I think (?) it’s generally true that the root user should never mess with users’ files.

Imagine your home directory is shared across many systems on a network (my alma mater did this). It would be really bad if a sysadmin for alpha.university.edu removed a program, and suddenly your personal settings were removed from beta.university.edu — even though that computer still has the program.

This is one of the “UNIX on the desktop” issues — a lot is designed for a sysadmin/multiuser situation, and it has some gotchas when using it as a desktop machine (I’m used to/really appreciate the directory structure and settings management at this point, but it may take some getting used to).

I have an old Nexus 6P, spiritually the Pixel 0.

Replaced the battery at some point, and it’s now entered service as the toddler’s entertainment on airplanes.

It’s old and slow, but the screen still looks really good.

Am I traveling with a fixed per diem, or do I need to submit receipts/costs for reimbursements?

Totally unscientific observation, but it seems that at airports they rarely ask if you want a receipt, and just assume that you do — which makes sense in the context of business travel.

No doubt in my mind.

Right, I just meant that you can’t sudo cat file > /dev/sda but you can sudo dd ..., because IO redirection isn’t elevated to root with sudo. I’m not saying anything too profound :)

Compiling a kernel yourself isn’t a big deal these days, especially with DKMS. Generally the type of people I’ve encountered who care about which kernel version they’re usiyare the type of people who are capable of compiling it themselves…

One caveat is that you will need write access to the drive, which probably means you need to run as root — can’t run that with sudo as-is, unlike dd.

Also a super useful tool for measuring real world bandwidth, both on physical media and over the network ( dd status=progress ... | nc ...).

My toddler does that.

That’s crazy — hypercrazy , if you will.

It can be extremely luxurious if you pay.

I’d rather get to my destination with my wallet still in tact, but you do you.

My favorite hypercorrection (a hyperforeignism, if you like) is “habañero,” and really stressing the “ñ” when you say it.

Except it’s just “habanero,” plain ol’ “n.” The confusion is presumably due to “jalapeño” having an accent.

I picked up an old HP LaserJet (with the Ethernet option) for free during grad school. It was a great printer — good CUPS/Linux support, reliable, cheap 3rd party toner.

It’s sad how the mighty have fallen. Would never recommend one for someone today.

Yeah, you can also find “crystal radio” kits — radio receivers that use only the received RF to produce sound (no external power source).

Imagine I have two choices: end world hunger, or end world hunger and kick a puppy. If I choose to end world hunger but also kick a puppy…well I’m kinda a dick, right? Ultimately I did a very good thing ending word hunger, so on balance, my actions are “net positive.” But the choice I actually made was to kick a puppy.

Now, I need to eat. So I have a choice: eat yummy food and don’t kill an animal, or eat yummier food and do kill and animal. The choice I’m effectively faced with is, “kill an animal for better taste.”

It’s totally up to you to decide if that is a good choice for you personally.

If course it’s not always so simple, and there are financial, cultural, and health reasons that complicate this. But for some folks (like myself) that’s kinda how I view it.

Property can take a while to close — offer to title in under 30 days is on the quick side.

Of course, you could probably close very fast if you offered 100M cash on a 10M property…

I just got one of the cheap Chromecast+Google TV things and I’m pleasantly surprised by the Jellyfin app.

UI is definitely sluggish on home screen.

For those who don’t know… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo

I dunno. One developer thrown under the bus gives zero confidence to customers and shareholders that this exact same thing won’t happen again.

There’s sort of no way of only blaming ICs while simultaneously reassuring those who matter that We’ve Learned Our Lesson.

Or not. We’ll see I guess!

I’m sure there are, but they were not available at Jumbo (or any of the other stores I went to). In the US, I generally find them at any store I go to (a long with JIF, etc. of course) — I never have to “look hard enough” to find it.

This was a decade ago, so perhaps things changed.