Sure. Heck, occasionally I do actually do that, like if I post a piece of information that I’ve looked up and then refer back to it later.
Sure. Heck, occasionally I do actually do that, like if I post a piece of information that I’ve looked up and then refer back to it later.
It looks like a fair bit of it was TV-watching, which is now being displaced.
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Some will, some won’t. Not a hivemind.
Yes. I wouldn’t be preemptively worried about it, though.
Your scan is going to try to read and maybe write each sector and see if the drive returns an error for that operation. In theory, the adapter could respond with a read or write error even if a read or write worked or even return some kind of bogus data instead of an error.
But I wouldn’t expect this to likely actually arise or be particularly worried about the prospect. It’s sort of a “could my grocery store checkout counter person murder me” thing. Theoretically yes, but I wouldn’t worry about it unless I had some reason to believe that that was the case.
I feel like I’m reasonably tolerant towards GNU Hurd.
What hardware and Linux distro would you use in this situation?
The distro isn’t likely to be a factor here. Any (non-super-specialized) distro will be able to solve issues in about the same way.
I mean, any recommendation is going to just be people mentioning their preferred distro.
I don’t know whether saltwater exposure is a concern. If so, that may impose some constraints on heat generation (if you have to have it and storage hardware in a waterproof case).
One last thought- Bakelite seems to love dust. I’m going to dust them regularly, but if there is a way to light them well without making the dust show up well, that would be great.
Are you going to listen to the radios or look at them?
If you don’t need to listen to them, so the glass won’t be an issue, I imagine that you could put them in one of those glass-fronted display cabinets that are designed for this sort of thing, displaying china and such.
EDIT: Also, I remember reading that Bakelite does slowly break down. I don’t know if sunlight accelerates that; it does affect a lot of substances. If so, you might want to keep it away from sunlight.
kagis
Yeah, sounds like it.
Extended exposure to heat and sunlight also degrades pure Bakelite faster than more advanced plastics.
Discoloration – Bakelite often yellows with age and extended UV exposure. Keeping items out of sunlight can minimize this effect.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-LH65WMRWBGCXEN-WM65R-Monitor/dp/B07WT547MM/
Here’s a 65" monitor being sold by Amazon UK. It’s less, though also touch.
EDIT: Though I really hope that that wattage rating is just an error in Amazon’s database.
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-C8621QT-85-6-Touchscreen-Monitor/dp/B0CJ5S18TT
Here’s an 85" monitor.
At 190 lbs, though, that’s getting back into the same “I don’t want to haul that up stairs” territory that CRTs were getting into near the end of their days. I think I’d start looking at projectors with nice screens at that point.
If there’s a better way to configure Docker, I’m open to it, as long as it doesn’t require rebuilding everything from scratch.
You could try using lvmcache (block device level) or bcachefs (filesystem level caching) or something like that, have rotational storage be the primary form of storage but let the system use SSD as a cache. Dunno what kind of performance improvements you might expect, though.
I talked to a Baskin Robins ice cream shop manager during a summer (not peak time for the disease) in the pandemic who was wearing a mask (surgical, not the N95 variety) and asked him when he planned to stop, and he had an interesting point. He said that it was that some customers got upset if they saw someone working at the store not wearing one, that it affected their sales. It sounded like for him, it wasn’t so much whether-or-not he thought that the mask was providing much of a benefit, but a straightforward computation as to what brought in customers: like, if he could get more sales by wearing a fluorescent outfit, he’d wear fluorescent.
then I started watching blich and it was good.
Bleach?
I’ve never heard of this job, but with a search or two, it sounds kind of like he rappels to points on tall structures to check for structural issues and such using X-rays.
“Either it’s safe and it doesn’t come up or it isn’t and we have ourselves legally covered.”
Software engineers don’t really – well, in the US anyway, might differ elsewhere – have a formal accreditation process, which I understand is common in other areas of engineering and is a bit of a point of friction with people in some other fields. Like, you don’t get to just roll up and say “I’m a civil engineer and I’m building a bridge now” the way you can a software engineer writing a software package.
I don’t especially think that such a process would be incredibly practical, but…shrugs
I’m not familiar with either. Taking a quick glance, Archive of Our Own is for fanfics, and Royal Road is for original web serials?
EDIT: No, Royal Road has some fanfics too.
lemmy.today. I like their “we aim to try to not defederate with other instances” policy, and they’re geographically near me.
Kagi. Search engine that doesn’t log or data-mine users; it charges a subscription fee. Does some neat things like specifically index and allow searching of the Fediverse. It works fine, but that’s not really my interest: I really just don’t want to have a search engine provider logging and data-mining my searches, and I’m happy to finally have an option to avoid that.
Wikipedia. Being the “store of all human knowledge” may be ambitious, but Wikipedia’s been having a pretty good go at it, and has killed off most commercial encyclopedias.
Stuff that I don’t use daily, but do probably have a good chance of having used in a given week:
Google Earth. There’s no real alternative to this out there: it sucks in a lot of satellite and aerial imagery to let one get some degree of 3d view of much of Earth. Also convenient for measuring distances, including multi-hop trips.
Amazon. The world’s largest retail selection and is available wherever you live. Twenty years back, one significant argument for living in or near a city was shopping choice. Amazon provides a much larger selection all over. Maybe for some of the younger crowd, that doesn’t seem like a big deal, and it’s a change that didn’t happen overnight, but the change over time is pretty remarkable. I don’t buy everything from them – Walmart.com provides better delivery options for food and some other things that they sell, Monoprice.com has long been my go-to provider for computer cables (which have historically seen obscene markups at brick-and-mortar retail), and I used to use Newegg for their better product database. Aside from the constant nagging to subscribe to Amazon Prime, I’m pretty happy with them.
YouTube. It’s the world’s largest provider of on-demand video. Not only that, but for a lot of non-fiction stuff, it’s a lot better than any commercial streaming service. I don’t subscribe to their premium service, though I would if I could get a “no log, no analytics” guarantee of the sort that Kagi provides.
Maybe Tineye. Image-keyed index of images: feed it an image or URL of an image, and it will tell you where it’s seen it, including the earliest time and the best-quality version of the image. It uses fuzzy matching, so it’s capable of identifying similar images with certain kinds and levels of modification. There’s no alternative for figuring out where some images may have come from or digging up less-overly-compressed version of images. I’m surprised that some of the image search providers – which have to build an image index as well – haven’t provided this feature.
Stuff that I used to use daily:
Reddit. I was kind of sad when they transitioned to the new Web UI, but kept using the old one. But killing off the third-party clients was the breaking point for me.
Yahoo, then Altavista, then Google. Main search engines. Altavista in particular indexed Usenet for a while, and I believe that Google was the first search engine to introduce image search, which was nice.
Slashdot. Before Reddit. Didn’t have Reddit’s variety in topics and wasn’t designed to scale up to what Reddit or the Threadiverse are, but it was a good forum for a while. I do prefer Markdown to Slashdot’s HTML subset, though.
USB print servers to be rather pricey,
I mean, on Amazon, they look to be $25 and up. I guess “pricey” is relative, but that doesn’t seem all that bad.
I don’t know that they’d be less effort to maintain than a laptop or whatever, though, which OP was concerned about. I mean, you might or might not update your laptop, but I’m dubious that an all-in-one print server is gonna be getting updates at all.
and open-source.