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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Giga, Mega, Kilo...these are all SI prefixes; they differ by a factor of one thousand, which is very clean in base ten.

Ten in binary systems isn't special, but two is; and two to the ten is very nearly a thousand, and a thousand separates the major SI prefixes. This is a neat coincidence, but should not IMHO change the meaning of the prefix.

Metric units are awesome in large part because of the use of prefixes; messing up the meaning of prefixes is a disservice to the SI/metric system. Giga == billion independent of the context. A light-year is close to 10 petameters, but no one would claim it's exactly 10Pm.

Now, if you want to call it an "imperial gigabyte," by all means...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

The crazy thing is, d-limonene can be used as a paint thinner, you can burn it in a diesel or a jet engine, and when ingested it can reduce heartburn.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If you want a non-hazardous (to humans) degreaser, d-limonene can be purchased food grade. It's just orange oil, has similar properties to kerosene, but is "generally recognized as safe" by the FDA and EFSA. Commonly found in liquid hand soap.

Basically, it's paint thinner you can drink.

It can also be used as an additive in petroleum based cleaners, in which case, definitely not a good idea to drink!

More to your question, I usually start with hot soapy water as a first pass, but it probably won't get your chain looking like new--need the degreasers for that.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 16 points 1 month ago

Far right leaders in power? Simple, just reverse polarity!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

First, that would be lousy public transit design and the route should be rethought.

Second


does this hyppthetical bus run other routes? Is it electric, powered by overhead lines?

Of course you can up with niche counterexamples for an argument presented in meme format, but that doesn't mean it's not, broadly speaking, correct.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm in California, but we still (currently) have the same federal bullshit requirements. Doctor friend said I should lie.

Made an appointment, and the pharmacist asked if I was immunocompromised, or XYZ, and I just told them that I qualify---no follow up questions, just a jab in the arm.

To be fair, I do have anxiety that my government is trying to kill me, but that's just crazy...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

I wonder what the effective range is if it's charging at every stop (obviously depends on tons of factors).

Busses are a neat use case for electric vehicles in this regard.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Though, technically that leaves you more at risk of ransomeware or something that overwrites your data.

I rsync as well, but use snapshotting on the remote drives. So, a bad rsync would suck but shouldn't really result in data loss. Ransomware on my local+remote server would of course be very bad...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

I do something similar


I have a raspberry pi and a HD, with daily rsync and snapshots (monthly retained indefinitely, weekly retained for a month, daily retained for a week). It's at family's house, connected to my home via WireGuard via a VPS. Tailscale (or anything really) would also work here.

It's a great setup! Just have some watchdog reboot if it can't talk to home (a simple cronjob with ping -c1 home.lan || reboot or similar).

Even our "slow" 35Mbps upload speed is way more than enough for incremental rsyncs of my Immich library. The initial sync was done in person, though.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I got one from goHardDrive on eBay (link). It was cheap enough, looks flawless, and knock on wood has been working fine.

Googling around, the brand gets...mixed reviews. My use case is such that of this drive fails it's not a big deal.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago

Pretty obvious fix here


fire the CDC researchers.

(/s...)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

poweroff and reboot work as advertised for me, but I'm running headless homelab servers and a laptop with i3. Maybe DEs/GUI shutdown is more subtle?

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