Not far from how my GF (and the rest of her side of the family) prefers their steak: crust, and red only. Nothing but the outside should be cooked.

To paraphrase (and translate) her uncle: Light a candle in a field, and guide the cow past it.

Additionally:

Normal and antinormal - perpendicular to prograde and retrograde.

Source: well over 2000 hours in KSP

Good move. I have my home network and its home lab the same way I run my work networks and server clusters:

1. Management network over regular copper ethernet. This is what’s routed over VPN for remote access. IPMI also connects here for when something really stupid happens.
2. High speed fiber connecting all the servers. Not routed out - it’s only used for comms between the servers. This serves as a backup in case the management port dies. It has saved me a couple of times: shell in to one of the others the normal way, the from there I can jump into any other server via the fiber connection.

Well, I’m a mod, so if this were reddit, anyone not laughing at the joke would be banned.

Not always; Fuck you. I wish you the best.

What’s your favorite dinosaur? 🦕

Thai: 555

I used (and still sometimes use) o_O for the same reaction

In my case it’s simply because I absolutely hate being approached on the street. I have in later years learned to just look offending strangers dead in the eye and angrily interrupt them with a “NO!” as I keep moving with the impetus of a howitzer shell.

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(Any way to remove color/syntax hilighting from this 4-act ascii porn?)

Yeah, that sounds very familiar, except they don’t (as far as I know) have a base nearby. I think they were trying to expand.

Met a pair of recruiters once, trying to sign me up that’s all. It was nearly 15 years ago, so I don’t remember much of what was actually said. I’m averse enough already when approached on the street, and once I understood that it was what I classified as new age self-help gibberish I noped out. I later learned that they were from the scientologists.

Heh, I have that book upstairs. When reading it to my daughter, she was horrified that rats would do such a thing.

I have a pelicase of 40 4TB SAS drives sitting in my basement. It might be worth a fortune one day.

Ok, time for me to ask, because not knowing isn’t getting any less embarrassing:

1. Which movie/show is this freeze frame from? Seems familiar. Sure, I’ve seen a million variations of the meme, but I think I’ve actually seen the original at some point.
2. Where’s the head from originally? And yes, I am aware of the stonks-meme. Before that.

Does it have to be a new laptop? What you’re describing is basically a used work laptop. I’ve gotten to take my work PCs with me upon leaving, and I use them still. My current work laptop is in fact the work laptop from my previous employer, only with a fresh reinstall (Linux Minr Debian Edition), and it works well.

If you’re able to source a 2nd hand Dell, you’ll probably have what you need. Might need a battery replacement, but that’s easy enough to sort out.

Linux Mint works pretty well out of the box for most installs, so I suggest you give it a try and see if it does what you need.

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I can’t speak for the other mods, but I think it’s a reasonable question and see no reason for deletion.

I was thinking the same thing, except a rock. I frequently visit ships as part of my job, and it would be no problem dumping it somewhere it would be likely to remain undisturbed for the rest of eternity. A grain if sand is likely to move with the currents. A rock will not.

Fuck no.

Sure, sometimes I think of the freedom I had in 2008-2010ish with a nice paycheck no responsibilities to speak of, and loads of spare time. But I feel that that span of time was too short to be representative of anything. Before that I was perpetually broke and after that I had to pretend to be an adult.