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nicgentile OP ,

Smooth, dark, sweet. Says so on the bag, and actually delivers. It also has some acidity to it.

nicgentile OP ,

My brother in law got it from Wholefoods. He asked if I wanted to try a cup and well, I got hooked. I usually drink 1 -2 cups a day, but the taste on this has me going 4 cups a day.

nicgentile OP ,

Well, I wasn't going to go that far with this just yet. I am curious though.

nicgentile OP ,

Thanks. Will definitely give it a go.

nicgentile OP ,

I'm not in Virginia. I'm in Maryland, so there is that. If its not, get it from their site.

nicgentile ,

Humiliation after humiliation after humiliation.

Taunted, got his ass beaten up infront of his sons, and later on in life, when they grow up and remember this and then understand what it meant, will realize that their dad was a racist who got beaten up for being racist and a video exists and I can bet you, in school, as they grow older someone will be like, check this old video of so and so's dad getting his ass handed to him for being racist.

nicgentile ,

In which case if they choose to not learn from this example, they too will have videos of themselves getting beaten up for shenanigans like this circulating on the internet.

There should be a 'Political Showerthoughts': so there's a place for such thoughts (Edit: 'Political Showerthoughts' is now live for just that)

I quite often have political thoughts in the shower, and also wish to express them; simply as being shower thoughts. However, rule number 3 prohibits this, or at least requiring me to dance around the subject; which feels somewhat limiting. ...

nicgentile ,

Yes. Start one. The biggest benefit of having different subs back over at u/fuckspez dumpsterland was the independence to create whatever you or anyone wanted. We are here because we believed even more different and have the right to choose whatever we want. Since politics and ai are not welcome here, doesn't mean there isn't a crowd for it. Go for it.

nicgentile ,

Debian + XFCE

Debian + Budgie

nicgentile ,

Yes. I run Debian with a bunch of Gnome and KDE applications on XFCE4. UI looks weird sometimes, but it works as well as I expect.

nicgentile ,

In a twisted way, Trump is inadvertently trying hard to prove that more guns in the hands of untrained people with no background checks are a bad idea, something NRA was hoping to keep down. The cat is out of the bag now.

Anyway, fight girls.

nicgentile ,

Works great.

I sell managed services and this is one of the things I offer. Its a fire and forget sort of system. However, your experience with managing the back end stuff, updates etc will really matter cause if it goes sideways, you have to know how to debug. That is pretty much what I do.

nicgentile ,

I host Nextcloud with various options on terms of storage and CPU.

nicgentile ,

I do. PMing you the details.

nicgentile ,

PMing you.

nicgentile ,

The Tswana (people from Botswana) rarely travel. When I lived there, the government used to have massive drives to get people to apply for passports. It rarely worked. So this is a non-issue and arbitrary or either a badly scripted effort to do work on behalf of some diamond dealer. Nonetheless, the Tswana, more interested in partying than visiting USA will be unbothered. Also, there is a base involved and the EFF (volatile South African political party) have been pushing for it to be removed. This is just giving it impetus.

nicgentile ,

Hopefully MarathonOS runs on this. Definitely my next phone nonetheless.

nicgentile ,

Freedom. 24 years ago, I figured that there had to be something different that I could customize. I had experimented with BeOS but then I came across Gentoo, and Linux in general. I crushed and burned many times experimenting with Slackware, SuSE (and later OpenSuSE), as well as Mandrake, but Debian became my thing. I did some time with Solus, but I'm a Debian guy. Netboot, put it together as I want, and what not.

nicgentile , (edited )

Eyeballing here. I'm a learner and have hardly used this.

Would a checkpoint model (right term?) achieve consistency, built from a specific set of pictures?

nicgentile ,

Right. That. Thanks.

nicgentile ,

Give shit, take shit, have a laugh about it.

nicgentile ,

Legit.

nicgentile ,

I run a "self hosting" business. My job is to solve said problems. What I am learning from my developing customer base is this, they would rather I be on the hook than them, they would rather I press the buttons that them, and so on. You get the gist of it. Where I host said services is up to me, provided it does not fail, is secure and they have root access when they need it.

If I get tired of this business, I will find a buyer and sell it and move on. Yes, it is a worthwhile venture. Horror stories though, it seemed easy to get into, till I had to get my first customer.

nicgentile ,

I had to tell ChatGPT to stop kissing my ass. It was ridiculous. ChatGPT can inflate ones ego if you are not careful.

nicgentile ,

For many years, yes, but, to see that person reach out, apologize, amends and even support me in difficulty changed that perspective. Forgiveness played a major role in healing.

nicgentile ,

I just launched a business to help non technical people identify and selfhost their business tools. I faced such problems when I lived in a fascist country and now that I live in a fascist country again, I figured its a good way to go.

nicgentile ,

There are very easy steps you can take here. It seems complicated, but there are tools for this and with a VPS/VDS, you can be up and running in under an hour if you are technically inclined. Moving to my own email, is by far, one of the best things I have done in my life.

nicgentile ,

So there is a bit of work you need to do, but if you manage your server well, do DMARC, DKIM, SPF etc and then nip it in the bud when you get warnings, its very easy to manage. Its about responsibility. Bad actors exist, but careful operators prevail.

nicgentile ,

Self hosting is not always about hosting at home. A private VPS/VDS, co-located server that you own/lease and operate is essentially that. I take self hosting as not turning to big tech for the very same solutions I can spin up myself on a private server.

That being said, self hosting also involves servers at home that run personal services.

My line of work is mostly in business. Getting people to operate their businesses with open source tools on private servers, local, in the country and abroad, as they wish.

nicgentile ,

It took me 6 deploys to finally understand all the mechanisms. What I like about self-hosting and the open source mantra in general is that every failure is a lesson with field experience. So skills development and acquisition is fairly easy if you push for it and once you get it, its wash, rinse, repeat.

nicgentile ,

Looks like you found a niche and are about to start a new sub.

nicgentile ,

Lol. Yeah. Been through that. I find myself wanting to start new subs, then I am reminded of the horror show, and I move on.

nicgentile ,

I believe short term there is an increase, give that a lot of people are braving stuff they can't afford to fix. But it stabilizes and reduces in the long term cause as society becomes healthy, and with other health initiatives like healthy eating, exercise and preemptive healthcare, it normalizes with a general reduction in staff numbers.

nicgentile ,

This will face legal hurdles, especially in the EU and China. It reminds me of the time Microsoft played shell games with Chrome and Firefox and then lost eventually. That being said, it will kickstart a new mobile OS arms race, not necessarily to beat Android but for choices.

nicgentile ,

I'm surprises at how SailfishOS has a limited presence. This could be that moment. HarmonyOS is sick. I've seen it in action and it is on another league.

nicgentile ,

Interesting word choice there. Verdict and sentencing. So it's like saying we will rubber stamp the guilt and then fling him off to prison.

Good news is, his guilty ass is guilty and he is going to jail. One less fascist.

i accidentally defiled a corpse, what do i do?

so i hiked up to the top of a mountain and saw a really big rock that was kind of spiky and looked really cool, so i climbed up the the top of it, it was really dusty and i didn't think much of it so i brushed away the dust and sat on top of the rock while i ate my lunch, after i finished eating i stood up and looked down ...

nicgentile ,

What did you have for lunch?

nicgentile OP ,

Had considered Hetzner, not going down that route. If only Scaleway had services in the US. Well, their snapshots are marked as copy on write, so my assumption is that for every write, there is replication somewhere.

Check their website.

https://www.netcup.com/en/server/root-server/rs-1000-g11-iv-12m#rs-1000-g11-iv-12m-nue

nicgentile OP ,

Same here. Makes me consider just doing my own thing instead and rolling my own extra backup system. Something to consider.

That aside, I'm surprised at how there is a VPS limitation at both Netcup and OVH. Netcup is selling ARM as the closest alternative. OVH is selling Canada as the closest option. I found it weird.

nicgentile OP ,

An analytics tool?

nicgentile ,

Multiple times daily.

Is it me or are many freemium applications masquerading as opensource applications?

My creds: Been in open source for 25 years, one of the earlier users of Ubuntu when it launched in Fourways, South Africa (remember those sleeved CDs they used to send for installation media) though I hardcore rep Debian, have deployed and supported countless tools across 3 continents, the most memorable being Mambo which later ...

nicgentile OP ,

I was working on cal.com two days ago. I saw this.

nicgentile ,

PHP forever.

nicgentile OP ,

If they lied, they will get what's coming to them ;)