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Well, TIL. Being relatively new to nix, you’ve let me down another rabbit hole :)

Can relate. I’ve recently taken ownership of a new work laptop with Ubuntu (with “experimental” zfs) and using dedupe on my nix store has been an absolute blessing!

I’ve blocked out 2 4 hour blocks for some work mandated sabbaticals for months now. It’s been great! People now remember the days and which block they can’t contact me, and work around it. It’s become such a successful thing that we recommend this to others within my team.

+1 for Frigate and Reolink. I have it running in a Proxmox VM on an old dell r710 (yes, it’s sucks watts and needs replacing) but all said, Frigate, is, amazing! The ease of integration with HA is equally great.

Thanks! After reading both reddit posts, I would love for someone to deep dive into how this was possible.

Huh, what?! Mega TIL moment for me as an Australian with an electric kettle and dryer plugged into whatever power socket I wish! Reminds me of this great Technology Connections video: https://youtu.be/jMmUoZh3Hq4?si=3vSMHmU2ClwNRtow

My cats would approve of the rack mounted scratching platform!

Amazing! I love everything about this. However, also being in Australia, I would have tried my luck with Consumer Affairs. Our new house was equipped with a gas boosted solar hot was service. The gas booster died a year out of warranty and instead of replacing just their proprietary booster unit, they said the whole system would need to be replaced at a cost to me of $10'000+. A few weeks of back and forth (and limited hot water) with consumer affairs made enough noise and the company caved and replaced the booster unit for free.

Yes, it was out of warranty, but it's abhorrent that anyone should have to purchase a whole new anything when a small portion of it can be replaced independently.

That position of the couch infuriating! And yes I bet you moved that lovely looking couch back after the photo :)

Our company is in panic mode. 15 machines blue screened for no apparent reason and stuck in boot loop. I’m a gloating Linux user :)

Also in Australia

And there are some stations in the US still broadcasting in AM Stereo AKA C-QUAM, if you have an AM stereo capable receiver that is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-QUAM

Hey! As a Odoo dev, it’s really cool to see Odoo mentioned here. I was thinking the same thing regarding its similarities. I’ve always regarded Odoo as the “batteries included” ERP framework.

Here in Australia, Odoo is finally starting to hit some strides. We’re seeing more jobs in the market requesting Odoo experience, at our work we’re onboarding more customers than we have before. All said, I’m definitely going to fire up OpenKoda and brush up on my Java :)

Reminds me of the fun when Docker started naming containers with -‘s instead of _’s for this very reason.

Hearing the 95 and 2000 boot sounds unlocked so many memories!

And parts of Melbourne, Australia too! Never in my life have I seen this here. It’s a wonderful thing to see.

The comments on the wider internet reminds me of the 90s and 2000s when bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Silverchair were being ridiculed for smashing up their instruments on stage. We’ve come full circle.

I’m a dev lead who is a rusted on Linux user, I’ve always hated that ScreenStudio is Mac only since it’s a great product. Any plans for Linux support? I would love the ability to dem stuff and have it actually look pretty.

Not necessarily related, but it’s a fantastic Aussie film nonetheless.

AKA “self-tapping” :)

I’m a dev team lead for company that implements ERPs (specifically Odoo) across a bunch of different industries. By virtue of that, I’ve managed to wrap my head around a lot manufacturing processes and associated workflows (replenishment, raw material procurement and forecasting). Before this, I couldn’t tell you a thing about manufacturing processes!

If you’re so inclined, spin up an instance of Odoo CE or have a play with the Manufacturing module on a build at runbot.odoo.com

This is a fair call, and normally I would run my laptop into the ground, but my HP Elite Book has this habit of thinking it’s still charging when it’s not. The only way around this is to let it drain to 0% battery and all would be good for another few weeks. Luckily all I need to do is let PyCharm index a project and it’ll drain to 0% within an hour.

I disagree with the sentiment of this article (I don’t remember Microsoft having anything to do with Gnome 3 being…uh…Gnome 3) although I thank it for it unintentionally introducing me to tiling window managers. I’ve been using i3 for over 10 years and every time I try gnome/kde again, I am scrambling back to the comfort that is a TWM.

It’s been a treat watching the progression of Oxide over the past 2 years or so. I really hope they make a solid dent in the market.

As an aside, if you haven’t already, I’d recommend the Oxide and friends podcast.

My work laptop just rolled over 3 years which means it’s new laptop time. After spending some time convincing the higher ups at work, I have a new Framework 13 coming my way (and not HP whateverbook). I don’t think I’ve been this excited for a bit of hardware in a long time.

The high pitch from the CRT in the video (on GitHub) has my 40 year old ears feeling pretty happy about themselves!

Unlike a live usb, Qemu is (mostly?) hardware agnostic. The abstraction means you could run a VM image on a x86 based ThinkPad or an ARM based Mac.

IIRC, 3 months to hack together a CRUD like app, another 3 to “ship” the “product”, and yes, quotes very much intended.

I did spend the next year or so adding features, bug fixes, etc. It was very much a case of learning on the job and I was quite fortunate to be in the position that I was. I think it was 2 or 3 years later I managed to land a dev role at Agoda (who had offices in Bangkok at the time)

> But thing I miss from back then, was the feeling that the book was going to be the key to getting you started writing whatever crazy idea you had for a program in your head.

Yes! I miss it too. For me, that book was Head First PHP & MySQL[0] - Late 2000's, I was living and working in Thailand for a family friends small logistics company in the capacity of a BA, trying to move them into this century. We were trying to find a vendor for any system that would allow us to keep track of the movements of shipping containers within a container yard, and something sparked and I thought "hey, I did a semester of programming at Uni, how hard can it be?!", over the span of the next 6 months or so, this book helped me put together a solution that scarily, they are still using to this day.

Fast-forward 15ish years and here I am, still cutting code, although in the capacity of a dev lead, but after all that, I have the book to thank.

[0]https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-php/97805961...

I’ve been really enjoying this year’s batch ccc video's. I hope some decent English translations start to crop up for the non-English presentations. The Breaking Train DRM presentation was fantastic!

When I was living in Thailand, during the weekends I volunteered for an organisation that would make carts using PVC pipes for dogs who could not walk. Those PVC pipes are crazy resilient!