Jon Gerdes

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk No, there is no socially ... but you could grab a self inflating buoyancy aid and wear it underneath your clothes. Another option is to make a joke of it and go in with obvious arm bands on show (and the buoyancy aid, which will actually save your life)

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I've lived in Yeovil for 30 years and I can trace my family in multiple directions to all four home nations and rather a lot further but few in Somerset. As far as I can tell, I'm the first long term Somerset boi in my family (who isn't really from Somerset as such). I'd like to be buried with a wedge of Chedder on my breast and a sweaty leather glove on my right hand. (or not!)

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk Its probably wooden and wood shrinks and expands according to temperature. It is a bit toasty at the moment. Here in Yeovil at 00:30 it is 30C indoors and according to the Met its 23C outside. Its hotter inside than out due to our predilection for dual skinned brick construction, along with plasterboard (dense) and tiled (often clay) roofs. All that dense stuff sucks up heat during the day and releases it at night. Our houses literally become "Economy 7" radiators. Those swing bridges used to fit and now they don't when they expand too much. In Yeovil we have just had a thunderstorm that looks more like the sort of thing I've seen in the Middle East, back in the day. "Climate change" has to be handled carefully but I think we can all agree that the weather really is a bit odd. Meteorologists are very insistent that change is happening and it appears noticeable within a human lifespan.

@Star12Mt@masto.nyc "although I cropped out his finger" Burn!

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk OK perhaps apt, dnf, rpm, pacman and co are all a little limiting. Perhaps you need a few years with emerge and portage to really understand what the term "life choice" really means 8) Gentoo is quite likely the most wonderful distro ever. I started using it in 2002 and it was quite rough but it looked amazing - the Gentoo console customization has been top notch from day one. You can drop a patch into a particular directory and the package manager system will hold together and compile your changes in. With Gentoo, you don't ever need to go off piste because you are permanently carving though virgin snow! You will also cook your gonads, which might seem like an unlikely outcome for a distro choice. I do recommend at least a flirtation with Gentoo for anyone who wants to get to grips with Linux. You can always fire up a VM. If you do get to grips with Gentoo you will never ever fear a broken Linux box ever again and simply roll up your sleeves and fix it.

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk Might I suggest trying Zorin? Its from Ireland and is based on Ubuntu (son of Debian). Its what I am seriously considering offering to customers. I'm still kicking the tires but it looks really polished. I note in another comment you might be diving into a RedHat effort. I remember running Mandrake which predates Mandriva. The cool kids in the late '90's/'00s ran away from RH which was going rather corporate to Mandrake and its rather lovely KDE interface.

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk Minimize open windows (there is probably an icon for that at the far right of the default task bar - it looks like a square with a line near the bottom of it) Right click on your desktop and select "Enter edit mode". Try the Add or Manage Widgets link at top left. You can drag and drop from the list. https://docs.kde.org/stable_kf6/en/plasma-desktop/plasma-desktop/index.html

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk Try adding another app launcher (there are at least three different ones!) and see if that works, if so delete the old one and move the new on into its place. You could even create a whole new panel (taskbar/whatever) at the top of your screen and when you are happy with it, delete the original one and move the new one to the bottom. You can have lots of panels if you like. You don't even need a panel for an app launcher button - you can drop one straight on your desktop. From stock you can choose from: Application Dashboard, App Launcher and App Menu or have all three. There are probably more available.

@buherator@infosec.place @badkeys@infosec.exchange I installed a MariaDB cluster backed set of PowerDNS servers for that exact reason! There were a couple of other reasons but that was what finally made me roll up my sleeves.

@tribactam @fesshole The last libel suit was quite a while ago - a quick search implies: 1986. Nowadays, the news writes itself and let's face it Trump was given a $600M aeroplane by an Arab state and a weird pay off involving a football (soccer) "Peace Prize" and many more gew gaws. Nowadays, no-one bats an eyelid when bets on oil mysteriously work out. White House staff have been told that insider trading is (only for rich people and) not for them. Mr Hislop and co have always done decent journalism.

@matthartley@fosstodon.org PLA is printed at around 220C. If it melts, you are a proper ricer. Nice job. Totally unnecessary and quite right too 8)

@lrt_writes @dailyhaikuprompt Love it at line two and three! Latin greater bear star constellation is the saucepan and the big dipper. Is line one alliterative?

@deborahh@cosocial.ca @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net @CAWguy@mstdn.ca Bellend is a synonym for knobend or even dickhead. Bell end, knob end and dickhead are quite descriptive and if you know they are pejorative it should become obvious what they mean.

@i0null@infosec.exchange The pot holes in Blighty's roads can be extraordinarily deep!

@corbet@social.kernel.org You can simply ignore stuff that looks a bit shifty for a while and see what happens. I don't think you have any formal contractual obligations or SLAs to anyone at all when it comes to Linux. You might have some sort of community obligation (whatever that might mean). You are our documentor-in-chief and other unlikely sobriquets and there has to be a point where you can say: "Please bugger off and go and boil your head" although I have noted you tend to a more conciliatory style. The frontline troops at LWN have always managed to get the tone just right in the harshest of discussions and diffuse them suitably.

@randahl@mastodon.social English is German(ish) with nobs on (Dutch is the other notable extant Germanic language, there are probably more). Dansk has been loitering around on the periphery of German for quite a while and there is quite a lot of mutual linguistic exchange. Slut -> Finished. That's just vocab. Fart -> fahren. No idea why english doesn't have a fahren based verb for to go. I'm sure Dansk "I fart" translates to "moving" or "on the way" Bad -> bath. Easy once you know that d-> th is a thing. The shared word "toilet" makes this a non issue. Gods elevator: well a stairway to heaven is always welcome! How often do you see one?

@xssfox@cloudisland.nz @DropTableFoxes@social.stackunderflow.com That's a good thing, surely: Hardware stops people from killing themselves by being stupid. ... isn't it?

@jorge@hachyderm.io I've noticed that it spawns a ssh sess on port 222 I think, but I have never had to use it. I run quite a few Ubuntu boxes - VMs, laptops and, desktops - say 50ish - all pets rather than cattle, as the cool kids say.

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk Shutdown the VM. "Eject the CDROM" and power up the VM. If you insist on booting the CD, your distro can't do anything about it 8)

@gnome@floss.social At the start of the first Covid19 lockdown in the UK, I gave my granddaughter a second hand laptop on request. It was actually a cast off from a customer, so already at least three years old. I put Kubuntu on it (OK not Gnome but the message remains the same). It turns out it is still in use and I remotely advanced it from Ubuntu 20.04 through 22.04 to 24.04. Over wifi at both ends, ssh and a SOCKS proxy. In my attic I have an elderly Dell server with a supported Debian based distro on it (Proxmox). It used to run VMware. I'm an ex-VMware fanboi with 25+ years experience. MS can burn (bugger: I run a MS Silver Partner). Oh well, MS can still burn and so can VMware (Broadcom).

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk Well played. Sometimes things go a bit wonky on an update. For example I've just fried my home PBX and will be restoring it from backup!

@rbreich@masto.ai Where about on your keyboard did you find those long dashes?

@seanb@mstdn.ca Our (he's quite a few) King is a pretty shrewd diplomat and can be relied upon to throw some reason into the mire. It may not be much but its something. Trump wants shiny gewgaws (remember the footie "peace prize") We have a remarkable asset in the King and you can't influence someone if you eschew them. CA, UK and the rest have already done most of the sabre prattling in the past, learned lessons and nearly moved on. The US just needs a little more time to get over its mid life crisis. Bloody kids!

@JimBliss@mastodon.ie This is not worthy of anyone. I'd hope we don't do hate on Masto. Incidentally, I'd like to note that the UK deployed the usual magnificent Irish compare.

@nasa@social.beachcom.org Anyone who has flown in an aircraft at 30,000'+ and looked out the window will know those colours are wrong. Clouds are not brown. If I was feeling charitable, I might allow for some sort of window filter to protect from glare or something else. If I was feeling uncharitable, I might suggest AI generated wankery or request you don't use a brown overlay - it looks really wrong.

@nixCraft How does that work with XFS with reflinks?

@openculture@toot.community I was 10 in 1980. 1980 was 45 years ago (we are not done with 2026) An essay from 45 years ago that deals with an issue of the day (at that time) might still be insightful but perhaps not. The world has turned and it really is not what it was in 1980 (source: me!) You might as well quote Homer (Roman bloke, not Simpson)

@scottwilson@infosec.exchange OK you have power and ethernet there and you are probably American, given those plugs and switches. That means you will have a multitude of regulations to studiously avoid at federal, state, county and city level 8) I would remove all those blanking plates etc and cut out all that drywalling (plasterboard in english). Have a multimeter handy and know how to use it. Prove that you can see 110V AC on something like a light switch wiring and prove it goes off when you kill the building power. Find out your areas' regs. Does power drop down or go up or whatever. You have both lighting and power out there, which are normally here (UK) two separate rings, per floor. However you will probably have a three phase input and all sorts of imaginative stuff going on. ... Hire a sparky to do the job. You will want a comms cab at the top with network stuff in it, including power and a few power sockets below for general use.

@swordedge@twit.social @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net There are loads of open source book keeping apps. Do you actually mean US personal tax reporting and filing apps? I gather that those are rather short in supply.

@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world Repose en paix.

@dailyhaikuprompt Crushed trellis, twisting falling bear smashed. Bear fell out of tree.

@xkcdbot@me.ns.ci When you have a cunning idea on setting up a new business, remember this xkcd!

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk We are a part of all this palava of earth n environment and that. Sir Terrence P and Mr Neil G collaboratively (thank fuck for online dicts) wrote some fabulous books about the earth's history, riffing on Disc World. If you did have a TARDIS, sods law dictates that you would end up arriving within the period when nothing much happened, that stretched for something like 800 million years! I think there were several of those. We probably ought to go to the Science Museum or the Evoluon in the Netherlands that isn't there anymore (sigh) and actually pay attention to the huge periods of time involved!

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk White tailed eagles are back at Exmoor too. They are the really big eagles. They will keep rabbits down and foxes too! Ecosystems need all of their parts to function effectively. Eagles, beavers and pine martens are the cool kids but we need all the components. Rats and rock doves (pigeons), for example, are often described as vermin. As it turns out, we really need vermin - they clean up stuff that no one else will. Ideas such as Mother Earth and Gaia are lovely but we reap as we sow. This planet doesn't care what we do.