kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Everyone who reads this was at some point(s) in their life seconds away from death, without realising it.

With great power comes great responsibility - What happened between 1993 and 2004 and sudo ?

Today I learned that the third line in the sudo warning was only added in 2004. Is there perhaps a clear event of history facts or cultural changes between 1993 and 2004 that made the software developers add that line ?...

We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time

It’s becoming really annoying.

Share your Tasker Automations

I am fairly new to Tasker and I would like to hear about your clever automations. My automations are mostly location, WiFi and time based ones....

[Question] Alternative to NFS for Proxmox Backup Server

I have a backup server running Proxmox Backup and OMV in separate VMs. OMV provides the storage as an NFS to the proxmox backup server VM....

I just learned an interesting piece of gaming history that most people might not know about. (Xbox Live Arcade on original Xbox)

I just learned that Xbox Live Arcade was a service that first started on the original Xbox, not Xbox 360. You had to order a disc online that would let you access the XBLA store. Here’s the wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Live_Arcade...

Unfortunate ad placement

I don’t know if this fits the community, but the way ads placement works can lead to some unfortunate results...

Ever notice mammals never seem to come in green?

Birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects? Sure. But no mammals....

Who are you rooting for in the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight?

I think I’ll be cheering for Mike.

Certified online course for learning STEM subjects?

I’m thinking of switching fields within STEM and there are some mathsy modules which I missed out on during my undergrad (biology) that would come in really handy right now....

How do you guys use Tailscale (or other VPN) with containers

I wanted to run my VPN/Tailscale setup past you, see if anybody has suggestions on how I could do things better....

Why do passports need to be signed to be valid?

I do not know if it’s true for all countries, but at least the USA and the UK require your passport to be signed to be valid. And I know that when I fly, I sometimes get checked if it is signed....

nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil

https://yiffit.net/pictrs/image/f15ac65f-a409-4e54-827c-91b1525ffcd4.jpeg

How to identify “unavailable" videos on yt?

I hope this is the proper place to ask, though probably only indirectly on topic for this community....

What's the most peculiar place you've seen a bird make its nest?

It’s Autumn in the Southern hemisphere (Spring time in the Northern hemisphere), and I get fascinated by a lamp post near me that some birds have been using as a hand-me-down for a decade now.

[SOLVED] Bring existing KDE Konsole into focus instead of launching if one exists

I use KDE on arch and would like to achieve the following behavior:...

is Texas really that cold and cruel as depicted in movies of the Coen brothers, the novels of Cormac Mccarthy and the movie Hell or High Water?

cross-posted from: linux.community/post/844237...

[TNG] What did you think of the Dixon Hill stuff?

Personally I wasn’t a fan of them, so was glad they didn’t continue on.

Proxmox Disk Performance Problems

I’ve started encountering a problem that I should use some assistance troubleshooting. I’ve got a Proxmox system that hosts, primarily, my Opnsense router. I’ve had this specific setup for about a year....

My monitor has a headphone jack in the back. Can I use it only sometimes without having to plug/unplug it?

I would occasionally like to use (wired) headphones, but 90% of the time I am fine with just hearing the audio that comes out of the crappy monitor speakers. If I plug the 3.5mm cable into the monitor’s headphone jack (even without headphones attached), then no audio will come out of the speaker anymore....

Setup ideas with an old AV receiver

The house I live in has integrated speakers and they are all hooked up to an old AV receiver (Marantz NR1604). Currently it is annoying to play music through the receiver because essentially I have to plug my phone directly to the receiver. I am looking at other options....