I had been flip-flopping for a while, but I figured that it was finally time to get off of Digg.

Flash Gordon

Wherever you go, there you are.

Sounds like people are reporting some of the posts as SPAM/PHISHING… and that there have been enough reports to take down all posts containing links to the municipality.

Actually, Mars was named after its founder, Franklin Clarence Mars.

GO. It’s a Federal Government department that is jointly run by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of International Development, and the Minister of International Trade. Putting out travel advisories is part of their mandate.

Yes. 50s. Canada.

I taught myself. I was 19 and working for a small company (3 employees total) and had a van for work for hauling around equipment. My boss called me to his house one day and told me that he was taking the van for a six-week fishing trip. “You can take my BMW. You know how to drive stick, right?” I shook my head “no.” “Well, you’ll figure it out”. Fortunately, he lived in the country so it was all quiet backroads for most of the trip home. By the time I got into the city, I (usually) didn’t stall it at traffic lights.

A couple years later, I took a three-day motorcyle (newb to driving licence) course. Three out of fifteen students knew how to drive a manual transmission car. Only the three of us passed and got our licence - the others were having trouble stalling 'cause it was the first time they had ever dealt with a clutch. (note: this was typical, the ones who didn’t pass could come back and try the final test again the following weekend).

Canadian here… in spring, 10C is shorts and t-shirt weather, eh?

I think it’s extremely unlikely that he’s not dead. If Prigozhin were to surface elsewhere in the world (e.g. Africa), Putin would be even more of a laughing stock. Putin simply wouldn’t risk anything less than absolute certainty.

However, I doubt that Prigozhin was alive when the plane took off; most likely Utkin and Chekalov were dead as well. Best guess is that the three were killed the night before.

If anyone is interested a Defederation Investigator has been created. You can check to see which instances have defederated from your own.
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HELLO

Always wipe and do a fresh install. If you’re installing Linux, its unlikely that the refurbisher will have installed your flavour of Linux anyway. If you want to dual-boot with Windows, most business ThinkPads come with a Windows Pro licence - just download the ISO and install it fresh, then install Linux.

Refurbished ThinkPads are awesome!

• Availability - ThinkPads are very popular in corporate environments and are generally replaced every 2-3 years. Although mostly Intel CPUs, there is a wide variety CPU+GPU available from lightweight to high performance.
• Tough + well built + last forever
• Easy to upgrade/repair. They’re very user-accessible and its simple to upgrade RAM or SSD/M.2 drives. Plus, because they are so popular in the corporate environment, replacement parts (from batteries to WiFi+Bluetooth chipsets to trckpads) are very available and cheap.
• Well supported in most (if not all) linux distros. Graphics just work, trackpads just work, WiFi just works.
• Cheap.

Sent from my ThinkPad T580 (with both an internal and removable battery, I get 10+ hours of battery life)

Now and then I think of when I was in power
Like choking people with the Force until they died
But then you told them all my history
And took away my masculinity
And had my character portrayed by subpar actors.

https://youtu.be/qJlbPXZEpRE

I’m running FireFox on Debian/XFCE. This is what works for me…

1. Right click on the toolbar window bar
2. Select “Customise Toolbar…” from the popup menu
3. Uncheck the “Title Bar” option in the lower-left corner

I wrote a bash script that runs daily which 7z (AES256) the databases (well… I dump the DB as text and then 7z those files), web files (mostly WordPress), user files, all of /etc, and generate a list of all installed packages, and then copy the archives to a timestamped folder on my Google drive (I keep the last two nights, plus the last 3 Sundays).

TBH, the zipped content is around 1.5GB for each backup. So my 17GB of free GDrive space more than enough. If I actually had a significant amount of data, I’d look into a more robust long term solution.

If there was a catastrophic failure, it’d take me around six hours to rebuild a new server and test it.

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Is there snow around? If so, write your name in the snow.

Otherwise, piss as high as you can on a tree, a lamppost, or the corner of a building to mark your territory and assert your dominance.

^this

I had been going to Sunday School for a year or so and frankly the whole religion thing didn’t make any real sense to me in explaining the world around us, humanity, higher powers, or anything. It was a lot of ‘trust us’ with no substance. So, I told my mum that I didn’t want to go to church anymore and she said ‘ok’ - and we never did again.

I was four (almost five) BTW. At no time in the subsequent 50-odd years have I ever had any doubts about my atheism.