. When discussing Linux 6.9-rc3 on April 7, 2024, Linus Torvalds touched on the stability of bcachefs, saying “if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you”, and in August of 2024 that “nobody sane uses bcachefs and expects it to be stable”.
It’s been being for a long time. It finally got merged to mainline in Linux 6.7. Sounds like they started a lot of renovations after that. It’s still a bit too much in motion for me to consider it.
Performance and features look promising. I’ll revisit in 2030 if things have calmed down and they still have maintainers.
I’ve been running btrfs for 14 years. It has similar features and a proven track record. It doesn’t move as fast. That’s a good thing for a filesystem.
IPv6 was “just around the corner” when I was studying 20+ years ago. I kept a tunnel up until the brokers shut down.
I’ve been hosting some big (partly proprietary) services for work, and we’ve been IPv6 compatible for a decade.
My ISP finally gave me native IPv6 earlier this year, which gave me the push to make sure my personal hosting does IPv6 as well. Seems like most big players services support it today. It’s nice to not have the overhead that CGNAT brings.
IPv6 got a bit of a bad reputation when operating systems defaulted to 6to4 translation but never actually managed to work.
I was dual booting windows NT4 and Slackware 3.0. A lot of my old 3.11 and 95 software didn’t work on NT4, so eventually I stopped using it.
I’ve moved on to Arch Linux, now, but the software I use to sync my palm pilot doesn’t work. It’s available in the AUR, but it won’t build.
Last time they tried to wage arctic warfare they lost more men to the cold than bullets and artillery.
I trained an ANN back in 2012 to trade bitcoin for me on mtgox. It performed quite a bit better than just HODLing until mtgox happened.
Now I live in a van down by the river.
The Android client seems to have dropped a few player engines in a recent update. Previously there was an option to use libvlc, omxplayer or a third option that I can’t recall. Seems the developer opted to go with the worst option.
The AndroidTV app can use external players such ss VLC. I went with kodi as a client instead.
One of the local secondary schools had a mailserver. No one knew or took security seriously in the mid-to-late nineties. As a result, it also hosted an ftp-server with widely shared credentials that held some 20GB worth of mp3s when it was shut down after three years in service. It was one of the biggest in the country at the time.
Irc and DCC-transfers were huge, too. As CD-writers became common place, a lot of it took place over snail mail or sneakernet. A guy at school had printed lists of all his tunes and took orders to burn them to music CDs.
I think the limited selection and limited transfers/storage made you cherish things more. Today you’ll never finish your library in your lifetime.
I need to feel productive. Be it a programming project or woodworking. Just creating something new instead of maintenance like oil changes and mowing the lawn. Creating something new.
Also, take a walk in the forest. Get out on the water. Both are great therapy to disconnect from the mental todo-list of things going on around the house.