I wish but no, it comes from a post on reddit. I didn't want to use them as the host of the image so I uploaded it here.
There a few of these if you just google Trump without hair and makeup.
This thread is giving me flashbacks to the times before Unicode, when swapping files between Windows and Linux partitions would have a good chance of fucking up every non-ASCII characters in their names.
There was ways to set it up so the ISO character sets would match, but it was still a giant pain to deal with different ones.
Blessed be Unicode.
This reminds me of the guy that does guinea pig portraits as gifts for his sister's birthday.
Microsoft uses some of these. I remember having to do something like that to setup a minecraft account and at some point I thought I would just give up and lose my money.
Isn't it the risk of trying to make money with money? It's like gambling. If you don't want to risk losing that money, don't play that game.
No thanks, I'll keep pedaling.
Where I live temperatures can reach -30C in winter and 30C in summer, so storing anything "sensible" in a shed is a very bad idea. Everything has to be stored in a controlled environment or it will quickly get moldy and rusty.
However, I kept my old 5.25" diskettes in a box where they were a bit squeezed together and they obviously didn't like that. It could also just be time. Anyways, a few years ago I decided to copy everything on hard drives and some diskettes were now unreadable.
I waited too long to backup them and now it's too late for some of them.
And even stored "properly", I also have burned CDs from the early 2000 that are also unreadable. It's unfortunate but there's nothing I can do now, except to learn and remember the lesson.
I'm always baffled by people that find old computers stored in barns and still working. Where I am I don't think they would last more than two winters with this kind of temperature and humidity variation.
I work with IBM i/AS400 servers and those are not exactly the quickest thing to "reboot" (technically an IPL). Especially the old ones. I have access to the HMC/console but even this sometimes takes several minutes (if not dozens) just to show what's going on.
It's always a bit stressful to see the codes passing one after the other and then it stops on one and seems to get stuck there for a while before continuing the IPL process. Maybe it's applying PTFs (updates) or something, and you just have to wait while even the console is blank.
I've been monitoring those servers for years and I'm still sometimes wondering if it hanged during the IPL or if it's just doing its thing, because this part, even with codes, is not very verbose.
Fortunately it's also very stable so it pretty much always comes back a few minutes after you start wondering why the hell it's taking so long.
I am fortunate enough to know how to set up VMs and use Linux, so I run my own IRC server with a web interface (TheLounge). I can set the upload limit to what I want and settled for 100MB. This way my friends and I are not at the mercy of some proprietary software.
I do pay for a dedicated server that I also use to host my games' servers and also a mumble server, but it's so worth it, just to have control over our stuff.
In Québec there is a moving company that has been using the same jingle and phone number for decades. Ir's really catchy and sticks in your head.
Le clan Panneton, pour déménager, faut composer le 937-0707.
The ad from 1997: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBIADSFYoVk
The ad from 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_VYYkFMcFk
Ask anyone in QC what's the Clan Panneton's number and they will start signing it.
I've been doing some rail trails on the "green roads" (routes vertes) to visit my parents for the last three weekends and I stopped at the park for overnights as I didn't want to cycle the full 140 km in one shot and then back. It's getting greener!
The Yamaska National Park is a small park located around a reservoir in southern Québec. From there it's possible to access multiple rail trails and "linear parks" going in all directions.
More pictures in the comments.
The last two upgrades have broken my audio setup.
First the options for Network Server and Network Access in paprefs were greyed out and my sinks disappeared after upgrading to bookworm. I just had to create a link to an existing file and it was working again but, it's weird that it was needed in the first place. Pretty sure it has something to do with the change from pulseaudio to pipewire but I'm not very up to date on that subject and I just want to have my current setup to continue working.
Then yesterday I just launch a simple apt-get upgrade and after rebooting my sinks disappeared again. The network options in paprefs were still available, but changing them did nothing. I had to create the file ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d/10-gsettings.conf and stuff it with "pulse.cmd = [ { cmd = "load-module" args = "module-gsettings" flags = [ "nofail" ] } ]" in order to have my sinks back.
I know it's not only a Debian thing, as I can see this happening to people on Arch forums, but as Debian is supposed to be the "stable" one, I find it amusing that a simple upgrade can break your sound.
Using Boost for Lemmy, I got an obvious political ad from the right asking to sign a petition to scrap the gun "ban" in Canada (it's a registry not a ban).
Now I understand this is an ad but I don't appreciate having propaganda from the right injected into my browsing on lemmy. Have better ads, or let us report them.
