varyingExpertise

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[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think there's even an editor in there, at least one of the old greybeards at work said something to that effect.

Which is bullshit tbh, which in turn is why I don't like LPIC. Even RedHat exams give you VMs with full manpages. Know concepts and know what to expect from which tool, everything else is wasted resources.

History is documentation enough.

I'm using my companies' mediawiki personal user page to keep snippets and one liners that took me some time to cobble together. I export that regularly to a personal device, so, yes. I've found that I never look at it because once I've hammered something together I usually got the concept so next time it takes me a fraction of the time.

[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's even a 3D model of my house. In fact, there's a 3D model plus raw point clouds of my entire state, they published it as open data. It's pretty useful for planning PV installations e.g.

Looking around here houses have either been in the family for a long time, were built new or have been sold through word of mouth. Lots of those transfers never went through the hands of a real estate shark. I think the whole "building rows of same-ish houses and sell them online" is a rather American phenomenon.

[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jeezus christ, kid, I just said that the guy with his attitude and the right target group made EVs cool and therefore created the market back in the 10s. Which enabled the beginning of the EV revolution as we see it today. You make it a personal attack on me. Please be a lot calmer and gentler with other humans in the future.

[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That sounds very black and white. With age I've come to the conclusion that black and white thinking while very satisfying has never led to anything good in my life. I avoid it where possible. It's a bit harder and it can bring me into situations where I don't feel the righteous vigor of being on the correct side, but I find that I've ruined more with that vigor than what I've fixed taking a detail oriented approach.

[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For home? Yes. For professional use where you have to deploy and support tens to hundreds of desktops? Immutable + a proper build tool chain is the best thing since sliced bread. And when you already have that, a copy of that for home makes it good for home use too.

[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 17 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Honestly: Being a massive, public spokesperson for electric vehicles that had a huge following with the well-off nerds brought us where we are today with electric cars, I'm still convinced about that. But yeah, that's about the only thing I can think of.

[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Ja äh, lass mer's, oder?

 

Sometimes I stumble across content that I have been looking for for a while or that I know is rare or missing "out there". Might be that I snipe a rare CD from the 90s on eBay. Might be that I get my hands on some ancient software or driver CD or some old firmware images that might be relevant for retro computing. Might be that I have some scans of a repair manual or schematics that is impossible to get.

Point is: I can't exactly put that stuff on archive.org, but it feels like I should put it somewhere so that the next person searching for it has an easier time and also so that some culturally relevant things don't get lost. What is your solution to that problem?

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