Did you really manage to haul an ice box all the way up there? That’s impressive.

Arriving at the astral plane with the Amulet of Yendor.

If half the world is failing in precisely the same ways at this time, it’s all the more valuable to publish the words of an artist who’s able to point it out.

When people sense that power is beyond challenge, they redirect their energy into trivial disputes. And those trivialities, collectively, are enough to erode a society’s very foundations of justice.

This is more true than usual in more places than just Germany.

If that thought seems novel to you, your homework for this weekend is to watch a few Jackie Chan movies.

“What’s up?” It’s the direction in space opposite to the local gravitational field, why are you asking me?

“The Plant-Based Sector” aka most of agriculture. Rather than worrying about how to target vegans, how to target meat-eaters, and how “woke” you should be, wouldn’t a better image to project be one of having the main goal of producing things that are appealing to people who like to eat food?

The cost estimate for Accessory Dwelling Unit 01 in Ontario is 250k

Huh. Based on estimates I happened to see 20 years ago you could’ve built three rather nice houses each one twice that size for less money then. Maybe the rate of inflation has been a wee bit under-reported over the years?

I was in a big multi-user unisex bathroom type of situation for the first time in my life the other day, in a shopping centre. I thought nothing of it until a couple members of the opposite sex walked in while I was there, and decades of training made me think for a moment that someone was in the wrong place. That feeling must be why it’s such a big political issue. Took me at least ten seconds to get over it.

Look out! He’s got a whole bag full of ninja throwing triangles!

date -r reports current date instead of date specified by reference file

Seems like it was not simply a “difference compared to GNU coreutils” — it was just giving completely the wrong date.

Reading more carefully I see that the real reason is "the /run directory is created as a tmpfs filesystem specifically for run-time files by systemd-tmpfiles.

I forgot that systemd had been allowed to take over /tmp and /run.

Why on earth would the permissions on /var/lock be something for systemd to decide?

Sure they’re utterly boring and stupid now, but just wait until next year when Sirius Cybernetics finally launches its Genuine People Personalities models.

Generate Random Numbers

I prefer to generate random words (mostly for generating passwords):

alias randword='head -$[$SRANDOM % `wc -l /usr/share/dict/words | cut -f1 -d" "`] /usr/share/dict/words | tail -1'

AWS sign-up requires that you have a valid credit card on file.

You can adjust the dpi setting in winecfg to fix the font size, but in recent beta versions of proton I find it necessary to set it back to the default (and restart wine) to actually play the game.

There was one fairly popular fo4 mod that didn’t work for me, but the only skyrim one I found that seemed to have a problem with linux was nemesis, and that has now been replaced with pandora. All the other thousand or so mods I tried (currently using 600 or so) seem to work about as well as they do for anyone else.

Right, that’s the question — where can you do that and get a VPS with sufficient bandwidth for $5/month?

MO2 runs just fine for me. I don’t actually use it for Skyrim — I do that all manually — but it worked for e.g. Fallout 4 without me doing anything special. I just ran its installer the same way I’d run skse64_loader.exe using the same prefix as the game.

Me and myself get empathetic with each other all the time.