qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 47 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bonus points: use non-qwerty keyboard for added obfuscation (but keep the qwerty key caps of course).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 5 days ago

It is really powerful per watt, and has a built-in UPS. Any homelab type things you could do with that? macOS+homebrew will give you a nice *NIX feel, very familiar if you're a Linux user.

I'm a fan of having a remote homelab computer+disk for off-site storage. This would be a good candidate in that it wouldn't use excessive power at a friend/family's place, but may be overkill (I use a pi3 for that).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 5 days ago

Most of the time that leads to them dying.

Well, squishing has a 100% chance of them dying. With a toddler and a baby, having them run loose sadly isn't an option.

We live in a very mild climate, and there's under-deck and fence space around our house, in addition to bushes, trees, and underbrush


fairly suitable for a variety of arachnids. It's not the same as indoors, and survival rate certainly isn't 100%, but it's not the death sentence of going from a climate controlled house to below-freezing outdoors.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Because I can trap mine in a jar and take it outside instead.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 31 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I think large planes "look" like they can't work because their "relative speed" is really low


that is, their speed relative to their length. We're used to seeing birds cover tens of lengths per second, whereas a large airliner covers ~1ish per second at takeoff.

Or not, but this always seemed like a plausible explanation as to why planes look impossible. (Though given that hovering birds don't look funny, maybe this is a silly observation...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago

I'd say it gets a little different with command line utilities


maybe "utility" is the appropriate term here, but I'd call something like grep a program, not an application (again


"utility" also works).

To be sure, grep is extremely powerful, but its scope is limited.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 155 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.


Richard P. Feynman

I think the same is true for a lot of folks and self hosting. Sure, having data in our own hands is great, and yes avoiding vendor lock-in is nice. But at the end of the day, it's nice to have computers seem "fun" again.

At least, that's my perspective.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

That's what I heard about Chevy's, too.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Once I was biking home over the Golden Gate bridge and I saw two Osprey VTOLs fly under the bridge, pretty close to where I was standing. It was pretty awesome.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hobby 1: Ballroom dancing

No I'm pretty sure Strictly Ballroom is a completely accurate portrayal of ballroom dancing.

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