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You might check out recipes for Indian lemon pickle. It’s a way of salt fermenting them that results in a spicy delicious condiment that can last for ages.

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50 is great for just a light jacket and jeans. You’ll never get too hot, you won’t get too cold. So, yeah, as long as you’ve got clothes on it’s pretty perfect.

If I want to wear less clothes then 70 is a good bit better, but 50 is damn comfortable.

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Weather/room temp wise we probably never will. I’d rather think of my environment in terms of 0 to 100 than in terms of -18 to 38. For science and engineering, Celsius is ideal, and I can convert between the two in the very rare occasion I need to because I’m not an idiot who can’t do basic math.

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Oh shit I better pull that ice out of my freezer then, I about blew up the world

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Want an honest answer?

Onboard are >=2 bits of code. At least one of those is a specific system trained to recognize a “wake word”. This specific system (ostensibly) doesn’t send anything to an outside party. Its entire job is to recognize one wake phrase: Alexa, Ok Google, or Siri, and then if that wake phrase is used it responds and tells the second system to listen. As you can imagine, this is a pretty easy job to get right 80% of the time. So that can be put on a chip. So then it does its job, and it’s the second system that sends everything to an internet service for whatever reason.

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It’s a standard tactic for people who do networking things

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Correct.

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It would effect any UEFI based system regardless of OS from one of the affected manufacturers (which is basically all of them).

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Most people have life insurance to pay for their funeral costs, it’s just that a subscription plan for a casket very much isn’t that.

elscallr,
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Beetlejuice? Beetlejuice.

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Data is written to a tape in one direction. It’s on a very long magnetic ribbon. That ribbon is wrapped around two spools.

Once you read through the data you have to wind it all the way backwards to read it front to back again.

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They say you don’t fully understand something until you can explain it to a 7 year old.

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Well… they spelled “19” correctly.

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Just sit them down with it. Kids can figure new technology out.

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You can just grep for carriage returns followed by newlines, grep -Pirn ‘rn$’ /path/to/whatever. It’ll identify all your problematic files.

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Boot from a live distro so you can modify your boot disk. Use the disk utility to create partitions. Copy the data to the relevant partitions ensuring to maintain file ownership and permissions. Modify /etc/fstab to mount the partitions at the designated locations in the filesystem.

I don’t bother putting anything but /home on its own dedicated partition, but if you ask 10 people this question you’ll get 12 opinions, so just do what feels right.

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Note: Create your partitions from your empty space. You may need to resize your existing partition to do this. But don’t practice on your main drive.

This is a simple job, in that the steps are few, but it’s something that causes catastrophic data loss if you get it wrong.

I’d recommend buying a cheap second drive, doesn’t have to be big or even good. Partition it, mount it, make sure you can make the partitions automatically mount, teach yourself to copy data around, umount it and remount, make sure you got it right.

Just… these are all very simple things. I wouldn’t hesitate to repartition my own drives. But if you fuck it up you fuck it up good. Make sure you know the operations you’re taking first. Measure twice, cut once, all that jazz.

elscallr,
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htop and/or btop are more modern user friendly alternatives to the classic top

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Actually just saw btop mentioned on Lemmy the other day lol

How to begin setting up a media center?

I have 16TB NAS dedicated to storing TV shows. It is just a cabinet with ryzen 2600 and no graphics card. I have installed openmediavault in it to access it via smb to other devices. I am an absolute noob in setting up a server. Please tell me how I should go on about turning it into a media consumption machine....

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Plex setup is literally just installing it on a machine. It took me an hour because I decided to move it to a different machine after I set it up.

My few remaining gripes with linux

It’s mostly libinput. Why the hell can’t I easily change scroll speed on Gnome and not on KDE? Why does gnome have a simple tool (gnome tweaks) to change the trackpad cooldown to change the time trackpad doesn’t work as a substitute for good palm rejection and KDE doesn’t? Why is it a bit of a pain in both to change...

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You might check out xfce. It’s gtk like Gnome but the development team doesn’t have their heads up their asses; pretty much every aspect of xfce can be customized. It should be a simple install from your package manager, whatever distribution you’re using. The downside of this, however, is it might take extensive tweaking to get it to look how you want as it’s a pretty bare bones UI by default. Personally I like it, but ymmv.

That’s the beautiful thing about the Linux world. If you don’t like some aspect there’s virtually always an alternative.

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Run command as not-root

Hi everyone

At work, I have to run a command in an AWS instance. In that particular instance only exists the root user. The command should not be executed with root privileges (it executes mpirun, which is not recommended to run as sudo or the machine might break), so I was wondering if there is a way to block or disable the sudo privileges while the command is running. As mentioned, the only user existing there is root, so I suppose "sudo -u" is not an option.

Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks in advance!

@linux

elscallr,
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If a different user doesn’t exist then you obviously can’t run the command as that different user. The only solution here is to create a new user account.

Also your image is improperly configured which is something you should fix first.

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I don’t think you understand what root is. By definition it has those permissions because it’s root.

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You’ll thank yourself for it later. Things like this take a little longer up front but putting them off has a way of making you have to work around it again and again until, when you get around to correcting it, it takes far more time to undo the workarounds than it would’ve taken to correct it the first time.

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Well it was meant to be inspiring. It fulfilled its life mission 1000 fold.

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