fixitmanaz.bsky.social
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"High" approval rating? What have you been smoking. It's the lowest for a newly elected president since 1953 (when that started.)
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To save 8 billion, they'd have to cancel Musk's contracts with the gov't. I don't see that happening?
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At least Nixon retained enough sense to resign. Trump should take his cue from that and resign before he causes even more trouble.
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Gulf of mexico, yes. Gulf of white billionaires with insane policies, no.
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Great way to gain followers! (Sarcasm.) Just expressed my opinion, as did you. How toxic are you, usually?
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Just read "Ripping Time" by Robert Asprin & Linda Evans. 2000 Baen Books. Fascinating. (Yes, it's Science Fiction.)
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Redhead-Scots-Irish-Italian. (Temper, temper.)
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Huh... I always thought that organization was called "Moms AGAINST America." Shows what I know?
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Types in " 6 : ( <lisa > "
Nope that didn't do anything but throw an error command. (why should anyone have to remember some order of a bunch of letters/and or numbers and punctuation marks and the proper amount of spaces, just to use a computer?) Click: Lisa is on channel 6!
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Aree "Ytpos" and SyNtaX -= ; erroors On TherE? If Noot, just Remember-ing: the commanddsssss. Nope.
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LinusTorvalds
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None of those require batteries, nor electricity. Not even a guitar. Guitars should not require electricity, by the way. --Grandpa Fixitman. :P
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Which department? That doesn't even make sense. "owes one million in department."
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I wouldn't doubt that he receives about 5 billion in compensation as chairman of it. Tax Dodge.
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Well, considering a deck of cards, or a board game, or most anything like that only costs a few dollars, I'm not sure why they even bother making these at all. And if you want music? Whistle to yourself. Learn an instrument. No need to buy anything at all (especially if you make the instrument.)
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Seems like this would ADD to the confusion. People will be checking for fires in the cities listed, because, apparently these cities are in Los Angeles now?
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I don't have to worry about that at all. I don't use "apps" on my flip phone. I use it to TALK.
And, actually, I don't use any of those "apps" on my PC, either.
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We already have those, they're called a flash drive?
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Looked it up. "The average length of a north-south block in Manhattan runs approximately 264 feet, which means there are about 20 blocks per mile. Therefore, 10 NYC blocks would be half a mile. How long is 10 blocks in NYC? Walking 10 blocks, which is approximately 0.5 mile, takes about 10 minutes."
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Nine blocks? Does he not have feet? No wonder there's congestion on the streets.
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LOL, ask an Australian or someone from Brazil. THEY are in the SOUTH. ;)
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USB-C doesn't fit most of my devices, nor my charging cubes, nor my power leads. I'm not buying new devices just to use the newest cable. I have plenty of cables, including the odd ones for older devices that had their own that matched nothing else. Nor does it match up with co-ax or two-wire!
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Just wait until you can't open your fridge door if your wi-fi is down. Or unlock your front door because an app isn't working. That's scary.
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Is MX hipster or easy/safe? 'cause that's what I use and don't regret it. Installed on a few machines easily.
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Dunno about lamb, but the potato part looks good.
I tend to just put a roast in the crock pot with a little garlic and onion powder, and maybe some white pepper. Big plus: really easy to clean up afterwards. If you like spice put some BBQ sauce on when it's nearly done.
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I prefer a GOOD television. Say a Philco 21" made in 1952. Works great for my purposes (it is not even plugged in.)
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Maybe a "Lower Decks" episode?
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I have no idea what this is or how to use it. Those big blobby square things are apparently totally useless to me. Where is the human-readable code you can use instead for these things? Also, why would you use a telephone to take a picture of a television screen? Lost.
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And the whole point of the Linux distros is that they're all different. FREEDOM of choice, you know. Not one unified GUI for instance, that's handed to you by an evil corporation. And most anything you wan will work on most Linux distros, no problem.
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So, you can't run Windows 11 on say, a machine built for Windows 98? I don't want it then. I have a secure OS on one that runs fine, without locking me into some proprietary software company, that says you can't reverse engineer, give away, modify, etc. their poor software.
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I don't need a stinking Toilet Paper Machine chip in any of my computers. :P
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I'm retired. I AM my IT department. And I don't use Windows, if I can help it, so it's a moot point anyway. The latest laptop was my wife's (gone now over a year) and I'll just wipe Windows 10 off there when I'm ready, and upgrading it to Linux of my choice.
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Romex was invented in 1922, and used mostly unchanged until the 50's. It was cloth-wrapped with rubber insulation. There was no particular need for ground wires as metal boxes and conduit was used, and typically was actually grounded to... the ground, and not the common in the box. Seen lots of it.
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"Various distros," that's desktop environments only. Linux powers just about everything else. It's actually the base for the most widely used consumer OS today, as well. (Android!)
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Maybe it IS the year MS announces their software will be licensed under Open Source only. (Just as likely.) But hey, we have just about everything else in hand. Supercomputers. Web servers. Smartphones. TV's and other devices. Social Networks. Many large companies....
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That's a very old problem. Try the Arch Linux forums. There's a post from 2012 that solves it several ways... Those should still work, too.
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Ah yes, DECember. The tenth month. Always confuses me, too. And why do we have months named after Julius and Augustus? And not an "eleventh" and "twelfth" month, instead?
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Dunno that much about it but sounds like a hardware problem.
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I just use candles.
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Well, fine, let's also cap the Federal debt at 10% of budget and see what happens. (That was just a random thought, no research involved. Disclaimer.)
What I'd like to see, instead, is that credit card offers terms I can modify to state that I won't have to pay it back, ever. A gift.
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Reminds me of the story "Alpha and the dirty baby" for some reason. So you might say something like "oh what a cute imp."
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P.A. Voice: Trans-Stellar Space Lines would like to apologise to passengers for the continuing delay for the departure of this flight.
FORD:
Hey, weird.
P.A. Voice: We are currently awaiting the loading of our compliment of small, lemon-soaked paper napkins for your comfort, ... ( for 900 years)
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Who says you need a command prompt? And the reason to run Linux is re-purposing old equipment that won't run "the latest and greatest" crap from a proprietary company, that won't run on older hardware; instead of buying new junk you don't need and contributing to the E-waste pile.
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Win 8? That's practically new. I have 32-bit machines designed for XP that run fine on MX instead. Then again I have a Win 10 machine that for some reason wouldn't upgrade to 11 (not that 11 is any improvement) that someone thought was going to be a brick.
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If not already marked correctly, I just use a sharpie or dab of paint to mark which side is "up" to match the socket. Problem solved. Or, if you have sharp eyes, it's evident if you look at it.
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Linux was just an example. The real point was encoding and encryption. Some files won't open when copied, and many people don't have file extensions turned on, so they try to open a file, and it's just text hash, because they have no idea the extension type is different, for instance.
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Unless it's part of the fantasy that there is always "perfect" weather?
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LOL. That has nothing to do with my point.