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Picking them out in particular is interesting, because I have a good friend that's Mormon, and we used to hang out a lot. They really have their own community, I was definitely an outsider (but not obviously so, as I don't have facial hair, etc.). We briefly dated, but that didn't go anywhere for obvious reasons, and later I realized that in her world I'm probably the "bad boy" (few others would consider me that, but everything is relative).

They were nice people, but overall they just were ...boring. I don't even remember most of the ones I met, and I doubt I could pick even some of her closer friends out of a lineup. I don't mean to be nasty, but few of them had any sort of interesting life experiences, which is weird, considering many of them traveled abroad for mission trips.

At one point the Mormon single women in the area created a video to convince more single Mormon men to move there. There was a serious shortage. Even in that situation they still felt like they had to stay in the Mormon community.

On the flip side, a few years ago, friends of ours moved to a new neighborhood and had a housewarming party, and one of the families that joined them were neighbors that were Mormons (who preferred the term Latter Day Saints). But the wife had rainbow rings on and I think one of the daughters had purple hair...so, they seemed unlike other Mormons I've met, but I didn't get the chance to ask about it.

Are the JW's using this? Two stopped by my door a few weeks ago to convert me or us (my wife is Catholic, I'm atheist). I noticed that they drove separately, and I wondered why they hated the environment so much (we live off the beaten path). And I'm pretty sure they ONLY stopped at our house, one parked in our driveway and the other along the road in front of the house. It definitely didn't seem like a general canvass.

Someone on lemmy commented that the purpose of those conversion drives is not to garner new members (though it's a nice benefit if it works), but to help reinforce the "us" versus "them" division in the people out knocking on doors. It really makes a lot of sense to me.

I have to admit, I only have the barest understanding of this flatpak, snap, docker, etc. business. I've been using Linux since the late 90s and missed this development. I haven't been following what was happening in the development end, I suppose - in part because there isn't that much need to, because Linux has gotten so good.

But while I'm a power user (hey, I used Slackware until about 2015), I've found that I much prefer not having to spend hours and hours administering my machines every few weeks or months.

Sorry for the long comment. But this has been bugging me for a long time and you triggered me. No need to try to answer my questions if you're not feeling it, I'm just dumping. You can stop reading here, if you like.

I've used a few appimages for limited cases - BalenaEtcher to burn HomeAssistant on to SD cards for my Raspberry Pi, and I think the scanning software I use is also an AppImage. The idea of having the libraries and binaries all together for certain things is a good one for certain cases, such as software I do not use regularly. BelenaEtcher strikes me as a perfect use case for appimage, because I don't want to spend time installing Balena and keeping it up to date or uninstalling it, when I'm only likely going to use it once or twice. I never even move it out of my Downloads directory, just download, run, and delete.

Ubuntu (I use Kubuntu) moved Firefox to a snap image some time back. I get it, sandboxing, not a bad idea. But I'm pretty sure I had one installed by root, and one erroneously installed by my user account, possibly caused by forgetting to "sudo" during an update one day (I'm really not sure how it happened). And that latter one, if it existed, was almost certainly sitting in my /home directory somewhere, because my user account doesn't have authority to write to /usr or /opt or anywhere like that. I didn't plan to install software in /home, and didn't allocate space for it, and don't really like the concept in general. (I've switched debs for Firefox, and think I got the snaps for it cleaned up.)

If we're going to do images installed by users, /opt seems like a much better choice, albeit with some controls - maybe /opt/username/ with permissions set by user; I'd be okay with the user account being able to install there and being unable to screw up system files. My current backup strategy involves grabbing everything in /home with a few very specific exceptions, and clearly I don't need the current release of Firefox on my backup.

I have OpenProject (community edition) installed for keeping track of a restoration project I'm working on, and I'm pretty sure I used docker to install it. I have to admit it was easy to install (but so are debs 99.9% of the time), but now I'm wondering about the best way to get the data back out so I can migrate that software to my server (it's running on my desktop because my server was that 2008 computer). I assume I can backup and restore, but I haven't yet looked into this. Or heck, maybe it's possible to just move the Docker image, the way I moved the HomeAssistant KVM image. It looks like the data is stored in a separate volume (which I interpret to mean a file that acts as a virtual disk, similar to how KVM has a virtual disk for the OS and apps in the virtual machine). Also, I'm not clear if docker images automatically update or if I should be updating them manually.

Then there's Zwift. Zwift is a virtual cycling program that runs on Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. No Linux client, which isn't a surprise. I have a whole Windows 10 computer in the basement that only runs Zwift, and it's my only Windows machine that I use. But, someone created a docker image of Zwift! I tried it on my Linux desktop machine a while back, and it worked. Very cool! But Zwift updates the program regularly, introducing new bugs and features - does the maintainer of that image have to do anything? What if he or she loses interest? It'd be nice to ditch Windows, but I have no idea if that docker image will remain usable indefinitely.

I think Zwift is using Wine to run. So it seems the docker image for that has the Zwift Windows client, some Wine libraries, and everything supporting Wine is already supplied by the Kubuntu install...but I'm really not sure. Theoretically I don't need to know, until something breaks.

I have yet to use a flatpak, I think.

I've considered asking about all of this in the Linux community here on Lemmy, but there's probably an article with an overview of it somewhere, and I just need to search for it.

I was starting an install of Debian the other day, and it suggested 25 GB as the root partition (including /usr, but not /var, /home, or /tmp). I had to laugh. My server has a 50 GB partition for that purpose and it's around half full.

I aborted the installation. Might try again later today. (Switching this machine from Kubuntu, using a new drive, so it's not critical that it be done at a certain time.)

If you leave it alone, it's practically always fine. But the urge to tinker is strong!

Ah. I could go into a whole rant about the car, but I really dislike driving it. I often say that I now understand why Mazda no longer uses "zoom zoom" in their commercials.

After I posted the above comment, I saw other people claiming they've had issues getting them to display traditional incandescent color values. I have not had that issue with them, either. There was something I had to set in HomeAssistant for the bulbs, I think, perhaps in the color picker UI, to allow the selection of those colors, but once I found that, no issue. I don't think I even had to manually re-pair them when I switched Zigbee channel to avoid my Wifi.

Now that I've said this, one will probably start showing blue instead of white or something, of course.

Thanks.

Let me guess, it's probably also heavier.

We have a 2020 Mazda 3 that probably has that, instead of useful features like a remote start or fog lights. I've found that I much prefer driving my car from 1999 or even our pickup from 2014 (which itself has double gaskets on the doors for sound isolation). The Mazda feels like I'm in this isolated chamber with no road feel or anything from outside encroaching. If that's luxury, count me out.

Why did they switch to laminated in the side and rear windows?

My memory of that little fight is that Kim came out sounding much more sane than Trump did. Which is REALLY saying something.

But then they got together and made up, and Kim probably promised him that abandoned hotel, and suddenly they were best friends.

Interesting point. The two I have are in exterior fixtures that are on the other side of the wall from the switch (which is a repeater), so for me this is a non-issue, but I can see if you're using them indoor, it could be a big difference.

If someone can live with this limitation, they have worked fine for me.

For those, like me, who don't remember the significance of the lights on the Wii remote (the console has been out of production for a decade or something now), the third light blinking means he's player 3.

Man I thought this was going to be some philosophical thing suggesting that esp32 could be replaced with something else!

It's crazy. I've read in a few books (fiction, of course) that mention, in passing, that the 40 hour workweek was now replaced by a 32 hour workweek, or something similar.

When do we get to reap the benefits of all of these boosts to productivity?

I'm not saying it can't happen, but I've been using Linux since the late 90s and have never had a problem with an incomplete write damaging the file system, or really anything else (except for a recent incident when a new motherboard decided to overwrite the partition tables on my RAID5 array, but that's a different story). And I have UPSs on the server and desktop, and of course the laptop has a battery in it, so the risk of sudden power loss is extremely low.

The /tmp thing in RAM is interesting. I was reconfiguring my server's drive the other day, because I didn't originally allocate enough space to /var - it worked fine for years until I started playing with plex, jellyfin, and Home Assistant (the latter due to the database size). I was shocked to find /tmp only had a few files in it, after running for years. I think I switched the server to Debian in 2018 or 2019, but that's just a guess based on the file dates I'm seeing. Maybe Debian cleans the /tmp partition regularly.

I can definitely see doing that on a server many people are using. For my personal server, I used to do that, but in the end I couldn't find much benefit, and only headache ("ahhhh / is short on space because I forgot to clean up old kernels...").

I've had a full /var partition cause all sorts of problems using the system. But I still think it's good to have four partitions /, /var, /tmp, and /home. At least split out /home so you can format / without losing your stuff in /home.

I had a cat that had irritable bowel disease and was very limited in what he could eat, and he didn't like his prescription food. He was very aggressive about getting our food. We had to be extremely careful around him, and forget eating a pizza while sitting on the couch. We had to lock him up when we had guests, because they would never believe how fast he was and would snag food from the table when no one was looking.

He's been gone 10 years now, unfortunately. But one of the cats we have now stole some sausage and cheese the other night while we were prepping dinner. He usually doesn't do that, so our guard wasn't up.