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  • Well, would you look at that, it was in my settings the whole time. Thank you kindly!

  • In using ASK with swore, but as you can see, it's not yelling accurate. I wish that the namespace key would remove the while worked, not letter by letter.

    (I'm using ASK with swipe, but as you can see, it's not terribly accurate. I wish that the backspace key would remove the whole word, not letter by letter.)

  • My wife is 7 years older than me. We met in college. I think I was 22. We've been married for 25 years.

  • Ohh! Yeah, the search is awful. I use a separate address to coordinate search, but it's online, so I need to do it before I go off into the countryside.

    The only thing I've seen work on occasion is to put the house number after the street, like "river drive 123"

  • OSMAnd uses Open Street Maps data for it's map, so the product can be mature but the data is not for the area you were navigating.

    I've been on a crusade to fill the holes in the data for the places I go, including house and business numbers using OpenStreetMap. If everyone were to do this for the places they go, we'd have all the addresses filled in and more!

  • I was not binding to specific adresses, but was probably a problem with a specific release of Java (Oracle Java maybe.) My distro's Java was doing weird video things, but the Oracle version was not, but then it could not reach outside the local computer. Debugging logs showed that it tried IPv6 and failed, then quit trying instead of falling back to IPv4. Disabling IPv6 in the Java JRE configuration solved the issue, but set me on the path to "modernize" my network stack. In hindsight, it's probably not something that I really have the time to take on right now.

  • I'm trying to be progressive, but after thinking outside of my little network and reading the posts here, it seems like there's still a long way to go before I should consider it. I don't have a split network at home and it would potentially affect everyone in the house. Additionally, I don't have serious needs for production-grade network equipment, so the chancs of that cheap usb-to-ethernet adapter with more Chinese characters than English in the instruction sheet has a high probability of biting me.

    This was sort of a wild hare thought of disabling IPv4 vs disabling IPv6 to solve a problem that's more of an inconvenience. I am probably not ready for this undertaking. Maybe I'll revisit it when I get around to partitioning my network.

  • Can you elaborate? Hardware or software or both? Other than one network appliance, most of my stuff isn't too old.

    Now that I start thinking about it, my work stuff may be impacted.

  • I use mine for a kitchen tablet. Basically it opens a web page where I have all my recipes and a unit converter.

  • You left gender off of your list of questions. That'd be interesting. I can drive manual transmission. My first 5 cars were all manual until I got married and had to give it up "for safety". I'm from all over the US, but learned to drive in the Midwest. I'm old by internet standards.

    One fun fact for y'all; There seems to be evidence that supports the claim that driving a manual transmission vehicle is actually safer for individuals with ADHD, contrary to popular belief.

  • I'd love to hear more about your GitHub to K8s setup. I've been thinking about doing something similar, but I'm not sure how to keep my public stuff public while injecting my personalized (private) configuration during deployment.

  • Kubernetes is abbreviated K8s (because there's 8 letters between the "k" and the "s". K3s is a "lite" version. Generally speaking, kubernetes manages your containers. You basicaly tell K8s what the state should be and it does what it needs to do to get the environment as you've declared. It'll check and start or restart services, start containers on a node that can run them (like ensuring enough RAM is available). There's a lot more, but that's the general idea.

  • Helm is one of the reasons I became interested in Kubernetes. I really like the idea of a package where all I have to do is provide my preferences in a values file. Before swarm was mature, I was managing my containers with complicated shell scripts to bring stuff up in the right order and it became fragile and unmaintainable.

  • One line from your comment struck a chord. The part about maintenance and upgrades. I feel like I get stuff set up and working and go about my life and then a failure happens at the most inopportune moment. Mostly, the failures are when I have a few hours free and decide to upgrade the OS and everything breaks and all the dependencies fall apart and some feature is no longer supported. That's where I started looking to K8s to just roll back until I have time to manage it.

  • For me, I find that I learn more effectively when I have a goal. Sure, it's great to follow somebody's "Hello World" web site tutorial, but the real learning comes when I start to extend it to include CI/CD for example.

    As far as a use case, I'd say that learning IS the use case.

  • I don't know if it's at a 5th grade level, but the XKCD comic has an editor that flags words that are not in the top 500 most used words. The author used it in a few comics to explain complicated things in "plain English".

  • I can't remember the details or if it applies to the town in question, but I remember a closing agent impressing upon me the importance of homesteading for tax purposes. Perhaps petitioning the city or county to increase property taxes for non-homesteaded properties will simultaneously decrease the local citizen tax burden and dissuade investment properties.

  • These are the real questions that need to be asked. Using a social media platform from a company based in another country as your country's emergency news outlet is a big problem. Citizens using social media for news is another.

  • I tried many times to "go digital" at work, using different apps and methods, but it comes down to 3 things: I take notes and jot down ideas nonlinearly. For example, I'll start taking a note from a meeting or lecture, then have an idea that I'll jot down elsewhere, but go back to the original note to finish it then go and complete the idea. It's stupid, but it works for me. The second is that I infrequently need to review my notes that are written since they get committed to memory. Unfinished ideas are different. Third, I can find notes faster when I wrote them vs typed them. I have a photographic memory. My desk is a huge mess, but I can usually find what I need because I remember it's physical location in the pile.