vipaal

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[โ€“] vipaal@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Ah Found it ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] vipaal@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Looks like the article was edited since this comment No reference to Mercury retrograde anywhere to be seen Or, is there some other article mentioning it?

[โ€“] vipaal@aussie.zone -2 points 5 months ago

Been a few years since using Emacs extensively. From memory, IRC is a good fit for what you are after for texts and some emojis. No clue regarding multimedia messages.

If IRC is acceptable

Make your own channel on say, Libera chat, set your own rules for how long those messages are retained. Make a user for each of your devices. You are set. I've used ERC a few years under Emacs. Also used GNUS for reading and writing emails from the big providers.

[โ€“] vipaal@aussie.zone 8 points 6 months ago

If the MacBook is an Apple Silicon Mn processor one, Asahi is the obvious choice

For other cases

My first suggestion would be to try the distribution you used in WSL

Second would be Linux Mint, can't go wrong with either of Ubuntu edition or the Debian edition

Third would be OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Though a rolling distribution, with easy rollback commands, any unusable state can easily be left behind

[โ€“] vipaal@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

OpenSUSE newcomer here, from decades of Debian and Debian derived systems.

I vote Debian with Xfce4 for the base system with Nix or Guix to let the kids freely install and play with software as required without requiring root. Stable release should be good. Testing release if time and resources to keep up with the updates are at hand.

Along with teaching the kids computers and software, please also consider teaching them how the Debian packagers, maintainers, developers, testers, admins, etc work and might never meet others in the project whilst releasing a great system every couple of years.

[โ€“] vipaal@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Around the same time just have a think did a deeper dive on the idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcSnwW5v3f8 . In the spirit of protecting the environment, it would be good to accommodate birds, wildlife etc in the thought process.

Like you said, looks like a combination of resources, financing, political will and, the technology itself seem to have come together to bring us here.

[โ€“] vipaal@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

True, I think the building is 5 or 6 stories tall. Not ABC, across the street from it.

I see businesses like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s2b4US1Xdk every now and then. The fact that not one of them has taken off yet should have told me volumes.

Thanks for the detailed response.

[โ€“] vipaal@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Does anyone know anything about vertical axis wind turbines? I see a lonely VAWT on the rooftop of the building across the street from ABC on Harris Street Ultimo. Could neatly complement rooftop solar panels.

[โ€“] vipaal@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, that'd be the best hope for an in class course.

Probably explains why they went online mode instead of in class mode for the two courses. Casting their net wider. If I'm not too wrong, brochures and flyers and posters for these courses have already arrived in every one of those 48 countries and would pounce on every potential student.

I do wish how QEMU (and VLC media player?) came out of France or Mastodon came out of Germany, Arduino came out of Italy, something of note comes from down under too. Something other than Atlassian. Sadly Aussie grads seem to find overseas employment more attractive, and most of those who stay don't essentially work in their fields of study.

[โ€“] vipaal@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One scenario where these sustainable degrees may make any sense is, you are a business who engages consulting firms, and you get a recommendation from them saying that you could use some C suits or one of the direct reports to your C suits carrying an ESG cred so that you can tick off a few boxes. So corporate staff are most likely to be the target for this degree.

[โ€“] vipaal@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably the hug of death is more due to most other clothing businesses not doing the lifetime guarantee than customers abusing. I see no motivation for buying at one place and taking it to another if both offer the same guarantees.

[โ€“] vipaal@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I had removed all chromium browsers and disabled chrome. The link opens in chrome which has no extensions. User hostile or in this case citizen hostile sites are the normal government attitudes it seems.

Questions on the survey inspire no hope either.

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