Maybe not so cold today. It did get into the 70sF yesterday, and it was 60F at 10pm, the last time I looked. Overcast and kinda dreary for much of the day though. Hmm, today, mid 70sF, overcast, threat of rain. That’s my guess.
I didn’t get a lot done yesterday, but I did get another load from the storage unit to the shop. Spent some time talking to a friend on the phone. Did some non-prepping hobby tasks. I’d been putting them off for a while so it was good to get a few done.
One thing that ate far more time than it should have was that I filled up the internal storage on my phone. I thought both my internal and SD card were being backed up to my google account online, so I weeded and deleted a bunch of stuff. Didn’t matter. Even after I dealt with “unresolved conflicts”, I hadn’t cleared any pics off my internal storage. Couldn’t move them to the SD either, because no working space… no messaging, no opening the camera to tell it to use the SD, lot’s of stuff broke when the internal storage filled up.
So I tried connecting to the pc by USB cable to move files. Nope. Tried a half dozen cables, none did anything but charge. I think the USB-C port on the phone must be buggered. Lots of time spent and I couldn’t text my wife, so I found and deleted all the pix the ebay app stored when I used the visual search function. I wanted to keep them, because it was every album and pokemon I’ve looked up, and a nice record of purchases, but with the USB not working, I was kinda stuck.
Anyway, deleting the ebay photos cleared enough space I could use the phone again. But it does have a lesson. The camera was storing to internal for some stuff, and that stuff isn’t being backed up. And I haven’t backed up the phone itself or connected by USB in a LONG time. I’ll spend some more time dealing with that later.
Today, I might do a pickup in The Woodlands. I’ve got a couple of other errands to run too, like picking up an Rx and dropping off a check. If it’s not raining, I am hoping to get another load to the shop.
It doesn’t sound like much when I lay it out, but it is keeping a couple of things moving forward, and it’s picking up some things that have been back-burnered for too long.
Maybe when I pickup the Rx, I’ll check the meat cooler and finally be able to stack some more meat. Hope springs eternal… Stack!
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Good for her. Pushing kids to do irrevocable damage to their bodies should be punished. At a minimum, the docs should lose their licenses.
Mint is good. I used it a few years back with (iirc) the Cinnamon desktop. For the past several years, though, I have used Xubuntu. My only objection to it is the integration of snaps, meaning that there are two completely different ways for software to be installed. Unnecessarily confusing.
Thunderbird is good! I have to use Outlook for work, but for private mail, definitely T-bird.
There’s really no choice: it’s going to be Gimp. There is a learning curve, just take it slow.
Both exist under Linux, no problem…
@paul, when you’re playing with Linux mint you’ll only rarely need to go to the command line to install stuff, there is a very good ‘software manager’ which let’s you find and install 1000’s of packages.
You shouldn’t have any trouble with mint and device drivers, I help out with a group who repurpose old PCs for disadvantaged folks and in our experience pretty much anything made in the last 12-15yrs will just work. (Our record is getting it working on an ancient celeron machine with 2Gb ram! We did need to add a wireless dongle as it didn’t have inbuilt wireless)
Good morning. Tuesday morning coffee (actually porridge) break time.
House still cold. Still no gas. I called the propane company and indicated my plight. They are “doing their best”.
I suspect what is going on is partly mismanagement, and partly a scam to “encourage” some customers to order gas more frequently. Usually, I wait until the tank is down to 25-30 percent to order, this time we were away, and it got down to 15. If they deliver within the week, as should be the case, that is no problem. Now we’re into the third week. That is a problem.
Why do they want me to order more frequently…? My contract stipulates that over some given number of litres delivered, I get the “bulk” pricing discount (on the order of 5-8 p.c.) and they waive the delivery fee. If, as now seems to be the case, I need to order while we are at or above 30%, and they deliver expeditiously, the volume will be below the bulk threshold, and they will charge for the delivery. That is a couple of hundred bucks’ difference, all of it pure profit for the gas co.
I can’t just order gas from another supplier, as neither of them will deliver unless I take out a delivery and maintenance contract for the tank with them, for “safety” reasons.* That would require me to break the existing contract, which is a p.i.t.a., and I would end up paying double for the annual maintenance.
* Anybody else smell a cartel?
Anyhow, have a good day. Stay warm!
Linux on old PCs.
My work laptop was swapped out yesterday for a new unit. The tech told me the retired units get the disks wiped and are donated to charity.
It was a good machine (mid range Lenovo Thinkpad), five years old. I think I will pass by or call the Oxfam shop and see what they are charging for them. It would be a good candidate for Linux.