ReluctantMuskrat

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[–] ReluctantMuskrat 2 points 5 days ago

Isn't this rotated also? Instead of N/S being at the top/bottom, this looks to be rotated counter-clockwise 45°.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You might know this already but if not, people who have TSA Precheck don't need to remove their laptops or take off their shoes. Sometimes TSA guys will remind people of this in the precheck scanner line. It's not always super clear which scanner line is the precheck line vs regular though and perhaps you were hearing the precheck instruction instead.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The problem isn't that idiots are throwing their money away. It's that foreign governments and bad actors can give Trump money this way.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's definitely about theft. Hard to manage that away.

Walmarts are doing this with things like cosmetics in some areas too, though at least in the one I frequent they have a checkout counter and clerk in the immediate vicinity. Not sure it won't still frustrate the honest people who have lots of other options.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you read the whole thing you'll learn that for some time their cards were in fact deactivated and they had to sneak in behind other people.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, this is really discouraging.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 3 points 2 weeks ago

Good job posting his full name.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A disgraced San Antonio cop who was fired twice after being accused of giving a homeless man a dog-poop sandwich is back on the beat.

Matthew Luckhurst had his San Antonio badge taken from him in 2016 for what Police Chief William McManus called a “vile and disgusting act.”

Make sure we get his full name.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 1 points 2 weeks ago

First pic made me immediately think the same! I'd be so happy if my kid did that for me, if only for the humor of it and our shared love of the game.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 1 points 1 month ago

I know what fuck means too. Read the first sentence again... "all these early examples" are expressions referring to being lazy, with later meaning to include blunders. It was never actually an expression that suggested someone was fucking a dog or a degenerate, but instead just a vulgar expression of someone being lazy.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Whether the action was feeding, walking, or fornicating, though, all of these early examples were used to mean “to loaf around” or “to waste time” (dogs have often been associated with laziness, as in the expression “dogging it”). Later on, possibly around World War II, “fucking the dog” and its euphemistic equivalents took on a secondary meaning of “blundering.”

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The origin doesn't include actually having sex with a dog though. "Fuck the dog" was just an expression for being lazy and "screw the pooch" simply makes it more palatable.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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