FROM THE TOP ROPE!!!

Someone could format it into essentially static pages and publish it on IPFS. That would probably be the easiest “decentralized hosting” method that remains browsable

That would be Toronto’s Pearson Airport! Often ranked the worst or nearly the worst in North America, depending on the survey. It’s not great…

YYZ is a pretty great song though!

Ugh, my bank does this. But they fucked up so bad, it’s on the client side and so slow that the page loads, and I go to click the login button, and then it moves out from under my cursor and I click the register button.

I don’t know who decided this was a thing people wanted, but they should have their UX license taken away…

Everything local, I assume, means no upload? My dad does house inspections and so there’s like 4 or 5 pdf forms he fills out all the time. If he were using this, would he upload the template every time, or could he upload it once and then fill it out multiple times?

I assume also that it wouldn’t keep a history of each finished file, and it’s all ephemeral?

If instead of a giant omnibus torrent they put a folder structure on IPFS, it would be essentially a fully available streaming Spotify clone with the ability for people to “pin” tracks or albums or artists to have them stay locally on their device…

Just saying…

document.querySelector()?

😛

I mean, pushing pennies up my nose is a transferable skill in that I could push pennies up anyone else’s nose, and I could even make a whole TV career out of a show where I push pennies up people’s noses on the street.

So I’ll instead amend my statement to say that guile isn’t a common or often sought after skill. 😉

I fully support this correction, and I’m glad I know more than I did before. Thanks!

Yeah! I was just coming here to recommend GuixSD or NixOS! Not because they’re normal, but because they’re not, and you have an opportunity to screw around 😅

Fedora and Debian are different but also pretty similar. Arch or Gentoo are more different. The atomics like bazzite and silverblue are even more different. And then there’s NixOS and GuixSD that are basically a completely different paradigm of how to setup a system. And that might be frustrating if it doesn’t work for you, but as a test computer go wild! Heck, try NixOS and GuixSD to experience their differences from each other!

The only other thing I might recommend for a challenge is something like Linux From Scratch where you don’t have any distro and you just build everything yourself. Definitely not recommended for normal people! It’s a project rather than something you can just try out for a weekend. And it may be frustrating, who knows. But if you’re into that kind of thing it may be enlightening!

Listen, I use guix so I’m not against you, but claiming that Guile, or even any scheme / lisp, is a transferable skill is a stretch 😛

As a software developer for 20 years, configuring guix is the only time I’ve encountered guile. And the only time I’ve used any kind of lisp is when I forced myself to during a coding challenge or advent of code thing, just for interest’s sake.

So again, I know what you’re saying, but for me, deep in the industry, guile might as well be a bespoke language for configuring guix 😅

All of her facial features are a bit bigger on the left, like her nose. I wonder if it’s a focal length thing like this dude?

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I might even recommend naming it or tagging it with your name or something similarly identifiable, like ‘local/whatever’ so that 18-month-from-now-you will remember you built this one locally and to update it yourself from source, rather than being like “where the hell did this come from and why can’t I find it now!? Did they remove the repo? Why!?”

I’ll admit I don’t use dockge, so it’s possible I’m misunderstanding…

But I think if you have a source folder on the box, separate from the one you keep your compose files in, you can run:

docker build -t someName:someVersion .

and that will build the image. Then in your normal docker compose folder you just specify the image as matching whatever you built it as, and docker won’t pull images it already has, so it’ll just use the one you already built.

So yeah this source folder is different from the compose folder, but you don’t have source folders for all the stuff you didn’t build, so this shouldn’t really be that different. And the compose part doesn’t care where the images came from once you have them.

I’ve been using a printer called 4barcode for a while. It has an apt package with ppd cups drivers in it, and it works well.

I don’t know the exact model, and I think the brand of the printer might not even be 4barcode and it’s just a different “brand” but really they’re all the same?

That having been said, the one I have once failed to work with a brand of labels on a roll I bought in a pinch, but the fanfold ones I’ve been using from Amazon work well.

But it’s a title…

I honestly hadn’t even noticed, so I’m surprised it bothered you so much. But I guess I get grumpy about other random bullshit sometimes…

Entirely unrelatedly, I think I’ve concluded that black men are also real women.

Congratulations, you’re the man they’re trying to forget exists for 10 fucking minutes a day in their off time!

The good news is that’s the first step to being maybe eventually okay at this!

I think there’s people who have gaming as a hobby, and people who have speccing and building a gaming PC as a hobby.

And Valve was never going to sell anything to the PC Hobby crowd, because they get their fun from squeezing every dime and finding the absolute best bang for the buck or whatever.

So I think it’s sensible for Valve to be like “yeah, we’re just going to make a pretty good machine for people who don’t care about how much VRAM it has”.

And the comments of every review and YouTube video will be full of people complaining about how you can get so much more for so much less, and that it’s dogshit, but that’s because the people on those sites are the hobby people.

But that won’t necessarily translate into selling like hotcakes. I hope it does, for several reasons, but only time will tell if there’s enough people in the market for that kind of machine that aren’t the hobby people.