BTRFS + Snapper makes automating system snapshots and updates so care-free that it almost feels wrong. 😅

With proper partitioning and backup strategies deployed during setup an admin could inexorably hose the OS and it wouldn’t be a big deal. I can count on one hand the amount of times it’s made sense to nuke a Linux machine. None of those incidents required I redeploy from scratch. Just re-install, log in, and all the data is exactly where it ought to be.

I’ve reguarly had to re-install Windows machines from scratch as if they were some eldritch beast whose rage was only calmed after the ritual sacrifice was complete.

I’m a bit late to the party. I was a network admin in another life and believe I can help out. I’ve skimmed existing conversations but not fully poured over them.

That said: I’d print the routing tables for the switches and firewall and review them. Considering firewall rules is sensible but it seems you’ve already done quite a bit of investigation there. It sounds like there is some vlan configuration missing. Like one of the switches doesn’t have the vlan interface defined or named in its vlan database.

Review the routing tables and confirm who owns each vlan and what those networks are aware of. Also toggle your logging options on so you can review them and test with more info than pass/fail.

It very well may be a OPNsense firewall knowledge thing but I’m not convinced. If you’re still working on this tomorrow I’d be happy to help root-cause the problem and fill in the gaps between RTFM and old YouTube videos. :)

The relaxed position of mammalian eyelids leaves them open. Muscles must contract for the eyes to be shut. Dead creatures cannot contract their muscles so their eyes remain open after they die.

You cannot shut their eyes for them by closing their eyes with your hand. Morticians place contacts in cadaver’s eyes while preparing the body for a wake. Those contacts grip the inside of the eyelids so that they remain closed.

This is why some cultures have funerary traditions in which objects are placed over the eyes.

TL;DR: you and your loved ones won’t close their eyes when they die.

One of the reasons is flow control. You want to be able to move a lot of water slowly until it’s where you want it. Many small inlets distributed along the surface is a simple and effective method. I’m sure achieving the design you’re speculating on is possible but it would be more complex and expensive for that design to reliably achieve similar goals/metrics.

Permeable pavements like pervious concrete and porous asphalt allow some of what you’re interested in without requiring a reinvention of the wheel.

I’ve tried a few extracts. Blending with other flavors they’re pretty good. Solo is hit or miss. Real vanilla bean extract is excellent (if one likes vanilla) but ones found on the same store shelf which use vanillin are… Unpleasant.

I’ve had some success using bitters as well. Angostura makes an orange bitters that mixes well with the oooflavors cream soda flavoring. It’s like a creamsicle’s older brother turned into a fizzy water. That one gets a nice lift from a bit of honey or agave but doesn’t require it.

Check out One On One Flavors. They sell water soluble and oil soluble flavors.

A few years ago I bought a variety of the water soluble flavors for making flavored sparkling water at home. I’ve enjoyed most of my choices and the few I don’t care for are still interesting (and useful for cocktail experiments).

Some of the cola flavorings are fine as-is. Some of them rely on a bit of sweetness to taste like they should.

Am I correct in understand your central question is “what’s the practical impact”?

If so then I think it’s a good theme for conversation. I’ve seen suggestions that “death of the artist” applies here. I’ve also seen “software is apolitical” and similar. While these are valid discussions in their own right: they miss the point.

Using anything created by people whose public speech is actively and consistently attempting to rhetorically enhance their political views implies acceptance or endorsement of those views. It’s a kind of identity politics not dissimilar in concept from brand identity.

What is and is not culturally acceptable is (in part) determined by norms established via association with such identities and the credibility-enhancing displays affirming those associations.

Using Omarchy suggests DHH’s political views are acceptable. It doesn’t matter how much creedance one gives this idea or how much impact it may have. The “Nazi dinner party” principal applies regardless.

That doesn’t sound insensitive. It sounds honest.

Much around death is shockingly mundane. For every heaving grief I know there are dozens of petty ones riding its coattails. All of them dull and common. I think that’s healthy to recognize.

Into the secret basement where the people who live under the floor are hiding. Better get a jack-hammer.

https://lemon-manuals.la/ worked for me just now.

I replied to a similar thread from the lemmy.world selfhost community here: https://lemmy.world/post/24406909/14550114

My reply reviews what concerns you might want to consider before running your own email server.

To address your post specifically: yes. Kind of.

You can purchase a domain from a registrar. You don’t really own that though. You have to renew your registration periodically so it’s more like renting than owning for those at the “consumer” level. Still, if you register a domain then you can manage its Domain Name Service (DNS) records. Email routing is handled by DNS Mail Transfer (MX) records.

Once you’ve got a domain name you need to decide if you want to selfhost or purchase email services that let you bring your own domain. Both are doable but bringing your domain to a service provider is likely the better path for you.

Tuta mail and Proton mail are popular providers that let you bring your own domain.

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Anthros. https://www.anthros.com/

I work in IT. Have for a long time now. I often spend half my day or more at a desk working on a computer. As my career developed I found myself less active. I was quite active and fit in my youth so I didn’t think much of it until I started having serious back pain. Decades of neglect caught up to me and I found myself in immense pain from… Doing nothing.

After a few scary incidents of thankfully temporary disability I was motivated enough to figure out what was wrong and learn how I could fix it. I came across the typical advice of course. Stretch. Train the body to be stronger and more flexible. Be more active. Sit less. All good and necessary. I still had to sit a lot though. Even with a sit/stand desk I’m going to want to sit down sometimes.

I did a lot of reading and almost as much testing before concluding that Anthros is the best office chair currently available. I now have a few years of experience with one and that experience has only reinforced that opinion.

It’s designed by folks who developed expertise on ergonomics working in the wheelchair industry. There’s a lot of copy on their website about all that and more info given in interviews / podcasts. Marketing aside the point is that it’s not just another funky chair following trends. There are evidence-backed reasons for the design.

The pelvic support is what fully convinced me. Pelvic support is to lumbar support what not-getting-stabbed is to a field tourniquet. Sitting with my legs engaged and my pelvis supported for the first time wrinkled my brain in ways similar to the first time I wore prescription lenses. After maybe fifteen minutes of “active sitting” I felt relief in my back instead of pain.

It is genuinely shocking how much of an impact a chair has made in my recovery from sedentary self-induced injury. From spending hours trying to get comfortable in chairs not designed to meaningfully support human bodies. I thought my problem area was my mid-back and core muscles. It was my whole spine. I still sit like an idiot sometimes but doing so in the Anthros is uncomfortable and that prompts me to either stand for a bit or take a walk. When I’m using the tool properly I am comfortable and pain-free.

Now that I’ve made myself sound like a paid shill here are some things I don’t like about the Anthros chair:

1. It’s expensive. I had to save for months to buy one responsibly. $2,000 for a chair is a lot to ask. I am happy with my purchase and I’ve recommended them to friends who have complained about back pain. Maybe the cost is justified. Maybe not. I’m too ignorant of the particulars to be able to say. Either way: it’s expensive to the point I take issue with the cost.
2. The armrests adjust their horizontal placement too easily. There’s about two inches of play in their forward/backward position and four “notches” of inward/outward movement at about three degrees per notch. The flexibility here is nice but there’s no locking mechanism for these adjustments and I found myself adjusting them accidentally all the time. I’m sure this could be countered with claims about accessibility and/or that this is only an issue when I’m using the tool improperly (sitting poorly). Even if valid points: this still feels like an area that could see improvement. It feels cheap in ways that a $2,000 chair shouldn’t. It’s the only thing that feels cheap on the chair but I still notice it after years of use. It doesn’t bother me as much now that I’m used to it and I’ve encountered it less as my sitting habits have improved BUT it has remained a complaint since day one.
3. I think it’s kind of ugly. This is a bit petty but I just don’t care for the look of the thing. It’s fine but I feel it’s kind of an eyesore. I’ve had chairs that looked cool and fit my sense of style. The Anthros looks like I stole it from a hospital or something.

That said: if I have my way, until and unless someone develops something better, I will always have an Anthros chair at my desk. If I ever own a business where it makes sense to buy desk chairs for people then I’ll only buy Anthros chairs. If I could gift one to everyone I know then I would.

I’ve done a lot of physical therapy to rehabilitate my back, abdominal core, and pelvis/hips from working at a desk. I’m significantly healthier than I was a few years ago. I attribute some of that progress to the chair. I’m confident I could’ve made the same progress without it but also confident that progress would’ve taken longer. Without the chair I’d still have been fighting bad habits I didn’t even know I had. I also wouldn’t reasonably have been able to change those habits as effectively.

I cannot recommend the Anthros chair strongly enough. Nothing else even comes close.

I asked to receive a drawing of me writing the prompt asking for that drawing. Someone delivered a picture of an abject moron drooling while typing away at a keyboard on a desktop computer. Hah! Jokes on THEM! I was on my CELLPHONE while on the TOILET.

Otherwise accurate. 11/10

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How very… American.

You’re travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land where Jack Handey voices Cookie Monster. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!

If you haven’t seen it I’ll recommend you give Devs a watch. It’s a compelling take on a similar theme.

It is also a sexual innuendo.