Notices by James Wells (nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org)

@FlashMobOfOne
In my state they have a state funded website where you can anonymously check your registration status for free. So I tend to check my status a couple times a year.

@susankayequinn
Before people say something about active duty military people getting a second and job or other such bullshit, please note that most military service members are precluded, by their duty schedules, from getting a second job. Additionally, because of their deployment and transfer schedules it is generally hard for their spouses to get / maintain second jobs as well.

@hellomiakoda
Okay, I can see 16GB being an issue. Might I suggest looking at Openbox for your DE, specifically with some of the Raspbian modifications. Another option, and I forgot the name of the DE, but Tony Linux and Spyder Linux are both mini distributions that have a really small and extremely lightweight DE.

@hellomiakoda
Might I ask what you are trying to install that is using that much space? I don't do games on Linux and so far the only thing I have installed that uses that much is the Unreal editor and when I built a Proxmox laptop prototype.

@hellomiakoda
Can't really imagine how small it has to be... I used to run Linux with X and a browser on 8M RAM with 320M disk... And even modern versions of Linux can be run on 1G RAM with 20G disks.

@jeffowski
You have obviously never had the displeasure of using a HP laptop.

I would suggest booting a rescue/live system and run some diagnostics on the root disk... My gut feeling is that you you just need to repair the partition table. I say that because you are getting far enough to prove that your disk is good, but not able to find the root partition

@hellomiakoda
Hope it solved your issue. G'luck

@hellomiakoda
Not sure if that is the issue, but when you log into the box, you get a shell, and if the shebang is broken or missing, your existing shell will be used. Cron doesn't have a shell, it would not be able to run the script.

@hellomiakoda
You are showing a space between the ! and / IIRC that is breaks it

@hellomiakoda
Just in case you are unaware of the shebang line, I use env to call the first bash entry in the path, which is usually /bin/bash, but not always.

@hellomiakoda
A simple test would be something like the following in /etc/cron.hourly;
#!/usr/bin/env bash
/usr/bin/env logger "running: $@"

Then check, /etc/crontab to see what time cron.hourly runs and watch your system log around that time

@hellomiakoda
1. What is the shebang for your scripts. I ask because many versions of cron default on restrictive paths and may not find your executor if you don't fully qualify the filename
2. I often use "/use/bin/env logger 'Made it to stage: X'" where X is a step number. That will get written to your system log or journal

@kitten
It is from the Airplane series... Someone will ask a simple question and the answer is similar to yours followed by "but that is beside the point" or "but that is not important right now"

@AliciaBytes @RamenCatholic

Hey Boogle, what is the speed of light in dishwashers per kilometres please?

@TheBreadmonkey

@fanta
I am assuming this will work with a generic USB GPS... Will have to give it a try.

@georgetakei
That is obviously photoshopped. Chump's hands are not that big

@RickiTarr
I saw `History Of the World: Par 1`, I know it was originally 15 commandments, but Mel Brooks, errrr Moses dropped one of the tablets.

@2something @helplessduck

@vv
Yes, prompt engineering is critical for them as it will be their life within the next 10 years, so that is valuable in and of itself.

When a person looks into something they understand, their prompts will tend to be more focused on what they need, but also their prompts will generally show clear paths toward the information. Please note I am not talking about a single prompt, but the entire chain of prompts.
@cwebber

@autolycos
And your point is?

@LRRRonEarth

@marcotietz
I was working at a small mom & pop computer shop at the time. We sold a lot of Compaqs until the acquisition. Suddenly we were unable to get preferred technical support, had difficulty fulfilling large orders (50+ machines), and it was nearly impossible to get any OEM software that was supposed to ship with the machines.

@steter @ai6yr @researchbuzz