Black Friday, the shopping day is a gimmick

And one that’s been exported to other countries who don’t even have the same national holiday adjacent to that friday giving people the excuse to shop more on that particular day.

Here it’s nothing but a cynical corporate cash grab.

I’ve used old laptops as battery backed up NAS boxes.

Obviously assumes that you can install a reasonably large drive and that the battery still has some life left in it.

I was about to say something similar.

I suspect that people in their target market not being made aware of it is part of the problem that is leading them to shut down.

Don’t bring that to their attention- they’ll start banning open source too.

I tried FreeBSD many years ago (back when I was on dialup and bought a book with the FreeBSD install CD included…).

At the time it was interesting to tinker with, and I did use it as a dual-boot on my Win95 computer, but I moved on to Linux when Knoppix came along.

At the time linux seemed more end user friendly.

Maybe I should spin up an install just for nostalgia sake, and to see where it’s at these days.

It’s also on the cusp of a major upgrade release, so good documentation of the latest version’s features will be in high demand very soon.

Checkout Trump’s history of making his “close personal friend” Bibi happy if you want to be even more angry.

Multiple TB when setting up a new server to mirror an existing one. (Did an initial copy with both together in the same room, before moving the clone to a physically separate location. Doing that initial copy would saturate the network connection for a week or more otherwise)

I’d expect Apple’s move to be followed by a lot of creators adding a “Don’t use the iOS Patreon app”

I’ve already received similar posts from a couple of patreon accounts I follow.

The only reason I paid for Lightburn in the first place is because it’s the only even slightly mature laser software that supports Linux.

Given this news, what are our options?

LagerGRBL seems to be open source, but nobody packages that for Linux as far as I can tell.

And I wasn’t able to find anything else when I was looking last year.

If a question type gets tedious you can disable that “quest” in the settings.

That improved my experience. I disabled the things that my city generally doesn’t have, and it made my questing much more enjoyable.

What was the last version of Windows you used before hopping on over?

Windows95

I got sick of constantly dealing with the BSOD.

Well when you outsource all your skilled jobs to other countries for a few decades, it shouldn’t be a surprise that they will move ahead of your country in the skills needed to compete against you.

That quest for extreme short term profits at the expense of your own long term sustainability/survivability has come back to bite you in the ass. Congratulations corporate America, you’ve played yourself.

i tought i heard somewhere about her being a fascist?

Without any background or context or evidence on that accusation, I am hesitant to accept “I thought I heard somewhere” .

Actual fascists and nazis have been projecting that accusation onto their opponents for a while now.

I think it also depends on the locale.

When I look at both Kijiji and Facebook marketplace, I see far more listings on Kijiji.

We’re Watching Facebook Die

It’s not happening fast enough.

I didn’t say it wouldn’t work for me, only that they make it hard to get here.

It would be cool if they sold the thing in (or were willing to ship to) my country…

Definately war crimes.

The US government has never been supportive of the ICC.

And has always been a strong supporter of Israel no matter what they are doing.