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I barely use PHP these days, but Docker seems like a great place to put it.

My daughter has Kinoite set up for her boyfriend's grandparents. It's immutable, so there's not much damage they can do without admin access, and she made it look much like Windows. They were already doing everything with Firefox as it was, so it wasn't a huge transition for them.

She did go back to fix things because the grandma managed to delete the printer, and she said that the downloads folder was full of exe files with sketchy names.

I'm with you on the macOS stability in the past. The thing that gets me is that Windows somehow gets a pass in this regard, but there have been some pretty big changes over the years.

The Canadians that I know who have been living in the USA are all making plans to or have already returned to Canada. Some of them have been here for 20+ years, became American Citizens, the whole deal. And now they just want to get off the crazy train.

I have to imagine that their sentiment is not unique.

Walnuts, apples, and grapes all grow where I live. I was going to suggest that they might go for apples and walnuts if there was no other choice, but they left them there for days. The squirrels would eventually find the walnuts, but nobody (except the ants and hornets) would go for the apples.

If I ever move out of the suburbs into a place more remote / with more land, I'm definitely feeding crows again.

My neighbors used to have a wooden fence, and I was outside and saw a robin with its leg wedged and stuck between the slats. The robin was terrified of me, so I put on some leather gloves and gently dislodged it and released the bird, while it was trying to peck at my fingers. For the rest of the summer, if I was outside, a robin would follow me around the yard and sing to me. I don't know if it was the same bird or not, but I like to think that it was. :-)

I fed crows for one summer but had to stop after it kept leaving baby bird parts, usually heads, for me and my neighbors. If it was just me, that's one thing, but my neighbor was tiring of finding bird parts in her bird bath.

I made it to the point where I could jingle my keys to let them know that I was putting food out and they would come down within a few minutes. They love cat kibble and blueberries, but will not eat apples or walnut pieces.

Besides the baby bird parts, I received:

    1. French fries
    2. BBQ ribs, just the bone and a little sauce
    3. Baked ziti noodles
    4. An adult dead bird.  It was opened up, and presumably most of the organs were removed.
    5. Chunks of bread / bun
    6. Chicken nuggets

There's a McDonald's a few miles from my house and I think that they were raiding the dumpster.

It was a neat experience, and I still hear them cawing at me from time to time. You'd think that they would all sound the same, but they definitely have distinct "voices" once you get to know them.

Here is my crow friend: https://i.imgur.com/1A37se8.mp4

The ones that I had came with Buffalo firmware but you could load DD-WRT on them through the web ui. To load OpenWrt you had to use tftp and catch it during boot.

I ended up adding support for the G300NH2 model for OpenWrt.

Ages ago you could download binaries for Buffalo routers (g300nh / g300nh2) and flash it through the web ui. If you tried to build those images yourself, though, it would fail at the final step because the signing tools / keys were only in the possession of BrainSlayer / Sebastian. Other platforms relied on binary blobs for wlan drivers, and things like that.

Out of the two of them DD-WRT is more "hacky" and duct-taped together, while OpenWrt is more "pure". This can mean that DD-WRT feels more feature complete at times.

Only half?

The staff at Harris Teeter in Corolla NC (the outer banks) has been nearly 100% young adults from eastern European countries the last few times that I was down there.

I don't know their living situation, but I did see them both walking and riding bikes to the grocery store. It's a somewhat unique situation as the grocery store probably does 90% of their yearly business between June and August each year. I couldn't tell if they all knew each other from home or just from working together.

Do you mean that you are surprised that young Americans aren't working at the boardwalk in the USA or that young Americans are not working at the beaches in Europe?

I was working with a Telit 5G modem recently, and it runs OpenWrt. I was flabbergasted when I saw that.

https://www.telit.com/devices/fe990bxx/ - "High-performance quad-core CPU and Linux OpenWRT OS, ideal for router development without an external CPU"

Plenty of cellular modems run Linux.

Man, ours is just '\0'.

That's why I was asking if it was an older model initially.

In a perfect world, yes, but this is a for-profit company and there's almost zero repercussion for doing it half-assed. They'd have to pay someone to implement it, and deal with the overhead and complexity.

Now they are in a position where they can sell new models with enhanced encryption and more features.

Why? Does Flock really care about encryption? It checks off a box for their sales team, even if it's done poorly.

You can achieve 50MiB/s if that's all that you're doing. I've worked with some DSPs (TI's DaVinci line) where some operations would abort if DDR was overwhelmed.

For example, passing a frame of video (YUV) into the peripheral which can resize the overall image, would fail if the system was busy with other DMA transfers. You could attempt to resize again, but there were no guarantee that it would complete successfully. Your options are to reduce overall DDR utilization or drop frames. In an application like Flock's, dropping frames is likely something they need to avoid.

The system in question is doing similar tasks, and I don't think that what I'm suggesting is out of the question.

Is this an older model? I could see them turning off or using weak encryption on media if the hardware couldn't keep up with the amount of data they were writing.

I poked around in the boot partition. The kernel is ancient!

Linux version 3.18.71-perf-gaf770dc

And even if a plugin is disabled, the code can still be called.

I'm in the same boat. Using Rust within Yocto is tricky since the whole point of Yocto is that you have a system which can build reproducible images. I can't have Cargo going out and fetching crates during the build process, they need to be recipes and artifacts which are accurately versioned and identified.

https://www.gogdb.org/product/1446213994 It still goes on deep discount very frequently, even on GoG.

I have at least 100 hours in the game, and I have to disagree with you. There's a surprising amount of variety in the creatures and the world generation.

I spend a lot of time building / designing my base. In that aspect, the enjoyment of the game is limited only by my creativity. I've definitely got $25 worth of entertainment from it. I will say, though, it is more fun if you have others to join your squad.

It's vastly better, imo, than Starfield. That was a game which really let me down -- I wanted Skyrim in Space, but I got 1,000 planets with the same cookie cutter quests on each. Or a team member saying something like "I can't believe we're the first ones to set foot on this temple" when there is a randomly generated outpost plopped down right next door.

It's $23.99 on Steam right now.

Surely they are better than Google in this regard.

My cdrom drive also had an audio jack on it, so you could plug headphones directly into that if you wanted to have just CD audio and not the sounds coming from the PC.

Yes, the game just played it as a regular CD. In fact, if you put a different disc in the drive it would play the tracks from there instead. There were also console commands to change the track, stop the music, loop, or even reload the disc information if you needed to refresh it after swapping CDs.

Ha, I remember buying the shareware disk and unlocking every game on there. Plus you got the soundtrack which was pretty cool.

I got Bard to execute a fork bomb, I think, when it was first launched. I noticed that it was evaluating the flow of a shell script incorrectly and it allowed execution, then refused to respond for 20 or 30 minutes.

Now, for some users, sharing a YouTube link adds some sort of tracking which then asks people who open the link to be "friends" with the person who shared it. Who thinks that this is a good idea, and why isn't it opt-in?

It's hard to take Google seriously these days.

I added a ratgdo to my garage door opener and use that with Home Assistant (and wireguard to my phone) instead of MyQ, so that wouldn't be a problem.

It's probably worth doing, but I have about three and a half years of data / setup on my phone and I'd have to wipe that all out. I wouldn't permanently lose data, but I did spend a good amount of time setting up my home screen, etc. It's a big leap! :-)

Is your battery life better?

I have a Pixel 7 Pro and I've been considering reflashing with GrapheneOS. I bought a Garmin watch which does tap-to-pay to deal with the loss of that feature.

How is the camera on GrapheneOS compared to the stock Pixel 10? Do your banking apps work without playing cat-and-mouse games?

Even if it was 595 billion, that sounds like their problem.

"If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at yours."