Saw her on Colbert the other night. She seemed rather… devoted to her belief that Biden was great and never had a misstep. It was kind of disturbing actually.

I used VirtualBox on Linux to host my Home Assistant server for a while. I kept having odd issues with usb devices. I’d have to disconnect and reconnect them to get them working again.

Many people in the HA help groups say not to use VirtualBox, and at first I thought they were basing that on old info. But then I started having issues, too. On the other hand, kvm has been rock solid for a long time.

So I’m glad to see they continue to develop it, but I wouldn’t recommend it for heavy duty use. It’s useful to dipping toes into virtualization, or maybe for running systems for the short term (a few hours here and there, or something), but for long term use, I’d go another route. It’s certainly easier to set up the network in VirtualBox, I’ll grant that - it took me a while to get it right for HA on kvm. (Of course, that’s a one-time setup thing, too - I shouldn’t have to touch it again. And don’t ask me what I did, because I don’t remember!)

Yeah I used to compile my own kernels, selecting only the drivers I needed.

I’m sure I wasted far more time doing all that than I saved with a (theoretically) faster day to day system. Now I use stock kernels, and they work great!

I did the handlebar tape on a bike recently and discovered the bar end caps were corks. The owner had put his initials on them.

I bagged them up and left them with the bike in case the owner wanted them. :)

This from the guy that wants the Nobel peace prize.

I’m reminded of the praying hands emoji people always post in response to an announcement of a vehicle crash on Facebook. If that shit worked, why don’t they pray for God to keep the crash from happening at all?

In other words, she had no intention of answering truthfully and forthrightly.

I was tired of Windows 95.

Plus I was in grad school and was trying to avoid studying.

It’s definitely a factor, but they aren’t that wide either, nor are they that aggressive. Certainly they aren’t smooth road tires, but they aren’t knobs either. I think they’re 32 wide. I think, in hindsight, I maybe should have gone with 650b wheels for that bike, instead of the 700c.

Hard. I scheduled a 51 mile ride for our club, but only one other person signed up. He’s a slower rider than I usually am, so I took my heavy steel gravel bike instead of one of my usual aluminum or carbon fiber race bikes.

We had a nice conversational pace ride averaging 15.8 mph over that distance. (Last time we did that route, I was on the road bike, and I averaged 18.7 mph. But we had more people, and some of them are pretty strong.)

But man it felt so hard. Just felt like I was struggling all day. I had a snack about 15 miles in and kind of mentally reset - refocus on spinning the pedals, not grinding it out. From there I felt better, but it never felt like an easy ride.

Last weekend we did a four day, 315 mile tour (at an easy pace, not a race), so I might just be struggling from that yet, too. I felt good when I rode Tuesday night, but Thursday morning on zwift felt pretty difficult, even though I wasn’t pushing hard. I probably should have taken a rest day today.

Tomorrow, my wife and I and a few others are running a rest stop for a local charity ride. A nearby restaurant supplies bread pudding as a treat for the riders (and us). It’s so good! Of course we also have other snacks, water, gatoraid, pickles, etc. Coincidentally, one of the owners for the bike shop I work at will be providing mechanical support at the same rest stop.

The Biketoberfest looks fun.

Maybe not fraudulent, since it’s not asking for money, but I see where you’re coming from. I’m not sure if there’s any recourse for the employees affected - did they lose money (for example) because of that message?

Not that laws matter, but it’s a pretty clear violation of the Hatch Act.

I just saw this video clip while watching last night’s Kimmel. Trump was furious - look at his expression in that picture…because an escalator stopped. The smallest of setbacks drives him to a crazy level of fury.

Like Kimmel said, “If only that had happened 10 years ago.”

I had to turn off the lane assist in our Mazda for that reason. It was constantly steering me back toward obstacles I was trying to avoid. I cursed it many times.

Other false alarms are frequent enough that I’m starting to ignore the alarm, so when it actually catches me in a mistake, I’ll probably ignore it then, too, and be in a crash.

3. Restricted airspace. They’d never fly in the immediate DC area, for example - it’s mostly a no-go zone with exceptions for National Airport and College Park Airports. The restricted zone actually extends beyond the beltway - which excludes the space where traffic is worst and flying cars would be most useful. (Freeway airport in Bowie has a section of the restricted zone carved out for it, but the airport is closing.) Even if you are authorized to fly into the zone, it’s not as simple as, “Hey today I need to drive to Georgetown.”

DC might be an extreme example, but I assume many cities have restrictions on flights above them.

When I upgraded the desktop and laptop machines, I didn’t run into many issues. Had to reinstall the Nvidia drivers on the game machine. And deal with glances, but I mentioned that before.

I’ll probably update the server to 13 next week.

I had to rewrite part of my php-based photo management system, as it relied on a library that was originally written for php 4 or 5 and hasn’t been updated. Fortunately that wasn’t too hard. There might be other things lurking like that, but they aren’t critical problems - I can deal with them at leisure.

Did you go straight there, or go through 12?

Hey. I’m going through this right now. My server was 11, and I wanted to go to 13. I definitely didn’t want to get into a situation where the server required hours and hours of repair.

I’m halfway there. The upgrade to 12 went smoothly. The biggest headache was glances, first from the lack of web interface (which I was ready for), and the lack of RAID support (not ready). I might do the switch to 13 next week.

That’s a lot of effort just to Rickroll us!

Seriously, nice work. I’m always hesitant to use something like this because it’s another thing that can go wrong. But the idea is really cool.

Oh yes. I can think of several houses with them.

I know one that has the US flag at the top, then a Trump flag right below it. Every time I go by the house it’s there.