Notices by Ric (dev_ric@fosstodon.org), page 2

@sinbad that is a lot of chicken!

I'd still struggle to not pop it all in one curry though 😂

@sinbad she wasn't even applying for anything you'd need experience for, let alone a degree. Grocery stores, pubs, that kind of a thing. I don't know when things changed but even for these super low level, bottom of the ladder positions, you now have to go through questionnaires just to get an automated mechanic to decide if you can have an application form, and honestly the kinds of questions these things ask, even I didn't know how to answer - and I've had those jobs! Recruitment is awful now.

@sinbad yeah apprenticeships aren't really much of a thing any more it seems. Neither is just walking into places like grocery stores and pubs to ask for an application form - they don't hire like that at all these days.

Our youngest is 20 and she tried the uni thing but it wasn't really for her, so she came back home about a year ago and had basically been trying to get a decent job ever since, until finally landing one a couple of months ago. Watching the struggle has been eye opening!

@sinbad urgh that sucks, but also isn't surprising. I have a general dislike for how university is a mandatory for jobs that really don't warrant conventional learning methods, but it seems especially ridiculous in industries like this.

Going to uni to better yourself, because that's an environment that works for you? Great!

Want to architect a building where safety and such is paramount? Yep, you're gonna need to cert up!

Been drawing stuff and want to do it for me? Cool - show and tell!

@sinbad I don't even know how you'd go about learning enough ASM to do a raycaster today, let alone in the pre-Internet days. How did that not get you in? 😯

@sinbad I've literally never heard of nibbles before!

@sinbad before Windows doesn't necessarily mean before Microsoft code though. As far as I understand it, UEFI is fast because rather than probing the drives for an MBR and handing over to that, it just executes an EFI at a pre-configured location but the actual EFI can be anything. I mean... Obviously its purpose is to spin up everything else and hand over to the 'real' O/S, but programmatically it's just an executable like anything else. So if Windows dumps its own EFI for boot, it gets control

@sinbad yeah, and if I remember rightly, DOS/Windows at least tells you when it's doing memcheck stuff?

Sure this isn't the first time she's booted that device since the clocks changed a couple weeks ago? And sure it didn't start happening after the previous change? If it's set to GMT instead of BST then that'd be causing a skew for 6 months every year, and I've seen those cause short boot hangs waiting for a time dependant daemon to give up and return execution. Granted not normally so early.

@sinbad definitely possible. Windows installs its own boot loader regardless of whether you're on EUFI or BIOS, hence why with a dual boot you have to install Windows before anything else, otherwise it just replaces the loader your other O/S installs with a loader that doesn't let you boot to anything else. So it makes sense that it'd be able to change that software at any point.

60 seconds though, doesn't sound like it'd be a malicious thing. Could be sanity checking something? Or clock skew?

@sinbad haha, even I wouldn't run Gentoo on servers. They need keeping patched up for security, and hiccup free. I'm a Redhat/CentOS/Rocky/Alma guy for servers.

I do love my Gentoo desktops though 😁

@sinbad oh, Gentoo isn't for people who want their O/S to just work! 😆

It's for extreme configurability, performance, and minimalisation. Also for people who want to understand how every part of their system works... The philosophy has always been "Gentoo doesn't have an installer, YOU'RE the installer". And you're given a ~120 page guide on getting it to the point you can load up a graphical environment...

For normal people there are about 300 other distributions 👍

Off to a good start. 😆

I have to mount my boot partition before I can pull a world update? This feels dangerous...

I'm jumping from KDE 5.27 to 6.2, Python 3.10 to 3.12, new graphic drivers, new input drivers, and a bunch of other things likely to break. Also need to upgrade from a Portage 17.1 profile to a 23.0 split usr profile, apparently. And I should probably think about replacing my 5.15 kernel with a 6.6 at some point...

I guess this is me downing tools for Christmas then?

"Total: 897 packages (569 upgrades, 109 new, 156 in new slots, 63 reinstalls, 75 uninstalls), Size of downloads: 9,935,290 KiB
Conflict: 111 blocks (all satisfied)"

So anyway, it's been a while since I last pulled updates... 😬

@sinbad if I'm understanding correctly, you just want to download web pages to refer to later, even if they drop offline?

wget -pk https://something.com

👍

-p downloads the resources as well as the raw page, so that it renders fully. -k rewrites the page to link to the downloaded assets instead of the originals.

Full man page here: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/wget.1.html

(works on Windows too, just needs installing first)

@gilesgoat @sinbad ignoring the we're-still-moving-in mess for a moment (I'll do proper photos when we're tidy), this is the beast we have in our living room. Regular sized sofa for scale haha. It's literally taller than me. 😁

There are then more regular sized fires in err... I think 3 of the other rooms. At least 2 of them aren't active though, unsure about the other.

There are also scorch marks on this carpet mind 😬

@sinbad the inner doors in this place are surprisingly effective actually. We at least don't need draught excluders I don't think. Would be useless on the main door too - the bottom is the only bit that's snug haha.

You had no central heating though? 😬

Presumably the fireplaces were all at least still active? Some of ours are, but I've not yet dared to try starting an indoor fire. Only ever had electric before and if you'd ever seen one of my firepits, you'd keep me away from the matches 😆

This house is old and leaky. Like, really leaky. There are no seals around doors or other modern novelties. Not even the main external door. The windows are all original single glaze sash, and the rooms are enormous.

Based on current usage, it'd cost about £800 p/m to keep it at a comfortable temperature throughout.

So... We're now officially entering whatever age group it is where slippers become a thing.

I think we're off slipper and sweater shopping tomorrow. 😬

Never owned either before!

This has been my connection for 10 days now, and that's only when I stand in certain parts of the house where I pick up a single bar of 5G.

Honestly starting to develop some sympathy towards people who just flip and begin a rampage.

Ric's weren't designed to have an offline mode! 😭

(obviously I don't actually endorse rampaging)

@sinbad we're in. 😁

Just the fish and rats to move over the weekend now. And some outside stuff that we wanted to deal with ourselves. Hiring movers has actually been really nice, despite also being really unsettling haha. Helps that the guys we got just turned out to be great people.