Be well and look after yourself @zen-art.

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It is very hard/impossible to make people see when they are not ready. Although, I guess it takes all sorts in this world, so having some that close their eyes and ignore reality is to be expected. Blows

Glad you enjoyed it. Self reliance is a great thing.

Indeed, there is no shortage of things to learn. Truly, a lifetime worth of stuff sits, waiting to be discovered.

Only if we're racing away from bears or wolves, or some such thing.

Indeed. An oasis for the mind. It is so easy to fire up a web browser, think "what OSS rabbit hole shall I fall down today", and get started on something. Ansible was my latest foray into the

It's never been topped, as far as I am concerned. I guess it was the newness, the wonderment at this entire, unexplored world. And you're right, CRs were no fun, especially raid CRs, which mostly involved

Certain people just need to march to their own drummer, I guess. Homesteaders certainly fall into that category.

In a word, no. We have not done much preservation of meat, generally. If we were going to get into it, the first thing I'd want to look into would be a smoker.. I am 100% certain you could accomplish it

It's definitely an adjustment. On your Internet comments, you are very right: it is a huge adjustment. We have something like a 1Mbps connection (and that's megaBITS, not megaBYTES.) It's quite nasty,

I can relate to lots of that. One thing was our heating. The previous owners installed an 8kw electric heater.. something that pushes our solar system (10KW) right to the max.. as in, don't ever run the

Losing photoshop would be painful .. gimp is great but it is still no photoshop. You could probably run those under wine though, so she could likely keep photoshop and Painter. Always better to leave the

She's pretty decent, although, I am a little shocked at all the "your wife is so awesome" comments.. There is not ONE where someone is saying "Hey, way to be a good teacher, way to

Glad you liked it .. and absolutely, this stuff is truly worth checking out. Not only do you get to feel like a rebel every time you turn on your computer (if you.. turn it off.. that is), you get access

Hardware is definitely a tricky one. The Talos POWER9 stuff looks interesting, as does some of the RISC stuff.. but overall it is definitely not there yet. Ahh well, we do the best with what we have, I

Thanks for this - much appreciated!

Well, pure evil might be slightly excessive.. A streak of it, perhaps!

Never trust anything Microsoft does .. ever. They got their start by thieving, they have a long history of screwing people/organizations .. the Gates foundation is involved in some extremely shady shit

I have some great memories of playing "Breakout" with my grandmother, on a 2600. Kind of pong like.. You hit the ball up, it destroy blocks, and you hit the ball again. Progressively, it gets