TedZanzibar

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[–] TedZanzibar 6 points 1 month ago

But I missed a trick by not also using ergo.

[–] TedZanzibar 81 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's already been said, but shatterproof does not mean it's indestructible. It means that when it does break it won't shatter into a hundred jagged edged pieces that go flying into the air and lodge themselves into some kid's eyeball.

This one broke cleanly in twain and did not shatter. The packaging's claim is accurate.

[–] TedZanzibar 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Jesus Christ! A friend of mine exploded a mountain bike tire when trying to inflate it to 100psi, assuming it would be the same as on his racing bike, he said it went off like a grenade. I can't imagine what a car tire would be like.

[–] TedZanzibar 1 points 2 months ago

Mind officially blown! I've just spun up a Debian KDE instance and it's running beautifully. Exactly what I wanted, thank you!

[–] TedZanzibar 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, big fan of XCP-ng, we use it extensively in work, but I'm not convinced it's my best option in this case.

[–] TedZanzibar 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm using plenty of containers, accelerated and otherwise, but I also want a full-blown desktop that I can access from wherever. Even on a wired LAN, streaming that desktop is slow and laggy when it's hosted on my NAS, which I think is due to the lack of hardware acceleration on that system. I want to move the VM to a host that has that feature (currently running Ubuntu Server) but I need a hypervisor that doesn't require its own desktop system to be installed in order to manage it.

Plenty of good replies here to help me though.

[–] TedZanzibar 1 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Well indeed, that's why I want to move the VM off the NAS and onto something with some hardware acceleration. Are there any remote frontend options for KVM?

[–] TedZanzibar 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't remember exactly but it's something to do with new ~~safety and emissions~~ fuel efficiency regulations brought about in the 90s(?) that would fine manufacturers who didn't meet the new standards. "Light trucks" such as the F150 were exempt so manufacturers started pushing those hard as the fashionable choice.

Fast forward 30 years, the regulations haven't changed, and here we are. There's a good video about it somewhere...

Yeah here we go: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

[–] TedZanzibar 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, minus the animation it took me a couple hours. Well worth the time spent!

[–] TedZanzibar 2 points 2 months ago

Firefox. I'm fairly convinced it's something to do with UBO or one of the blocklists but I've never taken the time to dig into it properly.

[–] TedZanzibar 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You've reminded me of a similar frustration that I've never found the answer to - though it may be adblock related - in that whenever I open a link to eBay it completely wipes the history for that tab. Or possibly it opens a new tab and kills the parent. Either way I always forget about it until the next time and then it drives me mad all over again.

[–] TedZanzibar 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nice! I'm learning Python right now so I'm going to take this and make a script out of it.

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