stoolpigeon

I flew to South Africa in October. My flight from Amsterdam to Johannesburg had free messaging. On my ipad I could use google hangouts, whatsapp, email and google drive. I was chatting with my wife in Hungary and my daughters in the US for the whole flight. It was amazing. I also got some work done. This was a KLM flight.

I don't use it but I've set it up for others and I definitely remember some part of the setup where I was given an option with regards to sending personal data and the description for choosing no said something like "You wont see less advertising, they just wont be tailored to you." I'm sure someone who sets up Windows 10 more regularly could explain what this is.

On the same machine I set up Microsoft Office and it wont stop doing popups advertising their team/collaboration product. This is on Windows 10 Pro and with their top tier version of office as well I believe. So paying more doesn't get rid of the ads.

Myers Briggs, Enneagram, Strength Finders, it goes on and on. It's big money and most of it isn't any better than astrology, tarot cards, etc.

I teach a class in a small high school about building websites. Right now I'm teaching CSS. For HTML and CSS I have the students use notepad or textedit.

It's really nice to have a plain text editor that doesn't help them in any way, produces files that will work in the browser and they get to learn better I think. Maybe a small use case but one that makes me glad the tools exist.

I understand. I'll subscribe - and just looking over the parts of the site and going back to the documentation has helped me to wrap my head around a few things that were eluding me.

Thanks for the response, I appreciate it and I'm really glad you took the time to post your original answer. It's a real help to me in ways I didn't expect when I clicked into this thread.

If it's not too much to ask, I would add on here that I'd like to see your Hugo setup. I've been learning it recently but the examples I find are all rather simple. Just seeing what you've done gives me some ideas of how you did it, and I'll work on figuring it out - but information on how you organize things before hugo generates the site would be greatly appreciated.

Calibre on its own will convert between formats and there are plugins that will strip drm. I have no idea about the legality in various parts of the world but it is a solid solution for liberating content and making it portable

I did a fresh windows 10 install on a brand new machine within the last month.

There is advertising in the launcher (can't remember what windows calls it but the start menu). There are popups on the desktop from Microsoft that I haven't been able to stop. (Something about "Teams" and it's tied to having installed MS Office).

I had to be sure I bought the Pro version, there are a lot of skus that don't include full disk encryption built in. Setting up bitlocker is not nearly as easy as setting up full disk encryption on Apple or Linux. I don't really consider that an optional feature so I don't understand why it's considered some kind of premium thing.

Did you see in the linked article what it takes to turn off telemetry? Are you saying that this is not longer necessary and now it can be done in an easy, convenient way?

It took me a while to clean up all the garbage apps MS bundle into it.

The things that I see listed in the link are current and real.

I think one solution is to make sure it's possible for everyone to have a mobile phone. They are so important on so many levels.

In this situation in particular - needing to get an SMS without a number - google voice is a good solution for that issue. I used it for a while when my US bank required getting a code via SMS to a US number. I know it's a chicken and egg thing getting it going - but if there's a way to get a person in this situation a gmail account, a lot more stuff opens up from having that resource.

I think to the typical Pole - this is all pretty big stuff and very indicative of living a life that is not available to most people.

Mustangs had to be brought over for a long time and they were very unusual in Europe. Now that Ford builds a model for Europe, I see them a ton here in Hungary. It's easy to spot them because they have the license plate section sized properly for European plates. I'm not sure when they started building Mustangs for Europe, but I'm pretty sure it was in the last few years.

This article talks about their popularity last year: https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/feu/en/news/2018/04...

stationfall had a book released with it that I thought was hilarious at the time.

I have a long and humorous story about an accidental drive through Northern Albania. We were on a lot of small roads through little villages and farmlands and I just saw them dotted everywhere, in the middle of fields, in lots of other places. It really felt like someone had a metric based on the number built and went after it. I will say I didn't see as many in the south. But my first visit was in 2013 so a lot could had already changed by then from the old days.

Interestingly enough - in line with your last comment. My son cut his leg deeply on that trip and we needed to take him to a doctor to get it fixed up. That was not difficult and the doctor was a really nice guy but at one point he said to my son, "Not long ago my job would have been to kill you." I thought it was funny but my son didn't enjoy it as much.

My experience in driving through various parts of Albania is that they aren't just in strategic places but they were everywhere and that in much less than 10000 years they will all be gone. Even in the couple years between my lasts visits (I was in Tirana and Durrës last week) was that development is coming and it wont be all that long before Albania will be a place where people talk about the old days when things were much less expensive and more accessible. I might be wrong but to me it feels like it's headed in that direction. I may be biased, I really love Albania and so I do hope that they finally have the time, stability and space to enjoy some prosperity.

These didn't have anything rational about them. They are literally everywhere- seemingly randomly placed in the middle of farm fields, etc. and they kept people busy and were a response to the ever present "threat" of the US and/or USSRs ever imminent attack. So camouflage didn't matter.

I used to consider grand jury indictments to indicate that something was going on. Then someone close to me was indicted. That's when I learned that it takes almost nothing to get an indictment. In the case I know best it was less than nothing. When the case finally made it to a judge and was heard the judge realized how bad it was and through it out.

Those indictments come from a group of people who hear only one side, there is no one there to question the validity of what they are told, and they are basically being asked to let it go to court and so I don't think they see it as so bad if they are wrong, it can work out in trial.

If I send a test email with postfix - gmail rejects it and gives me a link to their page explaining why I need to add a bunch of stuff so they know I'm not spamming or fishing. Specifically I get this:

gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[173.194.207.27] said: 550-5.7.1 This message does not have authentication information or fails to pass 550-5.7.1 authentication checks. To best protect our users from spam, the 550-5.7.1 message has been blocked. Please visit 550-5.7.1 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#authentication for more 550 5.7.1 information. d203si1756652qkb.228 - gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command)

there are tons of guides on troubleshooting mysql resource issues. Are they great? I don't know. Have I tried what is mentioned in many of them? Yes. I still have issues. I don't think it's just mysql though. I think it is a lot of little things that I'm slowly eliminating one by one.

This is anecdotal but I decided to host my own sites. I bought the cheapest droplet from digital ocean that I could and I set it up running Fedora. Then I installed Apache, MySQL and PHP so I could run some wordpress sites.

The server kept running out of memory and shutting down MySQL so my sites stopped working. I started to learn how to read logs and saw that there is a huge amount of malicious activity directed at my server all the time.

Yesterday I installed Fail2ban which meant installing postfix. I got it working (took most of the day) but I can't send emails to my gmail account because I need to set up dkim and dmarc and other stuff. I have a list. But first I have to learn how to do all this stuff.

I use Fedora every day at work but I'm obviously no sysadmin and you are so right. All this takes hours and hours to learn and then to stay on top of it. When I was on shared hosting I had a lot less control and options but it was a lot easier as well.

This is a marketing video but shows the idea that deals with what you propose - https://youtu.be/e1NrFZddihQ?t=122 I think the whole video is interesting but I've set it to the piece dealing with hostile aircraft.

Most military aircraft at the time and for a while after could not start themselves. I think everything on the deck when I served on a carrier in the late 80s except maybe s-3s required huffers and electric carts to get going.

I feel that way here in Hungary. If the Eastern Europe time zone was called something else maybe we'd be in it. In the summer it doesn't matter but I'd kill for sunset an hour later in the winter.

Are you sure liveleak was being blocked? Since a few days before this crime and especially since I get very frequent 503 errors from the site. I can't watch many videos, scroll var through videos, perform search, etc. It seems to be an issue with liveleak, not any blocking on the part of my isp. I'm in Hungary and have not heard anything about any videos being blocked here.

This is my fear. I'm holding onto my 2015 MBP really hoping Apple starts making laptops I want again, but I don't know where else to go. My last Windows machine was a very expensive Samsung Ultrabook machine that cost much more than the equivalent Apple machine. It was a mess in terms of OS and hardware. So I feel like I'm running out of options.

I just finished 3 days of meetings with peers and the note taker was on a brand new MBP. The noise from her keyboard was extremely distracting. I couldn't believe how loud it was. We switched her to a 2015 so we could think as we were discussing things.

I had an American friend who lived in Germany for many years who had a similar approach to dealing with immigration officials. He learned quickly that no matter how thorough he was when applying to extend his stay, his packet would always be "missing" some form. So he started leaving a few forms out of his packet, that way what they asked for was something he already had.

The first reason given was the ability to write on the screen with a pen. That wont happen with an MBP.

In my time on a ship we were always undermanned. All the development I've seen in new systems to replace those I worked on (arresting gear and catapults) focus heavily on reducing required manning. We never did busy work or work that was unnecessary when we were under way and flying aircraft. In port - yeah sometimes.

Most current sailors I talk to are overworked, training gets gundecked, following safety procedures and impede advancement - what's reworded is a "can do" approach that takes large risks.

I don't know anyone currently serving, in any command, who says they have too many people.

I didn't read it as saying not to get a degree - but to do so without such a large amount of debt. There are many ways to do this.

I did it via the military. There are other options - that's just one.

We watched it too - and since I worked on the fight deck I saw it many more times.

How the Forrestal fire was handled is a case study in how to do it wrong and the high number of casualties was the very sad cost of how poorly prepared the crew were.

Wizzair is my primary means of getting around for my job. If they do have issues I hope they get resolved quickly.

I don't mind the trains but they are usually a lot slower and more expensive.