Onno (VK6FLAB) @ vk6flab @lemmy.radio

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source

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Talk to your vet.

Cat 1: "Yay, play time!"

Cat 2: "No .. fuck right off and leave me alone!"

I've been using Linux for over a quarter of a century. Initially I spent hours attempting to come up with the best partitioning scheme but these days I pick LVM and use the defaults.

If I run out of space, I add a drive (or grow the virtual one) and grow the filesystem into the extra space.

Sometimes I need temporary space and use sshfs to mount a directory from another machine.

In other words, today you have infinite options to adjust according to need, partition schemes are not nearly as important.

Even swap space can live as a file on a normal partition if required.

That said. If you have specific use cases, check what's required. Specifically because different uses need different attributes, it pays to check.

You said it yourself, "Canadian actress" .. I think right there is their excuse to ignore this.

Not enough to make any material impact .. yet, if ever.

Wait until a celebrity is handcuffed at the border whilst live streaming the experience.

Even then, the brainwashed will still claim that it was justified.

Not until it happens to them will anything like this resonate.

I think things like DHL no longer accepting personal shipments into the USA valued at over $800 will have a bigger impact than this all too familiar story.

I'm soooo glad that my audio is set to zero all the time..

.. this video and with it the obnoxious Admiral splash screen did nothing to change that view ..

I miss Galeon ..

• https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL112433
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_solar_building_design
• https://greenbuildingsolutions.org/harnessing-the-sun-a-guide-to-passive-solar-design-in-buildings/

There is research that shows that white coloured roofing causes increased heating elsewhere, so it's not a fix-all solution.

I live in Australia and during summer use a lawn sprinkler on the roof. Using a tap timer, it runs for 10 to 30 seconds every 10 minutes.

Just enough to wet the roof, so that the water evaporates and cools it down.

Other things you can do is growing creeper vines over a wall where the sun hits in the afternoon to keep direct sunlight off the wall.

If you have sash windows, you can open it at the top and bottom, creating a thermal airflow that will cool the house.

Adding sunshades and building housing with awnings makes a massive difference.

Lots of research associated with passive solar temperature regulation.

"Whoops, you weren't meant to see that yet.."

Wallpaper, yeah, there's a lot of that going around. The main feature discussed with the recent new release of apt discussed colour as the primary new feature. No mention of any actual substantive changes or reference to the impact on apt-get et al., or even a link to the detailed change log.

Why do you care about votes?

What makes you think that a defederated instance votes are still captured?

Why do you care about what happens on another instance?

At no point in your post does your question about mental health get a mention.

What are you attempting to really ask?

Obviously not everyone learnt from the pandemic..

Yeah, all nice and peachy.

Two years ago I submitted an application for an expression of interest with a globally significant project. I received an automated response advising me that I'd be considered for every role.

A year later, after attempting to contact the organisation repeatedly, I get an email from a recruiter within the organisation saying the same.

A year later, last week, after more attempts to contact the organisation, I attempted to update my resume and discover that I cannot because I've been "disqualified for the role" without any indication why or when this happened.

I've been in my profession for over 40 years, I want to work in an interesting environment and eat food.

That combination does not appear to exist on this planet, at least not where I can find it.

I'll note that overall job search is so broken that at one point I was told that my experience as an ICT Consultant would be suitable for the role of dog walker.

This is the second post with Unix and socks on my feed in the past few minutes.

There was a post about software and socks a few weeks or so ago where I replied about a company called functional software that made functional socks which I wore for years, which come to think about it also started a discussion about functional programming.

Anyway, here's a community where the socks seem to be coming from.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/unixsocks

You're welcome.

I understand that being able to write software and be deliberate about accounting gives you a closer relationship with your financial situation.

For me the issue is that there are no guardrails around the plaintext accounting model, which means that you have the freedom to shoot yourself in the foot.

My current accounting software as rubbish as it is, stops me from making stupid mistakes, credits instead of debits for example. Plaintext accounting won't.

So either you need to never make a mistake, or have a way to figure it out.

All that kind of safety net doesn't exist. You can still make the books balance, but at some point you're going to find a hole and spend weeks fixing it, or the taxman will and you'll be paying a fine.

I exported the line items from my current software into plaintext accounting, even made it balance and match my actual accounts.

Then I needed to write an invoice and had to make my own, from scratch and manually enter the data twice, once into the invoice, another into plaintext accounting, giving me the chance to make an error twice, perhaps even a different one on either process. And that's just one invoice.

I have considered writing my own accounting software from scratch, or forking something, but that's not going to pay for food, so I kept looking instead.

It's not a great place to be, either from a business perspective, or a mental one, but that's where I'm at.

Gotta love the administrative efforts made at 2 am .. wonder if the person doing those updates was being paid overtime .. you know in the name of .. efficiency.

Plain text accounting (and all the variants) sounds great, right until you need to use it to generate invoices, or depreciate assets, or do a monthly Business Activity Statement, or convert a currency, track repayments, etc.

All of those things require that you write software to achieve that, which means that now instead of solving problems and writing software for my clients, I'm burning hours writing software so I can run my business.

Even if I did that, I'd have no way to validate the processes, short of becoming an accountant.

GNUcash, held up as an example by anyone you ask has no documentation for importing data, has no sample company datasets, has no Business Activity Statement, continues to prefer using an XML file as a database and is unreadable on a 4k monitor.

Kmymoney is fine for home users, but specifically not for business.

Odoo, Adiempere, ERPnext and the six or so other ERP tools have poor or non existent documentation, same issues as GNUcash in relation to data and import, and have a poor track record in solving basic issues that are completely unacceptable in a business setting. For example ERPnext didn't do currency fractions properly (ERPnext uses Centavo instead of Cent for the USD fraction: https://github.com/frappe/frappe/issues/13445, took 13 months to fix).

Last week I evaluated Apache OFbiz. It looks like a product from 1995, and trying to find anything is impossible. For shits and giggles, try setting the global date format to yyyy-mm-dd. There are three different repositories and the Docker installation instructions don't even bother to include which one to clone in which order. It starts at: "run the docker build command". Not to mention that it uses a database called Derby. I've been writing software for over 40 years and until last week I'd never heard of it. That's not something you want in business software.

I could go on, I've tested dozens. This is just from memory.

Why did I test all these?

Because I'm still running a 25 year old accounting package that doesn't run on current hardware, isn't supported, doesn't run under Linux and has all my data hostage.

Business Accounting software under FOSS is abysmal. Poor quality, poor documentation, poor functionality, limited locale support and limited local support.

CAM software under FOSS is limited to three axis at best, but most is two and a half axis.

Office functionality is covered with LibreOffice. Your assertion that it's 20 years behind is in my experience not based in fact.

Source: I've been using FOSS for over a quarter of a century.