Theyr’re working on the federation too.

There’s a reason songs like these exist:

Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone

Here’s to the State of Mississippi - Phil Ochs

What’s Going On Down There - Malvina Reynolds

Advice from a long time sysadmin: You’re probably asking the wrong question. ncdu is an efficient tool, so the right question is why it’s taking so long to complete, which is probably an underlying issue with your setup. There are three likely answers:

1. This drive is used on a server specifically to store very large numbers of very small files. This probably isn’t the case, as you’d already know that and be looking at it in smaller chunks.
2. You have a network mount set up. Use the -x option to ncdu to restrict your search to a single filesystem, or --exclude to exclude the network mount and your problem will be solved (along with the traffic spike on your LAN).
3. You have a single directory with a large number of small files that never get cleared, such as from an e-mail deadletter folder or a program creating temp files outside of the temp directories. Once a certain number of files is reached, accessing a directory slows down dramatically. The following command will find it for you (reminder - make sure you understand what a command does before copying it into a terminal, DOUBLY so if it is run as root or has a sudo in it). Note that this will probably take several times as long to run as ncdu because it’s doing several manipulations in series rather than in parallel.

sudo find $(grep '^/' /etc/fstab | awk '{print $2}') -xdev -type f -exec dirname {} \; | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head

If they are temp files or otherwise not needed, delete them. If they’re important, figure out how to break it into subdirectories based on first letter, hash, or whatever other method the software creating them supports.

Unless you’re cheap like me and buy the brush yourself.

Nope.

Fireplace is a mistake - it will make most of the house colder. What you want is a wood stove, and a simple metal chimney is much cheaper than the brick one you’re imagining.

Also, a shed isn’t needed - make a round pile (shaker pile or holzhauzen) and shingle it with the bark (or a tarp if you’re lazy). Drying takes 6-9 months, not a year, but I like not to be rushed so I try to keep two piles - one I’m building over the warm months, and when the cold months come I pull from the other that had a year to season.

As for space, they don’t take much. A 6’ tall cylinder with a 5’’ radius holds about 4 cords once the cone on top is taken into account. I find a 4’ radius easier to manage, but that’s closer to 2.5 cords.

Thinkpads are not what they once were. I finally gave up on them, moved over to a Framework, and haven’t regretted it.

Not in TFA, but in anather article it linked to:

Abbott called a second special session, which began immediately after the adjournment of the first one.

I see you have yet to meetmy old friend Debian, who was supporting i386 until 2 weeks ago, and includes a much broader library of softwate than Microsoft has ever maintained.

It’s just as clear it is impossible to veer right enough to scrape a single vote off the republican ticket. The left will criticize, but veer left and at least some will hold their noses and (protest sign in hand) vote anyway.

No, the church supporters take a tax deduction that leads to everyone still footing the bill.

I’ve seen them used more often as rolling papers.

Daily driver here. Stable for servers, testing for workstations.

Debian Testing isn’t as stable as Stable, but has been far more reliable than anyone else’s desktop releases. I’m also not a fan of Fedora and others’ policy of ending support on the day of a new release.

If for some reason you decide to hold back on an upgrade of Testing, you’ve still got five years of patch support coming. And if I do want to live on the bleeding edge, there’s always Sid (also called Unstable). That’s where you’ll run into the kind of instability you can expect from a rolling release.

My favorite will probably always be Gentoo, but I don’t always have time for that hobby.

Steal? Microsoft and Apple are the bad guys!

Higher frequency. So more trains/busses on the same route.

Guinea fowl even more so

Lack of ground contact also deters termites.

Not saying this applies to Sydney Sweeney, but:

In some places, you really can’t assume that registered republican means votes republican. What I mean by that is there are deep red counties in Florida and other red states where most local offices run unopposed, and the only way to have any say in who holds those offices is to vote in the closed republican primary. The only way to do that is register as republican.

Some people do that to mitigate damage, and then vote straight ticket against the republicans in the general election. This can be a useful tactic even in places where the democratic party is active enough to field candidates, but not enough to have two running in a primary.

In this case there are other signs and I don’t think we’re dealing with tactical registration, but it’s good to be aware of when judging people by their voter registration without knowing a lot about the local politics.

Why are we posting corporate advertising in News now?

Yes, it really is.

No bother!

For customization, you want a MUD client rather than a standard telnet client. I used zMUD back in the day, but FLOSS was harder to come by back then. These days, I’d go with mudlet.