Cold-ish again. For us anyway, if not by your standards. 50sF is cold. Granted since we’re all the way down here it does warm up in the afternoon, but starts and ends cold. At least the sun is shining.
I got a bunch of little things done yesterday but nothing big. Some personal maintenance as well as domestic bliss. I cut my hair, and shaved my beard and mustache. It’s been a long time since I was without both. I keep reaching for it. And no one noticed.
One of the tasks was putting all the coats back on the rack in the entry. Since I had the stuff out to condition some leather boots for the auction, I conditioned my leather coats too. One was in dire need; the other two are buttery soft, but did have a bit of wear around the edges. I had one coat growing up, so now I have several different ones for different tasks and different weather and just for different social occasions. They are all thrift store purchases, but in great condition when I got them.
I’ve got the same thing going on with shoes I guess. As a kid I had one pair of cheap dress shoes for church and big events, one pair of “good” sneakers, and the worn out pair that used to be my “good” pair. I’ve got a lot of nice shoes now- more than I wear routinely, even though I make an effort. I just don’t have that much opportunity to wear nice shoes, as I rarely dress up. I still like having them.
Funny how much we are influenced by our childhood. My in-laws can’t leave food on the table. They really can’t. If there is any, they will keep coming back, picking at it ’til it’s gone. There was never enough food in the house when they were growing up. My dad would put single bites of food in the fridge for later if they were left. He was born in 1933, and had 4 brothers and sisters. My wife thinks shelves and cabinets should be half empty. Her house growing up was mostly empty as they moved a lot and didn’t have much money in the beginning. My kids are risk averse, aren’t passionate about anything, and are weirdly passive. Most of their peers are too. They are surrounded by stuff and anything they want to see, hear, or do is available if they want it, so maybe they will grow up to “own nothing and love it”.
IDK what the future holds, or what intervening events might provide a bigger influence on our lives and their lives. It’s unlikely to change who I am, but it is likely to supplant the wuflu nonsense for the kids. If anything big happens. Otherwise it’s the reaction to the chinkyflu that will define their lives and that is really sad.
Hopefully it won’t be horrific violence and starvation, or aliens reaping the crop they sowed millennia ago. I’ll keep doing what I can to mitigate the ordinary horrors.
Stacks are bound to help.
nick
Welp, finally replaced our BBQ smoker. It was rusty on the outside, the rails inside had all but disappeared (I suppose rust also), the door was warped and didn’t seal well. Hey, it lasted 30 years, so I can’t complain.
The replacement is a knockoff from a local country store. The “good” brands cost about Fr. 2000 here, and this one cost only Fr. 500. It’s not as heavy duty, but it looks like it will do the job. We probably don’t need it to last another 30 years – I doubt I’ll be smoking brisket at age 95.
It was the display model, so already assembled. I strapped it to the trailer to bring it home. Unfortunately, one of the handles rattled loose during transport and is lost. I’ve contacted the store to ask how to order a replacement. I kind of hope they will be nice and pay the cost themselves, but we’ll see.
Meanwhile, I’ve had last week and this week mostly off. I expected to have some time to recharge, but – of course – all sorts of things have cropped up that need dealt with right now. Maybe I’ll have more free time when teaching starts up again next week 😛
That is my definition of a good haircut.
I have been having “the talk” recently with the nice lady who cuts my hair: have I reached the baldness point of no return, and just shaving the remainder off would be best. She says “not yet”, but I have my doubts. I suppose if what little I still have is cut really short, it doesn’t look too bad.
About display models: buyer beware. My brother bought a display model trailer from the car accessories store, and some hundred miles down the road, the wheels fell off. The nuts hadn’t been torqued, or even tightened. The lighting was also incorrectly wired. He wrote a scathing complaint to the store chain, and was eventually compensated the full cost of the unit, but there could easily have been a nasty, even fatal, accident.
Yes, I should probably have inspected it more carefully. Now that it is home, I have checked all the bolts, and tightened a couple more that were loose. But nothing really life threatening about a smoker (unless that lost handle flew through someone’s windshield).
Baldness – I’m lucky, I guess, that I don’t appear to be balding. Emphasis on “appear”, because I just recently realized that there is an area in the center that has almost nothing left. It’s disconcerting to have cold, winter rain hit my scalp, when that’s never happened before…
47F on one side of the house, 50F on the other. Either one is ‘cold’ to me.
Sun is coming up. Lunch is packed and someone is moving around. That’s gotta be enough today.
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Later I’ve got a couple of pickups, and my IKEA return to do.
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I’ve learned the hard way, whenever I have a machine or anything with bolted on parts or handles in the truck, I tape stuff so it can’t vibrate loose. Sometimes it does anyway, and I find it in the bed, sometimes it just vanishes.
Given the stuff I’ve seen on the roadside, it happens all the time.
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TMI.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15256423/Interstellar-Comet-3I-ATLAS-seen.html
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is seen for the first time since it disappeared behind the sun – and it’s even BRIGHTER than when it went in
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This morning was the first day this month that the temperature was above freezing. The past three or four mornings weren’t much below freezing but there was a crust on the chickens’ water. I’m clearing the space for their Winter quarters, gathering the other materials to winterize the coop, and so on. Slow going because the weather hasn’t been cooperating – wind as strong as we normally get in March, plus sporadic rain.
In other news, I left the property for the fourth time in slightly over two months. This time was not to meet The Child at a doctor’s office but it was to take care of something for her: she’d dropped her laptop and the display did not survive the landing. I went to pick up a replacement from a computer repair store which has all sorts of spare this-n-that, salvaged from dead computers. The clerk and I ended up doing the repair there at the counter. Took less than ten minutes, including him rummaging to find a compatible unit. What’s that you say? The most damage-prone component had a cable which plugged into that component, rather than a cable permanently attached and which requires a two-hour job to disassemble the body of the laptop to disconnect the other end? Amazing concept!
Rot in hell, Cheney.
The rest of the Bush cabal will join you soon enough.
@OldGuy
Thanks for that heads-up. I’ve installed that and it works a treat. That puts me in the position of using 3 different browsers; Firefox for general browsing on both machines, Chrome on the Chromebook for YouTube as Firefox is too slow, and Opera for FaceBook on the main machine because Firefox on Win7 consistently crashes on FaceBook. Life online has become much more complicated since the old days on Delphi.
I’ve been blessed with most of my hair staying on my head, but there is a small patch where it’s very thin. Friends used to tell me it was just the beginning of the end, but I’ve had the same thin patch forever. I even have photographic proof from Basic Training that clearly shows it.
That’s just ’cause the high beams are on.
Reminder – Today is Election Day in many places.
Those of you in Texas need to pay attention even in this “off off“ year election. Check your local ballot.
The Legislature has been busy, and the bond ghouls never rest. Austin alone has a 20% property tax increase to feed the ghouls.
Fortunately, we live outside the city limits.
The stove is dying. The convection fan went out three years ago. There was no replacement available, so we just did without. Four times now the stove oven has just quit. The first time I had a repair guy come in and he found no problems (except the fan), after he shut the breaker off for about 20 minutes. Hmm, apparently the computer in the control board went wonky and needed rebooting. Thank you for a $100.00 bill.
Two times again the stove oven has quit. I just turn off the breaker for 20 minutes and the stove works again. Then the oven failed a third time. Cycling the breaker got the broiler part working but the baking element would not come back to an operational status. The stove is telling me it is time to be replaced after 25 years.
We found a stove at Home Depot, about $1,600 on sale for $900. I think that is what we will get. The sale ends today. Maybe. Home Depot always has sales. Unfortunately, the VA 10% discount does not work on sale items. Bummer.
Well, it’s that time. Leaving for the vet. Sniff, sniff.
Funny how taxes always go up, and never down. Given that they are already tied to income, property values, or whatever – they already go up with inflation. Why should they otherwise increase?
We need DoGE everywhere.
Once upon a time, there was a wonderful aerospace company named McDonnell Douglas. You know, DC-3, MD-80, F-4, F-15, F-18.
Dick Cheney killed Douglas. I was actively working on a contract job there at the time.
That was during Gulf War I and they had posters around the buildings stating that every enemy aircraft shot down during that war, was destroyed by a McDonnell Douglas aircraft. The poster showed an F-15 flying side-by-side with an F-18.
I need to go drop off my anti-gerrymandering ballot (NO on 50).
It’s been a constant barrage of ads endorsing it from a political Rogue’s Gallery: Newsome, Obama, Warren, AOC, Crockett.
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Bill paying day, including property taxes. For some reason I feel thousands of dollars lighter in the pocket.
I’m not using the term “bond ghouls” lightly, but the problem ultimately rests with voters. Even hardcore conservatives get weird when it comes to any suggestion of cutting the spending on nonsense in the schools here.
Spending really took off since the Legislature started spending the surplus to pay down property tax bills so the real estate market wouldn’t collapse last year.
It will pass.
We gonna git all them Devils starting with the Orange King.
I’m not sure that I agree. Keeping in mind that most of my experience is in NYS, a state which was the most corrupt in the union since before the United States existed, what I’ve seen is that a ballot measure will be proposed, opposition will develop and gain momentum, and then the wording will be changed so that if you don’t read carefully and notice the change, your No vote became a Yes vote. Or a money issue, whether school budget or state bond measure, will be put up and voted down and put up and voted down and put up and then squeak through with 50.1% of the vote, and that’s the once which is kept. Or a bond measure will be voted down and then the city, county, or state government will pay for its pet project anyway and cut back on snow clearing and close the community swimming pool to come up with the money for it, then next year increase property taxes because the county has a $50M budget shortfall. Or …
Ha, ha. tRump tells activist judge to suck it:
Trump to Activist Judges: ‘Nice Try, But No’—SNAP Stays on Ice Until Democrats Reopen Government
I like the comment of scrap the whole thing. Make everybody reapply. You get 3-months. Three more months in an emergency. After that, go to the charity food bank.
I think the Dumbocrat strategy will FUBAR them on the midterms. Holding out for $1.5 trillion in welfare is a non-starter.
Well, the deed is done. The new procedure, recommended (maybe mandated) by the state really sucks.
The animal is given an injection to calm the animal. The animal loses balance, slobbers, the head wobbles and the tongue hangs out. This occurs gradually over the course of about 20 minutes. Basically, the animal starts dying. Painful to watch. The vet comes in and says she will give another “relaxing injection” to further calm the animal. We said no, just give her the injection that stops the heart. The vet said, “but state rules”. We said no, just do the injection. When that injection was done the dog was gone in less than 15 seconds.
Other animals we have put down have only been given the lethal injection. It was quick, painless, and no confusion on the part of the animal.
We thought the calming injection would just put the dog in a dream like stupor. Nope, just confusion as the dog tries to control her head, tries to stand, and is unsuccessful at any of those movements.
A cattle prod at full voltage up the legislator’s ass who thought that was a good bill to attach their name. Let’s watch them dance and squirm while their wife and kids try to comfort the cretin. A good amount of drool to add to the effect would be an added bonus.
I agree and my previous dogs got one shot. I don’t know what NV currently requires, but more suffering is not an option. Some doosh-nozzle lawyer probably wrote the State requirement.
So, Mr. Ray, are you thinking about adopting another dog? I’m already thinking about the loss of my boy. Training another dog in my 70’s? I’ve had a dog most of my life (minus time in the Army). It would be weird not having an autonomous barking unit around.
I’ve yet to read anything about folks complaining they ain’t getting they gibs. The Media is gaslighting us.
I read a comment somewhere today about SNAP payments that got me thinking.
WiC works different, WiC is a prescription for food so the baby gets formula and/or mom gets some decent food for making milk. I have no problem with WiC, ever.
Anyway.
You know how SS payments are now on Wednesdays? Start with a 30 day calendar. The 1st is on Sunday, the 7th on Saturday. That’s your “first monthly quarter”, I guess. So if you are born on the 20th, you get your direct deposit on the third Wednesday of the month.
Your SS for October is your September money. SS pays a month late. You have to live all of September to get the money in October.
For example, my Mom died on the 29th. Her SS hit her bank on the 3rd (date grandfathered in under the old rules) and by gosh it was un-deposited on the 7th. She didn’t live the whole month. Ergo, she didn’t need the money.
Today I read SNAP pays with some formula of the last digit of your SS times 2 plus 1. So someone like me would get his card refilled on the 19th of the month.
Anyway, long ramble cut shorter, the SNAP money folks are gonna get for November is actually the October payment.
The fun of “folks starving in the streets” starts in December when the November money ain’t there.
Clear as mud, huh?
Also, the money doesn’t expire, you can carry a balance. Say you get $300 a month but spend $200. The extra $100 carries to the next month’s balance. What you don’t use expires after a year. It’s FIFO. You can grow a surplus balance and when you get off of SNAP, you have a year to use that money. Crazy. It’s like a re loadable gift card with a revolving balance that expires a year after the last re-load.
Yes, we will. I have been around dogs all my life, including working dogs on the farm. I did not have a dog while in the USAF until I got married. Training will be like always, patience, coercing, coaching, rewards. I told the wife I could do the outdoor routine by setting an example. That was quickly squashed.
We will wait a few months. Probably sometime after January. We will go to the local shelter to find an animal based on how the animal responds to us, as in both of us.
“The UK Found Another Way to Destroy Itself”
https://www.schiffsovereign.com/trends/the-uk-found-another-way-to-destroy-itself-153838/
“I’m talking about the war the British government launched on its own country—a war on their own energy sector.
In the holy name of climate change, the British government imposed a series of de-industrializing policies aimed directly at the energy sector, specifically to destroy oil and gas.
They imposed a Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, which ramps up over the next decade until 100% of all new cars and vans sold must be zero-emission by 2035. That includes a ban on new petrol and diesel car sales starting in 2030, with limited exceptions for hybrids until 2035.
Manufacturers that don’t comply face stiff penalties.
In addition, the British government halted all new licenses for North Sea oil and gas exploration.
Plus they slapped a 78% windfall profits tax on oil and gas companies operating in the UK.
And those are just a few of the highlights.
In 1951, the entire British government was unified in its support for domestic energy production and refining.
In 2025, the government is doing everything it can to eliminate the entire sector—economic consequences be damned.”
There will not always be an England. It will be gone soon.
Wunnerful. We’re gonna be invaded by redneck aliens that drive in daylight with their high beams on.
“Electoral fraud that preceded the election: hijacking the 2020 census”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/11/electoral-fraud-that-preceded-election.html
“It seems that the 2020 census deliberately mis-apportioned state populations, which in turn led to mis-allocation of electoral seats per state. Nice when you can fix the results before the election even begins!”
“The proof arrived in March and May of 2022 when the Bureau’s own quality checks exposed a lopsided pattern. Fourteen states had statistically significant coverage errors, eight with overcounts and six with undercounts. The tilt was unmistakable. Democratic-leaning states were widely overcounted. Republican-leaning states were widely undercounted. Florida’s undercount was roughly three quarters of a million people. Texas’s undercount was on the order of a half million. Minnesota and Rhode Island kept seats they would have lost under an accurate count. Colorado gained a seat it did not deserve. Florida and Texas each missed multiple seats they should have gained. Analysts estimate the net effect was a shift of nine House seats away from Republican-leaning states and toward Democratic-leaning states. The Electoral College moved with them. More than $86 billion in federal formula funds followed.”
Lovely, just lovely.
Stay away from dumbrocrats, they are dangerous.
“This weekend’s front is looking stronger, maybe with a whiff of Arctic air?”
https://spacecityweather.com/this-weekends-front-is-looking-stronger-maybe-with-a-whiff-of-arctic-air/
“Houston’s forecast is pretty much set for the next week or so. In fact, I would forgive you if you left off checking Space City Weather for a day or two. Really, the only major question I have right now is just how cold temperatures will get early next week, after the arrival of a front next week. The city’s coldest temperature of the fall season, so far, was 47 degrees on Halloween morning. At this time I bet we get colder than that.”
An Arctic front in early November in Houston, are you kidding me ?
I guess I need to put a fire in the generator and make sure that it starts before then.
Wow.
Great, we have almost 40,000 MW of the electric generator fleet down for forced outages and planned maintenance. We are not suppose to have freezing weather in South Texas this early in the season.
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
That would only be one high beam, and only one working taillight, with four different brands of tires and certainly no hubcaps.
I’m already living that dream.
Our county (Williamson) ditched the touch screens in favor of “scantron” type ballots using pen on paper.
The Gulf is still like bathwater not far from the Louisiana coast.
HEB wasn’t too busy this afternoon. Not much on sale. Soda. Pasta.
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When the chinkyflu closed the schools, they used their federal breakfast and lunch money to give every enrolled household a SNAP EBT card. IIRC it had about $1200 on it. I was shocked that there was essentially no limit to what I could buy. I ended up buying all the fixin’s for Thanksgiving dinner, sans meat, for a bunch of families, about $700 worth. We donated the stack of food to a local church run food bank.
It was weird using the card to buy stuff.
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The voters still make deliberate choices here.
$85 million high school football stadiums don’t grow on trees, and, as long as the Legislature keeps the plates spinning by using the surplus for property tax “reform” (paying a portion of the annual assesment for homeowners) I think even an income tax would be in play in this state.
JP Morgan Chase appreciates your patronage. In addition to the fees collected for handling the cards, the bank got to data mine your purchase activity and sell it.
Right now there is an awesome full moon floating in a crystal clear sky.
Many thumbs up.
Proving again that there is very little that government touches that they don’t screw up.
I’ve had the same vet for thirty years. I’ve had two cats painlessly die in my arms. The current meezer is young and fit and will most certainly outlast me. But if something happens where I am in that position again, I will most certainly ask about legislative interference. If I don’t like the answer, I will do it myself.
I would probably do worse if forced to deal with the animal torture described above.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-15257469/dennys-sale-pizza-hut-sale-restaurants.html
It continues.
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@Lynn
I’ve gotten into the weeds with this subject in several posts:The 2010 Census was done on paper at the last minute, after the electronic version consumed $150 million without delivering a viable solution. The 2020 Census was paperless. The enumerators, the ones knocking doors to get info from people who did not take the census online used software running on iPhone 8.
Anyone who thinks that it’s just a coincidence that software produced the highest errors in the history of the modern census is worse than a moron. There are two levels of follow-up done in the field after the initial census period. The system was rigged from the inside, and congress had better get up off their dead gluteus and figure out the who and how so the next one isn’t worse.
Yes, I am available to assist in fact finding. I would consider it an honor to serve my country by assisting in finding the truth, by whatever means necessary.
When the chinkyflu closed the schools, they used their federal breakfast and lunch money to give every enrolled household a SNAP EBT card. IIRC it had about $1200 on it. I was shocked that there was essentially no limit to what I could buy. I ended up buying all the fixin’s for Thanksgiving dinner, sans meat, for a bunch of families, about $700 worth. We donated the stack of food to a local church run food bank.
It was weird using the card to buy stuff.
The latest estimates are that the feddies spent $5 trillion Dollars on The Koof. Most of the spending seems to be incompetent congresspersons trying to outspend drunken sailors.
Right now there is an awesome full moon floating in a crystal clear sky.
Many thumbs up.
Yup, it was hanging over us for our 1.5 mile walk tonight. Big, beautiful, and well defined. I love seeing it with my new 20/20 naked eye.
Man, it sure does get dark early now.
Most of the Pizza Hut locations are overseas, but the bulk of the chain’s sales are in the US.
Private equity will strip mine both chains like Toys R Us.
The shame of it is that Pizza Hut is a nice sit-down restaurant in a lot of rural areas.
This is totally messed up.
If critter is so bad it needs a shot of the hot pink stuff, a shot “to relax it” first is pure sadistic torture bullshit.
Jeeze Ray. It hurts to read this.
The innertubes are reporting a dozen Dumbo Senators are talking about voting to open the goobermint. This is convenient now that the polls are closed. The Redumbo’s better not give an inch. We all know politicians are whores and won’t deal unless “uh, what do I get out of this…” Let them eat cake. Of course, the Redumblican’s have no spine.
Tonight’s music video is “Paul McCartney & Wings – Rockshow 1980 – Live Concert Film – 4k Restoration”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ahZ1ijLmMY
This was inspired by the new Wings book released today, “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run”:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1324096306?tag=ttgnet-20
I am trying to decide if I want this book for Christmas.
BTW, I do not wish to be Richard Cory (48:40). I just want to have his wealth.
Fundraising for 2026 starts at the Thanksgiving recess.
The Dems have four seats considered to be “in play”, and they would need four more to take control.
It looks like a bunch of evil Dumbo’s got elected tonight. If Mamfukstiki wins, I will enjoy the destruction of NYFC. His commie plans have no way of succeeding. NYFC should just be walled off and turned into the Mamfukstiki Caliphate. Call it the expanded Escape From New York Caliphate.
I just wasted an hour and 16 minutes getting my main computer going again. Ubuntu pushed an update which killed wifi. nvidia pushed an update which disabled all non-HDMI video ports. The nvidia broken updates are common and simply require trying the various installed options to find one which works – it’s not always the same, and each try requires a reboot. Annoying and time-consuming, especially combined with the kernel breakage. Got it working, eventually. Not sure whether to uninstall the latest kernel update or just leave it, knowing that it’ll be updated soonish, or just leave it, knowing that I’m going to install some other distro.
On that topic, I’m planning on moving away from Debian and Ubuntu. They’ve been my main OSs for more than 20 years, but I think that they’ve run their course. Does anyone have a suggestion for a different distro? Desktop computer, Nvidia card, machine used for general use including software development.
As for nvidia, I think that they should be forced to release specs to allow development of open source drivers, under right to repair laws if nothing else. I’m not saying that their C-suite should be shot in the head if they refuse, but a fine of a billion dollars per week, to be donated to open source projects of my choosing, would be appropriate.
In other news, I’ve been asked to chicken-sit for the Winter. Some of my wife’s acquaintances have one chicken (down from several; sounds like the others died over the past couple years of whatever random things chickens die of) and they’re going away for several months. I’m mildly concerned, as there’s a possibility of that chicken bringing disease in, but only mildly concerned. A bigger concern is integrating a newcomer with my birds. A tertiary concern is that the coop is already getting crowded because of my latest batch. I’d expected a couple to be roosters but they were all hens, so the coop is over capacity. On the other hand, they usually go into the coop only to sleep or to lay, or because of miserable weather, and they don’t seem to mind being crowded at night.
-shrug- I guess it’s ok, assuming they all get along. It’ll probably be so spoiled that it doesn’t want to go back when they come back from vacation – I’m not stingy with the treats, I change up the pellets I feed them to give them variety, they have more room in their run than most, and they get to run around the yard when I can spare the time to be with them. “Nooooo! Don’t put me back in my old coop! And you never give me lettuce! Don’t make me go home!”
Nvidia drivers breaking stuff still isn’t fixed? They were breaking random stuff 25 years ago when I was doing all the hands on support for multi-headed visualization systems.
The update would break stereo, or overlapping, or just affect mon1, leaving mon2 fine… or it would break software by loading new dlls with the same names over the ones that were tested and worked…
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Mint doesn’t get you totally away from Debian/Ubuntu, but it is different enough while still offering a straightforward installation process for the Nvidia drivers.
My preferred distro is Fedora for anything not running an Nvidia card. I use the most recent version on my “road” laptop with embedded Intel graphics and my home server running an AMD APU.
Nvidia doesn’t care about anything but AI hardware right now.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15259115/Plane-crash-Louisville-Kentucky.html
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The ghouls will be back.
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/austin-voters-reject-prop-q
I’d heard it before, but it just came up on my youtube playlist, Hugh Laurie does a really good version of St. James Infirmary
https://youtu.be/hT2pL4FNlpI?list=RDSryTW1qzxfg
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Well, looks like NYFC is gonna get it good and hard. The enshittification of everything continues.
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I didn’t know it went that far back. The biggest problem with drivers for Linux etc is that the company refuses to give out specs so that competent people can write drivers.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll give it a look if not necessarily a try.
By this point I want to get totally away from Debian because they’re all-in on Rust. Rust is a perfectly wonderful language (/sarc) but there’s no need to introduce breaking changes by replacing utilities which are not particularly susceptible to memory leaks with rewrites which are not 100% compatible. The entire *nix ecosystem is built on the idea of pipelining utilities. A replacement which is only 99% compatible is going to break something somewhere, and a number of the replacements reportedly aren’t even 80% compatible. Breakage for no reason.
This being not only New York but NYFC, I have to wonder if the reported results match what people voted for. Probably, but you can’t be sure.
Why, yes, I’m awake at 0213. Something woke me right on schedule at 0130. Sometimes I can get back to sleep but it looks like this morning is not one of those times. Today is gonna suuuuck.