So wait, what would your quick & dirty advice be for the overall simplest way to achieve decent beans? I soak pintos (from the giant Walmart 20lb bags) overnight and into the instant pot for 22mins, but have noticed the same thing where if I get lazy and let them soak for almost 24hrs before cooking, they tend to come out way too firm and not satisfying at all. Wasn’t sure if it was just my imagination
We’re clear here that that was just what the kid said, all made up right? And no one was actually killed prior to the swat showing up. The article was written pretty confusingly.. anyway sounded to me like the guy was literally just sitting around and happened to have a gun, as you probably would in a rural area, and went into fight or flight once the neighbor told him he was surrounded by armed cops
But I would think - depending on whether prank reports like this are relatively common, as a % of all SWAT calls made legitimate or illegitimate - it’d be better to check out the scene, maybe even knock first if the situation allows it, as a default, to determine any chance that they were just being sent on a wild goose chase by some bored gamers. I guess cases with quote-unquote hostages would preclude that kind of luxury though, dunno
I'm not for UBI but I totally get & agree with the reasoning behind it; including yours here which I think is pretty dead on as to why it would be beneficial (in theory). In fact the "stealing from our future" part jumped out at me as similar to the way I think of societal debt cycles (the kind Ray Dalio talks about in his books - short-and long-term [~10yr; ~100yr] cyclical sine waves of waxing & waning [in/de]flation). You probably would avoid taking on a ton of debt during the peak of a given credit cycle (when rates are at their highest %), especially if you know you're simply fking yourself that much harder than if you were to take on the debt at some point in the future, when rates are much more likely to be low, and thus save you a ton of money in the long run.
Same thing with putting in extra effort at work. No reason to actually take on the extra hustle if it pays off minimally when all is said & done anyway. Better to say no thank you, I'd rather not take on a burden of effort-debt yet and wait till it makes significantly more sense to do so
This, short & sweet, to the point. Should be top comment.
Seriously. The other Orwellian agency installments are at least iffy with some potential justification for their existence, but I struggle to think of any way my life would be worse if the DEA were to just... not.
I still can't believe it's not more widely used (and I only started using linux full-time earlier this year). It confines the entire (non-user) filetree into the read-only /nix directory, and manages every single component of the OS through Nix, the package manager - and I guess nix-daemon in the case of NixOS specifically - 100% declaratively. You define the entire thing through a single configuration.nix file.
You can even do crazy stuff like erasing the root upon each reboot, leaving only /nix and /home if you wanted, and I think I remember in the article I was reading about it that it can mount everything on a tmpfs or something like that, so you have a perfectly "clean" root tree every time you restart the computer (as /nix is stateless, it's guaranteed not to change except when rebuilding the system configuration).
The point of nixos is really the declarative aspect, with "splitting" the OS being more of a secondary benefit, but for your case, you might like the whole declarative builds thing in general to accomplish that.
What?.. How could you generalize this across all of "Linux"? Or did you mean something else?
I know what you're talking about, and I'm pretty sure it's a very GNOME-specific problem (or gdm, or whatever login manager they use by default...) because when I started out on Ubuntu earlier this year, there was a very active bug report about it. I could actually probably find it if anyone was curious.
But I've long since ditched gnome because well, I hate it. On KDE now and never had this problem. I'm pretty sure this is not an "all of linux" problem at all though.
Lol interesting point. I guess might be just totally different perspectives of thinking about it. I know whenever I write a troubleshooting question on reddit/forums etc, I try to include multiple forms of the same keyword (writing ”hackernews”/”hacker news”/”HN”) that’s relevant to what I’m talking about, in my post, with the idea that maybe it’ll help more search engines parse it for a greater variety of similarly-related queries. I know whenever I search google I often try multiple successive searches using variations of the same word(s) to try & catch any missed gems in the results.
So like, maybe you sound like the type trying to build a brand or something, and would benefit from more eyes on your content in a given time? Maybe some people are apocalypse preppers and like the idea of if their posts had a greater chance of surviving among the limited number of digital archives left standing in the ruins, lol
Nah that’s more like messaging platforms. IRC, Telegram, matrix, etc.
I was thinking about this yesterday actually. I’ve been having a lot of questions about this new linux distro I’ve been using, and piling them on in the IRC channel, but if no one answers it right away it gets buried by the next message after me. So I kept re-asking it for multiple days before realizing, you know what if this is something that only even a few people might know how to help me with, I should probably leave it to “steep” on a proper Discourse topic, or reddit thread, or stackoverflow question or whatever. I hadn’t done that because I was just super impatient and knew it might be a good half a day or 2 or 3 days before I get a reply, but it’s much more likely to get one at all than in the IRC, where someone butting in with a meme or something right after me means my question might as well be nonexistent in the conversation stream.
I forget what all of the main players are right now, but I know I’ve read on at least 2 of these types of open hardware companies’ sites how they scrub the intel ME all but completely out of the machine. That’s kind of the whole point, and they advertise that pretty conspicuously in their marketing.
If I didn’t start using a (17”, 3lb!) LG Gram laptop right around the time before I learned about open firmware, I would probably use a system76 laptop. For right now, the LG is just so damn light for that huge beautiful screen.....i’ve ruined myself and can’t switch to anything else until further notice unless another manufacturer makes a similarly ridiculous screensize:weight-ratio’d laptop lol (pine, purism, s76...you listening?)
In my experience it usually goes just fine. I’m actually not totally sure what you’re talking about, what does the hardware have to do with it if you’ve got the bootloader unlocked? Assuming you’ve got something common like a Qualcomm SoC, it’s pretty straightforward to take codeaurora or whatever source and AOSP and 90% of the time have an almost fully functional custom image for your device.
Now granted I’ve rooted every phone I’ve had since the HTC Incredible, and I always check XDA forums before buying a new one to see if there’s a decent development community. And in recent years there has been a SHARP drop in the % of manufacturers that even allow their bootloaders to be unlocked - I don’t think the last like 6 samsung galaxy’s have ever been possible to do it. But there are still plenty, I’ve managed to find a kickass flagship model every year or 2 years and upgrade through at least 2 or 3 versions of android (I always buy last- or last-last-gen models used for <$200 so they’re typically a bit out of date already).
I couldn’t imagine any other way honestly. I absolutely love rooting & flashing custom roms, and it’s kept all my phones practically as young and snappy as the day they originally released...or better
Maybe I’m just flattering myself though