Side note, absolutely hate the fact that “they” are trying to take my thumbs up away.

Is that a thing? I use it as a nonverbal backchannel like “uh-huh” or “yeah” or a nod of the head, something quick to indicate that I understand and am following along.

I know in some cultures (North Africa?) it’s the equivalent to the middle finger (🖕)

Macarons are awesome. That light airy slightly crispy “bun” things plus the creamy middle. Based on the comments I wager I put a lot more emphasis on mouth feel than a lot of people here.

interesting. I generally associate peanut brittle with texture (dry but slightly sticky, and of course brittle).

As a 'Murican, I’ll say Vegemite. Black, gooey, smells like an unwashed armpit, but I love it on a sandwich with salami and mustard. Mixed it into a chili that ended up winning a chili cook off.

Shame you can only easily find Marmite around here. It’s similar, but the texture is different, more like rubber cement.

I get that reference

I believe the most widely cited range is 1983-1996. '96 is too young IMO. I tend to describe it qualitatively. Millennials were too young to care about the cold war, but old enough to care about 9/11, and were in college or recently graduated just in time for the great recession. So we had an optimistic childhood, were made painfully aware of global geopolitics just as we were becoming adolescents, and got economically punched in the gut just in time to start adulting for real.

I’m aware that usage depends on various factors. The title came off more prescriptive than intended. I have edited it accordingly.

Take Georgia the country and Georgia the state and merge them, no more confusion.

Ah ok. whoosh I guess. I’m used to hearing “just write the drivers yourself” and the like.

You’re thinking like a developer. “I can just add or remove this or that.” I have to think like an IT guy. I’m working on dozens or hundreds of machines that are not mine and that I can’t change. So I need to get comfy with the tools that are most likely to be there by default.

Vi/Vim. Is it intuitive? No. Is it user friendly? Heck no! What it is is everywhere. $20 Chinese travel routers? Yup. Wireless access points? It’s there. If it has a shell you can log into, it almost certainly has it.

I think we have the same UPS

There’s a frog with the species name niputidea from Spanish Ni puta idea.

Also, obligatory mention of my conlang:

rCFqKqmg “Egg eater”, far more weighty when you’re oviparous. Calling someone this at work is a resume generating event.

slmqNLg “Cloaca butter”, BS or nonsense.

Naively I assumed that anything in the last decade or so with a battery already has some sort of battery management system that regulates this stuff to help prolong battery lifespan, but maybe I’m wrong.

I also have a 2015 MBP lying fallow in my closet. Do you have any suggestions for turning it into a server? Are you using MacOS still or have you installed something else?

If you’re curious what I’m running on here, it’s mostly containers plus one VM for Docker. (I’ve made my dislike for Docker as a distribution platform known elsewhere on here and this is why).

Most are various wikis that I’m testing, MediaWiki, Bookstack, DokuWiki, PmWiki, An Otter Wiki, DocMost.

It’s weird but “long U” is pronounced /ju/ so even though it’s a vowel letter it starts with a semivowel.

Cool. My conworld deeply reflects my interests and fears, and I don’t expect or intend it to be broadly appealing. I am both the author and the only audience member worth pleasing. One of the reasons I love amateur speculative fiction is that I’m seeing the author’s raw imagination unfiltered by editors or focus groups. The prose is rough at the best of times but rarely is the setting or concept uninteresting.

That being said, I love drawing but I’m not good at it, which is why I attempt writing. I’d love to make this into a web comic, since I always have little scenarios or character interactions in my head that would work best in that format.

CF-53

I bought it used from Amazon about 5 years ago, so it hasn’t been in my possession the whole time. It was likely used enterprise/industrial stock. Judging by how one of the modifier keys is stuck it was well-used. The seller replaced the original hard drive with an SSD and the battery may have been replaced as well.

Prior to becoming my home lab it was my ham shack computer running win 10.

Why do you say that?