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These are freaking delicious, too. I like the Honey Dijon, the spicy dill, the S&V, and the wasabi. These are my "don't care how much they cost, get those!" I had to go gluten free for a bit to see if that was causing some issues, and hard bites are the only thing that stuck.

I've taken a couple of shots at yacy, but have little luck. It's possible to self host a searxng in docker that uses almost no resources. I use a server, but a buddy literally has it load on startup in his Windows.

Canadian here. You guys don't have UFOs? How do you make the crop circles? Next thing you know, you'll tell me you don't have smarties or thumblewhups, either.

A couple of quick things: in UEFI, keep separate Linux and Windows efi partitions. Disable quick startup in Windows, as it "locks" any NTFS drives you touched in Windows before you booted back into Linux. (I always forget this and then wonder why a drive is read-only... Grr!) Don't try to install Linux Steam games to an NTFS drive, it doesn't work. Also, Windows and Linux have different default ways of dealing with the system clock. You can either do a registry entry edit to fix on the windows side, or there's a Linux fix that is also quite easy, but I forget what and I'm lazy. This is purely optional, but I like to set up grub customizer and set it to boot into "last selected", so when I'm updating Windows and it restarts, I don't boot back into Linux, and vice-versa. Also, don't try to run Windows installed Steam games. It doesn't work. Lastly, if you virtualize using VMware, your VMs have to "belong" to one host OS or the other, or you'll have no end to bugs. Personally, I wouldn't use VMWare on the Linux side at all, except school requires it.

I got a Topton Mini PC doing this, and its doing a good enough job. I tried an older SZBox for this, and it didn't quite cut it, but it makes a good Pihole now.

I'm a month away from my IT diploma. Even the teachers are feeding us AI slop at this point.

They gave up trying to get the students to stop at the end of first year. Protip: don't hire a new IT grad, they don't know anything chatGPT doesn't know.

Eh Mun tun.

Esperanto estas amuza!

Godzilla Minus One! I can't believe how good it was. Just... Wow.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cd407ae9-2199-4fc7-8a79-0c634d04510d.jpeg

This seems apt.

So, bad things happen, absolutely. Sometimes, they go in a run. I've had some epically shitty times in my life, and it just seems like they pile on. But... Things also change. I had an absolute nightmare job for 19 years. My Dad died. I got sick. I got laid off. I went back to school. It sucked, so bad! But then, I got an internship. It was awesome! I made friends. The reduced stress let me kick my illness. Now, I'm almost done school, and I have a really good chance of getting full time work at that internship. We'll see. The point is, things go in cycles. It's so cliche, but it's true that it's always darkest before dawn. Hang in, find your joy. It'll change.

I've run yacy and searxng, and I find yacy flaky. I get really random search results, often not useful at all. I like Searxng though, although once in a while I have to hit refresh to get my result. Probably a simple fix, I've just never bothered to go down the rabbit hole.

I once duct taped a drill bit to a piece of wood that was kinda shaped like one of those old-timer hand cranked drills... Cordless, check! Made in Canada, check! I don't still have it though, and I don't know how much I'd charge. The bit probably came from Canadian Tire?