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Yah, someone pointed out my mistake. Ah, well.

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Itโ€™s in AUR. Thereโ€™s also a -bin version.

aur.archlinux.org/packages/mullvad-browser

How to fool a laptop into thinking a monitor is connected?

Hello! I converted an old laptop with a broken screen into a home server, and it all works well except for one thing: when I reboot it (via ssh), if no screen is connected, it will get stuck and refuse to boot. as soon as I connect an HDMI monitor, the fans will start spinning and it will start booting as usual. Then I can...

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Is it getting stuck in the BIOS? If you canโ€™t ssh in, can you even ping it? Network should come up before graphics.

Have you disabled the display manager?

As someone eles mentioned, boot it with a screen and check the BIOS. Since this was a laptop, the BIOS is certainly expecting a display, so you might have to adjust something there.

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Heโ€™s the one endorsed by the NRA, and theyโ€™re still dominant in the gun community. Itโ€™s hard to find ranges that arenโ€™t just a sea of MAGA caps.

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Lucky you.

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NGL, this one used to worry me.

But then I discovered Nair!

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TIL that being an actor requires a law degree if you donโ€™t want to potentially end up in jail.

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My head canon is that this was many people, over time, not one person.

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A royally abused heat pump.

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It always bugs me a bit that all ST handgun-like phasers are โ€œType 2โ€, regardless of which design. I get what theyโ€™re doing, itโ€™s just confusing. There are more than one TOS Type 2 designs, and obv. TOS Type 2 are radically different from TNG Type 2, of which there were several variations. The toxonomist in me wishes theyโ€™d been given at least sub-types; as it is, theyโ€™re categorized by (in-universe) date of introduction. But the shows and props department were sort of all over with them, making tweaks between seasons, so it can be rough to talk about without having memory-alpha up in a window.

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Hahahaha! Fantastic!

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Iโ€™d bet Willy could out-smoke Snoop. Itโ€™d be a fun contest, either way.

I wonder if theyโ€™ve ever hung out together.

I'm so frustrated rn.

I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, thereโ€™s always something that doesnโ€™t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I havenโ€™t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but thereโ€™s always something thatโ€™s broken in every distro....

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I know I should be smarter about them like you are

TIL being lazy is โ€œsmartโ€.

Nokia 3310!! Those were the days. When you had drive over to your hosting provider (some guyโ€™s garage, who was paying for a T1) so you could sit at your server (a tower youโ€™d built) to fix something that an upgrade had broken. Those experiences with dependency hell put me off Redhat forever.

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I really like DeWALT. I think itโ€™s a solid choice, and I doubt anyone who isnโ€™t a professional will notice the difference in quality between those and Makita. Plus, they have some neat tools that have unusual features that make an unexpectedly large improvement in ease-of-use.

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Amen.

You can make pasta with flour, water, and salt. Add yeast, and you can make country loaf bread. Add a little sugar, butter, & milk, and you can make white sandwhich bread, or dumplings for soup. These are absurdly easy recipes, almost impossible to mess up. Change the portions, and you have sugar cookies, like you said! Splurge on chocolate chips and you can have chocolate chip cookies. Get some baking soda, and you can make crackers.

Flourโ€™s about 80ยข/lb. Salt is $10 for 26 oz, which will last many, many recipes. Yeast is $1.50/oz. For $25, you can make about 25 loaves of bread, and still have a bunch of salt left over.

Flour is the single best, and most versitile, calorie-to-dollar value food.

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Iโ€™m starting to like Thumb Key. It may have the hardest learning curve Iโ€™ve ever seen, but itโ€™s highly configurable, the developer is super active, and it has a ton of nicely implemented features. I feel as if itโ€™ll be like vim: hard to get up to speed on, but once the muscle memory takes hold, Iโ€™ll be extremely productive with it.

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XPS make great Linux machines, but I find their batteries have a noticable drop after a year or so.

My next machine is going to be a FrameWork, so that I can easily replace the battery.

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Well, donโ€™t let me put you off of it; Rust Desk is pretty nice, and user friendly. Justโ€ฆ keep any eye on it if you run it on your phone. Maybe you wonโ€™t have any problems, but if you start noticing reboots, youโ€™ll have an idea of why.

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Thatโ€™s awesome, thanks!

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Why?

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Is it polynomially recursive? Like, the AML stands for โ€œAML MAML LAMLโ€, and so on?

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Good. For one thing, we can move on to drama about something else. But, also, Iโ€™d like to play with it without having to build a kernel.

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So, I did a whole asciinema demonstration to show you, but it was getting tedious. It started to turn into a whole tutorial, and I really didnโ€™t want to go there. Thatโ€™s why itโ€™s taken so long for me to reply.

But there are three things I do with nnn:

  • move things. I use the tabs (1-4) to open different directories, space-select multiple items, and โ€˜vโ€™ to move selected items to directories
  • bulk rename. Again, space-select and ctrl-r to bulk rename. Often, I donโ€™t even select, I just โ€˜Rโ€™ to bulk rename the whole directory. This opens my text editor with all of the file/Dir names; edit freely, save, exit, and nnn renames whatever changed.
  • move/copy to remote locations. With โ€˜cโ€™ nnn can mount a remote directory over ssh in a tab, and it works just like a local directory, with copying, moving, and renaming seamlessly between tabs.

I donโ€™t โ€œliveโ€ in nnn; itโ€™s a tool I open when I want to do certain things - itโ€™s fast enough to use this way. But you certainly could, since nnn can fork shell processes in selected directories.

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I unfortunately do not have your crystaline perfect recall. I used vi/m for nearly 20 years before drifting onto kakoune and now helix; Iโ€™ve been using them for about a year, and itโ€™s getting harder and harder to not make reflexive mistakes when Iโ€™m trying to use vim. sed was already odd with regex escaping (parens but not brackets? Why??), and I know the less I use it the more Iโ€™ll forget. This is crippling when I have to work on a system that doesnโ€™t have these new tools installed.

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We learned in the actual space vampire episode that they donโ€™t like Vulcans.

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