bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago

even if their country has a port that doesn't mean they keep their yacht there. better to fly to a Carribian island where the weather is nice than keep it near home and spend all that time sailing to where you want to be - boats are typically so slow that they would need to leave before they get there. If you want the yacht is some port you have the crew move it there and then you fly to it.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Neutrality was always a gamble that 'they' won't go after you next. Alliances were always a gamble that you would be sucked in eventually anyway (or that by losing a major partner your life would be worse even if they don't come)

sweden played neutrality after wwii but had private assurance from various nato powers that if anything happened they would be there, but neutrality was better for nato. (We fortunatly have no idea if those promises meant anything)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -3 points 1 day ago

Sometimes people move in the right direction for the wrong reasons

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

I the part is not user serviceable, that means you have a lifetime warranty on service, and need to prove the price you charge for parts is reasonable.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wonder how/if she would agree with any of the awards given in her name.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rose colored glasses. I got married in my late 30s and while there are things i don't like I won't go back. There was too much lonelyness

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

depends - the capactiy changed over the years. My floppies were 90k, while 8 inch at the time was a full megabyte. 5.25 floppies did reach 1.2 megabytes on other systems but they were never available to me - even if I could afford it the drives were never compatible with my atari while the 8 inch drives were (with adapters I only ever saw in magazines)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

5.25 inch floppy as homage to my childhood. Or maybe 8 inch - but while I lusted after that much space I never used one.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 5 days ago

I would love to make a dashboard with something other than html. My house dashboard is slow, and I'm hoping that things can be better. Only time will tell.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago

Wire and rust embedded in your skin is not good. In the eye is worse - I know of people who were wearing both a face shield and full safety glasses who got grinding dust in their eyes.

I don't have a good answer to the problem, nobody else likes any of their answers either from what I can tell.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

i assume you mean as in your increased earnings will no longer pay the expense. The never too late crowd is thinking of school as a pure 'fun' activity which is a valid way to look at things but if you don't like school isn't for you and that is how I'm choosing to interprut your question.

the question is never answerable unil after the fact: I can calculate after you are dead. However I went to school with someone who went right to college, a mistake because he died in an accident at 21. Other people get mental decline in older years and so it is too late when they are no longer able to learn.

you can retire at any age when you have enough savings, but some people find it boring and will continue to work anyway - if this is you it can be worth it even if ecconomics don't work out if you get a job you like (or perhaps one that by not wearing on the body you can do longer)

many jobs pay for your schooling. if this applies the only quesntion is will you have to remain at the job longer than you want to afterwards.

if paying for your own schooling you can calculate the expected earnings after and compare to the cost to make a decision.

 

My wife is complaining that we have music all over the living room all the time. With a couple kids in music lessons, school bands (regular, jazz), orchestra, and such a practice session often needs 6 books and 5 loose pages of music so I can't blame her for being frustrated. There is no easy way to store all that and find what you need for the current daily practice sessions.

Putting a tablet (suggestions? schools gives the kids an iPad, and I'm looking at pinetab2, or boox for me) on a stand seems easy enough, but then what?

Mobile sheets seems to be what others around me use, so probably what I'd end up doing too, though I'm not locked to anything. Any other software that I should be looking at? I do like the idea that we can synchronize page turning.

The hard part is getting all my music onto my NAS. Do I just scan all my books? Buy again as PDF (only rarely an option). Entry the music into some other program? I have some sheet music I want to put into lilypond - is there anything that would sync my tablets to a rendered version of this.

I already have Jellyfin and I see book options (but have not used it yet). Calibri-web also comes up often for books. Both seem book reading focused and music flows / organization is different. Anything else I might want to put on my servers that might be better?

Any other thoughts? What have others done that works?

 

I was working on my new server and decided my network connection what setup wrong so I adjusted the settings file. In a moment of unusual clarity I realized this was the connection I was using to access the machine via ssh and if something went wrong I was in trouble - so I verified that this machine was also reachable via ssh from the other ethernet interface that was directly connected to my NAS. I was right, my first config changes did break the network, but I still had the backup connection option and so I was able to recover.

#bsd #linux

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