Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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These are job titles I’ve actually used:
Over the past 25+ years I’ve worked for myself and whilst doing the exact same job, fixing complex ICT problems for my clients I’ve had to complete job title fields in countless corporate forms.
It’s fun to interact with colleagues who get the joke and hilarious when they don’t.
Education.
Pretty sure that they already shared it with copilot, so I’m guessing that it’s only a matter of time until everyone has a copy…
I’m assuming you’re familiar with Asahi Linux?
It’s still very much a work in progress.
https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/overview/
At the moment I’m bridging the gap by using homebrew, UTM, ssh into local hardware and shortly remote desktop on EC2.
It’s far from ideal, but that’s where I found myself after my x86 iMac died last year, so I feel your pain.
It’s interesting that the “worst” corporations mentioned by others here do not include any media companies.
Perhaps you might contemplate why it is that they appear to be “invisible” in a discussion about damage to society.
Is it possible that the narrative around “evil companies” is told by media companies?
Here’s a better question:
Scientists. . how many laws have been gazetted that completely ignore or contradict actual science?
I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic, observant, or something else. There have been many a meal where I was asked what I wanted to eat and it’s rare that I go beyond the words “surprise me”, knowing full well that the person asking would eat the same as I was offered, making the “surprise”, less of a risk and more of an adventure.
In this case, OP asked a completely unanswerable question to which there was absolutely no reasonable answer, since we know nothing about the person, their interests, their experience, the hardware they have access to, or anything remotely resembling a needs analysis.
So, even my answer, generic and random as it might appear, was based on how I use a computer, namely, to be productive. I’ve been using them for over 40 years, mostly like that, with some sojourns into art and personal expression, not nearly worthy of public scrutiny, but not specifically “productive” as such.
So … what were you attempting to say?
Whatever you need to be productive.
So … six months and nobody notices?
What’s the problem?
Thank you. Glad I’m not alone in this quest with that kind of history.
My current desktop is Wheezy inside a VM - also across several platforms, but VMware, by design , doing the heavy lifting.
Anything of note, essentially everything except Audacity, is running on a Bookworm Docker host with X11 forwarding and reverse mount sshfs, so all the container “sees” is the directory I give it.
I’ve made several attempts to move away from Wheezy, but there’s too many scripts in my ~/bin directory to make that simple.
The “fresh paint smell” experience for me comes from a docker pull or docker build, but it does require hardware capabilities that died eight months or so ago, when my 64 GB RAM iMac died. No data loss, just endless frustration.
At the moment I’m exploring EC2 on demand. I suspect that for the $10k I previously spent on hardware, I can always have the latest on tap, but I’m still trying to get real-time audio editing to not be a weekly disaster. Getting closer, but not quite there yet.
I’ll have a squiz at NixOS, seems like an interesting approach.
Much obliged for sharing your experience!
Unfortunately I can’t run Debian on my M3 MacBook Air :-(
Wow, that brings back memories. Forgot about the whole Palm thing. That was a wild ride at the time.
Thank you!
I got a T-shirt from Mozilla in the early 1990’s and foolishly wore it to death. My Linux tie pin is somewhere, but I’m sure that my penguin tie has died, as have the Debian Potato CDs with boot disks for x86, PowerPC and SPARC.
Forgot about BeOS (and NetBSD for that matter), and wonder what came of BeOS.
Why NixOS? I’ve been using Debian since Slink and am interested to hear, what made you move?
Debian Slink
Before that, Windows NT, A/UX, Solaris and VAX/VMS.
Before that, Vic 20 and Apple II
Still using Debian every day whilst navigating the perils of MacOS.
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.
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.
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