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It was a stressful evening trying to complete my work day with the power randomly going out for a few seconds with loud thunder right overhead :) I was constantly dropping out of the encoder to save my work. Everything stayed up though, I have the most important stuff protected by UPS's. It's ...

And then there's this:

Fighting fire with fire

That is one way of thinking of it lol! Apparently they don't regurgitate what remains in their stomach (from previous feedings) into their victims prior to slurping up their blood like most other blood sucking insects do.

I remember first learning about Chagas disease in a collage class back in the 90's and being glad it wasn't here. Now it's here. It looks like California has the worst of it but it's in at least 29 other states, maybe more since it's not a reportable disease in all states.

It’s one of the most ...

I played around with the issue with the zen kernel again, I removed the kernel along with the initramfs image, then reinstalled it (different kernel version), but same thing happened.

At first after reinstalling it I forgot to run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg before rebooting, with the ...

JayzTwoCents ran into this himself:

pfSense 2.8.0 based on FreeBSD 15 came out last May, I thought I'd upgrade mine from 2.7.2 (FreeBSD 14) today. After backing up my configs for both pfSense boxes I went about updating my backup pfSense box first, it was several releases behind so it took a little while (it has to be upgraded one ...

Kind of like the sweet spot between LFS and Slackware?

That's another one I haven't heard in a long time. I can't remember where or when I used to hear it.

There doesn't seem to be much radio reception here, I didn't find anything that came in clearly on the AM band, even at night, and FM wasn't much better, but I found this one FM station that comes in clear enough to listen to maybe 70% of the time. It seems to be mostly 90's music, and a lot of ...

Haboobs are monster dust storms usually pushed by monsoon storms in AZ. One came through here, I noticed everything was brown outside but I was inside so I wasn't affected. Had I been out on the road it would have been a different matter.

I've never noticed any kind of bias in Wikipedia, but I also don't often use it for political stuff. I have seen political bias in another prominent organization though - Fox

I've been mostly AMD since the start of the Ryzen era, and they've worked very well for me.

I think it was the very late 90's when I first became a member of the original PC911 forum. The only other forum besides mikeserv I spend any amount of time on these days is the Slackware forum, as well as FB. For a few years I was on a forum of sorts hosted by the Dasgeek Linux podcaster on Element ...

Guaranteed to squirt when you bit into it

It's the Donald Trump of the tree world :)


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Whether you climb them, hug them or simply admire them, trees are easy to love. After all, they cleanse the air we breathe, offer shade from the sun and provide sweet, nutritious fruit. But love isn't exactly what you'll feel if ...

In a rare move for a U.S. public official, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called for a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease to be retracted. The journal rejected the request

From here

The Cyberpower 1500VA UPS that was powering my game machine left the chat today. It happened after a bad power interruption during another thunderstorm, the power went off/on/off/on three or four times in quick succession. It powers back up and shows that its batteries are full, but pull the plug ...

After updating vanilla Arch today the zen kernel wouldn't boot, it can't find the modules or the root drive. From someone else's post about the same problem:

Warning: /lib/modules/6.16.3-zen1-1-zen/modules.devname not found - ignoring (I added my kernel version since it was an old post)

And then ...

I'll continue the kernel issue in the Arch thread.

Now after updating vanilla Arch it can't find it's root drive. I ran fsck on both it's root and boot drives from CatchyOS and it found no errors. In the meantime it looks like my Thunderbird email is working again. As usual nice of Hover to send out a notification so I wouldn't have to spend all day ...

My configuration hasn't changed in years, I looked it up and they're still showing the same configuration to use, and same hostname. This all started at the same time with all machines and all email addresses and with and without updating Thunderbird. And same day their certificate renewed. Arch has ...

I just started getting this error this morning on all machines with Thunderbird. I've been trying to sort it out, I'm not seeing any complaints anywhere so far.


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Validity
Not Before Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:58:43 GMT
Not After Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:58:42 GMT

Issuer Name ...

I noticed the Arch website has been very slow to respond the last several days.

Maybe it was launched by a disgruntled Manjaro user who asked for help on the Arch forums

And now we have 6.16.3 already

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What’s especially fascinating is that, according to the President, “The United States paid nothing for these shares” worth approximately $11 Billion USD.

How, exactly did this all come to pass?

Well, the current CEO of Intel — a man named Lip-Bu Tan — is also the ...