Make music, write terrible sci-fi, and publish economics research (assuming we haven’t reached post-scarcity yet).
Basically I’d have time to actually dedicate myself to my hobbies.
Not often that I get the purple one first
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I don’t play any longer, but that is a damn fine paint job!
All those concerned accounts sure have been quiet recently. I wonder how many of their users have been drafted to the front line in Ukraine.
I recommend an ex-lease HP Prodesk. You get an ok cpu, nvme slot, physical space for an ssd and hdd, plus a pcie slot depending on form factor. As they use mainstream components the hardware is well supported in Linux.
There’s not unfortunately. But the custom maps made by users are great.
Playing Beat Saber to Korn tracks is the best damn cardio exercise on the planet.
Church, sect or cult: Ex-members of Two by Twos expose secrets amid abuse investigations
Cool, give uni students a tool which if they use it could lead to expulsion.
"Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me... I'd fuck me hard... I'd fuck me so hard..."
Yeah I do box breathing each night with progressive muscle relaxation. Sometimes the insomnia attacks just don’t respond. Up to month 5 now for this one.
Feel your pain on the long-term insomnia.
Yeah definitely not ideal. Was working with a sleep specialist/psychiatrist but he’s gone on extended personal leave, is the only specialist in my city, and I had adverse reactions to the medications he was trialling me on.
A question for people treating insomnia
Very simply, how long before bed do vape or smoke up?
I’d been successfully treating my insomnia with flower for 2 years but recently when I’ve used it I either haven’t been able to get to sleep or stay asleep for more than a few hours. Normally I’d vape an hour or 45 mins before bed and that would knock me out. Now I find that my mind starts racing around the hour mark.
Mainly wondering how many people use it and then hop straight into bed.
I’ve tried swapping strains, tolerance breaks of a few weeks, and even zopiclone isn’t all that effective right now on the nights I don’t vape.
Iain M Banks, Peter F Hamilton, Asimov, Neal Asher, and Alastair Reynolds.
I like space operas if you can’t tell.
Nvidia is fine and I have a 3080. I have vrr on my 4k display working fine when run with 2 non vrr 1080p monitors, and full hdr support. That’s using the 570 driver in fedora.
Had to check .ml hadn’t started bleeding through.
Chad Xi is not what I expected on a Friday night.
Finally found my spirit animal.
My wife had to explain to me that pickles were pickled cucumbers and there wasn’t a pickle tree.
I was 30 something years old.
I just don’t bookmark anything I don’t read straight away. If I want to read it that badly I’ll search for it again.
Yeah. Wtf is with the other comments. Yes Luxon sucks but this is the correct move and is probably informed by policy experts at RBNZ and Treasury.
Trump’s reaction to Canada actually implementing reciprocal tariffs shows how bad of an idea this is. I’m an economist, and this is the textbook definition of the prisoner’s dilemma. Both sides get hit with negative payoffs and it is the worst result overall.
smartd.service causing long boot times
I'm running Fedora 41 KDE and had what appeared to be an issue with the system not loading to desktop from the GUI login screen. I am getting a black screen with just the cursor and nothing else. I can get a terminal window going on TTY3-6 to reboot and doing so would load into the desktop pretty much instantly.
Turns out that there's actually a process causing total boot time from power on to exceed 6 minutes. Boot log is viewable here https://paste.centos.org/view/raw/8846c1ec
Using systemd-analyze blame
I can see that smartd.service is causing 3 minutes of that boot time. From a quick search it seems like it might be doing a full SMART test of my 3 SSDs on the first boot of the day.
Does anyone know how to disable this at boot? There doesn't appear to be a conf file in /etc/ and smartmontools isn't installed.
edit with solution
Thanks @just_another_person@lemmy.world and @notanapple@lemm.ee for cor
State servant numbers: Why the Government wants to overhaul the public service (Opinion piece)
But it also created public sector boards (or “joint ventures”) where chief executives from various agencies meet and discuss issues and provide advice to a single Government minister.
If it sounds a bit wishy-washy that’s because it clearly is. Its stated goal was to tackle major underlying problems facing the country. How’s that working out for us?
I get that this is a right wing columnist and he’s paid to be anti, but come on. Companies always decry silos and that’s exactly what this was set up to overcome when dealing with “wicked” problems, of which NZ has many.
DriveThruRPG GM Day sale
Lots of decent tables, GME tools and rulesets on sale today. Finally picked up Mythic 2nd ed and a few sci-fi oracles.
"Lowest" 5090 prices in New Zealand
All prices in NZD. Highest priced air cooled card, the Asus ROG Astral, is $6299 and the Asus ROG AIO is $6599.
Even after stripping out the 15% sales tax the lowest priced card is still USD 2655.

A good 4K card, a decent value on paper, but not the upgrade it could be.

I was going to wait for a 5080 super anyway, or ideally a 5080 ti, but my 3080 might have to do its duty for another 2 years. This is pretty pathetic.
Can't access Vaultwarden
I'm trying to host a vaultwarden instance through docker and failing miserably. This isn't my first attempt either but I've got much further than before.
I'm using a DuckDNS domain with caddy as reverse proxy, but it appears that the domain is defaulting to port 80 no matter how I set up the config. I can't specify a port number in DuckDNS as far as I can tell. If the simple solution is to just buy a domain name I will consider it. Otherwise could really use some help in sorting out why it's not connecting.
I can't access Vaultwarden on the internal IP as it's not being served as SSL but both Vaultwarden and Caddy are running with no errors in logs. I've left out a bunch of admin env variables for the Vaultwarden service to truncate the code.
docker-compose:
`[___](services:
vaultwarden:
undefined
container_name: vaultwarden image: vaultwarden/server:latest restart: unless-stopped ports: - 11808:80 - 11443:443 volumes: - ./data/:/data/ en
Terraborra - Neurotic Mix
Merry Christmas dnb crew. I got back into mixing and producing this year after a 15 year hiatus and polished off this mix today. It’s a mixture of neuro, darkstep and techstep, mainly the tunes I have on repeat which is why there’s a few older ones in there.
I’m pretty happy with it, but unbiased feedback would be great even if it’s critical.
Build upgrade day
Coming from an 8700K so will be interesting to see how Assetto Corsa and Path of Exile do with the significant cpu upgrade.
Concord Dawn - Morning Light (2003)
A Kiwi classic for the start of summer festie season.

Concerns supporter would struggle to make it through security clearance for top role.

Lol, that was quick. Effectively, “Thanks for your supporters but we’ll be fine without you”.
SearXNG display prices in results?
Google pushed their Ai Overview onto my country last night and that finally gave me the push to change search engines.
One thing I did find useful was having product prices displayed in the search result headers but this doesn’t appear to be enabled in any other engine. I used it to quickly scan between retailers as not everything shows up in pricespy or priceme.
I deployed a searxng instance this morning and have heard that you can use json to modify result presentation. Does anyone know if it’s possible to use that to display prices?
Local Govt minister won’t rule out early election for Wellington City Council
For a party that ran its campaign on devolving decision making to the regions, this is massive overreach.
I know first hand the infrastructure problems facing Wellington but the council literally only just had the vote. They need to be given the opportunity to find solutions, and go back to the public for consultation, rather than being blackmailed by the minister. Very much comes across as “do as I say, or else” given their hard on for asset sales.
Cinnabon confirms expansion to NZ

Preparations are well underway for the opening of Cinnabon's first New Zealand store in Auckland’s Westfield Newmarket.

Coming to Westfield Newmarket.
I’m an absolute sucker for Cinnabons and make it my mission to have one if I’m ever in the states. I will say that the mini Costco ones have been good to tie me over but nothing beats the real deal.
Public servants ordered back to the office, working from home ‘not an entitlement’

The PM says he does not want working from home 'undermining that ambition that we have'.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Like anyone can fucking afford to buy coffee or lunch right now.