I blows my mind how many adults don’t know this. The way I was raised, I’d be embarrassed to get in someone’s way as they tried to exit an elevator. But I was also taught that common decency is a good thing and we’ve clearly given up on that.

Install Fedora in a VM if you can?

I’ll say it again: We need to disenfranchise older people from voting. They have no stakes in long-term decisions and they’re hurting us. Yes, my mom is a racist piece of shit who voted for Trump three times. Yes, she’s hurting us. Yes, I cut her off for doing so.

This was my first outloud-laugh of the day. I love it.

Yep. We’re both on our phones doing different shit. Or she’s taking a nap while I sit next to her while I’m on a break while I wfh. It’s still quality time, though I hope we go hiking again (an injury happened).

Your camera could have been an assault rifle. /s

Oh shit, did he just make me respect him more than I already did?

Exactly. I’ve been doing it for so long (because otherwise my cats would splash the water) that I find it gross when people leave them open to flush.

I feel sad for all the youthful Linux nerd who were excited about the year of the Linux desktop who died of old age. They were only many years too soon.

Happy 2026 Linux everybody!

Virtualbox is free. I hate it, but it definitely works at no cost. VMware Workstation is also free.

Edit: without double-checking to make sure I’m saying it correctly, you probably want to avoid a bridged network and assign one of the other types of network adapters for separation of network devices, but you’ll have to search the terminology to find details.

I’m a Proxmox user and this is the wrong use of it. Proxmox is for hosting multiple VMs, not a solution for needing one.

Sad trombone…

That’s pretty clever. Let others argue about whether it’s an Xmas movie. This pic rocks.

What? I hope I’m only missing your point because I just woke up.

That’s awesome. Link to buy?

I spend a lot of time in /tmp sending temporary output to files and testing commands when building shell scripts. It’s appropriate that a long-haired fluffer butt lives there because that’s been most of my cats through the years.

I run Movary on my NAS in a docker container so that my partner has a place to add to our watch-list.

I also run a personal kbase that I built on top of Docbase and Markdown files.

And I recently started using HTTP2Shell to throw commands at a local networked device. This is useful to me personally, maybe not for others, because I’ve written my own automations.

I recently considered adding Home Assistant, but it doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen because we have lamps that don’t remain in an “on” state when unplugged; any devices I might buy to add wifi to them wouldn’t actually turn them on remotely as a result. Shame cause there’s one that’s pretty necessary at night that’s between a wall and a sofa that’s pushed back against it because that’s just the layout of the room. I don’t mind manually controlling the others, but that was the one that would have been nice to trigger from my phone. Our thermostat and robot vacuum would have been on the same system, but they already have dedicated apps anyway.

You’re only limited by your imagination and curiosity (and wallet).

No. We’re just so broken as a society that we allow rich assholes to destroy markets for regular people by betting on overhyped bullshit.

Search for github repos of dotfiles and read through people’s shell profiles, aliases, and functions. You’ll learn a lot.

Yes.