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The (US) city I live in is farther North than something like 70% of the population of your country!

I had a roommate who had a python of some sort. It was 6' long-ish.

I wouldn't say it was affectionate, but it was fine with being handled. It'd just get comfortable, hang out, and watch whatever was going on. Sometimes it might slither around, but it always seemed to me it was just finding a place to get comfortable. It seemed to spend most of its time sleeping. It didn't seem to care who it was hanging out with; I never saw it demonstrate a preference between people, even its owner.

It was a really easy pet to keep, all things considered. The worst thing about it was feeding it. It refused to eat dead things, so my friend had to go get live mice from the pet store, put the snake and the mouse in the bath tub, and then leave them alone for an hour or so. It was such a fussy eater - sometimes, it just wouldn't, so we'd sometimes also have a pet mouse for a couple of weeks. I wasn't interested in watching it kill the mouse, but my friend said it just wouldn't eat if anyone was in the room watching it. Thankfully, it only needed to eat once every few weeks.

Honestly, I never saw the attraction. It didn't do much, you couldn't do much with it, it didn't seem to seek out contact with people, didn't seem to care one way or the other about being pet. I think it mostly liked being held because it like the warmth - but it'd be just as happy on its rock under the heat lamp.

Oh, shedding was cool. Once. After the first time you watch it, it's kind of like watching paint dry.

But, some people really like snakes, and that's cool.

Yup! It's very much like mpd, except streaming without an additional component.

They use the SoundCloud API. You only need either gonic or Navidrome, plus a client (like ostui).

If you do, use the -k option - it locks access to the rook service to only the user session. Rook works without it, but is more secure with it.

It's not, really. All of those programs are Go, and single executables. There's no "install" for either gonic or ostui (IIRC, also Navidrome): you download or compile the executable and run it, and you're off and running.

Someone mentioned Docker; in this case it's unnecessary unless you're doing it for security. They're just each a single binary. You'll have to either create a config for gonic or Navidrome, or run them with commands telling them where your music lives, but that's it. Running on the same machine, you don't even have to open the ports on your firewall. However, if you do, Tempo for Android lets you stream the music to your phone from gonic or Navidrome, too.

These are very, very simple programs to run. ostui is a TUI, so if you prefer GUIs you'll want a different client, but both of the servers are easy to run and nothing to install - just run them as you, not even root.

I think that's because Yubikey handles the fingerprint reader part, not Linux, right? As far as Linux goes, it's a black box security fob - but I might be wrong about that.

CUPs is simply ancient. It's due for an overhaul; I keep expecting someone to come along and Poettering it, only I'd hope without also making it take over cron jobs and logging.

Herbstluftwm. It's one of the main reasons I use it.

You can run commands on the command line to create your layouts for one or more desktop (tagged spaces), assign programs to appear on tagged spaces, and then run the programs. Put it all in a shell script and hlwm runs it when it starts.

I use xtoolwait for programs I want multiple windows on different desktops for, like terminals.

I have three monitors; one is a status window, and the other two are grouped together in 8 different tags. Mod4+9 focuses the status screen, Mod4+[1-8] switch the other two monitors in sync to the other workspaces. It's all set up when I log in, including the creation of several terminals each running tmux from sessions restored by trum-session. The only thing I have to do is enter a password to unlock my secrets so background processes can start doing their thing.

Mandatory nudity probably would improve general public health... for a while. Eventually, though, laziness would win and then we'd all be sorry.

Have you ever used OwnCloud, before the fork?

I hated administrating OwnCloud, and that's kept me away from NextCloud. OwnCloud was a big, resource hogging, hot mess; did NextCloud do a huge refactor and clean it up?

That would make a huge difference.

I ran Gentoo back in the early aughts; it was hella better than Redhat, but it felt like I was constantly compiling stuff, and new installs and upgrades could sometimes take more than a day. I don't remember what I jumped to after Gentoo, but I've never considered it again because of the lack of prehbuilt binaries. It seemed bitcoinish to have thousands of people wasting CPU cycles compiling the same package when it could be compiled once and redistributed.

Where Gentoo is nice is in the build flags: there's really no way to get around compiling yourself if you want to exclude optional dependencies, and Gentoo had that in spades. I am just not sure how much that's actually used anymore, but having binaries gives you the best of both worlds.

Thanks for posting that; I may have to re-investigate Gentoo.

If wishes were horses, beggers would ride.

One of this things is within your power; the other, isn't.

That said, burning her books only benefits her. If you want you hurt her, find someone who wants to buy and read them, and give them yours.

You misspelled "sketchy."

An alternative would be to run gonic or Navidrome - both are OpenSubsonic servers, and provide synced lyrics support. Then use the ostui client which plays music and displays synchronized lyrics.

My experience with Brother was also good, until it got tipped during a move and came out simply covered in toner. We don't really need a new printer, but I'd buy another Brother LaserJet in a heartbeat.

My Canon regularly gives me grief. My Epson Ecotank, OTOH, has been painless.

Shamelessly shilling my OSS project, rook. It provides a secret-server-ish headless tool backed by a KeePass DB.

• Headless server
• Optional and convenient integration with the kernel keyring (on Linux), for locking the server to only provide secrets to the user's session
• Provides a range of search, list, and get commands
• Minimal dependencies and small code base make rook reasonably auditable

You might be interested in rook if you're a KeePassXC user. Why might you want this instead of:

• Gnome secret-server, KDEs wallet, or pass? rook uses your (a) KeePass DB, while most other projects store secrets in their own DBs and require (usually manual) sync'ing when passwords change.
• One of the browser secret storage? Those also keep a bespoke DB which needs to be synced, and they're limited to browser use. Rook supports using secrets in cron jobs or on the command line (e.g. mbsync, vdirsyncer, msmtp, etc, etc).
• KeePassXC? KeePassXC does provide a secret service that mocks Gnome secret-service, but you have to keep KeePassXC (a GUI app) running even if you only rarely use the UI. Rook can also be used on a headless machine.
• The KeePassXC command line tool? That requires entering the password for every request, making it tedious to use and impractical for automated, periodic jobs.

Rook is read-only, and intended to be complementary to KeePassXC. The KeePassXC command line tools are just fine for editing, where providing a password for every action is acceptable, and of course the GUI is quite nice for CRUD.

Broadcom, as you've discovered. That's the one brand that I've always had trouble with; they go out of their way to be closed source: never publishing specs, never responding to developers. They're horrible to the point where I will not buy any product that uses Broadcom chips. Which used to be a PITA because they were also common.

Fingerprint readers, in general, also widely seem to be poorly supported.

One of my computers has a MediaTek wireless chip where WiFi isn't supported but Bluetooth does.

A lot of people have problems with NVidia cards; I've not had trouble with either AMD or Intel GPUs (although, I think all Intel GPUs are CPU integrated?).

Multifunction printers are still iffy, and even just plain printers can give grief; I've come to believe that this is simply because CUPS is ancient and due for a completely new, modern printing service. It's an awful piece of software to have to work with.

So there's some question about whether they drink ketchup, but not that they're rapists?

Hmm. I don't know.

I've been doing this for a couple of decades, slowly acquiring more and more coffee crap

I have an Aeropress, a French press, a hand-pulled espresso maker (Elektra Micro-Casa), a Nespresso pod machine, a couple of different brand cold brew immersion brewers, a Paquini Moka grinder, a Kitchen Aid burr grinder, a hand-grinder. I've been roasting my own beans for about a decade. I don't exclusively roast; I've gotten beans from a professional, small local roaster in the nearby city, and I've had numerous cups from a café in CA that roast their's locally. I've roasted pounds and pounds of coffee from low and high elevation islands, Africa, S. America.

Side by side I'm not sure I could tell the difference between different beans of the same roast using the same method, and I'm fairly certain I couldn't tell the difference between the variations in brew procedure using the same beans and the same brewing system.

I roast mainly because sourcing fresh roasted coffee locally is hard, and I don't get good pulls with nice crema and a good stream from my espresso maker if the beans are more than a couple of weeks old; it's clearly evident in the shot visually: I can tell the roast age between 0 and 4 weeks by looking at the shot being pulled - but I doubt that I can taste the difference.

Like I said, my palette discerns gross differences: is the cup light and bright? Is it dark and bitter? Beyond that, I'm just not able to distinguish. Believe me, I've tried, and invested a lot of money over the past couple of decades chasing it.

I've never had a cup - my own, or from a specialty shop - that I would ever describe as "sweet", or "chocolate" (or any other such, like "fruity"). Coffee is bitter, to me, more or less so, but mostly just bitter. I can taste brightness, but only in very light roasts, and usually only in straight espresso - almost never in brewed coffee.