@nic good to see you here again

@irj said in What's the best DVD ripper right now?:

Try dvd shrink. That is what I used back in the day.

^^ this was one in my tool box

@mailbear said in There Is a Fart Tracker Pill:

I so need a fart tracker. It would be extra good if it had an early warning system built in.

And then it could warn people within a certain distance of you, lol. I see a future app design coming here.

@tim_g said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@tim_g said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@wirestyle22 said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@dashrender said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@wirestyle22 said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@coliver said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@wirestyle22 said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@nerdydad I've been drinking Dasani sparkling water instead of soda. I'm slowly getting used to it.

Ewww. I hate sparkling water.

Tastes like industrial ozone.

It's not easy

So why bother? Choice of plain water or soda, just do plain water.

I also drink plain water but because I've been drinking soda for my entire life and I crave carbonation

I'm probably the weirdo here, but even when I drank soda I preferred it flat. I hate carbonization unless it is really trivial.

Instead of sparkling water, I'd prefer tonic water. I love quinine.

Non carbonated or flat soda is just gross. At that point, it's just a disgusting flavoured juice. Carbonation is what makes it what it is.

I find air in drinks odd. It's bitter and unpleasant and makes your stomach hurt.

I thought you drink beer?

Yes, preferably flat beer. There is a reason that I prefer real ale so much.

@jaredbusch said in I grabbed an Android TV box...:

I also know a few addicts who lost spouses.

That's... a lot of Everquest.

@jaredbusch said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:

@dashrender said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:

@jaredbusch said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:

@black3dynamite said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:

@dashrender said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:

Doesn't iphone have a way of getting into USB drive mode? or was that removed? or is that only a function through itunes?

I haven't tried for awhile but I remember I was able to access some photos and videos using Shotwell but that's about it.

I am not worried about access data from my iPhone on my Linux machines. I am looking at ways to listen to my music library on my iPhone without iTunes.

set your iphone into USB drive mode, connect it to 'nix machine, copy over music, disconnect, play music - no?

That only gives you access to photos last I tried it.

Oh, suck then!.

@wirestyle22 - Can one "rage quit" family? I'd seriously consider it if I were you 🙂

@tim_g

In the pictures, battery was turned off.

Now, battery is out of the car.

It's actually a real world question though... who owns the copywrite on something that no one wrote?

@scottalanmiller said in Signal Group Chat:

@jaredbusch said in Signal Group Chat:

I use Telegram because it is convenient and multi-platform. I do not use it for security.

I do also like that, to my knowledge, I can hand out the user name I setup in Telegram (@sorvani fyi)and people will not obtain my cell#.

Yeah, that's really big. A huge piece of security that makes Signal not very attractive to me. A key purpose of using stuff like this is not sharing phone numbers.

Agreed what the hell were the ting requiring that? And then not having a work around for not using them in the app?

@scottalanmiller said in SW Year in review:

@jaredbusch said in SW Year in review:

@dustinb3403 said in SW Year in review:

It's kind of sad we're mocking their processes. I mean, I get poking fun at some of the questions.

This on the other hand; I don't know, seems weird.

Well I started the post saying, I wanted to see stats for here too. So I was not mocking anything.

Yeah, that would be interesting. We need someone to whip up a stat system.

Paging @JeremyRichardson?

You mentioned an existing alarm system that you cannot hook up to. Can the landlord contact said alarm company to see what they offer?

Just thought I'd mention that TurnkeyInternet.net Black Friday deals are about to end. (referrer link)

I haven't been with them long, so I'm not really recommending them yet. My point is that so far things are great, and what you get for the price can't be beat that I've seen anywhere else.

So far my experience with them as been great. The performance has been great, and the support has been great.

My VPS is preforming well. It may be because I got the T80 package (8x vCPU, 8GB RAM 80GB SSD (raid10)). For $20 a month. Runs on RHEL KVM. Had no down time so far.

@jaredbusch said in How one prevents screwing oneself half a year later:

I setup a Fedora 25 VM for a friend a while back on my server in our colo in order for him to republish a bunch of D&D stuff he used to host from home years back.

I wanted to verify the root password today, but could find no notes on my personal Nextcloud and I could not guess it as you can see.

But I apparently left myself a note in my user's home folder.

[jbusch@naggaroth ~]$ ls -l total 4 -rw-rw-r--. 1 jbusch jbusch 39 May 29 2017 note

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Lol! Don't you just love when you plan ahead.

@scottalanmiller said in How does your company make email address?:

@dbeato said in How does your company make email address?:

@jaredbusch said in How does your company make email address?:

ough. What do you do when Bob Smith quits after 20 years and then in a year you hire Bob Jones? All of Bob Smiths SPAM that was harvested over 20 years suddenly starts flowing in again because [email protected] is suddenly taking email again.

We have a mixed since the company has been in business for 20 years.

I've had that happen in finance and it was a disaster.

Yes, it is and even though I enforce it to have it the pattern we want people complain.

TY.

@jaredbusch said

@dashrender is irrationally against devices.

He is also staying away from his name being paged.

Perhaps he is scart to discuss.

See example below:

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I'm in, if this takes off.