So take the knife, put your thumb and index finger on either side with the web of your hand on the blunt side of the knife with the sharp side away from you. Squeeze the back of the pit and it should pop right off.

Some places do but swipe and sign is still pipular here. Chip and tap are catching on but most places have all 3

Yeah, I actually just started looking at running windows in a containet on Linux and then using RDP, hopefully I’ll get a chance to play with it this week… would let me run windows things without rebooting!

Yeah, I’ve tried it and it kindof worked last I tried. I had an issue where the browser in the upper left just wouldn’t expand and it keeps giving me warnings about direct x expiring. I was hoping to use it but I don’t know if Fusion on Wine is really ready for prime time. :(

Oh, I’ve been a Linux user for a long time, mostly on the server, not as a Desktop. Unfortunately Fusion 360 kindof runs under wine but not really so it’s still the one thing I have to reboot for.

The big thing for me is a hotkey which launches a window I can put in an application (partial is fine) or command and it starts or runs the command… so I do <Ctrl>+<Space>dark and it launches darktable. You can also have plugins that do things. So for example, after I upload my .torrent files, I delete them locally. So I have a rm command which just runs rm ~/Downloads/*.torrent.

Yes, I could click on the menu, type in the command I’m looking for but this is a little quicker. Plugins also allow you to do complicated tasks quickly.

I dunno, I’ve gotten used to it.

Seriously, Ubuntu used to be my goto distro but Canonical’s shenanigans have caused me to look elsewhere. So far I’m liking OpenSUSE tumbleweed.

Seriously, I thought I’d need to install something or configure something, nope, one toggle in Steam. I think everyone who uses Steam and Linux should know about this!

Yeah, I’m just so used to Fusion that it’s hard for me to make the switch. I’m probably going to get tired of rebooting and start looking at FreeCAD 1.0.

Taco Tuesday… on a Wednesday!

I read 1984… I really liked it but I thought the whole war is peace, freedom is slavery bit was something that no one would really buy. Then Trump took office and I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. I now believe 1984 and don’t question it at all. :(

I’m not really pro-china on much of anything but I agree with them on this. Trump’s tariff’s are bullshit and he should be called out on them.

There’s a whole darknet diaries episode 153: Bike Index where he basically talks about stolen bikes being sold on Facebook and Facebook doesn’t seem to care. They can’t get the facebook pages shut down and this guy continues to sell stolen bikes on Facebook.

I think what you want is either plex or Jellyfin which will give you a nice UI to browse your already downloaded files.

Now how do you browse new releases and figure out what you want to download? I just setup https://overseerr.dev/ to go along with sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, nzbget, transmission… it’s a lot of different services but they all work well together. Now to look for new movies, I or my family goes to Overseerr to request downloads, then plex to watch.

I had a coworker come to me with an “issue” he learned about. It was wrong and it wasn’t really an issue and the it came out that he got it from ChatGPT and didn’t really know what he was talking about, nor could he cite an actual source.

I’ve also played around with it and it’s given me straight up wrong answers. I don’t think it’s really worth it.

It’s just predictive text, it’s not really AI.

I’ve been listening to A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs and let me tell you, the music industry can fuck right off. Small indie label? I’ll probably buy it, but one of the major record labels? Set sail mateys.

If you are looking for FOSS, I highly recommend joplin. It’s simple but works well. I used it for many years until recently I switched to Obsidian. I dislike that Obsidian isn’t FOSS but I’m using the free tier and the community plugins really make it so much more powerful than Joplin. They both store things in Markdown so I’m not locked down to their ecosystem which I think is a requirement for any note taking app.