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  • That sounds so amazing. Air temperature outside my car driving back from the store was 114F a few minutes ago. You can't go outside, you can't get fresh air into your house, and the a/c runs full blast 24/7 just to hit 72F inside, until the power grid fails, again, because it's more profitable to not properly maintain the equipment. I need to get out of here. Texas sucks.

  • Another take, I am super on it with gun safety, but not storage. There are never minors allowed in my home, and a gun isn't useful unless you can get to it easily and it's ready to go. Only guns resting inside the safe are unloaded, all the guns that work for a living have loaded magazines and a round in the chamber (I don't own any 1911 pattern guns, if I did, they would not be chambered.) Also, no exposed trigger, everything is in a holster.

  • Not really. It can all be faked. Virtual Directory Servers are a thing. Live javascript transformation of data from a non MS LDAP server, functioning as AD. Just match up the schema, and go. You get real multi master replication (no idea if MS has this now, but they didn't at the time) and an actually performant server. Plus all the logs just pipe over to your syslog server so you don't have to rdp into a server and look at event viewer. It can all be done from the shell on the jump server you use to manage everything else.

  • I've managed to banish all but one windows and one osx install from my house. What's stopping me is a bazillion little windows utility programs for things like updating firmware on radios and such, and some hardware integrated commercial software: Ableton Live, and Serato DJ. I've tried lmms, mixxx, ardour, xwax, and many others. I just haven't been able to be creative with making and mixing music with the open source tools out there. Mixxx is getting really close, but doesn't have video integration last I checked.

    I keep asking these two companies when they will put out a build for linux and have been met with varied responses from corpo garbage to laughter. It's disappointing.

  • How many pairs of underwear do you have? How many screwdrivers? After you pass 2 of something, it becomes something you don't keep in mind. I know where all the guns I have that are not in the safe are around my house (no kids), but I have to take mental inventory to get a count of how many I own. Same thing with computers, rc cars, and other hobbies.

  • No shade to your parents, but they were teaching you wrong. It only takes a few hours of good instruction to properly drive a stick, and it's not about timing, it's about clutch feel.

    You start by sitting on your right foot (like half Indian style) so that only your left foot can work the controls. Push in the clutch and find 1st. Let out the clutch until you feel it just start to grab and the car starts to move forward. Clutch back in a bit to keep from stalling, then back out until you are idling forward in 1st. You are gonna stall the engine A LOT here. This is the most important foundational skill. Keep practicing until you can start the car moving with the clutch alone. Then, using both legs now, add a bit of gas and shift to 2nd, then back to a stop. Should be a small addition to what you now know.

    Next, we learn to reverse. Hold the engine from neutral at 800 to 1200 rpm (don't rev the nuts off it) and let the clutch out to the friction point again. The clutch is like an inverted gas pedal in an automatic. Push the clutch pedal in to slow down, let it out to speed up.

    All that's left after that is figuring out starting uphill. You are going to stall it a few times, but in two weeks of driving a manual, you'll be good at it. Only thing from here is double clutching, which doesn't buy you much since syncros were added to transmissions.

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Interface_Tool

    It's a menu driven system management tool for IBM's AIX unix variant. Oddly enough, even Wikipedia shows the relationship from SMIT to YaST. Instead of just smile and nod, next time make up something about "smitty print" (damn near everything was under the "print submenu", ostensibly because you were printing out the config to screen), and look like you are a grizzled veteran of corporate unix from the days of yore.

    :-)

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  • Using a dongle is in no way a replacement for a real headphone jack. A dongle on a phone is a one way ticket to a broken usb c port. It's not meant to be pocketed with a dongle attached. Headphone ports are supported and able to better handle the stress (if made properly).

    Just give us a phone with the single most common port in use by our species that is standardized across all nations on our planet: 3.5mm audio port. I don't care if it makes the decice .0000001mm thicker. I don't care if it adds $.01 to the BOM cost of the phone. Go fuck yourself, manufacturers, I WANT MY GODDAMN HEADPHONE JACK BACK YOU BASTARDS!!!

  • Swapping out tubes (and opamps on your DAC) is very much a thing, and I'm convinced that I can hear the difference between a sovtek tube and a Chinese clone, but that could be all in my head, as it wasn't a blind test. Do some research on the amps, but for computer use, Fosi mc331 has an integrated DAC and puts out about 100w per channel. If my computer didn't already have active studio monitors, I'd have pulled the trigger on it by now. For $116, it's hard to resist.

  • If you can, I highly recommend you try it out. There's relatively inexpensive tube amps, even on Amazon that you could play with and box back up if it's not your cup of tea. I just looked at the compressor I use and the price has gone up to a point where it doesn't make much sense anymore, but it is SUPER useful to add some warmth in between a digital source and the class d amps I use in my PA system.