Admiral Patrick @ ptz @dubvee.org

I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

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Put them in the oven on low setting?

Wait do I upvote or downvote if I agree. Lmao

I'm a mod here, and I don't even know 😆. Whatever suits you lol.

It's not so much the tool of choice I'm judging, just the....intellectually non-curious types that tend to use it.

That anecdote reminds me of a recent one. We had a data exchange setup with an outside party. They put in a ticket saying our sending node wasn't working. Of course, we investigate, and it's definitely sending. Logs showed the outbound request and the successful response from their node.

We tell them our side is working fine. They said "no, it's not." So I pull the logs again showing that, yes, it IS working.

Didn't hear from them for a couple of days. Finally the came back and said "All good. The C: drive was just full"

Print out the alphabet at the top and, below that, a list of how many A's, B's, C's and so on. Include IKEA-style instructions for assembly.

Can't watch at the moment, but I'll upvote anything with Dara O'Briain.

It held that Congress improperly delegated legislative power to the FCC and that the FCC unlawfully transferred authority to a private company, the Universal Service Administrative Company.

So they're gonna use that same logic to prevent privatization of the Postal Service, right?

I was gonna say. The past tense "provided" is a bit misleading when he's still doing it.

1. Have an actual mission statement beyond just being a general purpose instance (e.g Beehaw, my instance, most of the topic-based ones, etc)
2. Replace the default frontend with anything better than Lemmy-UI
3. Building on #1, try to curate the experience into something positive.
4. Block the toxic aspects as best you can by default. Don't make new users discover and deal with the toxicity on their own. There's plenty of other general purpose instances that will let people rawdog everything (and everyone) on the Fediverse if that's what someone wants.
5. Focus on "quality over quantity" and block all the content repost bots / defed from the instances that do nothing but repost Reddit content. Disallow AI slop in all its forms and focus on human interactions.
6. Consider hiding/disallowing Politics communities and don't allow accounts who post with an obvious agenda.
7. Systematically Identify and ban accounts that do nothing but downvote (if everything here displeases them so much, perhaps they should go elsewhere, ya know?)
8. Clean up duplicate posts; even if they're slightly different, seeing the same story posted 10 times gets old for users.

That's classier than what it reminded me of. My first thought was "What in the Scooby-Doo tarnation?"

Thank you for your service (the not voting for Trump part; my friends who were in the military just see it as a job and cringe when people thank them, so I won't do that).

If the eyes seem to follow you, it's just an optical illusion and NOT, I repeat NOT, a spy.

Yep. There's a reason there's so many Raspberry Pi "boot from USB" how-tos.

I sure hope Derek wears a cape.

Perhaps it's confirmation bias, but I usually don't see people using grabbers to reach the top shelf liquor. Was funny to me because 1) It's out of the ordinary and 2) Could totally see myself in it.

Challenge accepted

Yeah, you can. I had to run my file server with the OS on a USB-connected SSD for a few months since I was using all of the internal bays/connectors for the data drives (some of my re-build parts were back-ordered). OP seemed to be implying a thumb drive so I kept my experience to that.

I've run systems directly from USB (installed there, not live distro) and here's the hiccups I had:

• Slow: USB drives aren't anywhere near as fast as an SSD. Even USB3 drives are far slower than an a SATA SSD. USB3 is 5 Gbps while SATA-III is 6, but the thumb drive controller is often the bottleneck.
• Heat: To get better performance, I bought a higher-end USB flash drive. That increased performance a bit, but the thumb drive ran very hot.
• Durability: USB drives aren't really meant for sustained operation like an SSD. Every time I've tried to run a system full time (granted, that's only been twice), the USB drive eventually crapped out. See also: heat. -Fragile: May not be an issue for a desktop, but with a USB sticking out of a laptop full time, it's going to have very high chances of getting knocked around potentially damaging the drive and/or the USB port.

If the thumb drive is just going to be a temporary / rescue system, that's one thing. I keep several of those in my bag. But for a (semi) permanent install, you'll probably want to have it installed to a real disk.

Edit: I do have some hardware that boots its OS from a flash drive (Ubuquity router for example) but it's configured to not make a lot of writes to it and is mostly read only. So for an embedded system, a USB drive could work fine, but for a general purpose workstation, not so much.