What's the best Linux distro to install and use on an old PowerBook G4?
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This is a YT-created link from the "share" button, but with everything after the "?", inclusive, removed.
For whatever reason, clicking on the link text takes you to the vid I want to share (young guy, long hair, t shirt and shorts, riding a wheelie on separate skateboards for each foot, while shredding on a flying V),
BUT, if you click on the preview, YT takes you to some weird french-language consent page.
I first noticed this behavior in the last two days.
https://youtube.com/shorts/LieV-bkv7Go
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I turn the heat down to 62F at night. This is too cold for proofing pastry. My mostly defunct dish washer is always warm inside due to its proximity to a heating duct. I'm tempted to pop the pastry in there, but it always smells of soap.
Thoughts?
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If anyone has a good source of info on home water softening options, please pass it along. On the enshitified Internet it is no longer possible to find useful information about this or most other things unless you already know the answer.
My town's well water's hardness is literally off the charts. It clogs everything with limescale, acts as a nasty astringent on your skin, and ruins the taste of coffee, etc. I thought I'd get used to it, but I was wrong.
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...for the old guys, and for the people with old guys in their lives. As an old guy, with an even older father, this resonated. [if your attitude toward boomer men is generally "go fuck yourself," I get it. Still, knowledge is power]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/mastodon-jaw-found-new-york
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For fuck's sake.
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@vxo @MLE_online
My parents enjoy hanging out in their garden with the neighborhood possums. It just occurred to me that you two might have some good possum-themed gift ides (I recall MLE tooting about a fun possum shirt). If you have the time to send recommendations my way, I'd appreciate it!
Backstory: Years ago, my folks found an abandoned baby possum. The named him Abe, and nursed him back to health. They believe the possums that visit them now are his offspring.
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FWIW, I'm not complaining - I love this sort of thing! It's much more fun to think "Who the hell is Michael Fish, and what was his moment?!" than to have it spelled out.
Tangential: Boosterism seems to be in the nature of Tech reporting. Go back 100 years, and the wonders of leaded gasoline were being praised in every paper.
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This story in today's Guardian describes (in very vague terms) a new weather forecasting software/system release from Google's gen-AI people.
The closing paragraph acknowledges a potential issue with "edge cases," and quotes a climate scientist fearing a potential "Michael Fish moment." Apparently, in the weather forecasting world, this is quite famous - but famous enough for The Guardian to assume their readers will understand the reference?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fish
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@misty
Something similar occurs when editing ALT text - if what I enter is long enough to push the "accept" button off the bottom of the screen, I am then unable to access the "accept" button.
Thanks!!!
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@misty
Hi - I am writing to report an issue with the behavior of the digress.club web interface. When any action causes a pop-up window to appear, and when that pop-up extends beyond the bottom of the screen, I am unable to scroll my screen down to expose that off-screen content.
I have attached a screen shot to illustrate the issue. In this case, I wanted to mute an account, but was unable to scroll down to expose that option.
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OK - sure, paper maps don't have the realtime features of Google - that's what the radio is for.
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Phone books and Yellow Pages were a great resource. So great, all the digital technology shoved down our throats as replacements over the last three decades hasn't come anywhere near equalling them.
A paper map and phone books do everything Google tries to do now - arguably better, and without selling your soul to use.
Also, pay phones were crazy useful. Same with wristwatches.
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A post today by @sbourne, boosted by @smellsofbikes, offering an Osbourne Executive computer for free sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole with the Smaky computer at the end. I made detours through the UCSD P-system, and Niklaus Wirth's Lilith, but Smaky wins the name game, and had the best mouse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smaky
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A decade ago I broke a small bone (lunate) in my right wrist in a bicycle crash. It healed fine.
Last night, when reaching for a spatula, I felt searing pain in the same spot. It lasted, maybe, two minutes before gradually subsiding into an ache over the next 30 minutes or so. Since then, it's been tender, a little discolored and swollen, and unhappy with all my keyboarding.
So, can an old fracture just spontaneously rebreak? Is that a thing?
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To me, this all amounts to en-masse institutional self lobotomization. The talent that created the collection of technologies we call the Internet were replaced by service contracts with monopolists - contracts negotiated by incompetent poseurs. The result is the complete loss of self-determination - you get what they let you have.
The old team isn't getting back together, but efforts like Othernets might help us field the team we need now.
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For at least a decade, US higher ed has been all-in on outsourcing as much IT to Google and MS as possible. It's been years since the last major US university replaced internally-operated email with one of those two.
One of the few computer-related services not yet completely surrendered to "the cloud" is HPC, but that's not for lack of trying. Years of literally screaming lies into the faces of researchers and IT people has taken its toll - a generation quit/retired/laid off.
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Anyone have any updates on the state of the North Carolina quartz mines supposedly damaged in the hurricane?
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Related:
ALL critical infrastructure EVERYWHERE in the world is compromised. Our spooks are in their stuff. Their spooks are in our stuff.
Nation states sit on it bc when shit blows up, no one cares if the cause was a bomb or a hack. The response will be your shit being blown up too. IOW, war.
But what about non-state actors? For $100M, you can buy a lot of access. And their calculus does't necessarily align with any govts, or even make any rational sense.
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If you build a backdoor, eventually everyone's going to use it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/02/china-spying-telecom-trump-harris-fbi-cell-phone/
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