Scotland, hands down. I feel so lucky to be living here. I was only going to stay three years & then go back to New Zealand and settle down. Thirty-five years later I’m still here. I fell in love with the hills - and the freedom to walk on them - the lochs, the ancient ruins. But most of all I fell in love with the people. Their craic, their warmth and craziness, their generosity, their music. I love that you can talk to anyone and you’ll often hear an amazing life story.
Oof. Worst way to go. I mean, doing so for personal accounts is fine but that's a lot of collateral in form of the users there. People always say to spread out over instances, but then shit like this happens. Most users don't want to run from one instance to another because the admins decided to stop (or due to other issues with them).
Gambas is like VB6 but on the Linux desktop. For a simple tool, it’s easily my go-to.
Linux GUI programming can be a bit of a pain. There are tons of frameworks and not very many expanded tutorials or books, at least compared to most GUIs.
If I had to write a GUI today, I’d pick something like Flutter so that I get the benefits of mobile app developer tools (that are generally better IMO). I’m looking into Slint in my free time, but I don’t think that’s something that’d fit you.
I got a story that perfectly illustrates the meme.
Had done a solid job of setting up my first domain, from scratch. Everything was tooling along nicely for months until my administrator account kept locking itself, every few minutes.
Logged in with another admin account and hunted for the issue for a month. Since it was affecting only my account, none of the users had issues. Finally found a single sentence in an obscure forum that pointed me. My DNS issue was buried deep in the DHCP settings.
Despite knowing better, I had used my personal account to authorize interactions between the DNS and DHCP services. When I changed my password, DNS was still trying to use the old credentials, over and over again, locking my account.
HOLY SHIT! If you google “dns haiku” my image is in the front page twice! Love it!
People who are looking for direct integration between podcast players and SponsorBlock seem to be missing that a lot of podcasts these days that do have advertising in them oftentimes have dynamic ads where the ad audio will change depending on the day, the geographical location of the download, etc. So SponsorBlock can’t actually account for what are essentially dynamic timestamps Whereas with YouTube you typically have fairly static timestamps that can be shared across a user base, only smaller podcasts are really going to be able to be captured by SponsorBlock unless someone discovers a way to mod an Android APK to essentially prevent the client-side compilation of ads and the original podcast audio assuming that there is a podcast app that does this on the client side.
East Asia: Taiwan. Food, geographical diversity, and their unique melding of indigenous and Han, Hakka, and Hokkien cultures that is experiencing a tiny bit of a renaissance
MENA: Oman. Mesmerizing terrain, complex food traditions, fascinating history and overlapping of cultures and religious practices, a place that truly feels secure in itself. Go watch Parts Unknown Oman episode - it does a decent job sharing the vibe of the place.
Europe: +1 to France. Never been somewhere that has such a distinct identity and atmosphere as Paris. The universal accessibility of national treasures is a monument to mankind’s potential. Where else can you visit a centuries old castle off of a subway stop and have the place all to yourself? (Chateau de Vincennes)
If it weren’t for the decades of conflict, Afghanistan would’ve been on the list.
Least favorite has to be a tie between switch joycons in general and the circle pad on 3DS.
Joycons on their own are too small to be all too comfortable disconnected and connected they’re slightly better since I can position part of my hand on the back of the switch, so there’s at least that.
And with the 3DS circle pad, it’s just nowhere near sensitive enough. Movements feel too quick, with little to no control over how far the pad move, in my opinion.
As for favorite, I’ll say that in general I absolutely hate track pads and everything they stand for, but steam deck is the only exception. With most track pads I’ve used recently outside of the steam deck, I have trouble clicking since the mouse buttons are built into the track pad and half of the time feel like they don’t work. Though with the deck I find it real easy to just click pretty much anywhere on pad and it’ll click for me.
Only problem I’ve had with deck pads is that sometimes the click is a bit too sensitive for me, so I’ll sometimes accidentally click while on the onscreen keyboard by accident or click while playing a game like Gemcraft, making me deselect a gem or power up while dragging over.
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