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I'm just curious how much RAM you think that is.

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This sounds remarkably similar to the attitude of that homophobic uncle crying about the gays shoving their lifestyle in his face by just existing. Maybe reevaluate your hang-ups.

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However, the issue is that I have to use sudo when using these commands and as a result after mounting I cannot make changes to my files in the drive(s) without using sudo.

This isn't because you're using sudo to mount, that is the way to do it. This is because you're mounting to a directory for which your regular user does not have write access. Create a directory owned by your user and make sure you have write access with sudo first. Or make it owned by a group that your user is a member (I use media) and give that group write access. Then mount the drive to that directory in the usual way (I prefer to clutter up my fstab with entries I rarely use). You should now have access without sudo.

9 out of 10 times new users are struggling with access, it's not a problem with the software, but a problem with permissions.

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Remember when courts declared Microsoft was a monopoly because they bundled their own browser, Internet Explorer, with the operating system? And they did it in a way that made it impossible to completely remove from the OS. Did they learn their lesson? I think they did, just not the lesson we wanted them to learn. Go ahead and try to uninstall Edge from Windows 10 or 11. Dive into the task manager sometime too and you'll see Edge sub-processes running under a surprising number of other apps. There is no Windows operating system any more, it's just Internet Explore refactored and rebranded as Edge all the way down. (Obvious hyperbole) At least Chromebooks were up front about it.

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Yes. Windows is as much a browser based OS these days as Chromebooks are.

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Docker compose is just a setting file for a container. It's the same advantage you get using an ssh config file instead of typing out and specifying a user, IP, port, and private key to use each time. What's the advantage to putting all my containers into one compose file? It's not like I'm running docker commands from the terminal manually to start and stop them unless something goes wrong, I let systemd handle that. And I'd much rather the systemd be able to individually start, stop, and monitor individual containers rather than have to bring them all down if one fails.

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because most Linux systems don't even use DHCP

This is the dumbest thing I've heard all day.

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Strong aging Facebook user vibes from that kind of tag on all their posts.

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This is only a plot hole because you forgot part of the movie.

Inigo's quest is to kill the six fingered man. He saves the man in black only to get his help towards this goal. ~~But, there is exactly the kind of explanation line in the movie by Fezzik, who has not been in a drunken stupor for a month and has in fact gotten a job working closely with the castle's security forces, explaining his insight on the topic. Fezzik has this line, interrupting Inigo talking about how he needs the skills of the Man in Black to execute his revenge:

"the rumors are that he was the Princess' true love". ~~

That bit was in the book and the script, but the line as filmed in the movie was paraphrased by Inigo and not uttered by Fezzik. Doesn't really matter to the plot anyway though because Inigo sought the man in black to help plot his revenge because the man in black had defeated Vizzini. A confusing line because we were never explicitly shown how Inigo learned about the man in black's true love of Buttercup, but not exactly a plot hole.

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The line does appear in the film, though on review it does appear that Inigo takes the line from Frezik. Probably that was because Andre the giant didn't actually speak English very well. Forgive my confusion, since I'd more recently read the book than watched the movie and the scene in question is only changed slightly. So in point of fact, it was still a throwaway line and it was still in the movie.

Never the less, Inigo was seeking the Man in Black to aid his own revenge, not because of Wesley's true love for Buttercup, so where and when he learned of the man in black's love for Buttercup is mostly irrelevant to the plot. Moreover, Wesley declares "True Love" to Max before Inigo says anything about love to Max.

This is all especially amusing, since we are debating a single line in a movie, based on a book, that is itself a self declared abridged version of another book.

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Yes, that's basically what I said. I know there is no unabridged version of the book, because I'm not a dunce. That was the joke, but you're so worried about being right and getting the last word you missed it.

I've seen the movie damn near a thousand times. I've read the book (didn't I already make this clear). We're both fans.

It's not a plot hole. It's a single stepped on line that does not matter to the plot and major motivations of the characters.

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I did a rewatch after your first comment. The line is there. Inigo says it, when Fezzik should have. But, you were right in that it doesn't make sense for Inigo to say it because we were never shown when he learned of Wesley's love of Buttercup. But Inigo wasn't looking for the Man in Black to assist true love, he just wanted whomever bested Vizzini to help in his revenge plot.

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A Venn diagram is not a pie chart, they're all circles.

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Yeah, and we might use a ratio to describe that overlap, not degrees.

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It's amazing to be that a show as diverse in themes as Star Trek could lose fans because they decided to make a few jokes.

Hot take: People who can't appreciate Lower Decks were never really fans.

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This was still a school shooting. Justified or not, a child was still murdered.

AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act" now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, making its...

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Sounds like they are admitting that their cars violate FCC rules about interferance.

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I can usually see it without even trying, but the border on this one really makes it difficult.

ElderWendigo ,
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How does that matter? I have astigmatism and can usually see these with literally no effort. The thing making this one difficult is the border.

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The cause seems pretty obvious. Transporting an oversized load on a road that was obviously not designed to handle that kind of load safely. No public roads are really. The fact that it was even allowed on a public road is fucking appalling.

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Or maybe move smaller safer pieces. It is a fucking PUBLIC road, may e the kind of thing that should be permitted to be safely and completely CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC if such an obviously dangerous load needs to use it. But, I guess a little government oversight and corporate ethics is too high a price compared to those dead citizens.

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If that had been true for this case these deaths could have been avoided. Thanks for mansplaining the very thing I was upset did not happen and did not save these people from a meaningless death.

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If you're using Android you can automate lockdown mode using Tasker so that it can it can be enabled "passively". For example, on my phone lockdown happens after: too many incorrect access attempts (bad biometric or passcode), any Bluetooth disconnects, any sudden shakes or jolts. So if someone takes my phone away from me, takes my phone from my car, or if I turn off my watch then lockdown. If someone fails to unlock my phone: photo taken, synced to cloud, phone lockdown. If my phone gets tapped, set down a little to roughly, or I get thrown to the ground or against a car with my phone in my pocket then lockdown. Sure, it means biometrics is often disabled on my phone, but now I find that reassuring.

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Tasker

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Exactly. Three of them are dressed like Grandma out shopping for fused glass jewelry and shawls that look like they were knitted by a crow at the local outdoor art market. The other one looks like Grandpa.

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  • ElderWendigo ,
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    I'd hazard a guess that financial impacts of reduced performance as a result of this torturous schedule pale in comparison to the cost due to injuries.

    I've recently had to work a couple of overnight shifts when I was overwise working basically dawn to dusk. Staying awake isn't that hard. Getting real sleep becomes the struggle. What surprised me though was the vertigo, constant low grade nausea, and dizziness that disappeared after a normal full NIGHT's rest. I may feel like a night owl sometimes, but my body does not agree.

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    This is why the field of actuarial science exists. I bet whomever is insuring these businesses would be interested in all of these management attitudes and business practices.

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    Original? No. Usenet, BBS, IRC are the originals. Napster made it hip. Soul seek made it better. Then there was Limewire, DirectConnect, and some others. Then there was BitTorrent, which I really did use to download Linux ISOs before the rise of popular public and private trackers.

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    Wait, you mean after a simple kernel update? Not a release upgrade obviously because arch uses a rolling release cycle?

    No way to live.

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    I wanna walk through the park in the dark

    Men are scared that women will laugh at them

    I wanna walk through the park in the dark

    Women are scared that men will kill them

    -Courtney Barnett. Nameless, Faceless

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    You just described the categories pages many search engines had before Google. Or proto Web 2.0 bookmark sharing sites like del.icio.us. Sites like Metafilter also existed as a kind of Internet index before everyone was adding reddit.com to their Googling. It's a laudable idea, but these systems all seem to fall prey to market manipulation in much the same way that SEO helped kill Google.

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    I'm not sad that Google turned out to be evil because I care about Google. I don't care about Google. I'm disappointed in no longer being able to search for and find the things online on any search engine.

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    Nope, I've been tricked enough times by that domain. They'll just repeat the click bait headline for one paragraph/sentence. Then a full screen ad or three. Then they'll explain what Star Wars is. Then an ad. Then they'll explain what The Mandalorian and Grogu are. Then an ad. Then they'll rephrase the click bait title as a question. Then an ad. Then they'll finally get around to doing a bad job of plagiarizing a mediocre reddit comment thread, but word it as a hypothesis. That usually takes a sentence or two, but sometimes they just skip this part. Then an ad. Then some non-committal conclusion. This conclusion can usually be reused for any similar articles about the subject, in this case Star Wars. Then more ads of equal or greater screen scrolling than the length of the entire article with ads that you just read.

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    Easytag works pretty well for me on Linux, when I'm not just using Picard. I use EasyTag mostly for fixing and normalizing the tags on audiobooks these days.

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    When you say Plex interface remotely, are you referring to the Plex app or PlexAmp app? I feel like PlexAmp fixed all of my complaints about listening to music through Plex (the same app I use for videos).

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    You don't need to get too complicated with scripts if you let Picard do all the tagging and renaming. In my experience it works pretty well with the default out of the box configuration. Just don't try to do your whole library at once, just go album by album and check each one is matching with the correct release. I was in the same boat about a decade ago and did the same, just a few albums a day getting tagged and renamed into a fresh music directory. And of course, make a backup first, just in case.

    Lately I've been going through this process again because I messed up configuring Lidarr and many files got improperly renamed. Since they were all still properly tagged, fixing them has been easy, especially with Picard. I haven't really bothered to find all the stray files yet (they're still roughly in the right location) because Plex ignores the paths and just reads the tags so the misnamed files aren't even noticable in Plex

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    This article and similar threads keeps popping up in my feed, so I'm going to keep spreading this tip around. (I'm using Android.)

    I use tasker to automatically lockdown my phone based on accelerometer and Bluetooth. A sharp tap to my phone or being disconnected from Bluetooth is enough to lockdown my phone and disable all biometric access. I dialed in the sensitivity so that it doesn't take much, just a tap on my pocket, being set down a little too aggressively, pulled from my car and thrown to the ground is all it takes. I set it to notify me with a quick vibrate when it does this for a little added confidence that it is behaving as expected.

    For a little added effort I can have tasker snap a photo that gets backed up to the cloud any time there is a failed unlock attempt, just be prepared for some unflattering photos of yourself looking like an aging male boomer posting selfies to the facebook.

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    I use tasker to automatically lockdown my phone if it experiences too much acceleration. I figure that if I'm being thrown to the ground, I probably want to lockdown my phone. A sharp tap on my pocket works pretty well too.

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    I use tasker to put my phone in lockdown mode whenever it senses a sharp tap (acceleration change) or Bluetooth disconnects. I figure that if I get pulled from my car or slammed to the ground, I'm going to want to require a PIN, password, or pattern to unlock. A quick tap on my pocket or just setting it down too aggressively does the same.

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    This is it. Modern planners use GIS and data analytics to place new stores. In my region Publix and Starbucks are a common thing and usually going for similar demographics, so it's not unusual to often see them in the same shopping plaza. Similarly dollar stores, Walmarts, and Dunkin' Donuts always seem to find a place in the same neighborhoods too (in my experience). Those Dollar & Dunkin' neighborhoods almost never have a decent grocery either.

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    That is a creative way to leverage their work. I like it.

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    I had completely forgotten that the movie Young Einstein existed. Thank you for the dial-up internet reminder.

    If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts?

    I have old Facebook and Twitter accounts, maybe some others. I'm old so there's a MySpace account out there. But I've mostly been using reddit the last decade or so, and have migrated to Lemmy. Now, Lemmy is the only social media i use. Recent news got me thinking about this question.

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    The problem is that while on its face the question seems reasonable it quickly becomes more and more absurd the longer you consider it.

    ANY online account could be considered social media these days by the prevailing overly broad definitions used. Email? Amazon? ISP subscriber? Newspaper subscription? Cloud storage? Image hosting? Online diary? Tech support forum? Teams account through work? Almost universally they all either include social media components or could be defined as such by the overly broad definitions common today. The question has about as much meaning as asking if the juror has ever used the Internet at all.

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    They store the number of seconds since the epoch of 1970, but you're always going to have leap days and even leap seconds. Even if you changed the definition of a second to match the current length of a year, it would be off again relatively soon and you'd need leap seconds again. It's NEVER going to be as simple as you seem to think it should be. Chaos and complexity is inherent in the whole system.

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    Yes, I understood. I still disagree for the reasons in all of my previous comments.

    What foods from the shows would you like to try if you could?

    There's a few for me. Yamok sauce. Various synthohols. The desserts Troi's always eating (or being). But most especially gagh. I wouldn't let the fact it's some kind of living worm distract me from the way all the cool people describe it. If Riker likes it, I think I would too and I certainly wouldn't want to look like a p'taQ...

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    My take is that the food is just a little too perfectly middle of the road preference wise. As if the foods were cooked with perfect heat so that no piece is burned a little more cooked a little less. Sure it tastes fine, but it doesn't taste authentic. Because authentic food isn't about perfection, it's a dynamic balance of happy accidents. Maybe also because replicated food is designed to be safe. Sometimes the best food isn't strictly safe. BBQ for instance would not taste the same is you removed all the carbonized carcinogenic bits. Coincidentally broccoli and cauliflower also taste fucking amazing if you add those crispy burnt bits by following a cold sear recipe. (America's Test Kitchen has a good short video on the process if you're feeling adventurous.)

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