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It's worth watching.

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NixOS supports headless LUKS, which was an improvement for me in my last distro-hop. The NixOS wiki even has an example of running a TOR Onion service from initrd to accept a LUKS unlock credential.

Link: Spectrum

Download over TOR / run your podcatcher from Tails.

Thanks for the lead!

It looks like the Buddy Read feature does in fact start with a specific book and organize a group around it, but it invites me to specify all the people that will ever be in the group right away, at group creation time. I get three ways to invite people:

• "Machine-learning powered reading buddy recommendations" - Unspecified voodoo. Three users are shown.
• "Community members who have this book on their radar" - Probably folks that have this on their public 'to read' list. Three users are shown.
• Specifying users directly by username

This doesn't quite fit the "I'm up for this, let me know when it starts" mechanic.

I could create a new group & invite all three of the users with this book in their public 'to read' list, but I think folks treat the the 'to read' list very, very casually -- not at the "I'm ready to commit to a reading group" level. These three users have 723, 2749, and 3771 books on their 'to read' lists respectively. I see that I somehow have have 46 books on mine, & haven't been thinking of it as a 'ready to commit to reading group' list.

Thank you for sharing updates about your progress. Good luck rummaging around in found.000. :(

Regulation is slow, full of drama, scales poorly, & can result in a legal thicket that teams of lawyers can navigate better than the individuals it's intended to advocate for. Decriminalizing interoperability is faster & can handle most of the small/simple cases, freeing up our community/legislative resources to focus on the most important regulatory needs.

Yeah, that's normal. That's the seam -- where each layer starts/stops. Yours don't look any worse than mine.

Sometimes you can tweak settings to reduce them a bit, but the only way to avoid them completely is to print in spiral/vase mode (which is very limiting: 1 contiguous perimeter, no infill).

More importantly: You can control where they appear on the part! Your slicer may have settings like 'nearest' , 'random', 'aligned', 'rear', or may have a way to paint on the part in the UI where the seams should be. Seams are clearly visible when they're in the middle of an otherwise-smooth expanse like the side of your boat there, but are barely noticeable if you put them on a corner.

X11 for xdotool. ydotool doesn't support (& can't really support with it's current architecture) retrieving information like the current mouse location, current window, window dimensions & titles. Also, normal (unprivileged) user ydotool use requires udev rules or session scripts and/or running a ydotool daemon & many distros don't yet ship with this Just Working.

X11 for Alt-F2 r to restart Gnome Shell without ending the whole session. This is a useful workaround for a variety of Gnome bugs.

There are so many ways do handle backups, so many tools, etc. You'll find something that works for you.

In the spirit of sharing a neat tool that works well for me, addressing many of the concerns you raised, in case it might work for you too: Maybe check out git annex. Especially if you already know git, and maybe even if you don't yet.

I have one huge git repository that in spirit holds all my stuff. All my storage devices have a check-out of this git repo. So all my storage devices know about all my files, but only contain some of them (files not present show up as dangling symlinks). git annex tracks which drives have which data and enforces policies like "all data must live on at least two drives" and "this more-important data must live on at least three drives" by refusing to delete copies unless it can verify that enough other copies exist elsewhere.

• I can always see everything I'm tracking -- the filenames and directory structure for everything are on every drive.
• I don't have to keep track of where things live. When I want to find something, I can just ask which drives it's on.
  • (I also have one machine with a bunch of drives in it which I union-mount together, then NFS mount from other machines, as a way to care even less where individual files live)
• Running git annex fsck on a drive will verify that
  • All the content that's supposed to live on that drive is in fact present and has the correct sha256 checksum, and
  • All policies are satisfied -- all files have enough copies.

Feeling Good

Pocket Ref & pocket US Constitution.