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Came to post this, glad to see it’s already here.

Nice little utility tool box that does a ton of helpful stuff in a small package. Super easy to self host and container images easily available.

I’ve just realized the back seat of my two door car is a death trap thanks to your comment.

… Good thing nobody ever rides back there and it’s just used for storage.

This post is very timely because I was just introducing some new people to Mongo earlier this week and led off with “Now you might still hear people say ‘mongo is trash, it’s not even ACID compliant!’ but those people are dumb… it’s had that for years and years and is just another DBMS at this point (but not relational)”

… the last part also answers the other reply to this post. Yes.

Can confirm. Occasionally we also refer to Alabama but Mississippi is the go to.

Quotes I highlighted from Wolff’s book on trump’s first term, most of them quotes from trump or people in his orbit that came up in interviews for the book.

“I don’t get it,” Trump said.

Of course the United States manufactured things, but reality did not match the vision in Trump’s mind.

“I just do,” Trump replied. “I’ve had these views for 30 years. That doesn’t mean they’re right,”

It was clear Trump had no clue what that was or who Porter was.

As far as Porter was concerned Navarro was a member of the Flat Earth Society on trade deficits, like the president himself.

No answers were forthcoming. But Trump soon forgot his questions.

“I don’t want to hear that,” Trump replied. “It’s all bullshit.”

Trump seemed not to comprehend the value and the necessity.

The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire.

“He’s a fucking moron,” Tillerson said so everyone heard.

Cohn concluded that Trump was, in fact, going backwards.

It seems clear that many of the president’s senior advisers, especially those in the national security realm, are extremely concerned with his erratic nature, his relative ignorance, his inability to learn, as well as what they consider his dangerous views

"I can’t sit around and listen to this from the president. He’s just a moron.”

It was clearly Russian propaganda, McMaster said. He and the NSC and intelligence experts had concluded that. But the president had picked it up and shot it out.

Trump seemed not to remember his own decision because he did not ask about it. He had no list—in his mind or anywhere else—of tasks to complete.

“The president has zero psychological ability to recognize empathy or pity in any way.”

Trump had no understanding of how government functioned.

Trump liked signing. It meant he was doing things,

The president thought special assistant sounded a lot better, not realizing it was an even lower position.

Kelly said of the president, “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in crazytown."

“Can we change the libel laws?” Trump asked

He had told the West Wing staff and even some on the Hill that the president didn’t understand what DACA was, that he was ignorant of both the policy and the mechanics.

The president can’t do this on his own, he’d told West Wing colleagues, because if he does it on his own, he’s going to screw it up.

“He’s a professional liar.”

“Mr. President, I cannot, as a lawyer, as an officer of the court, sit next to you and have you answer these questions when I full well know that you’re not really capable.”

He could not say what he knew was true: “You’re a fucking liar.” That was the problem.

https://www.local10.com/news/2019/01/14/florida-man-threatens-to-kill-man-with-kindness-uses-machete-named-kindness/

Thank you, I have a new goal in life.

Garmin is where I landed too.

I couldn’t do the instinct 2 solar because of the 50mm size (I have dainty little wrists) but the instinct 3 solar is available in 45mm.

I’m over a month in and at 70% battery with minimal direct solar, but it does give it a 1-3% bump when I’m working outside.

At this point, I have to see how long it can go without charging.

(Again, I don’t use any of the “smart” stuff, just the heart rate monitor for sleep tracking - is that a new thing to require HRM for sleep tracking? Long ago, they did it with the accelerometer)

I remember looking for a new watch awhile back and seeing a review that said “The battery life is outstanding! I get almost two whole days without a charge!” and thinking “naw dude”.

But, I also don’t like “smart” watches… or “smart” anything. I want a damn watch that can occasionally do GPS tracking when I want it to and the battery should last, at minimum, one month.

Not at all. It’s more of “I’m used to windows, change is scary”

There are still some things that are win/mac only and if you’re heavily invested in them it can be hard to migrate to Linux based FOSS alternatives (or, VM/WINE/etc). But, most “normal” (non-geek) people aren’t keen on throwing away all of their experience on one specific application to learn a new, different, one… Regardless of feature parity.

I haven’t looked in several years, but noob friendly CAD is one example. I ended up using browser based ones since I couldn’t find an easy offline one. “Easy” is the key here - there are pretty great FOSS CAD suites, they just aren’t super friendly to stupid people (me).

Though, that may have changed, if you’ve got recommendations please let me know.

I appreciates that about you.

I don’t know if I’ve actually seen one of your posts, but thank you nonetheless.

The cycle continues

Similar : my spouse was complaining about how slow her laptop was and that she’d probably have to buy a new one. I popped a bootable Mint USB in and she was impressed that it was “like new”.

I left her on the bootable for a week as a trial then installed it to the HD. 99% of what she does is browser based anyway.

Yeah… I should expand. The penguins are just my favorite part of those movies and it matches the Linux motif that I started with yet falls apart, you know, when I name a windows laptop rico-w : P

Mine are named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie : Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico.

Unfortunately there’s only four so I often supplement with a suffix. For example, I’ve got an old windows laptop kicking around that is “rico-w”

… I should really commit to a naming scheme with a wider array of options.

I don’t have kids, so yeah.

Edit: now that I scroll through the comments, I see this is a common theme.

The last one is now a governor.

… So apparently it pays to vomit lies that align with whatever he says. Seems the people love it.

I was going to post this but Lemmy told me your post was already here… nice.

I’ve been using Linux everyday for around 25 years and I’d never heard of the column command somehow!

But I should procrastinate paying my taxes until the last minute, yes? I have 1099 income that doesn’t have taxes pre deducted from it, there’s I always have to pay in (which is fine, I budget for it)

I doubt he’s ever gotten anyone off.