Thank you for the public service announcement, I had no idea this was such a common issue. I should probably keep some emergency testicles around as well…

😂

I actually own 2 penises, I keep the spare in a jar in case of an emergency.

/s 😂🤣

I happen to be a penis owner.

So what would happen if I were to install and use such a monthly tracker app and pretend I’ve been having regular monthlies for a while, then suddenly I miss a couple periods, then suddenly start having periods again?

Would the cops come beating my door down claiming I had an abortion? 🤔

Fuck this dystopian mass surveillance shit!

WTF? I just played that just long enough for my queen to take over their queen, and it turned my queen into a rook?

Is that even a legit rule in any variation of chess rules?

I wasn’t aware of that either, now I’m kinda curious to try to find it in my 512 Atari 2600 ROMs archive…

Well shit, I figured out what the real issue was.

I’m on a laptop with only 3 USB ports, and I’m running a physical laptop hard drive on an adapter on one USB port, and a laptop CD/DVD drive on another adapter on another port.

Obviously that’s probably pushing the power limits of the USB power, but it’s worked before, so I didn’t see why it wasn’t quite working right now.

But this time I was trying a different DVD drive, an HP TS-T633P slot loader drive. Apparently that drive is extra power hungry compared to a conventional laptop drive, so I dug out my old tray loader drive.

Apparently the slot loader drive was competing with the hard drive for power, and they were apparently taking turns robbing power from each other. The system is perfectly happy with the tray loader drive though, no reconfiguration necessary!

🤦‍♂️😂🤣👍

Ah, thank you very much in advance! It’s a bit late here and I’m soon to head to bed, but I have used hdparm before, thanks for the reminder!

I’m saving your comment and will look into it more tomorrow, or soon at least. Thanks! 👍

Sure, some of the effects are basically useless eye candy, but the 3D Cube thing is a non-intrusive, yet very intuitive way of switching desktops. The 3D Cube doesn’t even activate until you use a hotkey combination plus the mouse. It’s almost like having a virtual KVM switch if you’re running virtual machines.

To each their own, but you might actually like the 3D Cube and possibly some other Compiz features once you see how they work and what they offer…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=W8UKuDidNQg

I can’t even function without the Compiz 3D cube anymore, it makes it super easy and visually intuitive to switch desktops. Very handy for someone running 4 virtual machines simultaneously…

I’ve been running Linux since 2011, starting with our data recovery and antivirus scanning system at the computer repair shop I was working for at the time.

Even my boss didn’t understand why I wanted to install Linux. Keep in mind, this is back when the TDSS/Alureon rootkit was going around on Windows systems.

I explained it like it was, that if our main backup/antivirus system was running the same OS as the infected computers coming in, then it was only a matter of time before our main system got infected.

So, he accepted my advice and let me set everything up. More or less just the bare basics really, smartmontools, gparted, firefox, google earth (just because), and a few other relevant programs to help with our daily tasks.

Then, one day when I was off work, a new employee decided to install some plugin into Firefox to share bookmarks and stuff across different devices…

Somehow, he borked the main tech user account, it wouldn’t even login to the user interface anymore :(

I had to spend a few hours, with the skeptical boss over my shoulder, waiting to see if I could get the system back running right again.

And so I did, while learning lots of new things at the same time. When I learned the hotkeys to switch to other terminal sessions, then I figured out how to create a new account, erase the old account, and get logged back in and running.

The customer data backup drive was separate and detached through all that, so customer data was safe the whole time.

The boss almost said fuckit, reinstall Windows, but I was persistent. And that system helped salvage over 200 systems with the TDSS rootkit, which would have almost certainly doomed our backup system if it was running Windows.

I told that new guy to never fuck with my operating system setup or configuration again, at least not before consulting me and getting approval or even assistance first.

When you got a bare minimum of the past 100 customers’ data backed up and virus checked, you don’t dick around with the main backup system.

So, honestly, I can’t think of a single truly costly mistake that Linux has cost me…

As far as that other employee that messed it up for a bit, well I dunno, it wasn’t too long after that the boss fired him…

Do you feel guilty when your phone battery goes below 40%?

• Yes, oh shit, I need to charge!
• No, fuckit, let it run dead.

Don’t lie to me, that’s a Gummy Bear Couch, obviously.

Don’t let JD Vance see this post…