It also coats the pasta in a protective layer of oil, preventing the sauce from sticking to it.

They look amazing! I’ve always loved the translucent look, never even considered you could dye it yourself. Well done!

You’ve also inspired me to start calling him ‘Mister Chef’, best typo ever!

I haven’t finished setting it up yet, so I can’t offer an opinion yet, but the way I’ve gone is a doorbell with electric lock control- mine does 2 locks, and you can set the 2nd lock to be a doorbell instead. The ‘doorbell’ output is a contact closure, which I just wired to a standard doorbell chime. Network down means I still have a doorbell.

And their primary defence is crushing the skulls of their enemies against the roof of their burrow. Using their butt.

Half finished projects.

I’m not usually one to carry the anti-billionaire pitchfork, but the blind spot that people have towards Gabe’s vast wealth irks me. He’s arguably done less for humanity than a number of other billionaires that receive utter vitriol, but somehow he flies under the radar. The guy’s super yacht wasn’t big enough, so he bought a second, bigger yacht, and refitted the smaller one to be the support vessel.

At the moment?

I’m not searching the sky for a reason to live 'Cause I found beauty right here and found the passion to give So let me give you my heart, let me give you my tears Let me give you my life, let me give you my fears

I’ve always interpreted it as someone finding an alternative to suicide, by helping those around them.

There’s tech, and then there’s electronic tech. I’m sure the filter paper is waaaaay more high tech than the kettle. Seriously, check out the engineering that goes into filter mediums, it’s insane.

We’re probably thinking about very different work environments.

Redundancy is more about not having a single point of failure. If you have a need for a redundant system, having a single point of failure in the KVM means you no longer have cc a redundant system.

For me, I find it simpler having a dedicated keyboard and mouse per computer, mainly to avoid the mad wiggle of the mouse to find the cursor, and then wiggle again because you found the cursor but it’s not moving, has it crashed? Oh that’s right, I’m using a KVM, and I’m controlling the computer that’s over there. With dedicated keyboard and mouse, it’s always obvious which machine I’ll be controlling. And yeah, I meant slower to switch. You need to move your hand off the keyboard to press the button, then move your hands back, usually having a slightly awkward pause when it takes a moment to register the switch. With dedicated keyboards, you move your hands once, done.

And I can think of plenty of scenarios where you want to do an action at the same time on two machines. Want to compare two copies of a document across the two machines? Left hand on page down for one machine, right on the other. Trying to test a bug that mucks up the timing of a jump in a game on one system but not the other? Spacebar at the same time. Going through the same install process simultaneously on 4 machines? It either takes four key presses on different keyboards to select an option, or four key presses and four KVM button presses.

For a lot of stuff, KVM is the way to go, especially if you tend to just do a bunch of stuff on one machine, then do a bunch of stuff on another. For a lot of situations though, such as if you’re having to only do occasional stuff, or doing lots of small things on different machines, it’s not the way to go.

I did not expect to be writing such a detailed essay on such a trivial thing today, so thanks for coming to my TED talk!

That’s on me for not reading. Thanks. I gotta learn that pre coffee commenting should be double checked.

I sometimes have to get involved with writing safety protocols. Not my favourite task, but I’ve always been super nervous about using AI to assist because it’s such a specific, rigid and important thing, that needs to be expressed as simply as possible, all of which AI is bad at. Care to share how you use it?

There’s plenty of good reasons. Redundancy, simplicity, speed, physical context switching…

All I know is that the US building a secret submarine base at Pine Gap in Alice Springs was a genius move.

I think avoiding containers is the way I’m going to go on my next attempt. I’ll still have to put it in an lxc or a VM on my proxmox, but all in one will hopefully reduce some problems. The sonarr/radarr split was what I was referring to with the above or below an hour comment.

I hate how fragmented they are. I’ve given up on various guides out there for ‘setting up the arr stack’ because of getting bogged down in since miniature detail that, IMHO, shouldn’t even be a thing. I get that hosting seperate services has advantages. But the disadvantage of giving up on the whole thing because you have to sort out networking and file permission issues between the service that downloads video files over an hour long and the service that downloads video files under an hour outweighs those advantages.

God damnit, three replies in this thread, and one of them is someone who beat me to the one I was going to say! Well played.

My second favourite, then-

Do you know the heading cause of dry skin?

You forgot the bit where they hold up a second mirror and you nod awkwardly, mumbling something that’s not quite ‘yep, that’s the back of my head, yep, I agree, you have cut my hair, thank you for showing me the proof’

Thingiverse is great, but the real benefit of a 3d printer for me is the super-custom stuff. The gap between my kitchen sink and wall is pretty small, so I designed and printed a sponge caddy that sits in there perfectly, and drains into the sink. My sunnies didn’t fit into the holder in my car, so I designed and printed a little clip with a holder on it that fits in really nicely.

You could also just shoo them outside. I’d prefer to not have fly guts all over my hands, and I don’t really have the need to kill every fly I see.

Only Anish Kapoor is allowed to use 8B.