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I feel like I only see this on Linux installs and never on windows.
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I feel like I only see this on Linux installs and never on windows.
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What's something unique that you carry on you every day?
I used to have a 1/4" nut that missed the threading process. I had it on my keychain to remind me that even if something is done millions of times without error, sometimes mistakes can happen.
Lost it when my backpack was stolen.
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LAPD is furious about newspaper reporting names of negligent bomb squad officers who blew up neighborhood
“Such unannounced visits unnecessarily create fear and intimidation on the part of our people and their family (including children) during a time in which we have individuals calling for violence against police officers,” Moore said.
That is the hilarious. Reports asking questions of police should not be causing such a reaction.
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Diversity in your ear holes
Metal and sea shanties with Alestorm
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What's your "old person" trait?
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Yep, I have one of those. Model MFC-L2710DW. Been rock solid.
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What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?
As a 7 year-old in rural Manitoba I went cross country skiing on an old rail road track in town. I got to the edge of town and just kept going. I always knew where I was and just enjoyed exploring. I eventually got to some cross roads that I recognized as being close to a friends house, so I just headed to my friends house. I ended up going about 7-10km on this ski trip. My parents ended up getting a surprise phone call from my friends mom tell them where I was 😆
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Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?
I use autodesk products and other electrical engineering industrial products that require using windows. I'm mostly happy with being able to live in the mingw environment provided by git bash. Gives me most of what I need for a POSIX environment.
To switch to Linux full time I'd need to change jobs, lol.
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What thing do you love that you can never get anyone else to check out?
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It is such a fun game. I love it too. If you are ever in Vancouver, Canada let me know. I'll play with you
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What is your profession?
Electronics Technician and self taught programmer. My career has been building equipment to test locomotive traction motors and alternators. Lots SQL and PLC programming, electrical drawings, web programming for reports.
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what videogame do you have the most hours in?
Unreal tournament 99. Probably more than 10,000 hours. I used to play it so so much. Nothing else even comes close
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razor blades
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I have the standard AL13. I didn't know they had different levels. My beard isn't super thick, but not sparse either. I can shave a full weeks growth (4-6mm length) without issue. My previous razors would clog a fair bit if I did the same and I'd have to take less per stroke and rinse more frequently.
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razor blades
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I also like the Astra blades. Even more important ive found is a quality razor holder. I had a few, but when I got a Henson for Christmas it was the best shave I've ever had. Their marketing isn't a gimmick. A well supported blade held rigid doesn't flex and pull at hairs.
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Your first distribution
I think the first one I installed was Debian back in '97 when I was 12. I think my dad helped a bunch, but I can't really remember stuff from back then very well.
My initial thought was that it was gentoo which I used as my principal OS for close to ten years. I don't know how many times I reinstalled, but enough that I basically had it by memory. Taught me to keep my home dir on a separate partition.
These days I mostly live in windows because AutoCAD is a part of my professional life, but I dual boot popos on weekends. Unless kernel updates break my displaylink docking station...
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Spanish GP Post-Race Discussion
Good to see Merc back in the fight! Everyone has a long way to go to catch Redbull, but still makes it more interesting.
The Yuki penalty was bs. Zhou tried to push, and didn't have enough to make it through, but it was clean racing until the appeal to the stewards. Really poor call there.
I really appreciate the team game that Alonso is playing. I really feel like he is trying to make stroll a better and more relaxed driver. He's like the supportive uncle.
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what videogame do you have the most hours in?
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Yep, I play 3+ hours a day most days when I was really into it. Did that for close to 10 years. Then on and off for the next 10. So ya, it's somewhere in that ballpark
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what web browser do you use and why?
I like to split tasks/genres between browsers.
Chrome: day job Gmail, calendar etc, and other work related research Vivaldi: web dev testing Firefox: everything else
Firefox on mobile
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LAPD is furious about newspaper reporting names of negligent bomb squad officers who blew up neighborhood
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😅 it's sad that is a likely thing to happen these days 😔
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No matter how much of an ass he was, no one deserves to die like that...