I think it was more of a metaphorical objection: “Nashville isn’t this.” Well, clearly, it is, because here’s a picture of something that’s happening in Nashville.

I bought several pairs of shorts recently from the same brand, all the same waist size, and some definitely fit better than others. There are always manufacturing variances.

Brightline. That’s the new one that keeps clobbering idiot Floridian drivers that insist they can beat the train.

But that doesn’t hold a candle to Amtrak’s coverage.

I was on the phone with our ISP after our internet service went out. The rep asked me if the box had a green light on it - yes - then asked me to plug a light into the same outlet and confirm the power was on. I said, “Look, I understand you have to follow a script, but you literally just asked me to confirm the power light on the box was on. Clearly the power is working.”

Same ISP sends me an email whenever we have a power outage letting me know that our internet might not work when the power is out. (I’ve joked that this email arrives before the ceiling fans have come to a stop.) But when my internet goes down, they’re completely clueless. “Ohhhh it must be that your power is out even though we monitor that closely and aren’t showing a power outage right now!”

Thanks. Yep, that makes the comment make more sense!

Because I didn’t know it existed until now. :) I’ll have to look into that, thanks.

Oh, no, it didn’t. Still isn’t, either. Odd. And I’m on the web, not using an app.

This was addressed in Lower Decks. The lower deckers have to do it!

One evening our dog ran off into a ravine by our house. It was getting dark, so I grabbed a flash light and headed down to try to find him. A few minutes in, and I’m near the creek, with higher land to the sides and in front of me. I saw something move and played the flashlight around…at least 8 pairs of eyes staring back at me.

Part of the neighborhood’s cat colony (they’ve been TNR’d). It was a little unnerving to see that many eyes watching me like that.

Didn’t find the dog; he showed up at home about an hour later, happy as can be.

This is a tough one. The problem with local only backups is, what if there’s a fire?

I use Amazon Glacier to store my pictures. It’s $0.0036 / GB per month, so I pay less than $2/month for ~535 GB of storage that I’m using right now. There is also a cost for downloading, but if I need it, I’m going to be happy to pay it (and the costs aren’t crazy). Uploads are free.

(The other problem with Glacier is that it’s not really an end-user-friendly experience, nor is it something easily automated. I use SimpleAmazonGlacierUploader, a Java program someone wrote, to do it. You can also upload to S3 and have it archive things to Glacier automatically - I’ve never tried this but it should work.)

I considered getting my brother or a friend to build two storage servers (with RAID5 or something) that we’d each keep at home, and just sync to each other. Good if you have a friend or family member willing to do it (or at least host your offsite box). Down sides: Cost to build it, time to build and maintain it, cost to replace things that break, plus cost for electricity. I’ve been using Glacier for many years, so by now maybe I would have spent less on that theoretical backup system, but I also did not have to worry about it.

Eh 5 seasons these days is like two seasons of traditional Star Trek.

Hmm. I do, but that was mostly because I would make sandwiches for lunch at work and wanted to help the lunch meat stay cold until it got to the fridge at work. Now I’m mostly work from home…hmm. I likely eat a loaf quickly enough that it wouldn’t go bad.

I started playing with Linux in the late 90s while I was in grad school. Slackware 3.x. I think I might have tried one or two others, but since I was somewhat familiar with Unix, Slackware was the easiest for me to learn.

I got them via CD ROMs; I’m pretty sure they came with a book on Linux (I think it included several distributions on CDs). I don’t think I have that book any more; I likely got rid of it long ago as it was badly out of date. But my memory is that it was published by Que, a publisher that I had good experience with on other topics. (dBase III, for example) I’m pretty sure it was this one…leave it to Amazon to still have it.

I recall recompiling kernel because it was “so much faster” (I cringe at myself now for thinking that - it probably wasn’t even true on my Pentium 133 machines). I also remember spending time trying to get X-windows configured, but I was successful. I think I was using fvwm95 window manager, a Windows-like experience. I started using Linux essentially full time pretty quickly.

A few times I got frustrated with Linux and tried to switch back to Windows, but the headaches of Windows always quickly drove me back to Linux. Linux is not perfect, but Windows is even worse.

With Tasmota on the S31, you can disable the ability to turn it off. I have a few set up that way to prevent them from being turned off.

Proof Crusher > Pulaski. Crusher was always exactly where she needed to be.

I wonder what the wifi access in the school is like?

Page 3: Wireless infrastructure at all buildings, in 2015.

I never noticed it was a DC plate. Makes sense given the theme of the movie, it’s just unusual to see something approaching a real plate in a movie!

I have no idea why I remember mine, 520009. Haven’t used ICQ in many years; I didn’t know it was still up.

Someone created a system with the acronym ASIA here at work, and every time someone says it, I hear “It was the heat of the moment…” in my head.

The background makes me think this is from Insurrection for some reason, but I can’t think of any action scenes with Bev there. Her boobs were getting firmer though.