Notices by Harshad Sharma (hiway@mastodon.social)

@dalias I haven't tweaked anything when installing this system, it is as the distribution creators have set it up :')

Do I wait longer? (I don't think the command should take this long?) Or do I reboot and risk corrupting the filesystem? What is the OS doing spinning the fan at full speed all this while? I can't even run top, I hit the shortcut to open new console tab 10 minutes ago...

Switching away from windowing to system console took a while, and over a minute to switch back. Not trying that again.

Much Windows 98 nostalgia happening X-)

I think I understand why Linux doesn't implement SIGINFO (Ctrl+T) - the system stops responding because you were extracting a 800MB xz compressed file on a machine with 8 cores and 16GB ram. (It's been 25 minutes now...)

What good is siginfo when you can neither switch windows, move the cursor nor press any keys?

Very pragmatic :catjam:

Okay, I am convinced that my compost is good enough and you're a happy plant, but, what am I supposed to do with all these citruses? You're just *one* wee plant! WTF?!

#gardening

And they have the balls to limit passwords to 15 characters, demand a change every 90 days and only provide SMS as the MFA, but not to login, only for making outgoing transactions and I'm "anomalous" here eh?

The bank website kept rejecting "International Card Usage" changes for a week (citing 'anomalous transaction), while my bills were bouncing, and another team kept calling me for every failed transaction asking me to enable the same (which they themselves disabled when renewing the card), and asking me to install their app "because it will definitely work even if the site doesn't".

Smells like someone has targets that need to be met. Sigh.

Uh, now for no clear reason, since last few days, even Mint Linux has been doing the same thing as Ubuntu does from the moment it is installed: freezing sporadically for seconds at a time, frequently enough that the experience is more annoying than productive.

And finally it completely froze, forcing me to power the laptop down. Since ZFS isn't available on this system, I'm starting it back up with much anxiety. Let's hope it doesn't pull an Ubuntu on me and refuse to boot after a single crash

Happy to see the sun after a while :)

Year number go up!

@whitequark @dalias @glyph @mcc +1

// I was wary of passkeys because of the hype by Big companies (never a good sign, as we can see now that it's been a while) - however I am satisfied with the solution via keepassx + firefox + syncthing. Works on all my machines on the sites where I've set it up.

Wow this really resonated with many!

For anyone considering this path, it's possible to provision enough panels and battery backup to not be constantly reminded of being off-grid, if your budget and geography allows, but I've come to appreciate the awareness towards weather that being completely dependent on the sun shining has brought into my daily life.

Thank you for the boosts and faves. I didn't think my posts could go this far. Fediverse rocks because you do!

Been 5 years I haven't had a mains line for electricity. Living off the sun in a location where it is cloudy most of the year is feasible if you can turn off power hungry devices when not needed or when it's been very overcast. This has become a habit now and I have no regrets.

Grateful for this exercise in being always aware of my power demands and what my environment can afford me.

#solarpunk

@gyptazy @vel the worst of everything!

@morph yes, I'm close to the max elevation for these hills, with a catchment area not larger than 4sq km - there's a *lot* of water flowing through my small valley, but nothing to worry about.

Just that my animals are very bored, and cows who insisted on going out in rain in the morning weren't too happy about it by late evening.

Weather forecast says heavy rains for next three days, so got everything that I needed for the next week; mostly pet food.

Now having a chai before riding through that misty village below to my farm another 30ish min away.

#motorcycle

Been raining all day with few minutes of break - just enough to start preparing for an outdoor task, and resuming right as one is ready to step out.

As of 16:30, 43.6mm rain has been observed.

With weather like this, who wants to be out and about? Oh wait, I have cows who need to graze! *puts on raincoat*

Light rain started at around midnight and has been steadily increasing in intensity, as of 7am, my weather station has noted 16mm rain.

Woke up at 6, had a coffee, then got back under the blanket, with several cats for company.

Reached home a while ago, had dinner, now to see if it really rains as much as the forecast.

Took all of rest of the day, but broke yesterday's rain record!

#Kodaikanal #Weather

We're at 89mm rain in last 12 hours since midnight, 10mm to break yesterday's record :-P

It's been without much of a break so the weather station is counting one and half days as one rain event.

#Kodaikanal #Weather