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vwbusguy

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Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?

Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22

Hoosier currently living in California.

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vwbusguy, to random
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Bought a regular old alarm clock so that my day doesn't start with me reaching for my phone from now on. Here's to hoping this works!

vwbusguy,
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@nikodunk Nice! I don't think I could get away with that since I have four young kids, but I got an alarm clock that has wireless charging and the phone is kind of tucked underneath the face of it, so hopefully that will limit the sense of need to reach for it first thing 🤞 .

vwbusguy, to linux
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Article: May Be the Best Way to Avoid the Nightmare

https://flip.it/kN9ts1

vwbusguy, (edited )
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@marlinspike If you like the look and feel of Windows and just want something that generally works out of box, I suggest Budgie. Alternatively, if you want more customizability, go with KDE.

https://fedoraproject.org/spins/budgie/

https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde/

vwbusguy, to music
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TIL that Bon Scott wasn't the original singer of . 😳

https://youtu.be/biaGJ_4rEzE

danderson, to random
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Extremely niche peeve: when a functional DSL calls something let, but it turns out to be let*.

vwbusguy,
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@danderson I'm going to need a pointer to get that reference.

vwbusguy, (edited ) to linux
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CentOS Stream 8 went end of life last week but CentOS 7 is still supported until the end of the month.

vwbusguy,
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@ivan Nah, but I did migrate a number of CentOS Stream machines to recently. Alma8 is still supported and it's easy to migrate to, even from CentOS 7:

From CentOS 7: https://wiki.almalinux.org/elevate/ELevating-CentOS7-to-AlmaLinux-9.html

From CentOS8 to Alma8: https://wiki.almalinux.org/documentation/migration-guide.html

vwbusguy,
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@ivan Here's the short list:

  • Consistently faster time-to-live
  • More open source participation, especially upstream (Fedora, EPEL, CentOS Stream)
  • More focus on productive collaboration than picking fights on the internet

That said, there are some good people at Rocky and I'm not telling you not to use it, but these are my reasons.

vwbusguy, to fediverse
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I've decided to try again as a alternative. I don't like the interface as much and the ads are not intrusive, but I like that it has some integrations with and . There's also apparently a YouTube integration, but it failed to connect for me.

vwbusguy, to random
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We're only a few weeks away from half the internet running on an end-of-life Linux distro.

"The year is 2038 and multiple major websites, including a bunch of essential banking infrastructure, are down because they've been running on i686 CentOS 7 this whole time."

vwbusguy, to random
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OH today: "I tried brisket in Texas and it was nasty. I'd take trip tip over brisket any day. That's the real barbecue."

I politely, but firmly disagreed.

Joseph_of_Earth, to random
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To do list:

[ ] Tell Nobara to make a Mastodon account

vwbusguy,
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@Conan_Kudo @Joseph_of_Earth

Hey @gloriouseggroll, any chance for a Nobara Mastodon presence?

vwbusguy,
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@Joseph_of_Earth @Conan_Kudo @gloriouseggroll @fedora Yup - Especially seeing how much love Universal Blue, etc, gets here.

vwbusguy, to ai
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Looks like someone used an #AI to make it look like a popular doctor on TikTok and YouTube endorsed their product. 😬

https://youtube.com/shorts/Lv8ZX4ny_00

vwbusguy, to random
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Today's 3 year old total meltdown: We played the song she wanted to hear but from the wrong phone 🤦.

vwbusguy, to random
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It seems my vet's booking system expects a unique first and last name and can't possibly grok that I'm not the owner of "Fluffy". Here's to hoping that misspelling my name in their scheduling system doesn't come back to bite me. 🤦

vwbusguy, to guitar
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There is a thinline between a Stratocaster and a Telecaster and it runs through Nashville.

vwbusguy,
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Explanation:

The Nashville Tele is basically if Garth Brooks were a . Nashville Tele is a guitar that can't decide if it's made for rock or country.

https://youtu.be/nuTthSAQZn8

Thinline is a semi-hollow Tele:

https://youtu.be/kHerp2IMi20

vwbusguy, to FormulaE
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This right here is the biggest immediate threat to vehicles. The base pricing of $72k means you've limited the market to well off enthusiasts who are willing to take a gamble but maybe weren't sold on a Cybertruck. The base price is going to need to be less than half of that before most people will seriously consider looking at it. This is a mall crawler for a Silicon Valley commuter.

vwbusguy, to random
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I'm not sure which part of this is the most depressing. This doesn't include what I paid in insurance premiums or all of the out of network stuff that are still pending and/or I haven't submitted claims for yet.

vwbusguy,
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By the way, this doesn't mean that my insurance actually paid that difference. Much of their actual cost paid is negotiated significantly lower than the initial provider billed price.

vwbusguy, to fedora
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One thing that would certainly make the initial experience of running #Atomic #Fedora better for seasoned #Linux users is having the dnf command exist and grok rpm-ostree out of box. I understand why this is the current experience, but there's definitely room for improvement here:

dnf: command not found

vwbusguy,
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@jwf It's a real problem. I had someone come by my office a month or two ago and we were talking about some program and while he was looking over my shoulder, I found out it didn't have a flatpak and I didn't have dnf so I had to enter toolbox to search for the package name, then rpm-ostree to install it, and then reboot. It wasn't a great first impression for what is usually a wonderful and practical experience with Kinoite.

vwbusguy,
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@antnisp @jwf It depends... Toolbox/Distrobox for GUI does indeed work for some things, but not everything. There definitely needs to be less guesswork involved as to what is likely to work from where.

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