If we filter for OSes that provide artifacts we can validate fully, the list gets smaller quickly.

They’re gonna get a library so big that a bigot’s gonna want to burn parts.

PClinuxOS sees your favourite distro omitted and understands.

The cancer spreads.

On an average day, I spend 0 minutes managing the homelab.

0 is the goal. Well done !

Edit: Ha! Some masochist down-voted that.

How it started : 0

Max : 0

Now : 0

Iso27002 and provenance validation goes brrrrr

You’re not alone.

The industry itself has become pointlessly layered like some origami hell. As a former OS security guy I can say it’s not in a good state with all the supply-chain risks.

At the same time, many ‘help’ articles are karma-farming ‘splogs’ of low quality and/or just slop that they’re not really useful. When something’s missing, it feels to our imposter syndrome like it’s a skills issue.

Simplify your life. Ditch and avoid anything with containers or bizarre architectures that feels too intricate. Decide what you need and run those on really reliable options. Auto patching is your friend (but choose a distro and package format where it’s atomic and rolls back easily).

You don’t need to come home only to work. This is supposed to be FUN for some of us. Don’t chase the Joneses, but just do what you want.

Once you’ve simplified, get in the habit of going outside. You’ll feel a lot better about it.

Still crutching on containers?

Most tracker brands for Android only ping from phones that have their app installed. Not all Android devices.

There are tags for both Apple and Android that connect to their respective networks; and phones of the right network passing by will spot and announce locations.

This year there are trackers which will connect to either distinct network, albeit you can only choose once and it can’t switch without a factory reset. Those brands will have an overwhelming market share AND not require a branded app for daily use and recovery.

Since there is no brand that has an overwhelming market share that means the chance to find a lost Android tracker is much smaller than the apple ones.

In the known universe, Android has 73% of the market. 73 is bigger than 27.

I have some, but I only trust them to find my keys within Bluetooth range.

I can confirm you can find the right tags even when outside of BT range.

The chipolo Loop

• is a rechargeable fob
• will work with either ‘find my’ network
• doesn’t therefore depend on app popularity
• pairing is “oh it’s done” level of easy. Bizarre.

The chipolo Card (not card One or card Spot; Card)

• is a card shape, of course
• also works with either ‘find my’ network
• therefore doesn’t need an app installed or running
• recharges by qi

The Rhino key device leverages/licenses chipolo tech, uses its tools, and therefore

• either ‘find’ network
• no special app required for daily use

The Rhinokey Card (this is getting repetitive)

• backs onto chipolo
• either network
• app not required for regular use
• Qi charges

The chipolo app:

• allows to adjust volume
• I forget what else.

We have one Loop we’re testing, and it works as expected, right outta her S24 or so, and with my S10. She shares me the loop right outta Find My. She installed no app. We did not pair it with an iPhone as hers is a work phone.

We intend to get more Loops, and Cards for the parents and ourselves. The boomers are all on iPhones so it will be fun science.

Prep the downvotes.

I live in a larger Canadian city. I used to commute via transit. Sometimes the bus driver would stop abruptly. Every time the driver needed to stop the bus hard - twice a month - it was a bicyclist driving erratically, like cutting off a transit bus or, in one case, brake-checking the bus.

I’ve almost been hit twice - same intersection, different days - by a cyclist running the red, shooting through the crosswalk I was on, and cursing me out for it.

I have an idea as to why drivers worry about more bikes on the roadways.

I’ve been abroad. I’ve seen segregated bikeways where there’s a ribbon of green space between bicyclists and cars. This works really well. What they’re doing here Does Not .

But the reverse is true, and this is why I do not envy bicyclists : they’re gonna die on these metro roadways where they are mixing bikes and cars and tractor-trailers and buses, and fast. I have no desire to be someone else’s lesson on blind spots.

Atlanta Georgia

Can confirm Austin, Texas, as well. I bet it’s all through the south.

I lived in the 07306, USA. I wasn’t ready for the soot accumulation inside the apartment. I didn’t understand it then; but I do now.

I can win this.

I live across from level1 trauma center with an active helipad, and across from a busy freight rail line where trains are required to sound their whistle as they traverse the level crossing underneath the skytrain (like a subway but elevated like the Ell) station, as tractor trucks pulling off the highway need to cross under and over to get to the industrial recycling plant.

At any one time we could hear road traffic, subways whooshing to a stop, a helicopter, ambulances, police escorts, fire trucks, and a 100db train whistle about 200 feet away. The guy driving the 3am train is a continual dick as he stands on the bleeding for like 10 seconds.

Sounds rough. But we got triple-pane windows and now all but the whistle is gone. And the highway is Canadian so it’s no big deal.

So forget the last paragraph. Do I win? ;-)

There is criteria for evaluating addiction. No need to speculate.

Comically, the organization with the worst history for virtualization now doubled-down on SAAS. This is certainly going well.

I find it’s exactly identical to MSWord, but from the mso97 days before the Ribbon bollocks. I used o97 Word because it was like win3.1 Word … word-perfect? It’s been a while.

But, TL/DR, LOWord is like Classic MSOffice from when it didn’t suck. This will not help you adjust, but hopefully the knowledge that you’re going back to a better era of UX could help blunt the pain.

Go carefully, and have your favourite vice handy to goose the positive reinforcement loop.

A copy of Wikipedia filtered through Elon’s brain and beliefs. Yeah. Like that.

“I thought it was a bazooka so I started blasting” – ICEstapo

“Acquitted” – fed judge

I’m with ya, but just understand the stakes. And get ready to return fire if they begin with the deadly force.

Also. Consider spraying this into the leaf blower:

It’s at walmart.

fiat currency

You got that from a sovereign citizen weirdo, didn’t ya?

Familiarity goes a really long way. My mom still wants her PortalTV unit to answer to voice commands.