ReluctantMuskrat

joined 11 months ago
[–] ReluctantMuskrat 4 points 3 days ago

Version 2 came with Windows 7. Version 5 comes with Windows 10 (and I think 11). V7 is the latest but being cross-platform doesn't come with some of the Windows-specific modules built into v5.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 21 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I know I'm a heretic but I'm a huge powershell fan. Once you work with an object-oriented shell you'll wonder why you've dealt with parsing text for so long. Works great on Linux, MacOS and Windows, it's open source, reads and writes csv, json and xml natively, native web and rest service support, built-in support for remote computing and parallel processing and extensive libraries for just about anything you can think of. It takes a little getting used to but it's worth it.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 36 points 4 days ago

Ideally you notice it from the shore and avoid it as others have mentioned. If you're swimming in one you'll realize soon enough you're getting taken out from the shore.

I got caught in one when I was a teenager off Mission Beach in San Diego. I'd already been out swimming in water deeper than I could stand in for a while and, getting tired, started heading to shore. After some time I realized I wasn't making any progress at all. It took me a little while more to realize what was up: I was in a rip current. Thankfully I'd had an elementary school teacher in Phoenix, AZ of all places that taught us kids how to escape one and I remembered - swim parallel to the shore a good distance and then try swimming back in again and check your progress. Repeat as needed if you're unable to make progress. I followed those instructions and eventually was able to get back to shore, utterly exhausted. I can't help but think how lucky I was not to have missed that day of school.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sirloin steak needs to be added to this. It's not only cheaper than other steak but it's significantly higher in protein too at 27g per 100g.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 19 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Uh oh... what did they do to Mr Rogers?

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In several states the coroner is also the only authority that can arrest the governor as well. Very strange system.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you did the same to a police officer you can be sure they'd charge you with assault, after taking you to the ground and pummeling you no doubt.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 1 points 3 weeks ago

Same. Suffered from chronic tendonitis in my shoulders. Cortisone shots helped tremendously but it kept coming back once I resumed lifting. 11 months off lifting and it immediately returned once I resumed and thought I was going to have to give up lifting altogether.

Read some studies about Tumeric and thought... what the heck, easy and cheap enough to try it out. Absolutely unexpected results taking 1000mg daily. Tendonitis gone and hasn't returned after years now of constant heavy lifting. New PRs and blood work show extremely low inflammation (c reactive protein).

Later found our my friend, a house cleaner, thought she was going to have to retire early because of arthritis in her hands and she couldn't afford to. She too tried it with low expectations but she swears by it like I do.

Maybe it doesn't work for everyone and maybe they'll figure out why someday... I don't know. It's absolutely changed my life though. Simple and fairly inexpensive, and for me at least it works.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for trying to be rational and educated. It won't appreciated by many, but thanks.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do. Currently I use it mostly for personal stuff as part of my time spent on production support. Importing data from queries, exporting spreadsheets, reading complex json data and extracting needed info, etc. In the past when I was on DevOps used it with Jenkins and various automation processes, and I've used it as a developer to create test environments and test data.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

As a long-time bash, awk and sed scripter who knows he'll probably get downvoted into oblivion for this my recommendation: learn PowerShell

It's open-source and completely cross-platform - I use it on Macs, Linux and Windows machines - and you don't know what you're missing until you try a fully objected-oriented scripting language and shell. No more parsing text, built-in support for scalars, arrays, hash maps/associative arrays, and more complex types like version numbers, IP addresses, synchronized dictionaries and basically anything available in .Net. Read and write csv, json and xml natively and simply. Built-in support for regular expressions throughout, web service calls, remote script execution, and parallel and asynchronous jobs and lots and lots of libraries for all kinds of things.

Seriously, I know its popular and often-deserved to hate on Microsoft but PowerShell is a kick-ass, cross-platform, open-source, modern shell done right, even if it does have a dumb name imo. Once you start learning it you won't want to go back to any other.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I believe you're misstating one thing if I remember the law last time I read it: It is a felony to knowingly sell a firearm to prohibited persons.

If you aren't bound to the FFL requirements you are not obligated to ask if the person is in anyway prohibited from buying a firearm, and what you don't know or ask keeps you free from jeopardy.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by ReluctantMuskrat to c/[email protected]
 

Worked with linux servers plenty with a development job but new to running at home and using a desktop interface. I'm using RDP to access the machine and have run into a few issues I'm not sure how to solve.

First, I'm using Mate and I've noticed issues with have the panel/task bar disappearing. When the machine first boots my user account is logged in and if I then RDP into the machine, the panel doesn't show. If I go to the machine physically and logout, then when I RDP in I can see the panel, but that's a hassle. Seems only one instance of the panel with run. Do I need to create a different user to use with RDP to avoid this? Other options?

Second, physically working on the machine I can go into the network settings and make changes. However when I RDP into the machine - using the same user account - the widget to let me see and edit the details of the network interface is disabled. Why is it that a physical session seems to have sudo access through the UI but an RDP session doesn't? Can I change this too?

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