specseaweed

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wikipedia functionally ended the market for encyclopedias. When I was a kid I would go to the library and read an encyclopedia just to see what random knowledge was in there. Traveling salesman would sell encyclopedias door to door and they were hugely expensive. Then Encarta came along and it was mind blowing you could have all that information on some CDs. Then Wikipedia killed all of them and did it for free.

When computers began to take hold in middle class homes, one of the biggest gold rushes was to be the encyclopedia of choice on the computer, since consumers saw encyclopedia software as an obvious (and maybe best!) use case for a computer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Where do you look for stuff like that?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

Is this bait? It sure feels like bait.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Thanks for posting this. I didn't know it existed.

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Back ribs (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Cherry smoke. 4 hours at 225, then wrapped in paper and back on for another hour at 275. I moved to Seattle a couple years ago and have been doing tons of briskets and boudin for the Seattle people that don’t know great bbq, but I was missing a nice rib. Cut em up and served em but kept the chonky ends for myself. Left the silverskin on and it came off crackly and delicious.

Damn ribs are good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Engineering is the usual path into SCADA, but most firms require specialists and networking is certainly a needed specialty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

These people sound like exact copies of the people saying voting in 2000 didn't matter, and that turned out to be the most politically consequential of my lifetime. Gore was imperfect as they all are, but holy fuck did Dubya fuck up literally everything he touched.

Among many, many, many things, Dubya started forever wars killing untold hundreds of thousands of people. He accelerated oil and gas production, absolutely setting the Climate Change world on a pace for disaster. He seated Alito, unquestionably the biggest monster currently on the Supreme Court. And he passed a monster tax cut for the rich that set us on this path of unrestrained deficit spending.

And that's just the headlines. Remember when he tried to put his personal lawyer on the Supreme Court? lol

Gen X already tried this 25 years ago and it fucked the world up so badly that we need to be saved by the future generations. Imagine not learning that lesson and doing it again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I screencapped this because I can’t trust the internet to have it when I want to come back and laugh at it again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

https://github.com/XMLTV/xmltv

I run it as a docker app then feed it to Plex and jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I know enough to be dangerous. I know enough to follow faqs but dumb enough to not backup like I should.

So I’d be running my server on bare metal and have a couple services going and sooner or later, shit would get borked. Shit that was miles past my competence to fix. Sometimes I’d set up a DB wrong, or break it, or an update would screw it up, and then it would all fall apart and I’m there cursing and wiping and starting all over.

Docker fixes that completely. It’s not perfect, but it has drastically lowered my time working on my server.

My server used to be a hobby that I loved dumping hours into. Now, I just want shit to work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

I’m not trying to convince. I’m trying to say use less words.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I used to use a self hosted nitter for FreshRSS too. I gave up completely. I pruned all the Xitter feeds and looked for other sources.

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