dirtypirate

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[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

My elderly neighbor needed a computer to do accounting, I set her up with Mint on a T430 w/ LibreOffice and told her I'd giver her free support till the laptop died.

5 years on and the only time I've had to fulfill my side of the bargain was when her printer was out of paper and she couldn't find her eye glasses to read the error message.

[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

Fedora is good for servers and corporate environments, Mint is good for a familiar desktop, Ubuntu is good for mac users.

[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

one time a student pirated some expensive CAD software and learned it, that student went on to become the purchasing agent for a company and guess what software the company purchased?

the software that was learned already.

$100 student lisc was pirated and that pirate purchased 10 license at $5k per.

[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In what reality is there any need for a door-hook camera

maybe for when the police illegally raid, eat your lemon pound cake, steal your money and fuck up your visible cameras?

just because YOU can't think of any use other than creepy doesn't mean the rest of us are so afflicted.

[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

Professional software linux still doesn't support:

Solidworks

AutoCAD

any DWG viewer

[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

slashdot linked to reddit

then the shareholders spied it... and that was that..

how's fark these days? still got a not see problem?

[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

Mandatory Orca Mosh Pit is my new punk band name

[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yeah that URL is terrible, I use ionos in germany for a lot of domain name reg, maybe they will suit your needs too.

I'm self hosting a mastodon instance (my 1st ruby on rails and wholy fucking shit is that bloated compared to django) and it took a while for my instance to get into the federation, now I see all kinds of fun stuff and have total control

I've run into some issues with federation posts filling the /media directory but it seems to have been sorted out now.

if you have questions DM me and I might be able to help, I'm writing code for the next 4 hours and really want to do ANYTHING else...

[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

pirates don't use windows.

Linux mint is easy, transmission is a great torrent client, if you remove all trackers from each torrent your ISP never knows what you're doing

[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

or maybe DIY air-crete panels, not as great for the temps rockwool can tolerate but OP is plastic printing, not iron forging.

[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

if you put a clear door on the cabinet you can suffocate a fire

[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

hoisting a heavy object to the top of a slope

in a Missouri USA they pump water up a hill then drain it back when demand increases, it's a rather large system. In Al'Abama an individual is using underground salt water tanks to store hot an cold salt water for HVAC and electric on his farm.

personally.... I use solar electric to drive a 10k/btu AC and scavenge the unit's waste heat as a food dehydrator, storing food is also storing solar energy and the AC keeps is pleasant indoors.

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