beirdobaggins

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[–] beirdobaggins 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The clipper lighters look really good but I've never seen one in person. I was considering buying one online recently but it's a bit hard to tell how you will like it until you can hold it in your hand.

I have a refillable peanut lighter which was in this kit. I was doing monthly checks that the fluid was still good. But after 4 months and 4 test lights, it was dry. I switched it for the Bic at that point. If I could get a solid year with 12 test lights out of the peanut lighter I would have kept it in the kit.

[–] beirdobaggins 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I lived in Austin, TX and used to know a homeless guy, Walter Dwight Green 1955, back in '98 that spent winters in jail for public intoxication for the same reasons.

Including name, in case anyone else knew him and wants to chat. He was originally from Kentucky.

I was a teenager at the time but I tried to help him as much as I could.

I had to leave town for a year, when I came back, I found out he froze to death in the winter I was gone.

[–] beirdobaggins 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

TBF, if a potential partner is super excited about something you never heard of, looking into it is a good thing.

Conservatives, and other assholes, are good about hiding their crazy behind seemingly innocent things, like pepe the frog.

[–] beirdobaggins 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

EDIT: And after making the comment below I just noticed the date on the version is 2022? I'm going need to try out the latest version from their Git.

I use droidify because I like the look of it better. It comes with another repo enabled by default called IzzyOnDroid which has the Alpha versions of lawnchair.

I've been using it for years. It's great.

[–] beirdobaggins 2 points 6 months ago

This is really cool.

Btw, control-roll-goal is misplaced on top of another set.

[–] beirdobaggins 19 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Me: Linux Sysadmin

Co-workers: 2 Linux sysadmins with 15+ years of experience.

They pronounce URL as Earl.

[–] beirdobaggins 1 points 7 months ago

I do mostly, I turn it almost all the way off with a valve on the shower head.

The running stream is thinner than a pencil.

If I turn it off all the way, it is cold when I turn it back on.

[–] beirdobaggins 2 points 8 months ago

I bought a 21 inch 1080p Viewsonic monitor from a thrift store just the other day for $6. I got it just for this use case.

I had a spare for this purpose up until about a month ago when the backlight went out on one of my daily drivers.

Also, a couple of days ago I got a pretty nice steelcase apex 3 keyboard with RGB lights for $5.

[–] beirdobaggins 15 points 11 months ago

Well now I want an old ugly bike. Where do you park yours? 😉

[–] beirdobaggins 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use Debian everywhere but if I need a Live Linux environment to recover files, clone a drive, wipe a drive, or really anything else I use ventoy and a Linux mint iso.

[–] beirdobaggins 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm a cool grandpa with old hardware.

[–] beirdobaggins 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm using servicenow. First time and it's pretty bad. But I hear that it is actually worse than normal because they customized the hell out of it trying to make it match the previous solution.

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