Yes, California, late 30s. I drove a manual transmission when I was a teenager. I was proud of how practiced I got with it. I don't drive manual anymore, but my dad recently switched back after some decades driving automatic. He found out he's out of practice lol
What frustrates me most about "new Trek" is that the characters don't drive the story. Instead they have constant action, artificial tension, and over-the-top stakes. I love the characters on Discovery, but they're not allowed to exist as themselves. OTOH SNW is primarily character-driven, as good Trek always has been.
This kinda showcases a weakness of Nebula - that is a Nebula video, but sharing the Youtube version is easier. Unless I don't understand Nebula's sharing feature?
That said my watching has gradually been shifting from Youtube to Nebula.
Actually I'd like to add a note about how much I appreciate infrastructure. It would be great if we could all equally own and control the Internet. But when you get down to it, societies pooling their efforts can do things that small, independent groups can't, such as building tier 1 network backbones.
Looking at it another way, if you did have a global mesh network it would be made up of electronics that take tremendous systems of supply chains and factories to build and distribute. That's sort of the same idea: large-scale infrastructure that small groups can't pull off.
If I had my way I would keep the large-scale networks, but change the governance model to shift the primary organizational motivation from profit to human wellbeing.
I remember reading about a "guerilla wifi" mesh network in NYC, and I did a bit of research on connecting to that several years ago. It turned out I was too far away from Manhattan to be in range. But also from what I read a series of small-scale peer-to-peer connections don't give you the low-latency or throughput of a good backbone.
The NixOS ideal is that every detail of the system is configured through Nix expressions so that the system is completely reproducible. But in practice there are some details you might want to configure directly.
With users.mutableUsers = false you are in the "ideal" declarative mode where users and groups are supposed to be fully represented in configuration.nix including passwords (or hashed passwords). In this mode the Nix config overrides everything in /etc/passwd. If the Nix config doesn't specify passwords I think the default is to leave the account without a password, disabling login for that account.
With users.mutableUsers = true NixOS respects changes to user and group accounts made outside of configuration.nix. Accounts configured through Nix will be added to /etc/password if they aren't already there. But NixOS won't remove accounts, and won't modify or unset passwords. In this mode the default of leaving the password unset makes sense because you're expected to set a password by running passwd. This is the typical choice because there are security problems with putting passwords in configuration.nix.
You can set passwords in the Nix config using the password, passwordFile, hashedPassword, or initialPassword options. If mutableUsers is true these options only set the password the first time the user account is created. I checked to see if there are any options that implicitly disable mutable users, but I didn't find any.
For what I see it'd be just like saying "using a password" vs "using a user and a password".
As long as API keys have more entropy than typical username & password combinations they can be more secure. Imagine if you had a system where you make a token by concatenating username and password - the security properties don't change just because you're exchanging one string instead of two separate ones.
Could this have happened if users.mutableUsers was set to false? I see a warning in the manual saying in that case users and groups will be replaced on system activation.
Oh, I forgot to do my fanboy plug. I've had the easiest time setting up Proton dependencies on NixOS. It unifies configuration with package management, so the Steam configuration module can reference your installed hardware, and load the appropriate graphics packages automatically.
Basically you opt into unfree packages, and put programs.steam.enable = true in your NixOS config, and that's it.
I don't know what the issue is; but something to try if you haven't already is to go through the setup instructions on the Arch Wiki, paying special attention to making sure that you have the correct 32-bit graphics dependencies installed.
I've seen admins asking for more fine-grained moderation tools. Maybe eventually things will work the way you're hoping. Here's a quote from a Beehaw admin,
an unfortunate reality we’ve also found is we just don’t have the tools or the time here to parse out all the good from all the bad. all we have is a nuke and some pretty rudimentary mod powers that don’t scale well.
Defederating prevents trolls on another instance from coming into comments in local communities to harass people. From an admin/mod perspective you have to take some kind of action to stop that.
Thanks for the heads-up about powerline. My house is oldish, and the wiring might not be amazing. It's good to be warned before I put money into that option.
I'm not sure what you mean by a healthy uplink? Like put a Wi-Fi device in a spot with a better signal, and run a cable there?
You make a good point about 2.4GHz; that would probably be more reliable, but slower. It's kinda disappointing to have a gigabit connection, but lose 70% of the speed at the last-meter connection. But 5GHz also loses most of the upstream speed.
Maybe rolling up my sleeves and putting in a cable is the way to go. I have a thought about going into the furnace closet, snuggling the cable alongside the insulation of a duct into the crawlspace, and coming up out the wall through a modified electrical outlet plate. I might be able to pull it off.
I got an ADHD evaluation from a therapist at my college through the college's free health service. I remember one of the tests was a Tower of Hanoi puzzle. I tried to explain that that result might be skewed because I had studied the algorithm for that puzzle in computer science class the week before. Anyway, I ended up diagnosed with ADHD.
I've also gotten evaluations for my kids. I know that's a bit different from an adult diagnosis, but I think the process of setting up the evaluation is the same: find a neurologist, call and say, "I think I might have ADHD. Can I make an appointment for a test?" If they ask, tell them about the reasons for your suspicions.
If you're in the US It's probably a good idea to talk to your primary care physician first just to get a referral to appease your insurance provider. I'm sure they won't think you're weird or obsessive. No one expects you to have firm evidence of a condition before you're tested for it.
Oh, and I don't think of ADHD as a disorder, despite the second "D". There isn't anything wrong with me. It's just that my brain works differently than the typical brain. That comes with pros and cons.
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I have a recurring task called "rotate butter" scheduled once a month which seems about right to me.