I’m not a Linux expert, but I’ve had good luck making bootable Linux USB drives and testing whatever I want on those before making the actual install. It’s a fun way to switch flavors too.

This game is genius until you’re determined to truly finish it… Then the next level of the puzzles border on insanity.

Also old people. So many old people sending links to lies and bullshit.

Just speculating here, but 60 year olds probably don’t have a lot of epic adventures or sexy romances.

I suppose I never got that far into the show. After the scene where Billy Bob portrays himself as an expert on why windmills don’t work, I just about threw my remote at the TV. It’s just plain lies. Viewers took it as truth.

"Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix that much concrete?

"Or make that steel and haul this s*** out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You want to guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that f****** thing, or winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of making it.

"And don’t get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery.

“And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don’t have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It would take 30 years if we started tomorrow.”

For some reason I read State of Fear recently. At the end of the book he wrote page after page of why he thought global warming wasn’t real.

I can’t recall the exact language he used, but he said something to the effect of “we shouldn’t use any global warming protections until we can exactly predict the weather for ten years. If we can’t predict the weather precisely, the obviously we can’t prove global warming is real.”

Aside from being full of misleading and cherry picked data. The book was terrible. The whole thing read like a bad science lesson from a second rate conspiracy theorist.

If you really want to vomit from propaganda masquerading as entertainment, watch Landman.

I mean, I like my EV… But bragging about it’s performance in winter? Not the sales pitch I would go with. I get 1/3 the range of a mild day, and I’m not blasting the heat.

Yeah, the EV range is frustrating.

270 miles? Pretty good. Except you shouldn’t drive it below 20% or above 80%, so really the range is like 170. Cold winter? Now it’s like 75.

No regrets on our EV, but I would feel a whole more more comfortable with 2x the capacity.

Too bad we can’t buy BYD here.

I have one machine in Linux and another in Windows. I’ve also made bootable persistent thumb drives to save myself any accidents creating a dual boot. That way I can run Linux for daily stuff, and Windows when I’m too incompetent to figure out a workaround for a game or whatever.

Windows needs to be rebooted all the time anyway, so it’s not really that big of a deal to boot into something else now and then. Plus it gives you a little change of pace.

Before Amazon was as big as it is today, they approached me for a position. I had three different 1 hour interviews, then I found out they still expected me to fly to Seattle for 3 full days of interviews. I told them I was not interested. Before I knew much about corporate America, my gut told me that was a bad sign. Glad I listened.

During the pandemic, interviews seemed to have endless rounds of ridiculous questions. There needs to be a law that interviewers need to pay you at the position’s rate for anything beyond 2 hours. It would eliminate so much bullshit.

I worked at a place that would give at most a 10% raise. That number was virtually impossible to get. We had so many developers that just wanted competitive pay or something close. So many quit, resulting in 1of 2 scenarios:

1. We rehired the developer a few months later at 2x the salary. This cuased months of delays and expenses to their projects.

2. We hired a replacement dev with less experience at 2x the salary. This costs months of time to ramp up.

Both scenarios pissed off our clients and resulted in lost sales.

Same. For whatever reason Jellyfin just does not want to work outside of my network. I have fiddled with port numbers, settings, and everything else. I have no idea why it won’t work.

In addition to dual booting, you can create a persistent USB drive. It’s a little tedious, but kind of a cool way to give your setup a spin.

I think you need Rufus to format the drive, to set up the USB drive so it doesn’t refresh when you reboot. I’m sure there are speed implications, but I’ve actually found it snappy enough for basic stuff once it loads. It’s a cool way to try different distros. I have a handful lying around. I still preferred mint in the end.

… And the file is back open somehow. Only now the program throws an error when Windows launches, yet still leeches resources.